Wyatt Henry Seale MD (1864 - 1932)

Ancestors Descendants

Wyatt Henry Seale was born 20 Mar 1864 Texas.^[1] He was the son of Wyatt Seale and Winnie Asbury He m. 29 Dec 1889^[2][3] Center Point, Kerr co Texas, Beulah Frances Johnson. Wyatt graduated from Memphis Hospital Medical College. He practiced for a few years near Center Point Texas, then moved back to Marquez where he practiced medicine in Marquez, served as the Senior deacon of Marquez Baptist church, and was the Superintendent of the Sunday school for more than thirty years.

Contents 1 Biography 1.1 Death 1.2 Timeline 2 Sources

Biography

From the "Southland":

“Wyatt Henry was born in the country home about 6 miles east of Marquez. Henry, as he was called at home, was reared on the farm and under the conditions prevailing in this country in farm life. He received the training in the country school and as he approached manhood entered the Jewett high school… After one year of assistance by his father, young Seale with a stout manly heart refused further help and taught between terms and finished his school life on his own resources, and when he left the school room he had a state certificate to teach and his services as teacher were greatly in demand. … He attended Memphis Hospital Medical College and graduated there on his 25th birthday. He came back to Leon county and located in Marquez. In Dec 1889 he married Miss Beulah Johnson who was also reared in Leon County. One year before her marriage her parents moved to Kerr County and the wedding took place in Kerr County. They began married life in Marquez but in ’[18]96 Mrs. Seale’s health failed and they moved west for her health and after five years it was sufficiently recovered to come back to the old Leon County home. They came again therefore to Marquez in Nov. 1900 and the Doctor is growing into a most excellent practice. He is a church man and Christian worker and stands for the high side of life. He enjoys the friendship of a wide circle of friends and is one of Leon County’s representative men. They have three children and a comfortable home in Marquez.”^[4]

Dr. Seale was living in Center Point, Texas in September 1900, as he was called from there to the deathbed of his father, Wyatt Stark Seale. They apparently moved back to Marquez shortly after that.

Early Marquez office buildings, since demolished.

Wyatt Holt Seale (Wyatt Henry Seale's son) recalls: “[in Marquez]….the old two-story frame building where your uncle Jim Powell and Dr. Seale ran a drugstore in 1889-1890. The upstairs of that building was used, most of the time, as doctors’ offices – by old Dr. Boggs, Dr. E O Boggs, Dr. Wilson, Dr. Seale, and others. Some good medicines and certainly some bad were practiced in those offices.”^[5]. (These buildings in Marquez have been gone since the 1990's, (Newer view of Marquez, 2008), (RHSeale)

“Dr. Seale was a small man, always wore a mustache clipped short, was always kind. As far back as I can remember, he had Model T cars, buying a new one occasionally and kept it parked at the corner drug store on Main Street. As he grew older he spent hours sleeping in his car, just going home for lunch and about 5 o’clock at night. He never had an office, treated his patients in the back of the drug store.”^[6]

Death

Dr. Wyatt Henry Seale died 17 Jun 1932 in Marquez. ^[7]

His obituary from the Normangee Star quotes, in part:

“Twenty years ago when we first came to Leon, one of the first and most appreciated friends we met was Dr. Seale... We have always found him a friend, and have always valued the friendship. Dr. Seale, during his active life, was a man of influence in the county, and an active supporter of what he felt to be for the betterment of its people. Full of life and energy, he has made the world with which he came in contact better for his having lived. During his latter years his health has been steadily failing, and he has been unable to keep up the gait of earlier years. His love for his church work has never flagged, and he was always ready to carry his part and more in any matter that was for the moral and religious uplift.”^[8]

Also:

“For near forty years he was a member of this one church, helping to build for her two houses of worship. For more than thirty years he was the Superintendent of the Sunday School. A more faithful man in his attendance and eery other sort of help it has never been my privilege to labor with. In his young manhood he taught school in Leon County, then went to Memphis to study medicine. Receiving his degree, he returned to his own people, and with the exception of just a few years in Southwest Texas, served them until his death. He was always to be found on the side of right as he knew it. No man ever had to question where he stood on a question of public or private morality; his position was already known. He had many adversaries, but no enemies…. ^[9]

Wyatt is buried in Marquez Cemetery, Marquez, Texas.^[10]

Their children:

Vernon Sim b. 20 Sep 1890, Marquez, Leon, Texas^[11] , d. 13 Jan 1956 Marquez, Texas

Wyatt Holt b. 17 Oct 1893 Marquez, Leon, Texas

Albert Quitman b. 4 Oct 1897 Center Point, Kerr Texas

Timeline

1870 Federal Census, Leon co. Texas, Wyatt Henry was living with his family^[12]

"Wyat S", age 49, farmer, born Alabama

"W", age 47, born Georgia

John K, 19, born Texas

Walter, 16, born Texas

Paralee, 14, born Texas

Albert, 12, born Texas

"Malissa", 10, born Texas

W Henry, 7, born Texas

1880 Federal Census, Beat 5, Leon co. Texas, Wyatt H was living with his parents

Wyatt S, age 59, farmer, born Alabama, both parents born South Carolina

Winnefred C, age 57, born Georgia

Albert T, 21, born Texas

Wyatt H, 16, born Texas

1889 Graduated from Memphis Hospital Medical College ^[13]

3 May 1895 – one of several deacons of First Missionary Baptist Church of Marquez purchasing lot in Marquez, Q:303^[14]

1896 Practicing medicine in Center Point, Kerr, Texas^[15]

30 Aug 1899 – Deed transaction in Kerr county, Texas. ^[16]

1900 Federal Census, living in Kerr co. Texas, Physician ^[17]

Wyatt H Seale, born Mar 1864, age 36, married 11 years, born Texas

Beulah, born Apr 1865, age 35, married 11 years, 3 children, 3 living, born Alabama

Vernon, born Sep 1890, age 9, born Texas

Albert Q, born Oct 1898, age 2, born Texas

Wyatt H, born Oct 1894, age 5, born Texas

1910 Federal Census, living in Leon co. Texas. Listed as "Wyatt S Seale"^[18]

1920 Federal Census, living in Leon co. Texas, on Marquez and Barnesville Road, wife Beulah, sons Vernon and Albert (Abb) at home.^[19]

1920 Dec 30: “The little town of Marquez was practically wiped out of existence by fire last night. Ten business houses and the hotel were destroyed. ….Dr. Seale had an office in the upper part of the Powell Building, and Dr, Carrington and Dr. W B Seale, dentist, in the upper part. Total loss of books and equipment; no insurance…”^[20]

1930 Federal Census, Marquez, Leon, Texas.^[21]

Wyatt H, age 66, born Texas

wife “Bulah," age 64, born Texas

son Vernon age 39, born Texas

15 Jun 1932, 8:25 AM, telegram from Abb Seale to Holt Seale, Hotel Casa Del Rey Santacruz, California: “Daddy barely alive each minute looks like last will wire you when the end is reached.”^[22]
15 Jun 1932, 12:24PM, telegram from Vernon Seale to W Holt Seale, Hotel Casa del Rey Santacruz, California: “Papa barely alive not conscious has not been in sometime”^[22]
15 Jun 1932, 4:05PM, telegram from Abb Q Seale to Holt, same location: “I think it impossible for him to live forty eight hours keeping him alive with medicine”^[22]
17 Jun 1932, Marquez, Texas. Telegram from Abb Q Seale,. “Papa died this morning at three twenty will have funeral at three oclock this afternoon. Mother is holding up well”^[22]

Sources

1. ↑ Wyatt Seale Bible Record, current custodian RHSeale|2016
2. ↑ Wyatt Henry Seale Bible Record, current custodian RHSeale|2014. Wyatt Seale Bible Record
3. ↑ Daniel's Texas Medical Journal, Feb 1890, p315 records the marriage also
4. ↑ The Southland, Waco, TX, May 1902, p103
5. ↑ Wyatt Holt Seale letter to his cousins Maggie and Sherman Davis, 6 Apr 1963, copy in custody of RHSeale.
6. ↑ Personal recollections of Hazel Simons, b. ca 1911, Waitsburg, WA, 5 May 1982. The previous description of doctor's offices being located upstairs is probably more accurate.
7. ↑ Wyatt Seale Bible Record, current custodian RHSeale and "Texas Deaths, 1890-1976," database with images, FamilySearch : 22 July 2014), Death certificates > 1932 > Vol 054, certificates 026501-027000, Jun, Karnes-Navarro counties > image 201 of 540; State Registrar Office, Austin.Texas State Dept of Health, Texas, Death Certificates, 1903-1982 [database on-line, accessed 2015]
8. ↑ Normangee Star Volume XX No 32, June 26, 1932 as quoted in Leon Hunters dispatch vol XXI, #1, Fall 1999-2000
9. ↑ written by J T Luper, Jr, His Pastor of Seven Years, unlabeled news clipping, current custodian RHSeale|2015
10. ↑ Headstone photo with complete dates at: Find a Grave, database and images: accessed April 24, 2024), memorial page for Dr Wyatt H. Seale (20 Mar 1864–17 Jun 1932), Find A Grave: Memorial #54562026, citing Marquez Cemetery, Marquez, Leon County, Texas, USA; Maintained by Terry in Dallas, TX (contributor 46952653).
11. ↑ Wyatt Henry Seale Bible Record gives spelling as “Sim”, date 20th. Texas DOH Death certificate agrees. Delayed birth record spells it “Simms” and date 29th. (Probated Birth Records, Leon co. TX, 8:484, 1943)
12. ↑ "United States Census, 1870," database with images, FamilySearch : 11 June 2019), Texas > Leon > Beat 5 > image 28 of 60; citing NARA microfilm publication M593 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
13. ↑ Polk’s Medical and Surgical Register of the US, 4th edition, 1896, p1421
14. ↑ Leon Hunter’s Dispatch XXII, p74, 2001.
15. ↑ Polk’s Medical and Surgical Register of the US, 4th edition, 1896, p1421. An earlier edition (year?) lists him as being in Marquez, Leon, TX
16. ↑ Leon county Deed Records 9:345.
17. ↑ "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch : accessed 27 January 2019), Wyatt H Seale, Justice Precinct 2, Kerr, Texas, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 42, sheet 1B, family 12, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm 1,241,651.
18. ↑ "United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch : 24 June 2017), Texas > Leon > Justice Precinct 5 > ED 128 > image 4 of 42; citing NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
19. ↑ Federal Census 1920, Leon County, Justice Pct 5, ED 72, p3A
20. ↑ Associated Press article
21. ↑ "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch : accessed 27 January 2019), Wyatt H Seale, Precinct 5, Leon, Texas, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 10, sheet 24B, line 58, family 639, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 2370; FHL microfilm 2,342,104.
22. ↑ ^{22.0 22.1 22.2 22.3} Telegram from Vernon Seale to his brother W Holt Seale, in the Seale family collection, RHSeale