Rebecca Jane Seay (abt. 1816 - abt. 1906)

Born about 1816 in Lynchburg, Campbell, Virginia, United States

Wife of William F Seay — married 8 Jan 1834 in Smyth, Virginia, United States

Descendants

Died about 1906 at about age 90 in Parker, Texas, United States

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Biography

Rebecca was born about 1816 to Joseph Seay and Elizabeth Overstreet.^[1] She married William Seay (her first cousin) in January of 1834:

• Virginia, County Marriage Records, 1771-1989
• Name: William F Seay
• Sex: Male
• Spouse's Name: Rebecca Seay
• Spouse's Sex: Female
• Spouse's Father's Name: Joseph Seay
• Spouse's Father's Sex: Male
• Event Type: Marriage
• Event Date: 8 January 1834
• Event Place: Smyth, Virginia, United States
  • Source^[2]

Her husband passed away in 1872^[3] and she is listed as widowed with their youngest child; Mary/Marie S. Seay on the 1880 Census^[4] in Madison County, Arkansas.

In the spring of 1881 William Thomas Seay moved his family by covered wagon, to the Spring Creek settlement which was located about 12 miles south of Weatherford, Texas. His mother, Rebecca Jane Seay, who was half Cherokee Indian, and her daughter, Mary, along with some of the other relatives, made the trip with them by wagon train. His father, William Thomas Floyd Seay, had died some years before. It is believed that Rebecca Jane passed away in about 1906 but a source is needed for verification.

Sources

1. ↑ Rebecca, as Rebecca Floyd Seay, was named in the 1820 will of William Bosher, a family friend -- along with her father Joseph Seay and her brother George -- Also named was Joseph's brother Thomas Seay and his children -- William Floyd (her future husband), Eliza Ann, and Paulina: Will Books, 1782-1870; General Index to Will Books, 1782-1947; Author: Virginia. County Court (Campbell County); Probate Place: Campbell, Virginia. Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2021
2. ↑ "Virginia, County Marriage Records, 1771-1989", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:66NS-3W7S : Thu Mar 07 23:24:38 UTC 2024), Entry for William F Seay and Rebecca Seay, 8 Jan 1834.
3. ↑ She recorded 80 acres of Madison Co, Ark., land under the Homesteading Act on 20 Jan 1875 in the General Land Office in Harrison, Ark., as "Rebecca J. Seay, widow of William F. Seay:" Bureau of Land Management, General Land Office Records; Washington D.C., USA; Federal Land Patents, State Volumes. U.S., General Land Office Records, 1776-2015 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc., 2008.
4. ↑ "United States Census, 1880", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MNWX-43T : Fri Mar 08 15:01:12 UTC 2024), Entry for Rebeca J. F. Sea and Mary S. Sea, 1880.