William
Andrew Jackson
Seals
Born in Madison County Arkansas, USA
Ancestors 
Son of William Pleasant Seals
and Mary Ann (Bolinger) Seals
Brother of
James Harrison Seals, Olive Lucinda (Seals) Dennis, Charles William Seals, Asa Lee Seals, Laura Belle (Seals) Bolinger, Walter Calvin Seals, Mary Emily (Seals) Smith and Julia Harriet (Seals) Swope
Husband of
Mary Hanna Woods
— married
6 Jan 1888 [location unknown]
Descendants 
Father of
Edna Lucinda (Seals) Reehling
Died
at age 70
in Witter Madison County Arkansas, USA
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Biography
Obituary Thursday, May 20, 1943 The Madison County Record Huntsville Madison Ark. Page 1
William Jackson Seals age 70 died Friday, May 14 Funeral services and burial were conducted May 16 at Witter Cemetery by Chas L. McElhaney and Silas Collins, with the Bruce Brashears Undertaking Co. in charge of the arrangements. Mr. Seals had resided in Madison County practically almost all of his life.
He was married in January, 1889 to Mary Woods and is survived by her and six daughters, Mrs. Walter Ogden, Mrs. Everett Haught and Mrs. O. A. Sanders of Witter , Mrs. Guy Haught of Boston, Mrs. E.C. Reehling of Muskogee Ok; and Mrs. E. Reehling of Oktaha Ok,; also by five sisters and two brothers, Lizzie Mosley, Laura Bolinger, Julia Swope, Emilly Smith, Ollie Dennis,Asa Seals and Walter Seals. There are 16 grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren
He was a member of the Christian Union church for about 44 years ( From Charles L. McElhaney's journal)
Birthday of August 6 1872 was obtained from handwritten paper in trunk of WM. Pleasant & Mary Ann Seals. Also marriage date of Jan 6 1888 was on that paper. Per Joy Russell's notes.
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with William by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with William:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with William by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with William:
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~1.56%
~6.25%
Alexander (McCowan) Grimaldi-Hendrix 
:
23andMe, GEDmatch ZD5714033 [compare]
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AncestryDNA, GEDmatch NU5598603 [compare], Ancestry member AlexGrimaldiakaMcCowan
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~1.56%
~3.12%
Krystal (McCowan) Rader :
Autosomal DNA Test, GEDmatch G216255 [compare]
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