Enos McCracken Seay (1888 - 1963)

Born 29 Dec 1888 in Cove Creek, Haywood County, North Carolina

Ancestors

Husband of Della (Clark) Seay — married 25 Jun 1911 in Cocke County, Tennessee

Descendants

Died 8 Apr 1963 at age 74 in Jefferson County, Tennessee

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Biography

Enos M. Seay was born on December 29th, 1888 at Cove Creek, Haywood County, North Carolina.^[1] He was the eldest of twelve children born to William Regan Seay, and Dovie Anna Hall.^[2]

His lifetime occupation was as a farmer, and he also owned the Seay Grocery in Del Rio Tennessee for many years.^[3]

In late 1910, or early 1911, he purchased significant lands in Cocke County, Tennessee where he planned to move himself and his parents and siblings. During the months that he was preparing the new homestead, he traveled back to Cove Creek, North Carolina primarily on foot, and the route that he traveled took him by the William Clark residence, where there was also a fresh water spring. Enos would stop by the spring for water during his travels back and forth between his home in Cove Creek, and the new home in Del Rio, Tennessee. On one of these trips, Enos met his future wife, Della Clark, daughter of William Clark and Ellen Cole Clark. After several months of Enos paying visits to Della during his travels, he asked her to be his wife, and she accepted, and on June 24th, 1911 they were married in Cocke County, Tennessee.^[4]

He had ownership interest, and or outright ownership of several large farms in Cocke County, Tennessee, and later in Jefferson County, Tennessee, where he was living when he passed away in the early evening hours of April 8th, 1963^[5].

Sources

1. ↑ World War Draft Registration Card, Cocke County, Tennessee
2. ↑ 1910 Federal Census for Haywood, County, North Carolina
3. ↑ Personal Knowledge
4. ↑ Cocke County, Tennessee Marriage Licenses
5. ↑ Personal Knowledge