Clarissy Seale

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Year: 1850; Census Place: Talladega, Talladega, Alabama; Roll: 15; Page: 453b

• Household Members Age
• Clarissa Seale 52
• Nancy Seale 33
• John W Seale 30
• Thomas Seale 24
• Charles W Seale 22
• George W Seale 20
• Isaac Seale 18
• Saml Seale 16
• Elizabeth Seale 15
• James Seale 14
• Mary A Seale 14
• Joshua Seale 12
• Martha Seale 10
• Catharine Seale 9

Year: 1860; Census Place: Upper Yellow Leaf, Shelby, Alabama; Page: 406

• Household Members Age
• Abraham Scales 54, South Carolina
• Clarissa Scales 54, South Carolina
• Nancy Scales 32South Carolina
• Minerva Scales 21, Alabama
• Mahala Scales 17, Alabama

Year: 1870; Census Place: Beat 12, Hillsboro, Shelby, Alabama; Roll: M593_39; Page: 510A

• Household Members Age
• M E M Jones 25
• Mary Jones 30
• M K Jones 2
• John E Jones 1
• Kisiah Jones 57
• C M Jones 28
• G B Rinehardt 14
• Abram Seale 76

Is there any documentation that Nancy's surname was Harrison? Elijah had land transactions with several Fairfield, SC neighbors including Wm Cloud, Richard Harrison, Jesse and Mary Harris. Witnesses included Asa Bell, James Seale, Greenberry Seale, Abraham Seale, A B Ferguson, Thomas Pool. None of these specify family relationship with Harrisons. RHSeale, Aug 2018

Clarissy was born about 1805 to unknown parents.

She married Abraham Seale and the couple had twelve children together.

Stephen Harmon Seale is the only child not yet connected to this couple, although he does have an entry on Find-A-Grave, should anyone wish to view it.

Clarissy appears on the 1860, Shelby County, Census with her husband, Abraham, and three of their children, Nancy, Munroe and Mahala. This Census gives her place of birth as Georgia and gives her name as Clarrissa Seales.

She passed away on July 27th of 1863 in Shelby County, Alabama.

Some online genealogies give Abraham Seale as having married someone by the name of Clumsaw, which could be Clarissy's maiden name. I have not yet discovered documentation that supports this but am mentioning it here in the hope that it might aid researchers.

Her maiden name might appear on the death certificates for Nancy, Mahala or Munroe Seale. Munroe Seale is listed as a female on the 1860 Shelby County, Alabama Census but I do not know if this was an error. If Munroe was a male, a pension record may exist that states Clarissy's maiden name.

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Update 06/16/2016 : Based on Autosomal DNA, I believe that Clarissy Seale's parents might be John Hales and Elizabeth Hales of North Carolina and Georgia. More evidence is necessary to prove the connection, as this couple has several unidentified daughters and one is of the right age to be Clarissy but because Census records only listed the head of household until 1850, I have not been able to confirm this with supporting documentation. As I am a direct female line descendant of Clarissy, I need to mt-DNA test against a direct female line descendant of Elizabeth Spicer or her Mother to confirm in the absence of traditional documentation. The search for such a descendant is ongoing at this time.

Based on information from another web site Clarisse Seale carries the H3b1b1 mtDNA.