Mary "Polly" Seymour

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Mary "Polly" Seymour (Goodrich)

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Birthplace: Sidney, Delaware County, New York, United States
Death: March 30, 1897 (82)
Cannonsville, Delaware County, NY, United States
Immediate Family:

Daughter of Allen Goodrich and Elizabeth Goodrich
Wife of Willet Seymour
Mother of Lewis Seymour; Amanda E. Day; Alonzo Seymour; Gilbert Seymour; Charles Seymour and 6 others

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About Mary "Polly" Seymour

husband is also 1st cousin

http://www.dcnyhistory.org/books/brevie12.html

Willet Seymour, a son of William and Dorothy Seymour, and the father of the subject of this sketch, was born on the old farm in Tompkins, May 6, 1805, and was reared to agricultural and lumbering pursuits, in which he was employed throughout his life. On the death of his father he became the possessor of the old homestead; and here he still resides in his ninetieth year, retaining to a remarkable degree all his faculties. His wife was Mary Goodrich, to whom he was married July 28, 1830. She was born in Sidney, N.Y., September 1, 1814. Her grandfather, Zenas Goodrich, who was a Revolutionary soldier and a pioneer of Sidney, married Mercy Lawrence. Allen Goodrich, the father of Mrs. Willet Seymour, married Miss Elizabeth Lord, a daughter of Eliphalet and Mary (Green) Lord. Nine of the ten children born to Mr. and Mrs. Willet Seymour lived to reach maturity namely. Amanda, Alonzo, Gilbert, Charles, Erastus E., Willet. Florence, and Rector, Lewis dying in infancy, and Washington dying at the age of forty-eight years. Mrs. Seymour was a thrifty housewife, and before her marriage had. learned, besides the necessary household accomplishments, the art of weaving, carding, and spinning, so that in her early, married life she dressed her children in the homespun which she made entirely with her own hands.

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Mary "Polly" Seymour's Timeline

1814
September 1, 1814
Sidney, Delaware County, New York, United States
1831
1831
1832
November 25, 1832
Cannonsville, Delaware County, New York, United States
1836
April 7, 1836
Cannonsville, Delaware County, New York, United States
1839
February 1, 1839
Cannonsville, Delaware County, New York, United States
1897
March 30, 1897
Age 82
Cannonsville, Delaware County, NY, United States
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