Joseph Seabaugh Bollinger Co
Mo Biography
- Joseph Seabaugh, a substantial farmer
of German Township, Bollinger
Co., Mo., is a son of Henry and Matilda (Hahn) Seabaugh.
Henry Seabaugh
was born and reared in Cape Girardeau County.
The
subject of this
sketch was born in 1848, and was reared at the home of his
parents.
He
received a very poor education, as the Civil War began when he
was about
twelve years of age, after which the facilities for education
were very
poor.
In 1870 he started a store on Whitewater River,
near Molineaux
Mills, and three years later was united in marriage with Miss
Polly Ann
Crites, a daughter of John and Elizabeth Crites, descendants of
North
Carolina Dutch.
John Crites died in 1858 and his widow
in 1867.
Mrs.
Seabaugh also received a limited education in the common
schools.
After
his marriage Mr. Seabaugh began farming on his father's farm,
but in
1878 purchased 108 acres in Cape Girardeau County, to which he
removed.
In 1884 he sold that farm and purchased 107 acres in Bollinger
County,
on which he now resides.
He is a member of the Farmers'
Alliance and
the Wheeler Association.
Being a Republican, he voted
for the first
time for Gen. Grant in 1874.
To Mr. and Mrs. Seabaugh
have been born
six children, viz.: Matilda, Benjamin F., Monroe J., Burney R.,
Reva
R.E. and Edward R. [p. 844-845]
Goodspeed's History of
Southeast Missouri, [p. 844-845]
Contributed by
Joe Crim
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