Good afternoon one & all,
I found a fourth cousin, yesterday, & she sent me the following
fascinating info on her g-grandfather, Samuel James SEYMOUR but first
here is how he & I are related.
(We are 1st cousins three times removed):
Here is his CALLAWAY Line:
1) Samuel CALLAWAY
+ Elizabeth THOMPSON
2) Anna Irene CALLAWAY, b. 1837 in Sussex Co., DE
+ George Henry SEYMOUR
3) Samuel James SEYMOUR, b. 1860 in Talbot Co., MD (1st cousins)
+ Mary Rebecca TWILLEY
Here is my CALLAWAY Line:
1) Samuel CALLAWAY, b. DE or MD
+ Elizabeth THOMPSON, b. DE or MD
2) Elizabeth CALLAWAY, b. 1832-35, DE
+ Joshua HITCH
3) Mary HITCH, b. 1855, Caroline Co., MD (1st cousins)
+ Arthur J. WEBBER
4) Edward WEBBER, b. 1886, MD (1st cousin once removed)
+ Susan McINTYRE
5) William WEBBER, b. 1912, NJ (1st cousin twice removed)
+ Helen BINGLER
6) Helen M. WEBBER (1st cousin three times removed)
NOTE:
My children would be: (1st cousin tour times removed)
My grandchildren would be: (1st cousin five times removed)
My great grandchildren would be: (1st cousin six times removed)
ID: I04522
· Name: Samuel James SEYMOUR
· Sex: M
· Birth: 28 MAR 1860 in Easton, Talbot Co., Maryland
· Death: 13 APR 1956 in Arlington, Virginia
· Burial: Loudon Park Cemetery, Lot 441, Sect: Bethel, Baltimore, MD 1
· Note: 14 April 1865, at age five, saw Abraham Lincoln shot at Ford's
Theater.
Died 12 April 1956 at 5:30 a.m., at the home of Mrs. Irene (Seymour) HENDLEY,
his daughter. Buried Loudon Park Cemetery, Baltimore, Maryland, Lot 441,
Section
Bethel (in name of Florence L. (Seymour) AMREIN, later HORN).
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From The New York Times, 14 April 1956:
S. J. SEYMOUR, Who Saw LINCOLN Shot Ninety-one Years Ago Today, Dies at 96:
Baltimore, April 13 (AP) - Samuel James SEYMOUR, believed to be the last
witness
to the assassination of Abraham LINCOLN, died today at the age of 96. Mr.
SEYMOUR, a carpenter and contractor who made his home in the Baltimore area,
had been in failing health since February. He had fallen in a New York hotel
before
appearing on a national television program honoring LINCOLN's birthday. He
died
at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Irene HENDLEY, in Arlington, Va.
Mr. SEYMOUR said he recalled being in Ford's Theatre [sic] as a child of 5
when John
Wilkes BOOTH fired the fatal shot and leaped to the stage.
In interviews in recent years, Mr. SEYMOUR said that his father was overseer
of the
Goldsboro estate in Talbot County, Md. In April, 1865, his father went with
Mr.
GOLDSBORO to Washington on business.
"Mrs. GOLDSBORO asked if she could take me and my nurse, Sarah COOK, along
for a holiday," Mr. SEYMOUR recalled. "We made the 150 mile journey by
coach."
They arrived in the capital on Good Friday, April 14.
"I was scared," Mr. SEYMOUR continued. "I complained tearfully that I
couldn't get
out of the coach because my shirt was torn, but Sarah found a safety pin."
The
soldiers in the street were so frightening, however, that the boy was shaking
all
over and the nurse stuck the pin into him. "I've been shot!" he cried.
After dressing him in fresh clothes, Mrs. GOLDSBORO said to him, "Sammy, you
and
I and Sarah are going to a play - a real play. And President Abraham LINCOLN
will
be there."
Inside the theatre the child was shown the President's flag-draped box. Mrs.
GOLDSBORO lifted him in her arms and he thought LINCOLN "looked stern because
of his whiskers."
He had just about got over his fright when a real shot rang out. He heard a
scream
and saw the President slumped over. Then a man "seemed to tumble over the
rail and
land on the stage."
"Hurry, hurry, let's go help the poor man who fell down," the child begged.
B
ut in a
moment Booth, the assassin, had picked himself up and escaped. ----
From undated, unattributed newspaper clipping (noted as "sun[day] paper"):
S. J. SEYMOUR DIES AT AGE 96
Believed Last Surviving Witness To LINCOLN's Killing
Samuel James SEYMOUR, believed to have been the last surviving witness to the
assassination of Abraham LINCOLN, died early yesterday in the home of his
daughter, Mrs. Irene HENDLEY, in Arlington, Va.
Mr. SEYMOUR, who made his home in Baltimore and Herald Harbor, was 96 years
old last March 28. He had been in failing health since February when he fell
in a New
York City hotel while preparing to appear on a national television program.
He made the appearance, timed to coincide with LINCOLN's birthday, but did
not
recover his full health.
The LINCOLN's Birthday season always brought reminiscences from Mr. SEYMOUR.
He recalled being in Ford's Theater in Washington as a small boy of 5 years
when
John Wilkes BOOTH fired the shot and leaped upon the stage.
The child at first thought he, himself, had been shot because his nurse,
trying to
fix a torn place in his blouse, stuck him with a pin at the moment of the
discharge.
Mr. SEYMOUR was born in Easton, the son of Mr. and Mrs. George SEYMOUR. He
spent his youth on the Eastern Shore but most of his long life in Baltimore
where
he was a carpenter and contractor. Many of the homes at Herald Harbor were
built by him.
Burial In Baltimore
Funeral services will be held at 10 A.M. tomorrow at the Mount Olivet Church
in
Arlington. Before then, friends may call at the Ives Funeral Establishment at
2847
Wilson Boulevard in Arlington. Graveside services will be conducted at 12:30
P.M.
tomorrow at Loudon Park Cemetery in Baltimore. Besides Mrs. HENDLEY,
survivors
are another daughter, Mrs. Florence HORN, of San Diego, Cal.; a son, Samuel
Tilghman
SEYMOUR; 13 grandchildren and 35 great-grandchildren.
Happy hunting, Helen (DCGS)
aka: mom, grandmom & g-grandmom