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Waupaca Post

December 12, 1907

F.H. Seymour of the town of Waupaca died Tuesday evening, Dec. 10. He was born Sept. 1, 1819 near Utica, N.Y. He was a relative of the late Gov. H.F. Seymour of New York. In his boyhood he moved to Ohio and came to Wisconsin in 1851 and settled in the town of Lind, and afterwards moved on a farm in the town of Waupaca, where he has lived for the past thirty-two years. He married his first wife, Mary S. Baldwin, in Ohio in 1845, who died in 1865. Three children were born to them and still survive him: Louise M., of Oconomowoc; Everett, of Neshota; Truman, of St. Paul. His second wife was Helen S. Pope, who now survives him, and he was the father of three children with this wife, Frank, the only one being alive, owns the homestead where they now live.

Mr. Seymour was a man well known by all the first settlers of this community and was respected by all who knew him.

The funeral will be held form their home Friday.

Waupaca Republican

December 13, 1907

E.H. Seymour, a pioneer of the town of Waupaca, born in Utica, N.Y. in 1819, who settled in Lind in 1851, died at the home of his son Tuesday evening, Dec. 10. He is survived by his second wife, who was formerly Helen S. Pope, and one daughter and two sons by his first marriage, Truman of St. Paul, Everett of Nashota and Louise of Oconomowoc, and frank by the last, who lives on the homestead.