Yes, Tom Seaver is my (10th) Cousin

One of the never-ending questions I get when I say I research family history is “Are you related to Tom Seaver?” since he is the most famous living Seaver person. I finally had a breakthrough – Tom’s father, Charles Henry Seaver, died in 2004, and a very nice obituary was written up in a golf magazine. My Most Recent Common (Seaver) Ancestor with Tom Seaver is the immigrant, Robert Seaver (1608-1683) of Roxbury MA. I can really claim “cousin Tom!” Here is Tom’s Seaver ancestry:

1) Robert Seaver (1608-1683) married Elizabeth Ballard (ca 1610 – 1657), resided Roxbury MA.
2) Joshua Seaver (1641-1730) married Mary May (1657 - -?-), resided Roxbury MA
3) Joshua Sever (1679-1739) married Mercy Cooke (1678-1759), resided Dorchester MA
4) William Sever (1721-1782) married Patience Trescott (1723-1799), resided Dorchester MA
5) William Sever (1743-1815) married Rebecca Hunt (1742-1767), resided Taunton MA
6) William Sever (1763-1828) married Mary Everett (1765-1815), resided Brutus NY
7) William Seaver (1789-1871) married Naomi McCleary (1788-1846), resided Batavia NY
8) James Everett Seaver (1821-1855) married Nancy K. Follett (1824- -?-), resided Batavia NY
9) James Everett Seaver (1851- -?-) married Bella R. Carr (1855- -?-), resided Kansas City MO
10) Everett Herbert Seaver (1886-1963) married Gertrude Sharp (1888-1964), resided Los Angeles CA
11) Charles Henry Seaver (1911-2004) married Betty Lee Cline (1913-1988), resided Los Angeles and Fresno CA
12) George Thomas Seaver (1944 - ), the Hall of Fame baseball pitcher, married Nancy Lynn McIntyre.

My own Seaver ancestry is:

1) Robert Seaver (1608-1683) married 1634 Elizabeth Ballard (ca 1610 – 1657), resided Roxbury MA.
2) Shubael Seaver (1640-1730) married 1668 Hannah Wilson (1647-1722), resided Roxbury MA
3) Joseph Seaver (1672-1754) married 1701 Mary Read (1679-after 1754), resided Framingham/Sudbury MA
4) Robert Seaver (1702-1752) married 1726 Eunice Rayment (1707-after 1772), resided Sudbury and Westminster MA
5) Norman Seaver (1734-1787) married 1755 Sarah Read (1738-1809), resided Framingham, Shrewsbury, Westminster, and Sudbury MA
6) Benjamin Seaver (1757-1816) married 1783 Martha Whitney (1764-1832), resided Westminster MA
7) Benjamin Seaver (1791-1825) married 1817 Abigail Gates (1797-1867), resided Westminster MA.
8) Isaac Seaver (1823-1901) married 1851 (2) Lucretia Townsend Smith (1827-1884), resided Westminster and Leominster MA
9) Frank Walton Seaver (1852-1922) married 1874 Harriet Louise Hildreth (1857-1920), resided Leominster MA
10) Fred Walton Seaver (1876-1942) married 1900 Alma Bessie Richmond (1882-1962), resided Leominster MA
11) Frerick Walton Seaver (1911-1983) married 1942 Betty Carringer (1919-2002), resided Leominster MA and San Diego CA
12) Randy Seaver (1943- ), resides Chula Vista CA.

You can view 9 generations of the identified descendants of Robert Seaver at my genealogy web site - click on "Descendants of Joshua Seaver" for Tom's line, and "Descendants of Shubael Seaver" for my line.