Thursday, March 14, 2019

Seavers in the News - Effie E. Seaver Dies in 1930 in Delaware

It's time for another edition of "Seavers in the News" - a weekly feature from the historical newspapers about persons with the surname Seaver that are interesting, useful, mysterious, fun, macabre, or add information to my family tree database.

This week's entry is from The Morning News [Wilmington, Delaware] newspaper dated 9 December 1930:

The transcription of the article is:

Mrs. Effie E. Seaver

Funeral services for Mrs. Effie E. Seaver, wife of George M. Seaver, of 901 Gilpin avenue, who died yesterday will be held in Providence, R.I., today.

The source citation for the article is:

"Effie E. Seaver" The Morning News [Wilmington, Del.] newspaper, obituary, Tuesday, 9 December 1930, page 2, column 3, Mrs. Effie E. Seaver obituary;   Newspapers.com   (https://www.newspapers.com : accessed 14 March 2019).

No age, birth date or birth place was provided for Effie E. Seaver, and I couldn't find a George M. Seaver married to an Effie (or similar) in my RootsMagic family tree.  One clue was Rhode Island.

I had to search for Effie Seaver in the 1930 U.S. census, and easily found Effie (age 26, born Maine) and her husband George N. Seaver (age 26, born Rhode Island, and their two children (Marjorie age 7, Robert age 2).  It turned out that George N. Seaver is George Nathaniel Seaver (1904-1965), the son of George Franklin Seaver and Susan Alice Andrews of Woonsocket, Rhode Island.  Effie E. Brown was born in 1902 in Dexter, Maine, the daughter of Welcome H. and Elva M. (--?--) Brown.  

I am probably related to these Seaver persons, but I'm missing the link to my Seaver line. I have added Effie and their two children to the existing "Seaver bush" to my RootsMagic family tree.

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Disclosure:  I have a paid subscription to Newspapers.com and have used it extensively to find articles about my ancestral and one-name families.



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4 comments:

Emily Keith said...

HELLO RANDY,
MY NAME IS EMILY SEAVER KEITH. I WAS SEARCHING FOR EFFIE BROWN SEAVER AND YOUR PAGE CAME UP. EFFIE IS BURIED NEXT TO MY GRANDMOTHER AND PARENTS IN UNION CEMETARY IN UNION RHODE ISLAND. I NEVER KNEW WHO SHE WAS. MY GRANDFATHER WAS OLIVER JOHN SEAVER, SON OF GEORGE F. AND SUSAN ANDREWS SEAVER. MY GREAT-GRANDPARENTS. MY FATHER WAS JOHN OLIVER SEAVER. I HAVE A WHOLE PEDIGREE THAT MY 2ND COUSIN, ONCE REMOVED, CRAIG SEAVER, PUT TOGETHER FOR ME. WE SEAVERS GO BACK TO HOWLAND AND TILLEY ON THE MAYFLOWER. CRAIGS FATHER WAS RICHARD SEAVER, SON OF FRANKLIN SEAVER, WHO WAS THE SON OF GEORGE F. AND SUSAN ANDREWS SEAVER. THEY ARE MANY SEAVERS, ANDREWS, MOWRY, KIES BURIED IN UNION CEMETARY. I THINK IT STARTED AS THE ANDREW'S FAMILY PLOT AND GREW.
MY EMAIL IS EKGEMILY6@GMAIL.COM. I WOULD HELP YOU FILL IN SOME FAMILY NAMES.

EMILY SEAVER KEITH

Emily Keith said...

Hi Randy,
I thought I'd leave my email so we could exchange info.
ekgemily6@gmail.com
Emily

celtishbee said...

My name is Rinda Conner Varnum. Effie E. Seaver may be the biological sister to my grandmother, Mildred H. Brown Conner. Mildred's sister, Effie Brown was born 11 July 1902 in Dexter, Penobscot Co., Maine to Herbert Welcome Brown and Elva May Conner. Elva died in 1910 and Effie was subsequently adopted away from the family, according to my grandmother. I know that Effie died as a young woman and have recently found, through DNA matches that a Marjorie E. Murphy is a 2nd-3rd cousin so it seems probable that your Effie is my Effie.

Randy Seaver said...

Hi Rinda,

Thank you for the comment on my blog post. I just saw it today (I don't review my blog comments very often!).

My interest in Effie E. (Brown) Seaver is in her husband's descent in the Seaver line. I "collect" Seaver folks and their spouses, so there she is. I didn't know about the adoption so I will add that to my notes for Effie.

All the best -- Randy