We have finally come to the last family sketch of the descendants of Michael Stufflebeam (1763-c1830).
This, again, will be quite a short post because there is pedigree collapse in this line.
Marilla Stufflebeam was born c1814, likely in Pickaway County, Ohio. She married William Seeley, 22 February 1831, Warren County, Indiana and died between 6 September 1843, when her youngest child was born and 1845, when William Seeley remarried.
They were the parents of five children, but lost a son in childhood and also appear to have lost daughter Harriet, born c1841 and not found after 1850.
Additionally, youngest child, John B. Seeley, married his cousin, Isabella McManus, and their family sketch was presented a couple of days ago.
That leaves their two remaining children – Maria, born c1837 in Illinois and Henry, born 9 March 1839.
However, the life of Maria Seeley is a complete mystery as she married James Dawson, 29 May 1855, Peoria County, Illinois and the couple completely disappears from the records after their marriage. Neither has been found in the 1860 census, nor have likely candidates been found in marriage records in the event that one died soon after marriage.
That leaves son Henry Seeley as the subject of today’s family sketch.
Henry Seely, as mentioned, was born on 9 March 1839 in Illinois. He married Charlotte Marilla Caldwell on 1 January 1865, Peoria County, Illinois.
An aside – Marilla is not a terribly common given name for girls and, in spite of Henry’s mother and wife both carrying the name, no connection has, as yet, been found between the Caldwell family and any branch of the Stufflebeam family. There may be one, but no evidence documents any such relationship.
Like other family members, this family moved at least twice.
Children: (Seeley)
- Lewis Henry, born c1864, Illinois; died 19 December 1941, Spokane County, Washington; married Emma Virginia Gay, c1885. They were the parents of three children, two of whom married and had descendants.
- Nellie Elizabeth, born 12 December 1869, Peoria County, Illinois; died 24 January 1946, Calhoun County, Iowa; married Franklin Charles Mallory, 21 September 1887, Calhoun County, Iowa. They were the parents of two children.
- Charles Lester, born 5 September 1871, Peoria County, Illinois; died 7 July 1949, Valley County, Montana; married Anna Sophia Spiess, 31 May 1894, Calhoun County, Iowa. They were the parents of five children.
- William Thomas, born 7 May 1873, Fort Dodge, Webster, Iowa; died 4 July 1926, Malheur County, Oregon; married Gertrude McDaniels, 22 March 1899, Calhoun county, Iowa. They were the parents of two children.
- Clara Maria, born 16 September 1867, Illinois; died 23 May 1950, Calhoun County, Iowa; married Dewitt Stutley Parker, c1886. They were the parents of six children.
Henry Seeley died on 31 December 1879 in Calhoun County, Iowa. Charlotte survived him by decades, dying on 26 March 1916, also in Calhoun County.
This concludes a month of lengthy family sketches covering the descendants of Michael Stufflebeam (1763-c1830) through at least he great grandchildren.
These sketches should provide enough of a road map for descendants today to determine how they fit into this family tree. It’s been a long month as this project became way more involved than I had first imagined, but it’s been fun to find all these distant cousins and well worth the time!