Louisiana Family Group Sheet for the John William SEILEY Family

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Submitted by: Bob Hadley
Email address: <bobhadley@bellsouth.net>


Husband: John William SEILEY
Birthdate: 20 Oct 1855
Birthplace: New Orleans, LA
Death date: 7 Apr 1890
Place of death: Caney Creek, St. Landry, LA
Burial: Caney Creek, St. Landry, LA
Father: John Jefferson SEILEY
Mother: Elizabeth Melissa DUNNAM

Marriage date: 17 Feb 1876
Marriage place: Opelousas, St. Landry, LA

Wife: Laura GUILLORY
Birthdate: 13 Aug 1859
Birthplace: St. Landry, LA
Death date: 1 Apr 1920
Place of death: Reeves, Allen, LA
Burial: Caney Creek, Evangeline, LA
Father: Augustin Louis GUILLORY
Mother: Eugenie Mirza SOILEAU


CHILDREN

Child No. 1: John Jefferson SEILEY Sex: M Birthdate: 10 Feb 1877
Birthplace: St. Landry, LA Death date: 26 Dec 1954 Place of death:
Oakdale, Allen, LA Burial: Oakdale Cemetery, Oakdale, Allen, LA Marriage
date: 1) 1899; 2) 22 Dec 1905; 3) Unk Marriage place: 1) Unk; 2) Rapides,
LA; 3) Unk Spouse's name: 1) Carmilla R. WILLIAMS; 2) Lillian MCRIGHT; 3)
Stella YAWN

Child No. 2: Andrew William SEILEY
Sex: M
Birthdate: 14 Jul 1878
Birthplace: St. Landry, LA
Death date: 17 Feb 1950
Place of death: Unknown
Burial: Magnolia Cemetery, Beaumont, Jefferson, TX
Marriage date: About 1911
Marriage place: Unknown
Spouse's name: Mollie DAVID

Child No. 3: Benjamin SEILEY
Sex: M
Birthdate: 21 Feb 1880
Birthplace: St. Landry, LA
Death date: 19 Sep 1910
Place of death: Oakdale, Allen, LA
Burial: Oakdale, Allen, LA
Marriage date: 9 Jan 1899
Marriage place: Opelousas, St. Landry, LA
Spouse's name: Ida L. FONTENOT

Child No. 4: Henry Hamilton SEILEY
Sex: M
Birthdate: 8 Jul 1881
Birthplace: Mamou, St. Landry, LA
Death date: 8 May 1959
Place of death: Crowley, Acadia, LA
Burial: Prien Memorial Cemetery, Lake Charles, Calcasieu, LA
Marriage date: Unknown
Marriage place: Unknown
Spouse's name: Celestine SAUCIER

Child No. 5: Dora SEILEY
Sex: F
Birthdate: 25 Mar 1883
Birthplace: St. Landry, LA
Death date: Unknown
Place of death: 
Marriage date: 24 Dec 1901
Burial: Unknown
Marriage place: Opelousas, St. Landry, LA
Spouse's name: Arville CHAPMAN

Child No. 6: Oscar Onesime SEILEY
Sex: M
Birthdate: 25 Jul 1884
Birthplace: Ville Platte, St. Landry, LA
Death date: Infant
Place of death: 
Burial: 
Marriage date: 
Marriage place: 
Spouse's name: 

Child No. 7: Ella Melisse SEILEY
Sex: F
Birthdate: 10 Dec 1886
Birthplace: Mamou, St. Landry, LA
Death date: 2 Jul 1969
Place of death: Sulphur, Calcasieu, LA
Burial: Ritchie Cemetery, Moss Bluff, Calcasieu, LA
Marriage date: 19 Mar 1902
Marriage place: Opelousas, St. Landry, LA
Spouse's name: Steven ISRAEL

Child No. 8: Marie Ida SEILEY
Sex: F
Birthdate: 11 Aug 1888
Birthplace: St. Landry, LA
Death date: 15 May 1977
Place of death: Oberlin, Allen, LA
Burial: St. Joan of Arc Cemetery, Oberlin, Allen, LA
Marriage date: 5 Jul 1904
Marriage place: Opelousas, St. Landry, LA
Spouse's name: Adema "Eddie" CHAPMAN

Child No. 9: Mary Eunice SEILEY
Sex: F
Birthdate: 21 Dec 1889
Birthplace: Caney Creek, St. Landry, LA
Death date: 25 Oct 1977
Place of death: Lake Charles, Calcasieu, LA
Burial: Creel Cemetery, Bel, Allen, LA
Marriage date: 27 Oct 1905
Marriage place: Oakdale, Calcasieu, LA
Spouse's name: James William HUFFMAN, MD

 Documentation: BIRTH:  New Orleans birth certificate #592, recorded on
14 Dec 1857.
Marriage recorded at St. Landry church, vol. M2E, page 220. Marriage date
in ancestry.com is shown as 25 Jan 1875 in St. Landry Parish.
1880 Federal Census for Louisiana, St. Landry Parish, roll #470, page
384, family #268.
DEED:  St. Landry Parish conveyance records, vol. G-2, page 25, #16793,
page 337, #18035,  and #18036, dated  28 Oct 1879;  vol. F-2, page 237,
#16240 and page --, #16324.
Buried in family cemetery on old Thomas Seiley homesite in an area called
Spring Prairie, south of Beaver, LA.
Birth and death information taken from headstone.  Seiley Cemetery
listing was published in la voix des Prairies, Vol. 21, No. 82, page 3.