My Genealogy Hound

WILLIAM SEELA, farmer, section 28, post-office Carthage, is a native Missourian, born in Ralls county, Jan. 20, 1830. When an infant, not more than two and a half years old, his parents moved to what is now Jasper county, settling one and a half miles northeast of Sarcoxie. Five years later the family moved five miles south of Carthage, where his father made a farm, upon which he lived until neighbors began to get too thick, when he sold out and went to Texas, where he died in 1873. Our subject also went to Texas, but staid only eighteen months. At the age of twenty-four he was married to Mary C. Neal, also a native of Missouri. She lived but eleven months, leaving one child, Sarah, now Mrs. James Henry, of Newton county. He was again married, April 11, 1859, to Miss M. J. Mason, a native of east Tennessee. Shortly after the breaking out of the Rebellion he moved to St. Marys, Kan., and enlisted in Company C, Fifteenth Regiment Kansas Cavalry Volunteers. He served in Kansas and Missouri, and was at the battles of Lexington, Westport, Mine Run, Moniteau, and Newtonia, and many skirmishes, scouts, and jayhawking expeditions, and discharged in October, 1865. He returned to Jasper county in 1867. Himself and good wife have not been blessed with children of their own, but are so situated as to spend the remainder of their days in comfort and the enjoyment of the means their industry and economy have accumulated.