Name: eacrab -- Seward

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Family
Marriage: Children:

  1. Ruby Lavisa SEWARD: Birth: 9 MAR 1901 in Butler Co, KS. Death: 18 JUL 1994 in Wichita, Sedgwick Co., KS

  2. Ivan Clark SEWARD: Birth: 21 OCT 1902 in rural Leon, Kansas. Death: 15 NOV 1976 in St. Francis Hospital, Wichita, Kansas

  3. Wayne Harold SEWARD: Birth: 21 MAR 1905 in Butler Co., KS. Death: 6 JUL 1993

  4. Freeman Murray SEWARD: Birth: 29 NOV 1907 in Butler Co., KS. Death: OCT 1986


Sources
1. Title:   1920 U.S. Census, Butler Co., KS (Glencoe Township), sheet 1B, ED 26,dwelling 18, family 18, lines 65-70 (family of Freeman W. Seward),National Archives Microfilm Roll 523.
2. Title:   1910 U.S. Census, Butler Co., KS (Glencoe Township), sheet 3b,dwelling 63, family 63, lines 65-71 (family of Freeman W. Seward),National Archives Microfilm 433.
3. Title:   1900 U. S. Census, Butler Co., KS (Glencoe Township), ED 13, sheet 2,house 40, lines 87-90 (family of Joel Parker), National ArchivesMicrofilm, Rool 473.

Notes
a. Note:   Seward, which is a daughter-in-law of Cora's.
  I can remember visiting Cora at her house when she was an invalid inbed in her home in El Dorado. She gave me a clown that she had madeof rags (and I still have it). That's the only memory I have of mygreat grandmother.
  The following obituary was found in the 3 Feb 1972 El Dorado Times atthe Butler County Historical Museum, 1 Dec 1993.
  "A lifetime resident of Butler county, 95-year-old Mrs. Cora A.Seward, 418 West Locust, died January 25. A memorial in her name hasbeen established at First United Methodist church.
  Born March 10, 1876, in Glencoe township, she was the daughter of Mr.and Mrs. Joel Parker (Martha Sinclair). She was married on Feb 1,1900, to Freeman W. Seward. Following his death in 1948, she movedfrom rural Leon to El Dorado in 1949.
  She was a lifetime member of the Little Walnut chapter, Order of theEastern Star, at Leon. In El Dorado, she was a member of the Mary andMartha Sunday School class and Circle Two of the First UnitedMethodist church.
  Survivors include three sons, Ivan C. and Wayne H. Seward, both ofrural Leon, and Freeman M. Seward, Eureka; one daughter, Mrs. CalvinBrown (Ruby), Cheney; 13 grandchildren, 35 great-grandchildren, and 1great-great-grandchild. Mrs. Seward was preceded in death by onesister and three brothers.
  Rev. C. M. Nutter, a staff member of First United Methodist church,conducted the services Friday afternoon at Dietz Colonial chapel.Mrs. George Coulter was organist. Vocalists were Mr. and Mrs. WilliamAnshutz." (Mrs. Anshutz is the former Barbara Seward,great-grandaughter of Cora Seward and daughter of Robert L. Seward.)
  "Bearers were grandsons of Mrs. Seward: William F. Brown, Robert C.Brown, Marion Paul Seward, Darrell I. Seward, Robert L. Seward, ErnieF. Seward, Freeman G. Seward, and Merlin R. Hodgell.
  Interment was in the Little Walnut cemetery near Leon."
Note:   Cora's middle name is found in notes typed by my grandmother, Lizzie
b. Note:   needs to be researched.
 
Note:   According to the Ancestral File 4.17, Cora was born in Alton, IL. This
c. Note:   1992.
Note:   Source: Cemeteries of Butler Co., Kansas Vol. 7, by Corrine Afton,
d. Note:   children.
 
Note:   In the 1920 census, Cora A. is 44 and living with her husband and 4
e. Note:   children, and father-in-law.
 
Note:   In the 1910 census, Cora is 34 and living with her husband, 4
f. Note:   parents' (Joel and Martha F. Parker) home.
 
Note:   In the 1900 census, Cora is 24 and living with her husband in her

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