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Obadiah Seward (b.ca1630) is found recorded in Milford, Connecticut in 1660. He married Bethyah Hawes at Milford. His great grandson, James Sr. (1732-1808) was the son of Obadiah III of Brookhaven, Long Island, New York. James settled at Fairfield, Butler Co., Ohio. A descendant, George Francis Seward (1877-1961) married Ada Leona Rugh in 1904. They were the parents of George Chester Seward (b.1910). He married Carroll Frances McKay in 1936. They were the parents of four children. Several generations of ancestors and descendants are given. Family members lived in Ohio, Illinois, Kentucky, New York and elsewhere.
During the last nine months of the Civil War, virtually all of the news reports and President Jefferson Davis’s correspondence confirmed the imminent demise of the Confederate States, the nation Davis had striven to uphold since 1861. But despite defeat after defeat on the battlefield, a recalcitrant Congress, nay-sayers in the press, disastrous financial conditions, failures in foreign policy and peace efforts, and plummeting national morale, Davis remained in office and tried to maintain the government—even after the fall of Richmond on April 2—until his capture by Union forces on May 10, 1865. The eleventh volume of The Papers of Jefferson Davis follows these tumultuous last months ...
Previously published by Magna Carta, Baltimore. Published as a set by Genealogical Publishing with the two vols. of the Genealogies in the Library of Congress, and the two vols. of the Supplement. Set ISBN is 0806316691.