1842 - 1872

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• Birth	26 Sep 1842	Conneaut,Crawford,Pennsylvania,USA   [3]
  Gender	Male
  Died	23 Apr 1872	Tyrrell Hill,Fowler,Trumbull,Ohio, USA   [4]
  Buried	Dugan Cemetery,Fowler,Ohio
  Person ID	I91176	Brainard (Brainerd) / Foster / Fish
  Last Modified	13 Jul 2004 00:00:00
  Father	Silas Hill SEAGER, b. 6 Mar 1809, Phelps,Ontario,New York,USA
  Mother	Amelia Amanda BARBER, b. 19 Apr 1809, New York,USA
  Family ID	F39720	Group Sheet
  Family	Mary Emeline TYRRELL, b. 8 Aug 1845, Tyrrell Hill,Fowler,Trumbull,Ohio, USA
  Married	12 May 1867	Vernon,Trumbull,Ohio,USA   [5]
  Children	> 1. Orin Austin SEAGER, b. 14 Sep 1872, Fowler,Trumbull,Ohio,USA
  Family ID	F39699	Group Sheet

• Notes

  Cause of Death: Inflammatory rheumatism The first Seager in America wasRichard Seager b. 1624, who came from England to settle in Hartford, Connecticut. Five additional generations lived in Hartford Co., Connecticut with Josephb. 1656, Joseph b. 1682, Joseph b. 1706, Darius B. 1751, and Elijah b. 1778. Darius b. 1751 was a Revolutionary War Veteran and fought for nine months as a private. He was engaged in the taking of New York. The Seager family began moving westward after the first colonial settler. They moved first north from Hartford, Connecticut to Simsbury, Connecticut, then west to Phelps Township, NewYork. Elijah and his son, Silas Hill Seager b. 1809, moved to Conneaut, Ohio from Phelps, New York by boat on Lake Erie. Silas Hill Seager's son, Orin Barber Seager b. 1842, was a young man when he moved south to Tyrrell Hill, Ohio, where he met and married Mary Emeline Tyrrell in 1867. Mary E. Tyrrell was alsoborn in Ohio, but all of her ancestors originated from Connecticut with her immigrate ancestor, Roger Terrill, coming from England. Orin Barber Seager wasa machinist. He and his new wife had a home and shop. Orin drilled holes inthe timbers in his shop and to hid money. This wasn't discovered until after his death when the new owners tore the shop down. Orin B. Seager and Mary E. Tyrrell had one child, Orin Austin Seager, who was born in the little village of Tyrrell Hill in 1872. Orin Barber Seager died at the age of 29 of inflammatoryrheumatism, five months before his son's birth. Orin Barber Seager never realized that he would die so young as he never told his young wife that he had money hidden. Orin B. Seager was a young man during the years of the civil war,but no records have been found and there is no family history of him ever enlisting. Since he had inflammatory rheumatism, he was probably to ill to enlist.Ohio was a union state, however, and very much against slavery. Orin BarberSeager's ancestors contended with the difficult task of settling a new countryin New England. Even though Orin Barber Seager's life was cut short, it is remarkable that, successive generations have been called upon to be pioneers. Hiswife and son went on to lay a firm foundation farther west in Utah. His son,Orin Austin, then went north to homestead in Canada and back to Tremonton, Utahand continued the pioneer spirit, encouraging his own children to advance andbe pioneers in their chosen professions or go on a church mission. Out of OrinBarber Seager's grandchildren, C. Austin Seager, followed in his grandfather'sfootsteps and became a university professor, teaching in the department of manufacturing engineering technology. C. Austin also helped his son, Richard, start his own home business, using CNC milling machines to make parts for the space program. Tyrrell R. Seager, another grandson, became the first doctor in Utahto receive a surgical residency from any hospital in Utah. Both C. Austin andTyrrell became influential leaders in their community. LaRue, William Kennedy, and C. Austin went on missions, with C. Austin Seager returning to the Connecticut homeland, for his mission. Each successive generation has been a generation of founders in new fields of knowledge, and we are today the result of whatour Pilgrim ancestors accomplished, through their genes and through their desires. From our ancestors we inherited the spirit, doctrines, and practices of the Puritans. We not only inherited their genes, but their customs are stillvery much in our blood. Many of their practices can still be seen in our families today. Most of us still believe in educating our families in religion andhigher education, but some of the "puritanical" code of being scrupulously strict, rigid, and intolerant has also filtered down through our fathers, which has not always been a benefit to our families.

• Sources

  [S1674] Dugan Cemetery records for Orin B. Seager; 1850, 1860 census for Conneaut, Penn.; photo in possession of Kara S. Segalla. [S401] GEDCOM File : rachel_hill.ged, Kara Seager-Segalla (jpsegalla@msn.com), (http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GED&db=:2916467&id=I0210), 4 Jul 2004. [S1672] 1850 census for Trumbull, Ohio. [S1673] Ohio State Probate Record, Gowler, Trumbull, Ohio on Orin B. Seager; GS#904251,pg #154, entry 9. [S2148] Marriage certif. of Mary E. Tyrrell & Orin Seager, Trubull Co., Ohio, GS#905549pg. 394.