Family Bible Information on Jacob Seely and Elizabeth Van Campen
“This information is taken from the family Bible and does not give a very full account of some of them. But I think (for) some of them their deaths were not known about by the ones who had the Bible until quite a time after it had happened and full date perhaps was not given. But this is the best I can give you.”
| Births | Deaths |
| Jacob Seely was born Aug 5th AD 1786 | Jacob Seeley died Mar 31st AD 1830 |
| Elizabeth Seely was born Dec 30th AD 1789 | Elizabeth Seely died Sept 22nd AD 1838 |
| Mary Ann Seely was born Feb 23rd AD 1812 | Mary Ann Webb died Mar 3rd AD 1872 |
| Hannah Seely was born July 23rd AD 1813 | Hannah Webb died Feb 10th AD 1881 at Caldwell Summer Co Kan |
| Diannah Seely was born Sept 10th AD 1814 | Diannah Webb died Jan 7th AD 1885 aged 70 years, 3 mos, 27 days |
| William Seely was born Jan 27th AD 1816 | William Seely died May 20th AD 1851 aged 35 yrs, 4 mos, 24 days |
| Stephen Seely was born Aug 20th AD 1817 | Stephen Seely died Jan 16th AD 1896 Buried at Sac City, Iowa |
| Thomas Seely was born Dec 31st AD 1818 | Thomas Seely died May 18th 1873 Buried at Ackley, Iowa |
| John Seely was born July 6th AD 1820 | John Seely died Feb 12th Aged 6 yrs, 6 mos, 6 days (no year given) |
| Clinton Seely was born Nov 8th AD 1821 | Clinton Seely died Feb 11th AD 1853 Aged 31 yrs, 3 mos, 3 days |
| Jacob Seely was born May 15th AD 1823 | Jacob Seely died Dec 19th AD 1882 at Winfield Kansas |
| James Seely was born Jan 26th AD 1825 | James Seely died Dec 9th (no year given) and is buried in Zimmerman’s Cemetery 1 ¾ mis South of Polo Caldwell Co Missouri |
| Joseph Seely was born July 30th AD 1826 | Joseph Seely died in New Mexico in battle against the South (no year given) |
| Andrew Seely was born Dec 15th AD 1829 | Andrew Seely died Apr 22nd AD 1896. Buried in Portland __?? Cemetery. Kossuth Co Iowa.” |
Submitted by Alfa Jean Carter, 892 S. 700 East, Centerville, UT 84014
Note: Although this Family Bible information is not listed as a reference, the information agrees with only a few exceptions with that compiled on this family in the SGS Publication The Seventh Generation Families, Obadiah section, pages 25 and 26. This Jacob Seeley was assigned SGS # 1494. In a letter to the Newsletter Editor, Alfa Jean Carter lists her line as Verna May Seely, Arta McLean Seely, Joseph Seely, and William Seely, the son of Jacob Seely listed above. A copy of Alfa’s correspondence, which also contained a group sheet on her grandfather, Arta Seely, has been sent to the Seelye Research Center.
SGS Newsletter, May 2004
