Seymour Baxter

born 1808

died September 4, 1892

Seymour was born 1808 in St. Peter, Canada. He married Dinah La Fave in 1834 in that same place. He served in the Canadian army during the insurrection in 1835. Seymour and his wife Dinah were the parents of twelve children, six of whom were born in Canada before they relocated to the United States in 1849.
According to the 1850 U.S.Census he was a farmer and lived in Lorraine, Jefferson County, New York with his wife and six children. A daughter, Alvira, who would have been 11 years old is not found in the records and a son Peter was the first child born in the United States the previous year.
Ten years later, the 1860 census shows that he is still farming in Lorraine, was 48 years old, and four more children were born.
In 1869 the family moved to a farm in the town of Palermo, New York, about 40 miles southwest of Lorraine.
The next census record was in 1880. During the twenty intervening census years, one son was killed in the Civil War, six children had married, one was widowed and five grandchildren were born to them. Three children remained with them on the farm.
Seymour continued to farm until his death in 1892.

(Seymour's greeting to his daughter Diana in her 1882 autograph book)