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Apema Seamans

Generation 6 back

Descent: Meghan Jane Leineweber ← Catherine Raye Lobb ← Patricia Jane Loomis ← Beulah Grahm ← Anna Frances Brown ← Isaac Horace Brown ← Apema Seamans

In brief

Born about 1798/1800 in Vermont. She married December 12, 1816, in Madison County, New York. She died May 30, 1867 in Linn, Walworth County, Wisconsin.

Family

Father
John Seamans
Mother
Sarah Westcott
Spouse
George Ellison Brown
m. 1816

Children

  • George C. Brown
    b. January 8, 1821, in Brutus, Cayuga County, New York
    m. Roxanna Stewart, December 25, 1845
    d. Between August 19, 1906, and November 25, 1907
  • Edmund Brown
    b. December 18, 1824
    d. Abt. 1845
  • Thomas C. Brown
    b. October 24, 1828
    m. Nancy Currier
    d. After July 2, 1902
  • Jacob Orris/Horace Brown
    b. March 30, 1831
    m. Iva May Moses, October 18, 1884, in Saint Paul, Howard County, Nebraska
    d. January 20, 1906, at home, in Homestead, Greeley County, Nebraska miles north of Ord, Nebraska
  • Lucretia Ann Brown
    b. June 26, 1834, in Clay, Onondaga County, New York
    m. Frederick Augustus Stewart, March 30, 1854, in Pulaski, Owego County, New York
    d. August 4, 1920, in Saint Paul, Howard County, Nebraska
  • Isaac Horace Brown · in this line
    b. Richland, Oswego County, New York
    m. Isabella Elizabeth Brown, December 22, 1861, in Linn, Walworth County, Wisconsin
    d. April 27, 1914, at his home in Home/Joe’s Bay, Lakebay, Pierce County, Washington
  • Jennie Brown
    m. ____ Jacobs

Siblings

  • Ezekiel Seamans
    m. Sally Richardson
  • George Seamans
  • John Seamans
    m. Phylina Jackson
    d. 1821 due to a falling tree
  • Benjamin Seamans
    b. February 19, 1785, in Starksboro, Vermont
    m. Diana Whipple, December 31, 1805
    d. May 22, 1862
  • Leonard Seamans
    m. Lydia Breed
  • Robia Seamans
    m. Samuel Luther
  • Patience Seamans
    m. ____ Phillips
  • Zilpha Seamans
    m. Nathan King
  • Sarah Seamans
  • Isaac Seamans
    b. November 11, 1794, in Clarendon Springs, Vermont
    m. Sarah Pettingill, August 5, 1821
    d. April 10, 1870
  • Jacob Seamans
    b. November 11, 1794, in Clarendon, Vermont
    m. Hannah Keeler
    d. August 28, 1865, in DeRuyter, New York
  • Trophena Seamans
    m. ____ Wade

Life story

A Frontier Wife

Apema Seamans, also recorded as Athena Brown, was born around 1798–1800 in Vermont, the daughter of John Seamans and Sarah Westcott, and married George Ellison Brown on December 12, 1816, in Madison County, New York. The family moved westward over the following decades, from Oswego County, New York, to McHenry County, Illinois, by 1850, and finally to Walworth County, Wisconsin, where by 1860 Apema was living in the household of her son, Isaac Horace Brown. She died on May 30, 1867.

Apema Seamans.
Apema Seamans.
Apema Seamans Brown CC.
Apema Seamans Brown CC.
Sources (4)
  1. 1860 United States Federal Census, Linn, Walworth County, Wisconsin, population schedule, page 74, dwelling 544, family 68, Family of Isaac H. Brown; NARA microfilm publication M653, roll 1434; Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/7667/images/4300460_00442 : accessed 25 February 2025).
  2. Dorinda Partsch and Janet Pack, “John Brown of Reading, Six Generations,” 6 January 2020; received via email from Dorinda Partsch to a living relative on January 8, 2020.
  3. Dorinda Partsch, “Descendants of George E. Brown,” 9 July 2013; received via email from Dorinda Partsch to a living relative on 23 September 2019.
  4. John Julian Lawton, The Seamans Family in America (Syracuse, New York: Charles Seamans Brown, 1933).
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