Jeremiah Dickenson Seaver

Jeremiah Dickenson was born on December 27th, 1841 in ,Hawkins, Tennessee.¹   Jeremiah Dickenson's father was Jeremiah Seaver and his mother was Nancy Thurman.  His paternal grandfather was Seaver; his maternal grandparents were William Thurman and Mary Dickenson. He had nine brothers and a sister, named William, Joseph, Henry Clinton, William Thurman, John B., Wiley Hinton, William Fulton, George Curry, James Thomas and Nancy Susan.  He was the fifth youngest of the eleven children. He had three half-brothers and five half-sisters, named Christopher, Campbell Walter, Ap Percell, Mary, Frances, Matilda, Margaret Elizabeth and Lillie Bell.