Matilda Seaver

Matilda was born on November 3rd, 1857 in ,Hawkins, Tennessee.¹   Matilda's father was Jeremiah Seaver and her mother was Elvira Counts.  Her paternal grandfather was Seaver. She had three brothers and four sisters, named Christopher, Campbell Walter, Ap Percell, Mary, Frances, Margaret Elizabeth and Lillie Bell.  She was the fourth oldest of the eight children. She had ten half-brothers and a half-sister, named William, Joseph, Henry Clinton, William Thurman, John B., Wiley Hinton, Jeremiah Dickenson, William Fulton, George Curry, James Thomas and Nancy Susan.