Wiley Hinton Seaver

Wiley Hinton was born on August 2nd, 1840 in ,Hawkins, Tennessee.¹   Wiley Hinton'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., Jeremiah Dickenson, William Fulton, George Curry, James Thomas and Nancy Susan.  He was the sixth oldest 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.  He died at the age of 79 on February 5th, 1920.¹