Mrs. Halleck Wager Seaman 1863-1952

SEAMAN, WAGER, SCOTT, PERRIN, YOUNG, MILLER, BALDWIN

Posted By: Michael J. Kearney (email)
Date: 12/31/2002 at 15:57:47

The Clinton Herald Monday January 21, 1952 p. 9 Mrs. Halleck Wager Seaman, 88, of 516 Fifth avenue, South, a member of one of Clinton's oldest families, died at 1:30 p.m. Sunday in Jane Lamb hospital. She had been ill for three weeks. Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday in the family home. Rev. Verne A. Spindell will officiate. Burial will be in the Seaman-Kerr family lot in Springdale cemetery. The body will be taken from Bragonier-Fay chapel to the family home at 4 o'clock this afternoon. Friends may call at the home. Mrs. Seaman was active in community affairs. She was a charter member of Clinton chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, having been instrumental in organizing the Clinton unit; chairman of the committee for the memorial War I and a member of the Jane Lamb hospital board of trustees for 45 years. For 25 years she served as chairman of the hospital board of trustees and was an honorary member of the board at the time of her death. Mrs. Seaman was a life-long member of the Congregational church and served in various offices of the church. She was a member of Plymouth circle. She was born Helen Valeria Scott, Nov. 13, 1863 in Clinton. He parents were Elizabeth Jane Perrin and Walter Arnold Scott. Her mother was the daughter of Sam Perrin who brought his family to Clinton by steamboat from Ohio. Mr. Perrin built his home, a log cabin, on the banks of the river at the present site of the Chicago and North Western railroad bridge. Mrs. Seaman's aunt, Mary Perrin Miller, was the first white child born in Clinton county. Mrs. Seaman was a graduate of Clinton high school, Ferry Hall at Lake Forest, Ill. and of Iowa State Teachers college at Cedar Falls. She taught school in Clinton for two years preceding her marriage. She was married Dec. 28, 1887 to Halleck Wager Seaman in Clinton. Mr. and Mrs. Seaman celebrated their golden wedding anniversary in 1937. He died in December, 1941. Mrs. Seaman is survived by one son, Dwight Scott Seaman of Clinton, with whom she made her home; four cousins, Mrs. E.A. Young of Beverly Hills, Calif., Miss Harriette Miller of Hollywood, Calif., Dr. Hal Miller of Clovis, N.M., and Mrs. Harry S. Baldwin of Clinton. She was preceded in death by her husband and one daughter, Mildred A. Seaman, who died at the age of 12.