Martin Nicholas Seely
Personal
Gender: Male
Date of Birth: December 31, 1846
Date of Death: July 4, 1932
Birth Place: Kirkwood county, MO
Death Place: Fair Hill, PA
Martin Nicholas Seely
Martin N. Seely Claimed by Death
Fair Hill Man Dies At 85
MONTROSE, July 8 – Martin Nicholas Seely, 85, one of the best known farmers in western Susquehanna county, died at his home at Fair Hill on Tuesday morning at 1 o’clock. Mr. Seely had been in ill health for some months, due to a nervous ailment, and his condition became critical less than a week prior to his death.
He was a native of Kirkwood county, Mo., where he was born Dec. 31, 1846. His father died when he was nine years of age, and his mother came to Niven, Wyoming county, with her children to be near relatives. After attaining young manhood he conducted a feed mill at Lynn, this county, for fourteen years and later resided in West Nicholson and Dimock before buying a farm at Fair Hill thirty years ago and locating there.
He married Mary Susan Green on July 1, 1874, and her death occurred in September, 1920. The following children survive: Mrs. I.C. Parker, Giles G. Seely, Fairdale; Mrs. Reed H. Raub, Mrs. Charles Steiger, Forest Lake, Pa.; Mrs. Myron Green and Claude F. Seely, Fair Hill. One brother and four sisters preceded him in death.
The funeral was held from his late home this afternoon. Interment was in South Montrose cemetery.
Published in The Tribune (Scranton, Pennsylvania) Saturday July 9, 1932
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