Harriet Maria Seeley (born Carpenter)
Personal
Gender: Female
Date of Birth: February 7, 1841
Date of Death: December 20, 1918
Birth Place: Otsego county, NY
Death Place: Arkansas City, KS
Harriet Maria (Carpenter) Seeley
GRANDMA SEELEY IS LAID TO REST ON CHISTMAS DAY
The funeral of Grandma Seeley was held in the Christian church in Burlington, Christmas afternoon, being conducted by the pastor, W.S. Lowe, who spoke from the text, “Let me died the death of the righteous and let my last end by like his.” Numbers, 23; 10. The body was laid by that of her husband in Graceland cemetery.
The following account of the auto accident which caused the death of Mrs. Seeley, also that of her daughter-in-law, Mrs. Myron Seeley, and the serious injury of Myron, is taken from the Arkansas City Daily Traveler. “The collision occurred when the street car was going West on the Avenue and Mr. Seeley’s car was going South on First street. Witnesses to the accident said that the auto, driven by Mr. Seeley, ran in front of the car and was turning East when the crash came. The auto was pushed about 60 feet by the street car and the two women were thrown out under the auto. There was a profusion of blood about the place and all three parties were badly cut by broken glass from the front of the street car and the windshield of the auto. Ed Solser, motorman on the street car, stated that the first he saw of Mr. Seeley or the auto, the street car had struck the auto and Mr. Seeley’s face was right in front of the car window. It was his first impression, he said, that the auto had come from the West, on the North side of the street, and had attempted to turn South at the corner in front of the street car.”
Harriet Maria (Carpenter) Seeley was born in Otsego county, N.Y., February 7, 1841, and died at Arkansas City, Kansas as the result of an automobile accident, December 20, 1918. She was married to J.W. Seeley February 6, 1858, while still living in the state of New York. In 1868 they moved to Burlingame, Kans., and lived in that vicinity till in 1876 when they moved to near Burlington, where they resided five years when they moved to Butler County, Kans., and after twelve years returned in 1893 and settled in Burlington which has been her home ever since. To them were born six children: Myron E. of Arkansas City, Kans., Emma C. Edgar of Beaumont, Kans., Geo. O., who died at 8 months of age, Jesse W. of Flue, Colo., Cora Mae Fisher, of Kansas City, Kans. and Olive C. Volland of Burlington, Kans. Her husband died January 12, 1913. Mrs. Seeley was in early childhood a member of the Lutheran church, but in 1870 united with the Christian church in company with her husband at Key West, Kans. She was one of the most faithful and devoted of Christians. All who knew her testify to her womanly virtues and christian character. Always in her place in the house of God, ready for any good work within her power, her life was a living testimony of the Grace of her Lord. She was a member of the Christian Woman’s Board of Missions, auxiliary of the Christian church in Burlington and faithful in the discharge of all her duties.
Surely no one was more ready to be taken suddenly and without a moment’s warning than she was.
Published in The Daily Republican (Burlington, Kansas), Thursday December 26, 1918, front page
[Wife of son of SGS # 3202 – John W.; Samuel (# 3202); John Tucker (# 1411); Josiah; Obadiah; Obadiah; Obadiah; Obadiah]
