Bond-Clinton County IL Archives Obituaries.....Seagraves, Bennet July 29, 1868
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Greenville Advocate
Bennet Seagraves was born in the state of Georgia, July 21, 1791 died at  his 
residence near Mulberry Grove, Il July 29, 1868, aged seventy-seven and eight 
days.  About the year 1810 he removed with his father to 
Tennessee and settle in Murry County.  In the War of 1812 he volunteered in 
the service of his county.  Himself with three brothers were in the battle of 
Pensacoloa and New Orleans.  In the spring of 1818 he moved with his family to 
Illinois, and here raised a large family.  About twenty-four years past the 
companion  of his youth was taken away.  He was left with eleven, who all 
lived to be grown and married, but only seven yet live.  When he died he had 
thirty-two grandchildren and twelve great grandchildren.  His father Jacob 
Seagraves was a soldier in the Revolutionary War and recieved a pesion from 
the goverment in 1832, he died in Clinton County, Il.

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