Hillsdale County MI Archives Photo Tombstone.....Seelye, Elijah B. 
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Cemetery:           Goodrich Cemetery (AKA: Keith Or Lane Cemetery)
Name:               Elijah B. Seelye

Date Of Photograph: July 2007
Photo can be seen at:
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Born: June 12, 1795
Died: Aug. 17, 1876

"Deacon Elijah Seelye"
h/o Sarah Fancher, Mary M. Hall & Lydia Kelsey, aged 80 yrs., 9 mos., 28 days

Row 9 (From West End)

Additional Comments:
Elijah served as Pittsford's first Supervisor and Justice of the Peace. He 
served as Supervisor (1836-8, 1840 & 1849), as town clerk (1842, 1881-82), 
Post Master (1840-1843) and Justice of the Peace (1836, 1840) and the State of 
Michigan as a member of the Legislature in 1839.

Elijah was made an Elder in 1836, of the Presbyterian Church of Bean Creek; 
renamed the Presbyterian Church of Hudson and Pittsford and then to the 
Congregational Church of Hudson and Pittsford and finally as the 
Congregational Church of Hudson.

Elijah was one of the first to enroll in the Hillsdale County Pioneer Society 
serving as one of the original members and First Vice-President.

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