NELS AND LENA SEADIN FAMILY, Bio, Granite Co., MT

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	NELS AND LENA SEADIN FAMILY

Nels Seadin:
	Born: September 1874.
	Place: Sweden.
	Died:           1939.
	Place: his family took him from Garnet to the hospital in  
Missoula, Missoula County, Montana where he died.

Lena Johnson:
	Born: she was born in July 1872.
	Place: Sweden.
	Died:  she passed away in 1954.
	Place: Butte, Silverbow County, Montana.

Occupation:  Nels was a miner and postmaster in Garnet in the 
1930's until the time of his death in 1939.

Married:  Nels and Lena met and married in Wallace, Idaho.

Children:  Nels and Lena had six children.

	1)  Mildred Seadin (Driggers)
		Born:  November 26, 1901.
		Place:  probably Wallace, Idaho.
		Died:
		Place:
		Married:  She married Mr. Driggers of Anaconda, Montana.

	2)  Tor (Tur) Seadin
		Born:    1903.
		Place:   probably Wallace, Idaho.
		Died:    before 1936.
		Place:   Butte, Silverbow County, Montana.  He died in a 
mining accident in the Butte mines.
		Occupation: He was a miner.  His photograph is shown 
with other miners working at the Grant-
Hartford Mine near Garnet, Montana in 
1926.

	3)  Elsie Seadin
		Born:    1905
		Place:   Coloma, Missoula County, Montana
		Died:    December 23, 1962
		Place:   Reno, Nevada
		Occupation:  Elsie was a school teacher in Garnet.
		Married:  

	4)  Walter Seadin
		Born:    1908
		Place:   Garnet, Granite County, Montana
		Died:    1959.
		Place:
		Occupation:  Miner.

	5)  Margaret Seadin
		Born:    1910.
		Place:   Garnet, Granite County, Montana.
		Died:    1937
		Place:   Garnet, Granite County, Montana at the house of 
her grandparents.

	6)  Robert George Seadin
		Born:    1915.
		Place:  probably Garnet, Granite County, Montana.
		Died:  January 4, 1968.
		Place:  Galan State Hospital, Warm Spring, Montana.  He 
			was cremated and his ashes spread around his former 
house at Garnet, Granite County, Montana.
		Occupation:  He was a miner working at the McDonald Mine 
earning $5.00 per day.  When he earned 
enough money he started leasing mines an 
working them with his brother Walter and 
Dick Heard.  In these days, there were no 
safety standards for miners.  Miners 
worked without air filters and as in the 
case of Robert Seadin, they would get 
silicous and emphysema.  Robert hunted 
wild game to provide meat for the family. 
 Robert and Elsie left Garnet in 1941.
		Married:  at 21 years of age, after a five month 		
	courtship Robert married Elsie 
Margaret Craddock in Missoula, Missoula 
County, Montana on November 4, 1936.  The 
settled in a one room house at Garnet.  
Elsie joined in the ladies entertainment 
of bridge and Garnet sewing club.  They 
were divorced in 1952.  She remarried to 
a Mr. Fleming.
		Children:	1) Gary Robert Seadin
					Born:  November 17, 1937.
					Place:  Garnet, Granite County, Montana.
					Died:
					Place:
				2)  Carol Ann Seadin
					Born:  July, 10, 1939.
					Place:  Garnet, Granite County, Montana.
					Died:
					Place:
				3)  Sharon Seadin (Baldwin)
					Born: after 1941.
					Place:
					Died:
					Place:

Nels and Nena Seadin were both born in Sweden moving to Garnet in 
1905.  Nels was a miner and for a short time near the end of his 
life postmaster in Garnet.  In 1927 they lived in the old Adams 
house.  During the years 1905 to about 1929 moves were made from 
Garnet to Mullin, Idaho, from Idaho back to Garnet then to 
Philipsburg back to Garnet and to Coloma at one time and back to 
Garnet.  All their children went to school at some time in Garnet. 
 
In the winter, everyone would go skiing and sleigh riding.  There 
were dances at the Hotel or at Short's Bar (later the Dahl house). 
 The monthly shopping was in Missoula with some items bought at 
the general store in Garnet.  Wild game was either hung in the 
slant or in an old mine tunnel where it was shared with friends 
and family.

Bibliography:

Baldwin, Sharon Seadin, 1971.  Letter to Mr. John R. Crouch dated 
February 9. concerning her family and experiences in Garnet.

Baldwin, Sharon Seadin, 1971.  Letter to Mr. John R. Crouch dated 
January 28. concerning her family and experiences in Garnet.

Baldwin, Sharon Seadin, 1970.  Letter to Bureau of Land Management 
dated June 15 concerning the restoration of Garnet and her family 
history, 1675 Coronado, Las Vegas, Nevada 89109.

Hammond, Helen 1983.  Garnet-Montana's Last Gold Camp, Acme Press, 
Missoula, Montana.