Obit for J. G. Seeley - Kingfisher County, Oklahoma Submitted by: Barbara Clayton OklahomaClaytons@aol.com Return to Kingfisher County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/kingfisher/kingfisher.html ===================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ===================================================================== THE KINGFISHER TIMES, THURSDAY, APRIL 7, 1904, KINGFISHER, OKLAHOMA. J. G. SEELEY. J. G. SEELEY, the proprietor of the Farmer's Hotel, of this city, died at 2:00 o'clock last Thursday morning, after an illness of several weeks. The funeral services were held at 3:30 p.m., conducted by Rev. S. M. NICKLE of the M.E. Church. Interment in Kingfisher Cemetery. Mr. SEELEY has been confined much of the time of late to the house with La Grippe, which increased chronic troubles of the heart, liver and kidneys. Mr. SEELEY has been a familiar figure here for twelve years, though part of the time was spent on his homestead. He was born in Tioga county, Pennsylvania, March 23, 1828, consequently was eight days over 76 years of age. He moved to Larned, Kansas, in 1875 and conducted a hotel until he came to Oklahoma in 1892, at the opening of the Cheyenne country. He leaves a wife, two daughters and four sons, all grown and all married but his youngest son.