Chester County PA Archives Obituaries.....SEAL, William Heyburn June 4, 1910
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Daily Local News
June 4, 1910
William H. Seal.
  This morning William H. Seal, a venerable resident of Pennsbury township, 
died at his home of illness incident to old age, in his 88th year.  He has 
been a farmer of tht section for many years and was well known in the 
community as an industrious and good citizen.  He is survived by two sons, 
Howard and William, both residents of that section, and a daughter, the wife 
of Nicholas White, also of Pennsbury.  The deceased ahad many other relatives 
in Chester county and his death will be sympathized in, although he lived to a 
ripe old age.  He was an attendant of the meetings of the Society of Friends.

  SEAL.-In Chadd's Ford, on June 4th, Wm. H. Seal, in his 88th year.  
  Relatives and friends of the family are invited to attend the funeral 
without further notice from his late residence on Tuesday, June 7.  Services 
at the house at 1 o'clock p. m.  Interment at Lafayette Cemetery.  Carriages 
will meet morning trains at Cossart and Chadd's Ford.

June 6, 1910
  Wm. H. Seal, of Birmingham township, died on Saturday morning.  He was a 
life long resident of this section.  His children have the sympathy of all.

WILLIAM HEYBURN SEAL.
  William Heyburn Seal, one of the oldest and most highly respected residents 
of Birmingham, passed peaceably away on Saturday, June 4th, at six a. m., 
after an illness of about two months, suffering from the hardening of the 
arteries and a paralytic stroke.  Had he lived until the fourteenth of next 
month he would have been eighty-eight years old.
  He was the son of Eli and Susan Heyburn Seal.  His father died when he was 
quite small and his mother lived to be 85 years of age.
  He married Deborah Twaddell on June 1st, 1854.  He leaves to mourn his loss 
a widow and three children, Wm. T., of Mendenhall; Howard E., on the home 
place, and Mary Emma, at home, and also a brother Eli, of Pennsbury.  He was a 
devoted husband and a kind and dutiful father and all who knew him held him in 
highest esteem, as he held no hard feeling stowards any one.  In religion he 
leaned to the Orthodox fiends.  In politics he was a Republican.

June 8, 1910
Funerals.
  The funeral of the late William Seal, of Pennsybury, took place yesterday 
and interment was made in Birmingham-Lafayette Cemetery.  Services were in 
charge of Rev. Mr. Hahn.  Bearers were Evan Bullock, Milton Heyburn, Elihu 
Ealley, Preston Bullock, Winfiled McKeg and W. P. Seal.

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