The Seago Family Reunion
Seagofest
Seagoville, Texas
10/04/07 - 10/07/2007
By Paul Ridenour
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Seago Family - England Crest [Crest provided by Fred Sego]
There are many Seago's in England including Edward Seago who taught Prince Charles how to paint. There is also a Seago Parish. Oral tradition has the Seago family coming from Alsace, Lorraine, France/Germany.
The Seago family has an annual reunion and this year was the first time they met in Seagoville, Texas. Seagoville was founded by Tillman Kimsey Seago.
The oldest known Seago is John Seago born 1715 who married Margaret Birmingham at St. Luke's Parish in Church Hill, Queen Anne's County, Maryland, in 1740. I descend from their son William Crane Seago:
William Crane Seago (married Mary Dunham)
son William Seago (married Rebecca Cartledge)
son William Seago (married Elizabeth Netherlin)
youngest daughter Caroline Ellen Seago
who married Frank Glausier, my third great grandparents
daughter Emma Leona Glausier (married Charles Augusta Smith)
daughter Mamie Pearl Smith (married Julian A. Singleton - the Dallas Singleton
family of Singleton Blvd.)
daughter Laura Belle Singleton (married
Hugh Stanley Ridenour)
son Robert Ridenour (married Mary Alice
Joines) - my parents
Seagoville is named after a descendant of John and Margaret Birmingham Seago through their son Robert Seago:
Robert Seago (married Dorcas Ellender Whorton
in SC)
son Benjamin Whorton Seago (married Sarah Morgan in SC)
son Isaac L. Seago (married Sarah Lucinda Garrett in SC - buried in Lee Cemetery
in Seagoville)
son Tillman Kimsey Seago who married Matilda Elvira Davenport in
Linden, Cass
County, Texas, in 1855. Tillman moved to Texas in 1851 and was the founder of
Seago, Texas, in 1879. He worked as a postmaster. The US Post Office
changed the named in 1910 to Seagoville because there was already a
Sego, Texas. Tillman Kimsey Seago moved to
Comanche County in 1887 and purchased 400 acres of farmland and he died in that county.
Kind of a small world - my great grandmother Ella
Barbee was born in 1879 in
Hughes Springs, Cass County.
The Seago family has two documents dated 1665 and 1667 and they list a John Seygoe in the Province of Maryland. John Seygoe could be the grandfather of John Seago or maybe his father, but only if he had a very young wife.
With my wife and father, looks like there were 44 people attending the Seago Family reunion. I was told it was one of the better reunions and they are coming back to Seagoville in 2008 and going to Maryland in 2009.
I was surprised when someone at the reunion said I had the Seago eyes.
Tillman Kimsey Seago - founder of Seagoville, TX [Photo in Seagoville City Hall]
Seago family members at city hall
Photo provided by Fred Sego
Seagoville Flag - flags can be purchased for around $375
Texas Congressman Jeb Hensarling - US House October 3, 2007
Proclamation by Seagoville Mayor Sidney M.
Sexton, Jr. - City Hall
Seagoville police and fire department badges
Lee Cemetery - Seagoville, TX
Myrtle May Seago and Alvin Seago (A. K. Seago)
Eli Milton Seago and Edner Earl Seago
Gordon W. Seago and Velma H. Seago
Gordon W. Seago
Elise M. Berry
Sarah Lucinda Garrett Seago - wife of Isaac L. Seago
Robert Seago,
Jack Pittman,
and Scherry Chapman
Jack Pittman
and Scherry Chapman
Ellen Seago on left
Dennis Seago at far left (William Crane Seago line)
My father Robert Ridenour on the left
Burgers and Wings - Seagoville, TX
Seago's at lunch at Burgers and Wings
Robert Seago and
Millie Mason (William Crane Seago line)
Fred Sego on left
Pat Dunn and Scherry Seago Chapman
Charlie Miller telling the story of the Seago family from John
Seago to Tillman Seago at the 4 PM genealogy meeting [Best Western - Seagoville]
Seago family reunion embroidered tablecloth
Crandall Cotton Gin, Crandall, Texas - lots of eating here
SEAGO FAMILY PHOTOGRAPHS
Patrick Henry Seago - his mother was the niece of Patrick Henry [Photo provided
by Fred Sego]
St. Luke's Parish, Church Hill, Queens Anne's County, MD, where John Seago and
Margaret Birmingham were married in 1740. The church at the time was
Anglican and now it is Episcopal [Photo provided by Fred Sego]. John and
Margaret Seago are buried outside Canton, Georgia.
St. Luke's Episcopal Parish historical marker [Paper picture provided by Fred Sego] -
church built at the cost of 140,000 pounds of tobacco
"Birmingham's Fortune" - Land of John and Margaret Birmingham Seago
[Photo provide by Scherry Seago Chapman]
Dirt from "Birmingham's Fortune"
Billy Gene Seago, sitting on the bench to the right, was shot
down over China during WWII [Photo provided by Scherry Seago Chapman].
Billy was in the Flying Tigers. Ellen McKinnon, wife of my high school
friend Mark McKinnon, was the first female in the Flying Tigers and she was in
the Gulf War in 1991.