Martha Amelia Straw

  General Notes:

Census: 1860, Watertown Ward 3, Jefferson Co., WI; (no Nathan/Nathaniel)
Lydia Straw c1818
Martha W. c1846 [probably Martha Amelia?]
Luthera I c1850
(son Alonzo "Stran" is age 17 and living in Watertown, Ward 4, Jefferson County, WI)

March 20, 1867, The Evansville Citizen, p. 1, col. 7, Evansville, Wisconsin
The Roll of Honor for the Winter Term of the Evansville Seminary, as is herewith presented, comprises all the students whose standing is seven or higher, and whose demerits are not over three: M. AMELIA STRAW

1870 Clinton, Rock County, Wisconsin
R. Watson SEAMAN 1840 NY
Amelia Seaman born 1847 VT

1880 census Watertown, Jefferson County, WI
Nathaniel STRAN Self M Male W 64 VT Retired Painter ME NH
Lydia STRAN Wife M Female W 60 VT Keeping House VT VT
Emilie SCAMEN (sic) Dau W Female W 32 VT At Home VT VT

1900 Detroit, Wayne county, Michigan
Robert W. Wyckoff age 57; b. Mar 1843 in MI; m. 30yrs; father b. PA; mother b. MI [HOH]Jennie L. Wyckoff age 50; b. Sept 1850 WI; parents b. VT; m. 30y; ch: 5/4 [wife]
Fred A. Wyckoff age 19. b. July 1880 MI [son]
Jessie E. Wyckoff age 16; b.Jan 1884 MI [son]
Amelia M. Seaman age 54; b. Feb 1896 VT [sister in law]

1910 Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan
Amelia M. SEAMAN c1846 VT;widowed is livng with her widowed sister Jennie Wyckoff and Jennie's 26 yr old single daughter Jessie Wyckoff

1920 Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, WI
She is age 73 and living in the Protestant Home for the Aged.

1930 - can't locate her - probably at the Home for the Aged as she died in 1936 in Milwaukee.

Charles E. Straw (s/o Drew Straw) in hisLast Will and Testament named the following as cousins and heirs:
Alonzo W. Straw (son of Nathaniel Straw)
Jennie Wyckoff (daughter of Nathaniel Straw)
Amelia Seaman (daughter of Nathaniel Straw)
Sara Sears (daughter of David Harpster/Rachel Hall)
Ivy Harpster Bones (daughter fo David Harpster/Rachel Hall)
Stafford M. Bay (s/o
Sallie Bay Vance (d/o
Artemus straw (S/o Charles Straw/Maria Hastings)
Mrs. S. B. Cobb (Mary Straw d/o Alvin Straw)
Bert Straw (s/o Alvinzy T. Straw)

Per mother's obit.

Oak Hill Cemetery Jefferson County, Wisconsin
Seaman, Amelia M., b. 1846, d. 1936, Sec 23
(Research notes for consideration:
Seaman, Lottie M., b. 1861, d. 1894, Sec 22) a possible daughter?

Find A Grave Memorial #7308736

Martha married Richard Watson Seaman on 30 Jul 1868. (Richard Watson Seaman was born on 30 Jul 1839 in Schroon Lake, Essex County, New York, died on 17 Jan 1877 and was buried in Fairview Cemetery in Waterloo, Iowa.)