Seaborn Stiles (1807 - 1874): Lindell-Herndon Genealogy

1807 - 1874 (67 years)

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Name	Seaborn Stiles [2]
Birth	16 Jan 1807	_______, Laurens District, South Carolina, United States [3, 4]
Gender	Male
Census	25 Feb 1841	Pulaski County, Missouri, United States [5]
Census	18 Sep 1850	Milam and Williamson District, Milam County, Texas, United States [6]
Census	5 Jul 1860	Western District, Milam County, Texas, United States [7]
Residence	Jul 1867	Precinct 4, Milam County, Texas, United States [8]
Census	26 Aug 1870	(unnamed district), Milam County, Texas, United States [9]
Census	Millertown Post Office
Death	5 Nov 1874	Thorndale, Milam County, Texas, United States [3, 10]
Burial	Aft 5 Nov 1874	Lawrence Chapel Cemetery, near Shiloh, Williamson County, Texas, United States [3]
Person ID	I736	Lindell-Herndon Genealogy
Last Modified	24 Nov 2018

Father	John Stiles, b. 1780, Laurens, Ninety-Six District, South Carolina, United States d. 3 Nov 1825, _______, Lincoln County, Tennessee, United States (Age 45 years)
Mother	Margaret Lynch, b. Bef 1790, Huntland, Franklin County, Tennessee Territory d. 1838, _______, Lincoln County, Tennessee, United States (Age > 48 years)
Marriage	1800	_______, Warren County, North Carolina, United States [4]
Family ID	F602	Group Sheet \| Family Chart

Family 1 Rebecca Fincher, b. 1810, _______, _______, Tennessee, United States d. Abt 1843, _______, _______, Tennessee, United States (Age 33 years)

Marriage 1834 [10]

Children

	1. Amanda Stiles, b. 1834, _______, _______, Tennessee, United States d. Bef 1850, (unknown) (Age < 15 years)
	2. James Ellen Stiles, b. 20 Dec 1835, Pulaski, Giles County, Tennessee, United States d. 4 Jul 1910, Taylor, Williamson County, Texas, United States (Age 74 years)
	3. Francis Newton Stiles, b. Dec 1837, Lincoln, Lincoln County, Tennessee, United States d. 1 Jul 1911, Thrall, Williamson County, Texas, United States (Age 73 years)
	4. Sarah Jane Stiles, b. 1838, Lincoln, Lincoln County, Tennessee, United States d. 1910, _______, San Diego County, California, United States (Age 72 years)
	5. Margaret Elizabeth Stiles, b. 20 Nov 1840, _______, _______, Tennessee, United States d. 10 Jan 1905, Scurry, Kaufman County, Texas, United States (Age 64 years)
	6. Edward Stiles, b. Abt 1843 d. Bef 1850 (Age < 6 years)

Family ID F522 Group Sheet | Family Chart

Last Modified 5 Dec 2013

Family 2 Matilda Helena Moore, b. 10 Sep 1815, _______, Coffee County, Tennessee, United States d. 24 Apr 1891, Thorndale, Milam County, Texas, United States (Age 75 years)

Marriage Abt 1843 [11]

Children

	1. Thomas S Stiles, b. 24 Jun 1844, _______, _______, Missouri, United States d. 7 Dec 1862, _______, Williamson County, Texas, United States (Age 18 years)
	2. Jesse Larkin Stiles, b. 5 Mar 1847, _______, Greene County, Missouri, United States d. 4 Sep 1900, Thorndale, Milam County, Texas, United States (Age 53 years)
	3. Mary Caroline Stiles, b. 12 Aug 1849, _______, Bastrop County, Texas, United States d. 9 Jul 1888, _______, Bastrop County, Texas, United States (Age 38 years)
	4. Rebecca Clementine Stiles, b. 15 Feb 1852, Thorndale, Milam County, Texas, United States d. 22 May 1923, Arlington, Tarrant County, Texas, United States (Age 71 years)
	5. Asa Wilburn Stiles, b. 24 Jul 1854, Thorndale, Milam County, Texas, United States d. 10 May 1930, Austin, Travis County, Texas, United States (Age 75 years)

Family ID F527 Group Sheet | Family Chart

Last Modified 19 Apr 2010

Event Map

	Birth - 16 Jan 1807 - _______, Laurens District, South Carolina, United States
	Census - 18 Sep 1850 - Milam and Williamson District, Milam County, Texas, United States
	Census - 5 Jul 1860 - Western District, Milam County, Texas, United States
	Residence - Jul 1867 - Precinct 4, Milam County, Texas, United States
	Census - 26 Aug 1870 - (unnamed district), Milam County, Texas, United States
	Death - 5 Nov 1874 - Thorndale, Milam County, Texas, United States
	Burial - Aft 5 Nov 1874 - Lawrence Chapel Cemetery, near Shiloh, Williamson County, Texas, United States

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Notes

It is not known where exactly in Milam County Seaborn Stiles and his family lived, but secondhand sources occasionally refer to “Brushy, MIlam Co.”. No such town exists in modern Milam County, Texas, but Brushy may be a reference to Brushy Creek which runs from southwest to northeast across Williamson and Milam counties and crosses the county line approximately 2 miles south of Thorndale. Given census records from 1850 through 1870 which consistently place Seaborn Stiles and family in western Milam County, it’s likely his farm was located along Brushy Creek south or just east of Thorndale. [1]
[LDS-AF-1999f] actually lists Seaborn Stiles’ birth place as merely “Laurens, S.c.” It is not known if he was actually born in the town of Laurens. This source also lists his death at Brushy, Milam County, Texas. [4]
[US-1850-1a] has ages for Seaborn Stiles’ children (by Rebecca Fincher) that don’t correspond to the birth dates derived from sources [Stiles-1999] and [Dempster-2000]. [6]
Both [Stiles-1986] and the Williamson County Historical Commission have inaccurate locations for Lawrence Chapel Cemetery. The cemetery is actually located on County Road 473, 2.8 miles south of the junction of 473 and Texas Farm Road 112. [3, 12, 13]
The given name for the individual referenced as the head-of-household in [US-1840a] is very difficult to read. It is likely to be a poor transcription of “Seaborn”, indicating that this is indeed the record for Seaborn Stiles and his family. Additional facts that lend themselves to this conclusion include the enumeration of a “William Styles”, likely to be William Stiles and his wife Piety Ellis, on the line above and the fact that the number and ages of the listed children are consistent with Seaborn Stiles’ family in the 1840s. [5]
Despite being widely used and reported by a number of second-hand sources including [Stiles-1998] and [Stiles-1986], there are no references to the given name, “Francis”, in any first-hand sources or vital records. Consequently, Lindell-Herndon Genealogy uses “Seaborn Stiles” as this individual’s name. [10, 12]
A “Sibourne Stiles” is enumerated with his family in Franklin County, Tennessee in 1830. [US-1830a] lists one woman between the ages of 20 and 30 (Rebecca Fincher?) and one woman under the age of 5 (Amanda Stiles?). If this record actually refers to Seaborn Stiles, then the marriage date for Seaborn Stiles and Rebecca Fincher, derived from [Stiles-1998], is almost certainly inaccurate. [10, 14]
Seaborn Stiles had been a resident of Texas for 18 years and of Milam County for 17 years at the time his name was entered in the Milam County voter rolls. Consequently, he probably moved from Missouri to Texas with his family in 1849. [8]

Reference Herndon, William Robert. "Seaborn Stiles", Lindell-Herndon Genealogy. [Online]. Available: https://lindell-herndon.org/getperson.php?tng_extras=1&personID=I736&tree=LindellHerndon. [Accessed: 23-Apr-2024].

Sources

[S315] [Herndon-2021] Herndon, William Robert, Lindell-Herndon Genealogy, Washington, District of Columbia: By the author, 2019.
[S842] [Lewis-1893a] "History of Texas, Together With a Biographical History of Milam, Williamson, Bastrop, Travis, Lee and Burleson Counties," The Lone Star State, Chicago, Illinois: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1893, pages 351, 352.
[S401] [Williamson-2010] Herndon, William Robert, "Lawrence Chapel Cemetery - Survey".
[S173] [LDS-AF-1999f] Stratton, Marsha Romney and Opal T. Allen (submitters) , "Descendants of William Stiles and Mary Traylor Rowlett (partial)," Ancestral File (familysearch.org), Salt Lake City, Utah: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1999.
[S585] [US-1840a] "_______, Pulaski County, Missouri," Sixth Census of the United States, 1840,
Washington, District of Columbia: National Archives and Record Administration (NARA), publication M704, roll 229, page 205.
[S44] [US-1850-1a] "Milam and Williamson District, Milam County, Texas," Seventh Census of the United States, 1850,
Washington, District of Columbia: National Archives and Record Administration (NARA), publication M432, roll 913, sheet 1A.
[S586] [US-1860-1r] "Western District, Milam County, Texas," Eighth Census of the United States, 1860,
Washington, District of Columbia: National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), publication M653, roll 1301, sheet 41, page 86.
[S972] [TxSLaAC-1867a1] "Milam County," 1867 Voter Registration Lists, Austin, Texas: Texas State Library and Archives Commission, page 380, entry 490.
[S673] [US-1870-1w] "(unnamed district), Milam County, Texas," Ninth Census of the United States, 1870,
Washington, District of Columbia: National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), publication M593, roll 1598, sheet 317A, page 209.
[S29] [Stiles-1998] Stiles, William W., Stiles Family Genealogical Compilation (additions by Lois Kay Farnham).
[S176] [LDS-AF-1999d] Allen, Opal T. (submitter), "Descendants of Richard Stiles Sr. and Frances Coussens (partial)," Ancestral File (familysearch.org), Salt Lake City, Utah: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1999.
[S82] [Stiles-1986] Stiles, Edith Jordan and Dora Dean Rudd, Francis Seaborn Stiles Family.
[S123] [USGS] Geographic Names Information System (GNIS), United States Geological Survey.
[S588] [US-1830a] "_______, Franklin County, Tennessee," Fifth Census of the United States, 1830,
Washington, District of Columbia: National Archives and Record Administration (NARA), publication M19, roll 176, page 126.

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