Amanda Jane Hopkins Seacord

Born 20 December 1846 at New Brighton, Beaver County, Pennsylvania

Died 27 June 1923 at Bloomington, McLean County, Illinois

Amanda was the elder of two daughters born to Lincoln Hopkins and Jane H. Northam Hopkins. She was raised by her mother at Westfield, New York in the home of Amanda’s maternal grandparents, Solomon and Jane Hopkins Northam. Her grandfather was the owner and operator of a farm. Amanda was a school teacher at Cortland, New York when she married to John More Seacord on 17 October 1876. He was a grocer at Cortlandville, New York. They made their home at Batavia, New York where her husband was first a pipe manufacturer, then a shipping clerk, and finally a rubber tire factory inspector. Her husband died in 1920 and she then made her home with the family of her son, Jay, at Buffalo, New York. He was a rector at Saint Luke’s Episcopal Church at that place. She relocated with Jay’s family to Bloomington, Illinois in 1923 where her son was the rector at Saint Matthew’s Episcopal Church. It was at that place that Amanda died. She was buried with her husband at Grand View Cemetery at Batavia. Amanda and John were the parents of three sons; John Milton Seacord, Earl Lincoln Seacord, and Jay Gould Seacord. Amanda is John More Association Edward Line cousin #M854 and was the wife of my second cousin four times removed.

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