| Possible birth date: 17 Nov 1856 Possible birth place: Kentucky |
| Possible death date: 25 Sep 1901 Possible death place: Peerless, Hopkins Co, TX |
| Spouse: Missouri Frances Beadles, aka. Frances Beadles Known marriage date: 6 Nov 1878 |
We originally thought that his middle name was William. However in a letter that his wife wrote she reffered to him as “George White Eden.” Oral family history indicates that he may have had a falling out with his family. It is believed that he traveled with a brother to Texas, but that this brother continued west because the brother had trouble with the law and was possibly a horsethief, or rustler. We did find a George W. Eden as a child at approximately the right time in KY with parents Jesse and Nancy Eden. But we have been unable to prove this link.
This is the documentation that we have been able to find:
1880 Federal Census - MarionTwp, Pike, IN - 23 years, farmer, his name was misspelled as Eaden.
1900 Federal Census - Hopkins, TX - 46 years, birth Sept. 1853, married 21 years, born in KY, parents born in KY, farmer, able to read and write, rented a farm
| Possible birth date: 1 Jan 1803 Possible birth place: Georgia |
| Possible death date: 1880 Possible death place: Hye, Blanco Co, Tx |
| Spouse: Elizabeth Johnson, who was previously married with last to Willis Fields Possible marriage date and place: 1841, Crittenden, AR |
| Spouse: Oritta Possible marriage date and place: Unknown |
He is listed on the 1829 Sheriff's Census in St Francis Co,AR his first name is spelled Seabourn. It is also spelled this way in the 1830 Federal Census for St. Francis, AR.
The 1850 Hopkins Co. TX Census lists his profession as farmer.
**He is believed to be buried in Rocky Community Church Cemetery in Blanco Co.,TX. In 1841 he married Elizabeth Johnson, widow of Willis Fields. There were five children from her first union: Lurany, Mary Ann, Pernita, William J., and Elizabeth. Seaborn and Elizabeth had 4 children together. Seaborn later married again to a woman named Oritta and had 7 more children: Marisa, Houston, Abijah, Texana, Isabella (Arminda), Milton, and J.W.
It is believed that Seaborn was married and had children before he married Elizabeth. The 1830 Census of St. Francis Co, AR indicated there was a woman in his houshold and 5 young children. Family legend says he fathered 21 children.
Census records indicate that both of his parents came from PA.
The first record which names Seaborn places him near Colt in St. Francis Co. AR in the years 1828-29. In the 1830's Willis Fields and his wife Elizabeth Johnson owned property near Colt and operated a rural general merchandising business. Following the death of Willis Fields, his widow married Seaborn after they had written and signed a premarital contract. Such a contract has been found recorded in both Crittenden Co., AR and Hopkins Co, TX.
Seaborn and Elizabeth came to the Rep. of Tx. after the birth of their first son, Alexander, and before Gustavis was born.
Seaborn was involved in guardianship proceedings in both AR and TX over the persons and property of the minor Fields children from Elizabeth's first marriage. In the 1850's he was replaced as the Fields children's guardian; it was reported that he had left his family to "go west".
Deed records indicate that Seaborn bought land in Fayette Co.,TX in 1866 in the 1860 census he was in that county. The 1870 and 1880 census place him in Blanco Co., TX and it is believed that he died there in the late 1880's.
**--Taken from an article written by Thomas G. Kenyon that was published in the Sep 1993 edition of the "Hopkins County Heritage" (Vol 10 No.3)