Obituary Record

Death at a late hour Monday removed one of the oldest and best known citizens of Bay St. Louis and Hancock county in the person of Col. D.B. Seal, at his home on Union Street.

A member of the bar for over forty years, no man was more intimately connected with the history of the county than he, identified with all public interests and ever associated with the political and civic acquaintance was wide and his usefulness as broad.

If not the oldest member of the seacoast bar, he was among that number at the time of his death, and he was known from one end of the coast to the other.

Only a comparative short time before his death, he was preceded to the grave by his wife, who was stricken an invalid a few years prior to her demise. It was her death that hastened his. He had never recovered from the shock and the advancing years made the burden of his sorrow all the more.

No children survived the union, although a number of close relatives on both sides are left.

The funeral occurred on Tuesday afternoon, and interment took place in the family tomb at Cedar Rest Cemetery in the presence of friends and acquaintances.

Col. Seal was 80 years of age on the 24th day of last February.

Source: Sea Coast Echo 6/24/1916