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Daniel Abram Boardman, born 1809, in Ipswich, Mass., married Martha Seal, in January 1848, at Pearlington, Miss.
She was the daughter of a family of pioneer settlers who came to south Mississippi from the Carolinas and settled in Hancock County. Her grandfather was Charles Seale of North and later South Carolina. Her father was Jacob Seal(the "e" was dropped in his name) who migrated to Mississippi in 1823. It is significant to note that Charles Seale is the qualifying individual for posterity to claim membership eligibility in the Daughters of the American Revolution as he served in the Revolutionary War. In fact, Princess Tognotti Fahey, DAR member number 567952 and Margaret Boardman Adams, member number 591399 both have established memberships based on lineage from Charles Seal. Martha Seal was born in Richmond County, North Carolina, Aug. 17, 1823. Daniel Boardman was a descendant of a long line of Boardmans of Massachusetts. We have a fairly reliable record tracing his ancestry back to a Thomas Boardman in' Claydon, England, sometime before 1670; and good evidence of a blood relative in our chain (Daniel Boardman, born 1756), serving the Mass. militia in the American Revolution. Just exactly when or why Daniel A. Boardman left Mass. and migrated to Miss, is not known. I can remember as a child stories told to me by my grandparents (Roderick Seal & Nannie G. Boardman), that he was an apprentice cooper in Mass., and upon reaching manhood, came to New Orleans to ply his trade making barrels for the sugar industry. He was attracted to the Pearl River region of Miss, for the great abundance of white oak and hickory available to make barrels. Just how much is fact and how much is fiction is unknown to me. His means of making a living for the years he lived in Pearlington is not known. The U.S. Census report for 1850 indicates he was a blacksmith. He must have been able to provide some measure of sustenance for his family as we know he built the house they lived in which was passed on to Roderick after Marthas death. I have personal memories of my grandfather telling me his father built the house and I can recall as a child playing underneath the front part and seeing the joist timbers fastened together with pegs and the weather planking nailed on the outside with handmade square head nails. From the best information available, I believe there were five children born to he and Martha Seal Boardman, that all were born in Pearlington, and that the last two were twins. They were; Daniel Augustus Boardman, born Aug. 24,
1847; Angeline Boardman, born Nov. 23, 1851; Harriet Boardman, born Apr. 7, 1856; Abram P. Boardman, born Dec. 31, 1857; and Roderick S. Boardman, born Dec.31, 1857. Sometime in the year 1859, Daniel Abram Boardman died and is buried in the Pearlington cemetery in an above ground brick vault. His cause of death is unknown. What is known is that he left a widow and five children on the eve of the Civil War, and that the oldest child was only twelve. Just how these people survived the trials of the succeeding years must be a story of fortitude and sweat beyond measure. I recall my grandfather telling me that he remembered his older brother going down Pearl River to the Gulf with some of the older boys in the vicinity to spend several