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DANIEL BUTLER SEALE, EIGHTH CHILD OF
JACOB SEALE AND CATHERINE NICHOLSON
Daniel b 24 Feb 1836, Hancock Co., MISS.; m 1867 Iva (Joan) Newman b Cincinatti, Ohio; Captain in the Civil War and commanded 38th Mississippi Regiment (raised company of Hancock's Rebels, CSA). Daniel and Iva had no children.
The following notation was found in Biographica1 and Historical Memoirs of Mississippi, pp. 782-788:
"Capt. D. B. Seal, attorney at law, Bay St. Louis, Miss., was born in Hancock county, Miss., February 24, 1836, and is a son of Jacob Seal. The father was born in Marion district, S. C., February 5, 1793, and was reared in his native state. He married Catherine Nicholson, who was of Scotch ancestry. She could speak the Gaelic language with great fluency. The paternal grandfather, Charles Seal, was a soldier in the Revolutionary war [sic]. He died in South Carolina. Jacob Seal served in the War of 1812, and was a colonel of the Mississippi state militia. He emigrated to Mississippi in 1823, and located in Hancock county, where he followed planting for a number of years. He died in Hancock county in 1883, at the age of eighty-nine years. He was one of the earliest settlers of the county, and while he was identified with the pioneer history of the county, he never sought public office. He had four sons and six daughters, four of whom are living:	Roderick, a resident of
Mississippi City; Mrs. Christian Seal and Mrs. Martha Boardman, and Capt. D. B., the subject of this notice. He is the youngest living member of the family. He was brought up on a plantation, and had just begun to think of starting out in life to make a place for himself when the war broke out, and the battlefield became the scene of action, instead of the busy marts of the city or the halls of justice. He enlisted in the Confederate cause and raised a company known as Hancock rebels. He went out as captain, and during the siege of Vicksburg he commanded the Thirty-eight Mississippi regiment. Soon afterward he resigned, returning to his home. In 1865 he removed to Bay St. Louis. In 1861 he was elected a member of the legislature, and was re-elected in 1863; he served the full terms, getting a furlough for this purpose. In 1861 he was admitted to the bar, having studied law under Col. J. B. Deason, of Gainesville, Miss. After coming to the bay he began his professional work in earnest, and has since devoted himself to it most assiduously. He is the oldest lawyer in the bay, and has won a warm place in the hearts of the people, whom he has aided in many ways.
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