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Desperately looking for a photograph of Mead Hobby Seaman born 28 Sep 1838, son of Buckland Knight Seaman and Charlotte Hobby Mead. The family moved to Appleton, Wisconsin in 1855.

He married on February 8, 1861 to Viola M. Brown. They had one daughter: Lottie M. Seaman who was born November 1861.

Mead enlisted in the 21st Wisconsin Infantry August 1862 at Appleton, Wisc. Mead was captured at the Battle of Chickamauga on the 19th September and he was taken first to Libby Prison in Richmond, Virginia and then to Danville prison in Virginia and from there to Andersonville which did not open until January or February of 1864. He never saw his family again, as he died Sept. 2, 1864 at Andersonville.

His wife, Viola remarried Jonas Stahl on March 30, 1868 in Brattleboro, Vermont where she was originally from. However, she and her husband Jonas and her daughter Lottie moved to Watertown, Wisconsin shortly after their marriage. Jonas died in Watertown in 1900 and Viola died in 1909. Lottie had died in 1894. They are all buried in Oak Hill Cemetery in Watertown, Wisc.

There was an article in the Appleton Motor Newspaper for October 1864 talking about the Soldiers Aid Society and Viola's name was mentioned.

Viola M. Brown/Seaman/Stahl had a sister Fanny Brown/Gurnee. I found her living with Viola and Jonas in Watertown in 1870 as a single woman. In later census she was living with them as a widow who had a child. The 1870 and 1880 census showed them in Watertown, Wisc.

Please contact me directly at lcoats1@cfl.rr.com if you have a photo of Mead Hobby Seaman, or know someone who has one.

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