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- Seymour N. Hibbard - June 16, 1844 - December 23, 1911. Military Service Civil War: Enlisted August 30, 1864 at Mexico, New York; Mustered in September 16, 1864 as a Private in Company L Be Regiment New York Infantry Volunteers; Mustered out June 29, 1865 with Company at City Point, Virginia with rank of Private. Son of Elisha Alanson and Cynthia B. Harris Hibbard. Husband of Olive C. Hibbard & Calista A. Baldwin Burch (married October 25, 1900.) [Note: Calista Baldwin Burch died June 30, 1921 in Pulaski, New York and is buried in Woodlawn Cemetery at Sandy Creek, New York]
Newspaper Obituary - Thursday Evening, December 14, 1911 Oswego Daily Palladium - Oswego, New York - Well Known Citizen Dead ¬Seymour N. Hibbard, Former Oswegonian, Dead in Pulaski - Pulaski, December 14 - After an illness of several months the death of Seymour N. Hibbard occurred yesterday afternoon at his home in Court street. Mr. Hibbard was one of Pulaski's best known residents, having lived here for many years. He was born in Henderson, Jefferson county, June 17, 1844, and at the age of twenty years enlisted in Company G, 184th Regiment, New York Volunteers, serving the closing year of the Civil War. He received an honorable discharge at Syracuse and sometime later engaged in the milling business at Texas. Later he followed farming for some years. Mr. Hibbard was for eight years connected with the City Alms House at Oswego, at the end of which time he returned to Pulaski and had since made his home here, resuming farming for a time. Shortly after the death of George Pond, overseer of the poor of this town, which occurred about thirteen years ago, Mr. Hibbard was appointed to fill the unexpired term of Mr. Pond and at each town meeting he had been re-elected to that office, the present term expiring with the end of this month. Mr. Hibbard was a past commander of J. B. Butler Post No. 111, G. A. R., and a member of Pulaski Grange No. 730, Patrons of Husbandry. He was twice married, his second wife, by whom he is survived, being Mrs. Calista Burch, mother of former Deputy Sheriff Calvin B. Burch. A brother, Charles B. Hibbard, lives in Sandy Creek. The funeral will be held tomorrow at two p.m.
Newspaper Article - Wednesday, February 14, 1912 The Fulton Patriot - Fulton, New York - Local Items - A petition for the probate of the will of Seymour N. Hibbard, late of Pulaski, who left an estate valued at $2,600 was filed in Surrogate's court last week. Mrs. Celesta Hibbard, the widow to whom the estate was left, is the petitioner.
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