Death at Windfall
John Francis Seeley, Expired Saturday Night
John Francis Seeley, one of the aged residents of Windfall, died at his home in that town Saturday night at 11 o’clock. His death was due to asthmatic troubles, having suffered from those troubles the past five years. He was sixty-three years old.
The burial services were conducted today at 1:30 o’clock at the Baptist church, the regular minister officiating. The interment was at the Windfall cemetery.
Mr. Seeley was the only child of Henry and Mary J. Seeley and was born on April 3, 1856, on a farm in the vicinity of Brookville, in Franklin county, Indiana, where he remained with the parental family until he was about twelve years old, when the family moved to Howard county, and settled on the home farm that James H. Dean made out of the wilderness, in the vicinity of the hamlet of West Liberty, which he began in 1849. Two years later he, with his parents located at the village of Pt. Isabel, where they remained about five years, following which the father bought and moved to what is now known as the E. Perry farm one mile west of Windfall, were (sic) John Francis completed his minor years, and was married to Miss Nancy Vice, daughter of William and Francis Vice on November 25, 1881, at Windfall. Rev. Richard A. Newton, pronouncing the marital rites. They began housekeeping at the town of Pt. Isabel and about one year later located at Windfall and lived there and in the vicinity, ever since. To this union there were six children born, four of whom survive, namely: Walter Seeley, Mrs. Winna Plummer, wife of James Plummer, Windfall: Frederick Seeley, of Tipton: Mrs. Ailey Horton, wife of Clarence Horton, of the vicinity of Rock Prairie. He has neither father, mother, sister or brother living. Mrs. Seeley is a niece of the late Brary B. and James Vice and Benjamin F. Vice, and sister of John and Nathan Vice.
Published in the Tipton Tribune, (Tipton, Indiana) Monday, February 17, 1919, front page
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