Captain Luke D. Seely Dead.
Captain Luke D. Seely, aged 62, died of apoplexy at his home in Syracuse, N.Y., on May 8th. He was born and bred in Knoxville, and his sister, Mrs. Harriet Austin, still lives there.
Captain Seely was a civil war veteran. Shortly after the Rebellion began he enlisted as a private in Co. H, 45th Pa. Vols., and was soon promoted, becoming finally the Captain of his company. He participated in many battles and was confined for nine months in a Southern prison. When the war closed the Captain became a resident of Syracuse. He was for 14 years a night captain on the police force of that city, and then became assistant superintendent of the Onondaga county penitentiary. He went to the Northwest in 1884, intending to locate there, but owing to illness shortly returned to Syracuse, and most of the time since lived in retirement owing to ill health. He was a prominent member of the G.A.R. His wife, nee Miss Mary E. Kelly, of Syracuse, survives him, and is well known as a department president of the Woman’s Relief Corps.
Published in The Wellsboro Agitator, Wednesday, May 16, 1900 front page
[Son of SGS # 2524 - Luke Delancy; Henry (#2524); Julius (# 920); Ebenezer, Justus; John; Benjamin; Nathaniel; Robert]
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