I am not related,.....but, while doing research on my family, I ran across this article....This is the closest cemetery I have found close to Burnsville, MS. I am not sure this is exactly where the children are buried.
I felt it was important to record this for any members of the Seals family.
Asheville, NC Newspaper - 12 February 1890 (reproduced)
CORINTH, Miss: February 11, 1890
DISTRESSING ACCIDENT
A distressing accident was reported yesterday from Yellow Creek in Tishomingo County, near Burnsville, MS.
Last Friday, during a heavy rain, Jim Seals and his family, emigrants from Alabama, attempted to cross Yellow Creek in a wagon. The stream was swollen out of its banks, and the wagon went down the current and capsized, drowning four children, aged from two to ten years. The team was also drowned and everything lost, the parents alone surviving. The children were buried Monday at a neighboring graveyard. The parents are left penniless and are almost prostrated with grief.
I felt it was important to record this for any members of the Seals family.
Asheville, NC Newspaper - 12 February 1890 (reproduced)
CORINTH, Miss: February 11, 1890
DISTRESSING ACCIDENT
A distressing accident was reported yesterday from Yellow Creek in Tishomingo County, near Burnsville, MS.
Last Friday, during a heavy rain, Jim Seals and his family, emigrants from Alabama, attempted to cross Yellow Creek in a wagon. The stream was swollen out of its banks, and the wagon went down the current and capsized, drowning four children, aged from two to ten years. The team was also drowned and everything lost, the parents alone surviving. The children were buried Monday at a neighboring graveyard. The parents are left penniless and are almost prostrated with grief.
I am not related,.....but, while doing research on my family, I ran across this article....This is the closest cemetery I have found close to Burnsville, MS. I am not sure this is exactly where the children are buried.
I felt it was important to record this for any members of the Seals family.
Asheville, NC Newspaper - 12 February 1890 (reproduced)
CORINTH, Miss: February 11, 1890
DISTRESSING ACCIDENT
A distressing accident was reported yesterday from Yellow Creek in Tishomingo County, near Burnsville, MS.
Last Friday, during a heavy rain, Jim Seals and his family, emigrants from Alabama, attempted to cross Yellow Creek in a wagon. The stream was swollen out of its banks, and the wagon went down the current and capsized, drowning four children, aged from two to ten years. The team was also drowned and everything lost, the parents alone surviving. The children were buried Monday at a neighboring graveyard. The parents are left penniless and are almost prostrated with grief.
I felt it was important to record this for any members of the Seals family.
Asheville, NC Newspaper - 12 February 1890 (reproduced)
CORINTH, Miss: February 11, 1890
DISTRESSING ACCIDENT
A distressing accident was reported yesterday from Yellow Creek in Tishomingo County, near Burnsville, MS.
Last Friday, during a heavy rain, Jim Seals and his family, emigrants from Alabama, attempted to cross Yellow Creek in a wagon. The stream was swollen out of its banks, and the wagon went down the current and capsized, drowning four children, aged from two to ten years. The team was also drowned and everything lost, the parents alone surviving. The children were buried Monday at a neighboring graveyard. The parents are left penniless and are almost prostrated with grief.
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