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Family Sheet
HUSBAND
Name: Joseph Baynard Seabrook Reverend Note
Born: 10 Oct 1809 at Edisto Island, South Carolina
Married:
Died: 8 Oct 1877 at Charleston, South Carolina
Other Spouses: Sarah Ann Bailey
Lydia A. Bailey
Father: Joseph Baynard Seabrook
Mother: Martha Blair Beckett
WIFE
Name: Martha Catherine Beckett
Born: 6 Feb 1830
Died: 28 Apr 1922
CHILDREN
Name: Lydia Seabrook
Born:
Died:
NOTES
1). After graduation from Princeton College, Joseph studie d law under Hugh S. Legare and was admitted to the South Carolina Bar. As his h ealth began to fail, he left the law to become a planter and teacher, wa s ordained an Episcopal Minister in 1848. He built the school in Bluffto n in 1849 with his own money. He built another in St. Paul s Parish in 1859. Durin g the war, he was Rector of Grace Church in Charleston. Aft er the war, he became pastor of St. Mark s in Charleston. H e ministered to the black congregation of the Low Country a ll of his life. Rev. Seabrook s family Bible was taken by federal soldi ers after the fall of Ft. Walker on the Broad River, nea r Port Royal . A Union clergyman who was with the troops a t the time returned the Bible to the family years later. H e is buried in Magnolia Cemetery.
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