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Smith, Mary Emeline Tyrrell Seager
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1845-1907
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MSS SC 3057
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Mary Emeline Tyrrell Seager Smith was born on August 8, 1845 in Fowler, Trumbull County, Ohio to Asahel Tyrrell and Lucretia Webster as the fourth of six children. Marys father was a builder and contractor and made enough money to afford a comfortable life for Mary and her family. She attended school and obtained a higher education than most women of the time. On May 12, 1867, Mary married Orin Barber Seager in Vernon, Trumbull County, Ohio, but he died on April 23, 1872, five months before the birth of their only child, Orin Austin Seager. Mary had joined the LDS Church in 1870, and travelled to Utah by train in 1874 with her sister. She married Warren Barnes Smith as his second wife in a plural marriage. With Warren, Mary had six more children and lived in American Fork, Utah. Mary died on December 25, 1907 in American Fork after never recovering from being dragged by horses in a buggy accident.
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This folder contains a bound book titled History of Orin Austin Seager, son of Orin Barber Seager and Mary Emeline Tyrrell Compiled by Kara Seager-Segalla, 2000. The book contains four sections: Autobiography of Orin Austin Seager; History of Emeline Tyrrell, wife of Warren Barnes Smith; Orin Austin Seager and Mary Robinson, Original Pioneers to Cardston, Alberta, Canada in 1897 and Settlers of East Tremonton, Utah in 1907; and Life on the Farm. Orin Austin Seager, the son of Mary Emeline Tyrrell, helped to settle Cardston, Alberta, Canada. Mary Emeline Tyrrells section of this book is 14 typed pages. It contains a photograph, her biography, and a list of what happened to her children. When Mary had been married for five years without children, LDS missionaries promised her that she would have a child. Orin was born five months after the death of her husband in 1872. Marys sister, Sylvia Adeline Tyrell Misener, had moved to Utah with her husband, Simpson William Misener, in 1869, and her mother visited them in 1871 by train. The day before Marys mother meant to return to Ohio, she fell ill and died. She is buried in American Fork, Utah. Marys father blamed the Mormons for Lucretias death, so Marys sister travelled back to Ohio to allay her fathers views about the Mormons. Mary and her son Orin moved to Utah on her sister and brother-in-laws return home. Mary was married again when she arrived in Utah to Warren Barnes Smith. Her husband was a polygamist and went into hiding for three years to avoid arrest. He was put in jail for six months causing some great anxiety to Mary. Mary was often left to care for herself and her children. As per her request, Mary was sealed in eternal marriage to her first husband ten years after her death. Marys biography can be found online from page 50-53 at: https://dcms.lds.org/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?dps_pid=IE71056&from=fhd