Therese Walling

1821 - 1899  (78 years)

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  Therese Walling

  
  

• Name	Therese Walling  [1, 2]
  Birth	8 Aug 1821	Centerville, Monmouth, New Jersey   [3, 4, 5]
  Gender	Female
  Death	9 Oct 1899	Keyport, Monmouth, New Jersey   [3, 4]
  Burial	Green Grove Cemetery, Keyport, Monmouth, New Jersey   [3]
  Siblings	1 sibling
  + 1. Therese Walling ,   b. 8 Aug 1821, Centerville, Monmouth, New Jersey d. 9 Oct 1899, Keyport, Monmouth, New Jersey  (Age 78 years) ▻ Henry Hendrickson Seabrook ,  m. 5 Feb 1852   2. George Washington Walling ,   b. 1823, Keyport, Monmouth, New Jersey d. 1891  (Age 68 years)
  Person ID	I22150	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of TWK
  Last Modified	8 Nov 2020

  
  

  Father	Leonard Walling,   b. 25 Apr 1793   d. 26 Jun 1841 (Age 48 years)
  Mother	Catherine Aumack,   b. 19 Jun 1793   d. 25 Jun 1828 (Age 35 years)
  Family ID	F14077	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Henry Hendrickson Seabrook,   b. 10 Sep 1813, Port Monmouth, Monmouth, New Jersey d. 30 Mar 1872, Keyport, Monmouth, New Jersey (Age 58 years)
  Marriage	5 Feb 1852
  Children	+ 1. Harry Hartshorne Seabrook,   b. 23 Oct 1859, Keyport, Monmouth, New Jersey d. 9 Apr 1930, New York, New York (Age 70 years)
  Family ID	F13385	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	31 Dec 2018

  
  

• Notes

  "Therese Walling Seabrook [...] was very active in the women's suffrage movement in the late 19th and early 20th century as well as the temperance movement, being a member of the Women's Christian Temperance Union of Keyport, New Jersey. A highlight of the collection is a letter from Susan B. Anthony (February 22, 1888) to Seabrook thanking her for a monetary donation and comments on her visit to Washington D.C., note by Florence Howe Hall, co-signed by Emma Blackwell and a letter by Clara Bewick Colby." [Rand Boyd, citation details below.] "Therese Walling Seabrook lived on West Front Street overlooking the Bay. She was the wife of a prominent businessman in Keyport and an activist for women’s rights. She was a strong supporter of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union and an advocate of women’s suffrage. In her mind, as in the minds of others late in the 19th-century, there was a connection between the temperance movement and the suffrage movement. In 1884, suffragists Phebe Hanaford of Jersey City, Therese Walling Seabrook of Keyport, and Henry Blackwell of Massachusetts met with the New Jersey Assembly Judiciary Committee to press for the introduction of a women’s suffrage resolution in the Assembly. They succeeded in having the bill introduced, but the Assembly would take no action on the resolution." [Keyport Historical Society: Three Generations of Seabrook Women] "Mrs. Seabrook was an intellectually gifted woman, steeped in local genealogical lore, derived from her great ancestors. Upon their laps she sat when young, or with the assembled elders at the nearby hearthside, to be entertained by their constant repetitions of tales of exposure, hardship, love and war. The old are garrulous, live in the past, delight in the young, and with contracted lives and thought they become the local historians of the past to young but willing ears, upon whose excited imagination the stories remain indelibly impressed. Thus it was that Mrs. Seabrook passed onward the tales of her childhood." [John E. Stilwell, citation details below]

  
  

• Sources

  [S3836] History of Monmouth County, New Jersey by Franklin Ellis. Philadelphia: R. T. Peck & Co., 1885. [S3076] Historical and Genealogical Miscellany: Early Settlers of New Jersey and Their Descendants, Volume 4, by John E. Stillwell. New York, 1916. [S2684] Find a Grave page for Therese Aumack Walling Seabrook. [S2685] Rand Boyd, Finding Aid for the Therese Walling Seabrook papers. Frank Mt. Pleasant Library of Special Collections and Archives, Leatherby Libraries, Chapman University, Orange, California., year only. [S3076] Historical and Genealogical Miscellany: Early Settlers of New Jersey and Their Descendants, Volume 4, by John E. Stillwell. New York, 1916., date only.