A blend of piecing information together.  A writer's ego is constantly at battle with the cold hard facts.


By the time that Gideon was the Justice of the Peace in 1810 in Oswego, he may have presided over the wedding of his son, Asa and his bride Mary McAlpine.

Gideon was listed as the first deacon when the First Congregational Church was organized by 1812.





And we may take an educated guess at the precise year of the wedding date between Huldah Candee and Gideon Seymour listed in the Seymour family records as 18__.

It may have been the 22nd of June 1806.  Information bubbles out of written notes.

Gideon Seymour, like Huldah had been born in May of 1782...
they do say that some spring babies are impetuous and fiery.

Huldah's status as elder daughter in a pretty strict family was probably a good balance to Gideon Seymour's being the baby in a family of 12.

Gideon was the son of Gideon and Ruth (Prindle) Seymour.
And he died in March of 1817 which was unfortunately some 25 years before Huldah.
A Candee family Bible tells us that Hudah (Candee) Seymour died 11 August 1842.

She is buried at Volney Center cemetery.

It seems likely that she is the Huldah who was a constituent member of the First Congregational Church in Phoenix (Schroeppel, New York) in June of 1837.  She would've been 55 years old at that time.

But she shouldn't be confused with a later generation Huldah Candee seen in this photograph of some gals in The King's Daughters Society of the Congregational Church (Phoenix, NY). "The Society was organized in 1900 for the purpose of cheering the sick and aged in Phoenix by visiting and carrying fruit and flowers to them."