This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/xV.2ADE/516.1.1.1 Message Board Post: You know, I was born in 1934 and my gg-grandfather who served under Capt McCoy died in 1905. His son, Stephen, was my g-grandfather and he died when I was 10 years old. He told me lots of stories about his youth in Arkansas but did not talk about the Civil War. I beleive the fact that this Seaboalt family from Newton County who had fought for the Union side had moved into an area in Texas which was a hot-bed of the Confederacy, even when I was a youth, so discretion became the better part of valor in this situation. I first learned of William Riley Seaboalt's service in the Civil War in the early 1980's from Walter Lackey's "History on Newton County". But I did not realize that this service was on the Union side until I found his name in the 1891 Census of Civil War veterans. I had copies of his muster/pay records and his application and affidavites from Newton County acquaintences in support of his Civil War Pension application which he finally received about 5 years! before he died. Some of other men who served in the McCoy company submitted affidavites (Lemuel R. Jones, Archibald Reynolds, Cooper, etc.) Although I am in possession of the estate papers of William Riley Seaboalt, there is no photographs or any other references to his Civil War service. William