Hi: RE>Martha Hansbrough to Mary Ball This comes from : HISTORY of KENTUCKY The Blue Grass State 322886 VOLUME III ILLUSTRATED THE S. J. CLARKE PUBLISHING COMPANY CHICAGO - LOUISVILLE 1928     Page 451 (Page number of the electronic copy at Genealogylibrary.com - actual book page number may differ)   ENJAMIN SAMUEL SEAY, M. D. Dr. Benjamin Samuel Seay, who was long an active and successful representative of the medical profession in Louisville, departed this life on the 9th of October, 1926, when sixty-two years of age. His birth occurred at Toddspoint, Shelby county, Kentucky, on the 19th of May, 1864, his parents being Benjamin and Elizabeth (Hinckle) Seay, representing old and distinguished families of Virginia. The American progenitors of the Seay family left France on account of religious persecution. Benjamin Seay, the father of Dr. Seay of this review, was born at Seay Mills, Virginia, and was a son of Samuel and Susan (Balee) Seay. Susan Balee was a granddaughter of Count Peter Balee, a French nobleman who was banished from France because of religious principles, and his estates confiscated. With his two children, a son and a daughter, he sailed for America, in 1760. He became ill and died at sea. The son, Count Peter Balee, Jr., at this time was twelve years of age, and he settled in or near Philadelphia, where he married Elizabeth Baker. Soon afterward, in company with William Baker, a brother-in-law, and a family by the name of Powell, he came down the Ohio river on a flatboat to the Ohio falls, at which time only a fort and two log houses marked the present site of Louisville. Peter Balee entered a tract of one thousand acres in Jefferson county, about four and one-half miles south of the river. Later he removed to Shelby county, where he purchased land in 1795. Of his thirteen children, Susan married Samuel Seay, and they were the grandparents of Dr. Benjamin S. Seay of this review. Mrs. Elizabeth (Hinckle) Seay, the mother of Dr. Seay, was a descendant of the old and honored Oglesby family. The surviving members of the family of Benjamin and Elizabeth (Hinckle) Seay are two sons and two daughters, namely: Dr. John L. Seay, of Eastwood, Kentucky; George W. Seay, of Independence, California; Mrs. James Roney and Mrs. William Burden, of Lansing, Michigan. Benjamin Samuel Seay, whose name introduces this article, studied medicine under a brother before entering the Louisville Medical College, from which he was graduated with the degree of M. D. in 1891. He first located for practice at Eastwood, Kentucky, where he followed his chosen profession for fourteen years, while subsequently he spent a period of three and one-half years in the mountains of Tennessee for the benefit of his wife's health. After returning to this state he took up his abode in Louisville and here spent the remainder of his life, being accorded a most gratifying practice in recognition of his pronounced skill as a physician and surgeon. His son, Dr. Horace H. Seay, has now succeeded to his practice. His name was on the membership rolls of the Jefferson County Medical Society. On the 12th of September, 1895, at Eastwood, Kentucky, Dr. Seay was united in marriage to Mattie Belle Smith, who was there born on the 26th of August, 1873, her parents being Thomas Benton and Sarah Boone (Wilcox) Smith, representatives of early Kentucky families. Thomas Benton Smith, a native of Jefferson county, was a son of Francis Barnes and Martha (Hansbrough) Smith, both of whom were born in Shelby county, this state. ***Mrs. Martha (Hansbrough) Smith was descended from the Ball family, to which belonged Mrs. Mary (Ball) Washington, the mother of George Washington.*** Mrs. Sarah Boone (Wilcox) Smith, the mother of Mrs. Mattie Belle (Smith) Seay, was a daughter of John Squire and Margaret (Clore) Wilcox, the latter of Oldham county, Kentucky. The Clore family came directly from Charlottesville, Virginia. John Squire Wilcox, the father of Mrs. Sarah Boone (Wilcox) Smith, was a son of Colonel Gibson T. and Isabel (Hall) Wilcox. Colonel Gibson T. Wilcox, great-grandfather of Mrs. Mattie Belle (Smith) Seay, was a grandson of Squire Boone, brother of Daniel Boone. A son of Squire Boone, named Enoch Boone, whose birth occurred at Boonesboro, Kentucky, October 16, 1777, was the first white male child born in this state. Thomas Benton and Sarah Boone (Wilcox) Smith, who were married on the 14th of November, 1872, reared a family of three daughters, as follows: Mattie Belle is the widow of Benjamin Samuel Seay and the mother of two sons, Dr. Horace Hansbrough Seay and Benton Seay. Lillie Mason is the wife of Dr. E. M. Foreman and the mother of two children, Lillard Mason Foreman and Sally Boone Foreman. Margie Gipson is the wife of W. M. Armstrong of Sylacauga, Alabama, and the mother of two children, Gladys Clore Armstrong and Warren Milton Armstrong (III). Mrs. Armstrong has membership with the Daughters of the American Revolution. Dr. Benjamin Samuel Seay, who died of heart disease after an illness of three weeks, was buried in Evergreen cemetery of Louisville. His widow, who resides at 1153 South First street, has won many warm friends throughout the city. Thanks, Dave