Good morning, Yes, Simeon Seaford (and it was Siefert originally in the German, not Sei..) was the son of Abraham Seaford and Margaret Lentz. Simeon married Eliza Smith as his second wife. Abraham, his father, is the man to whom you refer on the 1850 Davie Co. NC census. He did indeed move with his son Solomon in 1852. They tarried for a bit in Kentucky where Abraham appears on the tax records in Marshall Co. in 1853. It is believed that Abraham died there however no record of his or Margaret's death has yet been found by me. Solomon himself moved on to Scott Co., Mo. And no, the probate date was not incorrectly transcribed. In the words of my mother, Margaret D. Lutes who was the first to research the Siefert families, "In 1841, Abraham Seaford did an astonishing thing. He made his will and registered it while still alive -- an illegal procedure in the State of North Carolina." The Sieferts were indeed from Pa. and prior to that from Odenwald, Germany. Cathy Gowdy