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WEST MIDDLESEX - James Floyd Sewall, 68, of 6160 Miller Road RD 4, was pronounced dead on arrival at 12:30 a. m. March 10, 1983, in Shenango Valley Osteopathic Hospital.
He was born in Lackawannock Township on May 14, 1914, to James C. and Eva V. Angell Sewall. He was married to the former Mary E. (Dolly) Steingrabe on March 30, 1939.
Mr. Sewall was employed by Westinghouse Manufacturing Co. as a coil winder for 41 years before retiring in 1976. He was a member of the Free and Accepted Masons No. 810 of Hermitage, the New Castle Consistory, the Musicians Union of Sharon and the Sewall Brothers Band of the New Wilmington and West Middlesex area.
Surviving are his wife, at home; a daughter, Mrs. David (Nancy) McConnell of West Middlesex; a son, Paul of Columbus, Ohio; a sister, Mrs. Mildred Garrett of New Wilmington; three brothers, Glenn of Sharon, David of New Wilmington and Wayne of of Polk, Pa., and six grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by two brothers, Charles and Ralph, and three sisters, Dorothea, Alice and Ethel.¹

Doctor Sewall spent practically his entire life in the city of Marlin, twenty years of which had been devoted to the practice of medicine. He obtained his M.D. degree from the University of Virginia. He spent two years in Mexico. During the First World War Dr. Sewall volunteered as a first lieutenant in the Medical Corps and went to France with the American Expeditionary Force, his health being impaired by illness during his time in the army.⁷

Dr. F. L. Sewall Family

Dr. Francis Lewis Sewall (d. Sept. 21, 1921, Craft, Tex.) moved to the Craft community south of Jacksonville from New Waverly, Tex., in 1900. He was a horse-and-buggy days doctor and was active in the medical profession several years. He was a third generation physician, having followed his father and grandfather in the profession. They practiced in England and Alabama.
Dr. Sewall’s grandfather, Lewis, came to the United States as a young man after obtaining his education in England. The Sewalls came from England in the Ark of Avalon and The Dove. They landed at Bell’s Landing, Ala., late in the 1700’s.
Dr. Sewall moved his family to Craft in 1900 and built a home there. His standing as a physician and citizen was very high. He was a Mason and member of the First Presbyterian Church. He was buried with Masonic honors. Dr. Sewall was educated in Alabama.
Dr. Sewall m. Alice Marshall Finch and they had (1) George, a carpenter, m. Viola Causey, and they had Watson, Wales, Marshall and Glenn; (2) Frank Singleton, teacher and swimming pool operator, m. Bessie Smith, had Frank Luther, Nell; (3) Robert Lewis, carpenter and farmer, m. Lula Mae Dial, had Elbert Beiton, Mary Alice, Gem Louise Sewall Rowan, Robert Jackson, John Francis, Edward Preston (d. in World War II). Lila Lee-Sewall Cooper; (4) James Krouse, teacher in his early years and then a farmer, m. Trannie McKnight, had William Alexander, James Aaron, Mabel Jewell Sewall Owens, Francis Lewis, Alice Sewall Anderson, Robert Irwin, Ellen Sewall Belk, Ann Sewall Cone, Charles Edwin; (5) Edna May, m. Clarence Jones, had Richard Rudolph, Elizabeth Marshall, Lewis, Ella Katherine Jones Johnston, Paul Francis, and Janie Pauline (latter two were twins); (6)Will, d. young.
After the death of his wife. Dr. Sewall moved to Waverly, Tex., with his children. He m. Janie Gillespie Thompson, a teacher, in 1891. They had (1) Mary Elizabeth, a teacher, m. Harvey McCollum, had Lawrence Dow, Janie Frances (deceased) m. C. A. Allen, then m. Cecil Garrison; (2) Ella Wales, a teacher, m. Edgar Johnston, had Julia Marie, Charles Francis, Sara Scott Johnston Brockette, Eileen Johnston Johnson; (3) Jennings Bryan, spent his years in the U. S. Navy, m. Trudie Powel, had Jennings Bryan Jr., Emily Maude Sewall Jackson; (4) Edwin Ely, in the appliance business, m. Helen Maxine Bryant, had William Bryant, Edwin Thompson, John Bruton, Elizabeth Ann Sewall Campbell. — Ellen Belk and Jack Sewall, grandchildren.⁶

Garden City, S.C. - Kenneth Albert Sewall Sr., 86, died Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2016, at National Health Care.
Born in Newmarket, N.H., he was a son of the late Frank and Marylyn Sewall. Mr. Sewall was raised on the "Great Spring Farm" of Newmarket. He was a U.S. Army veteran and was a Freemason in Newmarket. He was with the Civil War Round Table of New Hampshire and was a member of Hooksett Congregational Church, where he was in the choir and served as a deacon. Mr. Sewall was an avid golfer.
Surviving are his wife of 65 years, Dorothy Sewall of Garden City; a son, Ken Sewall (Michele) of Atlanta; daughters, Marilyn Novack of Fredericksburg, Va., and Lori Roukey (Tim) of Henniker, N.H; seven grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.⁶

Frank L. Sewall, member of the noted shipping family of Bath, Maine, and an employe of Williams, Dimond & Co., San Francisco steamship operators, for several years a quarter of a century ago, died Wednesday night at his home in Los Angeles, according to a dispatch received yesterday. Sewall was a brother of the late Oscar T. Sewall, one time member of the local shipping firm, and in 1907 married Miss Julia Griffin, St. Paul heiress, at San Bernardino. Lately he had been an orange grower at Redlands.⁷