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George Tingey Sewall, 83, of New York City, N.Y., and South Lee, died on Tuesday at Berkshire Medical Center in Pittsfield.
He worked for the Young & Rubicam Advertising Agency in New York City, and was a researcher for Dr. George Gallup. After retiring from the firm, Sewall was an active private consultant.
Born in Old Town, Maine, he attended the local schools, and was graduated from Bowdoin College in 1932. He belonged to Phi Beta Kappa. He received a master's degree from Harvard University in 1933.
He was a member of Psi Upsilon, and an organizer of the Copy Research Council.
Before World War II, he was a dollar-a-year man to Washington, D.C.
He served in the Navy veteran in World War II, and was an air combat intelligence lieutenant. After the war, he returned to Young & Rubicam as an account executive.
He was active in the Psi Upsilon Foundation, and belonged to the Sons of the Revolution and the Harvard Club of New York City.
He was also an active member of the Laymen's Club of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. In the Berkshires, he belonged to the Lenox Club and was an honorary governor of the Mackeenac Boating Club.
He leaves his wife of 58 years, Mary Bossidy Sewall of New York and South Lee; a son, Tingey H. of Cohasset; a brother, Joseph of Old Town, Maine; three sisters, Mrs. James Page of Caribou, Maine, Richard Alden of New Harbor, Maine, and Elizabeth Sewall Gary of Lunenburg, and a granddaughter.⁵

He enlisted in Company G, Massachusetts 47th Infantry Regiment as a private on 06 Nov 1862. Mustered out on 11 Aug 1863 at New Orleans, LA. Subsequently he worked as a civil and railroad engineer.^3,9

His death certificate records him as a retired R[ail] R[oad] conductor.⁹

Mrs. Gladys Sewall Clements died on Wednesday, January 2, 1963 after a short illness at the Jackson Hospital. The deceased was the wife of the late Wesley E. Clements and daughter of Edward Lewis Sewell and Catherine Dykes Sewall. She was a niece of Dr. Lewis Sewall who was a prominent physician in Clarke County back in the eighties.
Mrs. Clements was born November 21, 1880 and was reared in the Bethel Community where she lived most of her life. During the early part of her married life, Mr. and Mrs. Clements lived in Jackson. Miss., and Jacksonville, Fla., where he was employed by an oil company. She was a member of the Rockville Baptist Church.
Survivors include three daughters, Mrs. Bessie Lee Clements Jordan, Mrs. Annie Nora Clements Smith of Mobile, Mrs. Mavis Clements Fincher of Montgomery; one sister, Mrs. Susan Sewall Blackwell; one brother, Edward Dykes Sewall, both of Jackson, Route 2; grandchildren, nieces and nephews.
Pallbearers were: Barney Purvis, Harvey McClinton. Clarence White. Vernon Earl Slayton. Wilson Faust and Lewis Gwin.
Funeral services were held on Thursday morning from Woodson Funeral Home chapel with Rev. Vickers, pastor of the Jackson Methodist Church and Dr. Grady Ketchum, pastor of the First Baptist Church of Jackson, officiating.²

Rev. Grenville P. Sewall died Wednesday morning at his home in Aurora, after a year of falling health. Mr Sewall was up as usual, but shortly after his breakfast he was suddenly stricken and almost instantly expired.
Mr. Sewall was ordained by the Presbytery of Cayuga. December 28, 1870. Nearly all of his ministerial life was passed in the immediate neighborhood. From 1860 to 1879 Mr. Sewell was the pastor of the Cayuga Presbyterian Church, to which he went as minister while yet a senior at Auburn Theological Seminary.
Leaving Cayuga Mr. Sewall was pastor at Troy, Pa., for 16 years. After a short pastorate of four years in Syracuse, he went to Aurora Presbyterian Church In 1900. In 1919 he resigned his pastoral office at Aurora, because of his advancing years, but he and his wife have continued to live in Aurora among their devoted people, loved and esteemed by all.
There is no one who was more widely known throughout the whole region or more deeply beloved than Mr. Sewall. His name has been a household name in the county for more than half a century.
Mr. Sewall was born in Westbrook, Me., September 18, 1884; he was graduated at Williams College in the Class of 1867, at Auburn Seminary in 1870. He is survived by his wife and by one son, Theodore of Chicago, his daughter-in-law, Mrs. Theodore Sewall. The funeral will be held at the Aurora Presbyterian Church at 3 o'clock Friday afternoon.⁶