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[Linda Anderson]

(01-20-2015 05:44 PM)Eva Elisabeth Wrote:  Thanks again for sharing, Linda! It seems to me Olive would have inherited the same portion anyway, as wife as well as as adopted daughter?!

What happened to the house after Seward's death? Did all the Seward children live there, or did one take it over? I just know it's now a museum (and their website doesn't work on my phone), and Wiki states "it was occupied by blood relatives until 1951".

I don't know how much Olive would have inherited as Seward's wife. It would be interesting to see Seward's will before he changed it in 1870 to see how much Frances would have inherited if Seward had died first.

Seward's son Will lived in the house until his death in 1920 then it passed to his son Will III. "In 1951 William Henry Seward III bequeathed the family home in Auburn, NY to the Fred L. Emerson Foundation to serve as living memorial to his famous father and grandfather."

http://sewardhouse.org/mission-and-history/