The Savannah morning news., 1901-10-03
same Family History.

A nephew of Gen. Benjamin Frank
lin Tracy. ex-Secretary OF the Navy,
has gone 10 Rome. Ga, to marry Miss
Florida Seay, whose mother was the
college chum Of Martha Bulloch, or
Bullock. the mother of President Roose-
Welt writes Victor Smith in the New
York Press. All Georgia is excited
over the accession of a half Georgian
to the presidency. and every family
that knew the Bullochs. or Bullocks, is
willing to claim kin with the son OF
Miss Martha" once the belle OF the
state. Mrs. Seay was knewn in the
high society of the state as Miss FLO
Bayard. Her family were closely re-
lated TO the Bavards of Delaware.
Though a woman of the utmost re-
finement, culture and beauty, she re-
manned a spinster so long that the
faithfulest of her ardent worshipers
admitted the hopelessneSs of their suit
and spread il abroad that mo man IN
the South is good enough for Miss
Flo.''
A live man Of the. name of John ].
Seay came along, met Miss Flo and
captured her. to the amazement not
only of Georgia society, but OF the
Episcopal Bishop of Tennessee, the
Right Rev. Charles Todd Quintard,
who called her Aunt Flo" George
W. Quintard I'd lives in New York.
His brother, Edward. married the only
daughter of Boss" Shepherd of Wash
ington, and is now with his father-in-
law mining in Mexico. Seay was a
stove merchant, Mayor of Rome, owner
of the Coosa River Steamboat Com
pany, and an official of the Southern
Railway system. His oldest son
Charles Seay. is on the stage in New
York. and managers regard him as
young man of promise. The South
does not possess a more heightened,
honorable gentleman than Capt. John
j. Seay.
Captain Seay acted as a second in
one of the most famous bloodless duels
of the South. One of the principals
was Patrick Calhoun, younger brother
of the gallant Colonel ]. Caldwell Cal
houn that was and Colonel John c.
Calhoun that is. The world knows
Colonel John c.. and Patrick shines
with his brothers reflected greatness.
The duel was fought in Alabama.
just over the line from Georgia, for
which Georgia has remained grateful.
bloodless affairs of honor not being TO
her liking. Captain Seay, who had
faced freshet after freshet on the broad
feed on the turgid Etowah and the
tameless Coosa, would never have
flinched from an ordinary duty, but
when derringers of the vintage of 1872
began to aim around promiscuously in
the trembling hands of pair of princi-
pals prudence impelled him and the
rest of the seconds to seek the protec-
ton of the nearest tree trunks. The
historian says: Two shots rang out
upon the circumambient air." One
bullet grazed the side of a mountain,
the other plowed under a stump. Honor
was appeased.
Speaking of the Quintards: The
Bishop was a versatile man from Con-
necticut who wandered South to prac-
tice medicine, carrying in his pocket a
diploma from the University of the
city of New York Men of his profess
sion in those days were surgeons as
well as physicians, and it is said that
Or. Quintard could handle scalpel and
saw quite as well as prescribe syrup of
squills, calomel and paregoric. After
ten years the church reached out its
strong hand and got him. In the war
he sided with the South, becoming
chaplain of the Eighteenth Tennessee,
and in the service was a veritable
trinity-preacher, doctor and surgeon.
OF course such a genius had to be
bishop. He knew more people by name
than any man of his time. Travellers
used to make bets on him. If he set
out from Nashville by rail it was 100
to l that he would know every man,
it had gone fifty miles. His manners
were most graceful and insinuating
Both Tennessee and Georgia idolized
him