Sacramento County Biographies

SEELY DE KAY

Transcribed by: Nancy Pratt Melton

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CENTER TOWNSHIP. 
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	Post Office, Roseville; lives two and a half miles from that 
place, and seventeen miles from Sacramento; was born in New Jersey, 1822, and 
lived there until 1849, engaged in farming; in that year he removed to Ohio, and 
continued farming until 1852; he then came to California and to this county, and 
followed teaming until about 1864; since then he has been farming, and stock 
raising; owns four hundred and eighty acres, worth, with improvements, about 
$5000. Mr. Dc Kay was married in 1865 to Mrs. Jane Pitcher, a native of England, 
who has borne him one child, a son; she has seven children by a former husband. 
 
Source: History of Sacramento County, California With Illustrations 1880 by 
Thompson & West.