Seymour Knickerbocker
Company E, 149th NYSV

from the Syracuse Post-Standard, August 19, 1930:

    Ex-Syracusan, 90,
      Expires at Home
        of Son in South
    Seymour Knickerbocker
      Was Civil War Vet
  Special to The Post Standard
  RICHMOND, Va., Aug. 18.---Seymour
Knickerbocker, 90, formerly of Syra-
cuse, N.Y., died this morning on the
front porch at the home of his son,
Laverne M. Knickerbocker, 3002 Mont-
rose avenue.  Soon after breakfast, he
went out on the porch to smoke.  Half
an hour later, Mrs. Maude Knicker-
bocker, his daughter-in-law, found
him dead sitting upright in a chair.
Coroner Whitfield was summoned and
pronounced death due to infirmities
of age.
  He served in the Union army during
the civil war with Company E, 149th
New York regiment, and was a mem-
ber of the G.A.R.
  For many years after the war he
engaged in business in Syracuse as a
manufacturing tailor, retiring 18 years
ago.  He came here two years ago to
live with his son, who is his only im-
mediate surviving relative.  He mar-
ried Alice Jane Newton of Cortland,
N.Y., who died 14 years ago.
  He was born in Pompey, N.Y., Au-
gust 15, 1840, and belonged to an
old and well-known family.  He ate a
hearty breakfast this morning and
seemed in his customary good health
and spirits when he arose from the
table, his daughter-in-law said.  Be-
fore marraige, she was Maude Watson,
daughter of Mrs. Mary T. Watson of
910 Bellevue avenue, Syracuse.