Ancestry of
Jimmy Carter

39th U.S. President

Mary Ann Diligent Seals

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• • Great-grandmother of Jimmy Carter — 4th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 9 
  • Father:
  • William Archibald Seals 
  • Mother:
  • Eliza Harris   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1838 
  • Birth Location:
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  • Christening Date:
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  • Death Date:
  • 27 Nov 1873 
  • Death Location:
  • Sumter County, Georgia 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Oak Grove Cemetery, Americus, Sumter, Georgia 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Littleberry Walker Carter
  • Marriage Date:
  • 5 Jan 1851 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Warren County, Georgia 
  • Child:

  William Archibald "Billy" Carter (Ahnentafel No:4 )

  • Notes: 

  • Diligent is spelled Diligence on her tombstone.

    A distraught Mary died on the day of her husband's burial after he was mortally wounded during an argument with a business partner at a carnival.

• Sources for Mary Ann Diligent Seals

  • ¹ Daughters of the American Revolution Genealogical Research System, Ancestor #A002852.
  • ² Federal Census, GA, Warren County, 1850, Division 90, Image 141 of 152.
  • ³ Georgia, County Marriages, 1785-1950, Marriage record for Littleberry W Carter and Mary Ann D Seals.
  • ⁴ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 06/07/2014).
  • ⁵ The Weekly Sumter Republican (Americus, Georgia), 05 DEC 1873, p. 4.
  • ⁶ Brogan, Hugh and Charles Mosley, American Presidential Families, New York: Macmillan Publishing Company (1993), 725, 727.
  • ⁷ Godbold, E. Stanly, Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter: The Georgia Years, 1924-1974, New York: Oxford University Press (2010), 5, 61-62, 70, 84.
  • ⁸ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Royal Descents of 600 Immigrants to the American Colonies or the United States (2 vols.), Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co. (2008), 874, 882.
  • ⁹ Roberts, Gary Boyd, comp., Ancestors of American Presidents, 2009 Edition, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2009), 165, 491.