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Re: Oliver J. Semmes, birth & death info?

Here is some background information I found on him at Ancestry.com

Oliver John Semmes was born 29 Aug. 1839; died 19 Jan. 1918 in Mobile, Alabama; parents, Raphael Semmes (1807-1877) and Ann Elizabeth Spencer (1819-1892); marriage, Amante Gaines (1849-1888) 17 Dec. 1873, Mobile, Ala.; children, Amante Elctra Semmes (1874-1951), Oliver John Semmes (1876-1957) and Raphael Owen Semmes (1879-1910).

He is listed in the 1860 census in New York, where he was attending West Point and on the 1880 census was living in Mobile, Alabama.

I found a really interesting sketch on him at the following:

http://books.google.com/books?id=Ig5ye9fKdSwC&pg=PA92&lpg=PA92&dq=Oliver+John+Semmes&source=bl&ots=GABqQvZGwd&sig=QDxADB8um4Zghh4S9Hf5xkIkvhE&hl=en&ei=gkqBS43jLcuutgfG4JHuBg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=10&ved=0CCUQ6AEwCQ#v=onepage&q=Oliver%20John%20Semmes&f=false

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