Note 19 — Chapter XXI · WOOD’S SECOND ADMINISTRATION 1856-1859

This reference to Seagrist was handed down in an Aldermanic committee’s report some years before: “… Thomas Munday, Nicholas Seagrist, Captain Norris, Mackellar and others were charged with robbing the funeral pall of Henry Clay, when his sacred person passed through this city.” Documents of the Board of Aldermen, Vol. XXII: No. 43.