History: The first settler on the land that is now Seymour was James Shields who brought his family here in 1816 and built on the property which is now the old city cemetery. In 1820, he received a land grant for the ground he had homesteaded in the area called Mule Crossing. The son of James Shields, Captain Meedy W. Shields, who later became a State Senator, inherited his father's land...