Emma Hart Seymour, (Namesake of Mrs. Emma Hart Willard,) daughter of Hon. Horatio and Lucy (Case) Seymour, was born in Middlebury, Vt., from which place she entered Troy Seminary, in 1823, remaining during the school year of 1824.
She became the wife of Philip Battell, of Norfolk, Conn., a graduate of Middlebury College, and a lawyer who resided in Cleveland, Ohio. Later Mr. and Mrs. Battell returned to Middlebury and the old homestead, where Mrs. Battell died, survived by her husband and two children. (from Emma Willard and Her Pupils, or Fifty Years of Troy Female Seminary, ed. by Mrs. A.W. Fairbanks; pub. by Mrs. Russell Sage, New York, 1898)