Lochlainn Seabrook, the 6th great-grandson of Henrietta Caudill (1753-1836), is an award-winning author and country songwriter living in Nashville, Tennessee. He is the 3rd great-grandson of Confederate hero Elias Jent, Sr. (1810-1864), who fought bravely in America’s second Revolutionary War, the War for Southern Independence, under Col. Benjamin E. Caudill (Lochlainn’s 2nd cousin).

According to family tradition, Elias, a private in the 1st Regiment of Caudill’s Army (the 13th Cavalry Kentucky), was at home on furlough in Perry (now Knott) County, Kentucky. The year was probably 1864. One day he and his wife, Rachel Cornett (Lochlainn’s 3rd great-grandmother), were traveling from Hindman to Lott’s Creek when they stopped at the house of one Mrs. Cornett (a relation of Rachel’s). Here the couple were suddenly taken captive by Yankee troops, who, without explanation or trial, forced them outside at gunpoint and promptly hung them from a nearby tree. The repercussions of this war crime (the murder of both an unarmed soldier on leave and a non-combatant civilian woman) have continued in Lochlainn’s family into the present day.

Lochlainn’s father, born in Letcher County, Kentucky, is the grandson of Esquire Lincoln Yonts (1874-1942) and Mary Francis Wright (1872-1950). Lochlainn’s paternal lines are mainly of English, Dutch, and German heritage and, through the Washingtons, descend from European royalty (Lochlainn’s 8th great-grandmother, Anne Washington, 1659-1697, is the grandaunt of President George Washington, 1732-1799, Revolutionary War hero). Through his Father Lochlainn is cousins with General Robert E. Lee (1807-1870).

Lochlainn’s mother, born in Cabell County, West Virginia, is the granddaughter of Isaac Walter Nelson (1878-1949) and Josephine Sansom (1883-1964), both descendants of blue-blooded pioneer ancestors. Mainly of Irish and Scottish heritage, his maternal lines also both derive from European royalty (Lochlainn is the 6th great-grandson of the Earl of Oxford). Through his Mother Lochlainn is cousins with the first wife of President Jefferson Davis (1808-1889), Sarah Knox Taylor (1815-1835), the daughter of US President Zachary Taylor (1784-1850).

A songwriter who has composed over 60 albums worth of music, Lochlainn is the author of 12 adult books and 8 children’s books on topics ranging from the War Against Northern Aggression, religion and spirituality, mythology, and genealogical monographs, to Celtic culture, the UFO phenomenon, scientific reference books, ghost stories, and sociological studies of the family and marriage.

He is currently writing a book on the pivotal Battle of Franklin (November 30, 1864), at which his 3rd cousin, Colonel Edmund Winchester Rucker (1835-1924), led "Rucker’s Brigade" under the famed Rebel cavalryman, General Nathan Bedford Forrest. It was here, at Franklin, in one of the War’s bloodiest and most senseless conflicts, that the Army of Tennessee was wasted and the Confederacy itself destroyed.

To contact Lochlainn send email to: countrysongwriter@comcast.net Or visit his Website at: WWW.LSBOOKS.HOMESITE.NET