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Services for Allen Devereaux Sewall, veteran film and stage actor, will be held Saturday at 1 p.m. in Utter-McKinley’s Strother Hollywood Chapel, 6240 Hollywood Blvd. Interment will follow in Valhalla Cemetery.
Mr. Sewall, who died yesterday at Citizens Emergency Hospital after a heart attack, had played motion picture character roles for more than 34 years. Born in Cambridge. Mass., he first turned to the theater when he was starred with Richard Mansfield and others, and sang with the Boston Opera Co.
Active in Boy Scout work, he served as Scoutmaster of Hollywood Troop 120 for more than 10 years.
He leaves his widow, Lucile, of 7930 W. Norton Ave.: a son, Joseph Melvin Sewall of San Diego: a sister, Mrs. Nellie Bennett of Burlington. Mass.: and a brother, John, of Washington, D.C.⁷

SEWALL (SEWELL), Clement (1758 - Jan. 7, 1829). Ensign, Maryland Line. Applied for and received pension S20192 in Dec., 1828, stating that he had lived in St. Mary's County at the time of his enlistment and he had received a disability pension from Jan. 1, 1803. He later reapplied on March 26, 1818, at Georgetown in Washington, D.C., aged 60. He died there Jan. 7, 1829, leaving no widow, but many children and grandchildren, and Jane Sewall was administratrix. He also received a state pension under the Act of Jan. 24, 1823 in Maryland "for the gallant services rendered his country during the struggle for our glorious independence." I Ref: 1-39]. In July, 1854, these children were then living: Elizabeth O'Reilly, Clement Sewall, Elenor Fenwick, Nicholas L. Sewall (of Fairfax County, Virginia), Catharine S. Foyles, and Juliana Sewall. Clement Newton, of Georgetown, D.C., [sic] stated he knew Clement Sewall during the war [Ref: P-3072]. Took the Oath of Allegiance before the Hon. Richard Barnes in St. Mary's County in 1778 (Ref: J-1146, K-66J. Supplied provisions (wheat, mutton, or bacon) to the Army in 1780 [Ref: S-77J. It also should be noted that there was another "Clement Sewell who was very prominent in Queen Anne's County during the revolutionary period [Ref: N-726]. Henry C. Peden, Revolutionary Patriots of Calvert and St Mary's Counties, Maryland 1775-1783, p. 234-5.⁷

He served as a Lieutenant in the US Navy in WW2. He was a retired member of the technical staff at MITRE Corp., in Bedford, Mass., where he worked for many years on electronic command and control systems for the Defense Department. His career with MITRE included stints in Germany and Tokyo. He was a licensed private pilot and an officer in the Air Force Reserve.^3,5