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Subject: [ALHENRY] WILLS/MARRIAGES/DEATHS
Date: 4 Jun 2002 12:25:35 -0600

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Surnames: DARDEN, SMITH, SELLERS, WIGGINS, NEELY
Classification: Query

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I'm trying to find information on my gr-grandparents: John Darden and Melissa Smith Darden.
They had 2 children: Bedford Henry Darden (born Mar 1858 Macon GA) and Annie Caroline Darden (born 1862 GA). I have assumed that John Darden died during Civil War. In 1866, Melissa married Calton E. Sellers in Henry/Houston Co AL (Abbeville). Children: Wyatt, James, John Newton, William Martel, & Pocahantas (Pokey) Sellers. John Newton's son, Carl, was a probate judge in Houston Co AL-in May 1964, he was elected to his third 6-year term. Wyatt, a musician, was born blind.
Melissa's father was William Henry Smith (born London, England?-don't know her mother's name). Melissa was born ~ 1838 GA died 25 Nov 1894 Houston Co AL buried Rocky Creek Cem.. My grandfather, Bedford, married Mattie Bruner in 1875 in Henry/Houston Co. They had 3 children: John Henry Darden, Belle Darden, and Arrie Darden. He married my grandmother, Dillie Ann Wiggins Cummerford, 5 May 1899. Dillie Ann Wiggins was born 27 Nov 1878 Dothan Houston Co AL.. Annie Caroline Darden married Willis Calvin Granger 6 Feb 1886. She died 20 July 1902 buried in Cottonwood Cem AL (flu epidemic-several of their young children also died from flu). After her death, Willis married Mattie L. Champion.
In BLM land searches for Henry/Houston Co AL, I have found William Henry Smith (1854), Bedford Henry Darden (l1885), and Calton E. Sellers (1861), and in Barbour Co AL (Sparta land office), John Darden (1839).
Late last year, I found and touched base with my grandfather's half-brother's, William Martel Sellers's, grand-daughter-she does not know anything about Melissa Smith Darden Sellers and family. Her mother, Malissie Martel Sellers Pizanie, over 100 years old (in LA), remembers the inheritance in 1916.
Can you help with any of this?

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