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From: Barbara Thornton <>
Subject: Re: [GAMITCHE-L] Sellers and West family, late 1800's
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 18:56:20 -0400
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No..Thomas Jefferson Sellers was not descended from Wright Sellers. He was decended from his brother Simion Thurmon Sellers. This is what I know from the Grady County History . William Sellers is said to have come with 7 sons to Thomas Co. Ga. Two of those sons were Simion and Wright. The
others children listed were Elijah, Allen C., Mary, Everett and William (b. 1830), but no Jacob Benjamin or Elizabeth. . However only 6 sons were mentioned so Jacob could have been the 7th. The history has the information that William lived with the Peacocks in Baker Co. along with other
family members.( Mitchell Co. had not been formed then).If you have not seen the Grady Co. History I will photocopy the Sellers pages for you because I am sure it must be out of print.
Barbara Thornton
Chapel Hill, NC

Richard White wrote:

> Was Thomas Jefferson Sellars descended from Wright Sellars?
>
> I believe that Wright was a brother of my 2-great grandfather Jacob
> Benjamin Sellers (sic).
>
> My great grandfather Richard Moye Sellars married Missouri West Lester
> West, though she was his second wife and not my great grandmother. I
> have the distinct impression that there were extensive
> interrelationships between the Sellars and West families going far
> back... but I'm light on actual detail. <G>
>
> What I'm trying to do is piece together the children of William Sellers
> (sometimes written Cellers) and Nancy Moye from Meklenburg County, North
> Carolina. William paused for awhile in Pulaski County but seems to have
> spent most of the last half of his life in Thomas County where he was an
> early settler. In 1850, though, his daughter Elizabeth Sellers Peacock
> and son-in-law Alexander Peacock, Jr. show up twice in the census...
> once in Thomas County where they had been for awhile, and again a few
> weeks later in Baker County. In the 1850 census for Baker County,
> William Cellers is shown living in their household, and I presume that
> he died fairly soon after that.
>
> William's children Elizabeth and Jacob Benjamin married in Pulaski
> County in the 1830s, but Jacob Benjamin's wife Georgia Ann Joiner was
> born in Camilla in 1819 while it was still in Indian Lands. In 1860
> Jacob Benjamin and Georgia Ann's eldest son, George W. Sellars, appeared
> in the household of Alfred (or Alford) Joiner, Sr., in Camilla. Alfred
> Joiner was Georgia Ann's first cousin.
>
> Jacob Benjamin and Georgia Ann both died in 1862 and George W. died in
> 1863. Also in 1862, an Alford (or Alfred) Sellars was born... and
> though he was central in reuniting some of Jacob Benjamin and Georgia
> Ann's orphaned children, I'm not sure if he was their son or possibly
> George W. Sellars' son. I also don't know exactly where Alford Sellars
> grew up. In his whole life I have so far found him in only one census,
> the 1880 census for DeKalb County, where he was living in the household
> of the younger Benjamin Franklin Veal. Two of Jacob Benjamin and
> Georgia Ann's daughters married Veals in DeKalb County. I don't know
> who Alford married or where he lived but he apparently had at least two
> children: (Richard) Ceaderrow who worked for the railroad in Atlanta,
> and Uranus M. who worked for the railroad in Anniston, Alabama.
>
> Richard White
> Tallahassee, Florida
>
> wrote:
>
> >This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list.
> >
> >Surnames: Sellers, West
> >Classification: Query
> >
> >Message Board URL:
> >
> >http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/mc.2ADI/587
> >
> >Message Board Post:
> >
> >Looking for information on Thomas Jefferson Sellers and his wife Susie West. Family history says he was shot and killed by his daughters' boyfried. He died 1909 and is buried at Hopeful Cem. in Mitchell Co., Ga. I can't locate him on the 1900 census. I have info. on their parents.
> >
> >
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