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From: Richard White <>
Subject: Re: [GAMITCHE-L] Sellers and West family, late 1800's
Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2005 13:12:11 -0400
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I just barely know enough to identify *some* of my own closest Sellars
relatives. It looks to me like ALL of them in Georgia could very well
be just part of one big family from NC, and that name Jacob appears here
and there amongst them more than occasionally. If you want a headache,
try to research a Confederate soldier named Jacob Sellars/Sellers in GA
and NC. There are many, many, MANY to choose from and or sort through,
and it took me about 20 years to figure out how to sort my particular
one out. Since the Jacob you refer to was 90, he could well have been
an uncle or great uncle of "my" Jacob, but I KNOW nothing... I believe
that the Richard Sellars who lived in Sumter/Shley County was an uncle
to my great grandfather Richard and that great grandpa was named after
him, because I know that Jacob Benjamin and Georgia Ann were in
Ellaville, same as him, at approximately the time that great grandpa was
born... probably just before that, but with the confusion of birth date
years for great grandpa I cannot sort that chronology out precisely.
Since my knowledge of that comes from a Baptist church record, I rate it
a miracle that I even have it. Another thing that makes tracing Jacob
Benjamin and Georgia Ann difficult is that Jacob Benjamin never owned
any land and was frequently on the move. AND I started out not knowing
his name nor the location of a single place he had ever lived. Much of
what I now know could only really come together after the advent of the
internet and fairly ready access to the census data... though most of my
best "finds" have always been in the Confederate military records, and
that's all hard copy indexing and microfilm copies. It's a sad thing,
but in many cases I have found more genealogically useful information in
the records of a Confederate soldier who died than anywhere else except
maybe some who survived to receive pensions. But in both cases the
chance of finding such information is 50/50 at best, and in many cases
even the information that they died in Confederate service at all in and
of itself, is just plain "missing".

Anyway, back closer to the question at hand... I see possible
significance in the fact that "my" Jacob went to the same place this
other Jacob lived just as he was dying... but that's purely by
inference. Who knows if there's anything to it?

RW

fredandfran wrote:

> writes:
>---but he was the oldest son of Jacob Benjamin Sellers and Georgia
>Ann Joiner Sellers and was in their household in the 1850 census in
>Dooly County----
>
>Richard, a Jacob SELLERS died in Dooly Co., GA, and was recorded on the
>mortality schedule of 1850, as having been ninety (maybe more) years of age.
>How is this Jacob SELLERS, born NC, related to your GA lineage?
>
>I would like to correspond with anyone who is researching, or has
>information on, the family of this particular Jacob SELLERS.
>
>fran
>
>

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