another exciting link for me, having a SELL female ancestor... now I just have to link her here...Thank thee, Wayne. Diane Kerchner On 03/28/11, A. Wayne Webb<[email protected]> wrote:Lynn & Jane, Yes, this is William Burger Sell and he was born in Huntingdon county, though later it would have been Blair county, Pennsylvania. I suspect though that this is a case of it all depending which side of the line the family lived on. In the Bedford and Huntingdon county region there are several Jacob Sells and I would have to pull some records from my dist bin to ascertain exactly whether it was Bedford or Huntingdon county. All four of the Missouri brethren of the surname of Sell were from the same set of Sell grandparents, Abraham Sell and his wife, Barbara 'Balmer' (Palmer) Sell. The Brethren elders from one branch are sons of Jacob Balmer Sell, and his wife, Elizabeth 'Burger' Sell; this would be Eld. Abraham Burger Sell, Eld. Joseph Burger Sell (1832-1903), Eld. William Burger Sell (1840-1928). Their cousin, Daniel Detweiler Sell (1843-1927), son of Daniel Sell and Rachel 'Detweiler' Sell, was also a minister and elder in Missouri. There are quite a few Sell descendants in the ministry. Each of these above men were elected in Pennsylvania, most likely in the Duncansville congregation, while all were ordained to the eldership in Missouri. In the Sell family history, penned by Eld. James Arnold Sell, he mentions this branch of the family only in regard to their father, seemingly not recognizing the importance of the Missouri family members to the Morrison's Cove region brethren and social history. When it comes to the Middle District of Pennsylvania history he mentions only two of these men, his first cousins, and then, seemingly only because it was commonly known brethren history. One event took place in 1864 and the other is a passing reference to a son of William Burger Sell. The Balmer surname is more commonly known as Palmer and this particular branch of the family comes from the Pennsylvania / Maryland border region. And the four Sell ministers are in Missouri before most people think they were. There is far more about the family within the confines of the various German Baptist Brethren newspapers, both ecumenical and family history, than is generally known. Wayne Webb Message: 3 Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2011 16:25:35 -0600 From: Jane Davis <[1][email protected]> Subject: Re: [BRE] Long Branch congregation, Missouri To: Brethren Genealogy Network <[2][email protected]> Message-ID: <COL119-W2797240[3][email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Lynn--This W. B. Sell is William Burger Sell, born in Huntingdon County, PA in 1840, died 1928 in Fredonia, Kansas. He was the son of Jacob B. Sell and Elizabeth Burger of Adams County, PA. He was married to first: Catherine Knoll, second: Susanna Spohn. He had eight children. I am not sure whether this would tie him to the Bedford County PA Sells, or not. Jane. ------------------------ Search the Archives at [4]http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/BRETHREN ------------------------ Support Our Sponsoring Agency The Fellowship Of Brethren Genealogists (FOBG) For further information contact Ron McAdams [5]mailto:[email protected] ------------------------ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [6][email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message References 1. mailto:[email protected] 2. mailto:[email protected] 3. mailto:[email protected] 4. http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/BRETHREN 5. mailto:[email protected] 6. mailto:[email protected]