Hello! My name is Shari (Sharon) Sellers Stowell, in Toledo OH. I just recently started tracing my family tree, with emphasis on my dad's side, since my dad and grandparents told us almost nothing about that side of the family beyond my grandparents. With the help of Ancestry.com, I was able to get them back to Germany in the 1600's before the trail dissolved. When they came to Ohio from the rural area around Philadelphia in the early 1800's, they settled in Allen and Auglaize counties (and richly populated the countryside!). I narrowed a large number of them down to four cemeteries along the county line (including both sets of paternal grandparents; my paternal grandmother was a Butler with Sellers married into her line). Yesterday I traveled down there to "meet" them all. This was a wonderful trip, and I was able to find nearly all of them, including the ones who first came to Ohio. I took pictures of everyone, so please email me if you'd like photo files. However, I was not able to locate Barton-Stevenson cemetery. According to information entered 10 years ago on a site belonging to one of my dad's 3rd cousins, my great-great grandparents, Samuel and Eliza (Barton) Sellers, are at that cemetery. This is an old, abandoned small family plot, described as "well-hidden", and they're not kiddin'! There are no paths leading back to the wooded area where the cemetery is hidden, and it's not visible from any road in the immediate area. Is anyone here in the Allen-Auglaize county-line area, and would you happen to know how to find this?? Please feel free to email me offlist or onlist. If you have questions about my line, I'll try to help. sstowell@buckeye-express.com Thanks! - Shari Stowell (Billy H. Sellers, Elza E. Sellers, Albert Sellers, Samuel Sellers, John Leonard Sellers[b. 1782], Phillip Henry Sellers, John Leonard Sellers[b. 1727], Phillip Heinrich Soller, Hans Johann Adam Soller, Hans Paul Soller)

Hi, I was born and raised in Lima, Ohio and by default, am the Sellers family dude for Allen Cnty. My data is on the Sellers site. My line is from Leonard, then William, then my GF James Sellers. I will be Lima next month for HS re union, my 55th. My best man was John Barton, a 2d cousin. I have been the the cemetary you are asking about and it does exist. I hope this helps. Roger Sellers, Las Cruces, NM, BGSU 1958 -------------------------------------------------- From: "Shari York Stowell" <sstowell@buckeye-express.com> Sent: 06/17/2009 10:35 AM To: <SELLERS@rootsweb.com> Subject: [SELLERS] Barton-Stevenson cemetery? > Hello! My name is Shari (Sharon) Sellers Stowell, in Toledo OH. I just > recently started tracing my family tree, with emphasis on my dad's side, > since my dad and grandparents told us almost nothing about that side of > the family beyond my grandparents. With the help of Ancestry.com, I was > able to get them back to Germany in the 1600's before the trail dissolved. > When they came to Ohio from the rural area around Philadelphia in the > early 1800's, they settled in Allen and Auglaize counties (and richly > populated the countryside!). I narrowed a large number of them down to > four cemeteries along the county line (including both sets of paternal > grandparents; my paternal grandmother was a Butler with Sellers married > into her line). Yesterday I traveled down there to "meet" them all. This > was a wonderful trip, and I was able to find nearly all of them, including > the ones who first came to Ohio. I took pictures of everyone, so please > email me if you'd like photo files. However! > , I was not able to locate Barton-Stevenson cemetery. According to > information entered 10 years ago on a site belonging to one of my dad's > 3rd cousins, my great-great grandparents, Samuel and Eliza (Barton) > Sellers, are at that cemetery. This is an old, abandoned small family > plot, described as "well-hidden", and they're not kiddin'! There are no > paths leading back to the wooded area where the cemetery is hidden, and > it's not visible from any road in the immediate area. Is anyone here in > the Allen-Auglaize county-line area, and would you happen to know how to > find this?? > > Please feel free to email me offlist or onlist. If you have questions > about my line, I'll try to help. sstowell@buckeye-express.com > > Thanks! > - Shari Stowell (Billy H. Sellers, Elza E. Sellers, Albert Sellers, Samuel > Sellers, John Leonard Sellers[b. 1782], Phillip Henry Sellers, John > Leonard Sellers[b. 1727], Phillip Heinrich Soller, Hans Johann Adam > Soller, Hans Paul Soller) > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > SELLERS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >