Marie, I searched the Champaign County, IL Web site and found some references to Marcus de Lafayette Sellers in the Urbana newspapers. Apparently the M.D.L.Sellers who died in Bexar Co., TX is the same man as the Champaign Co., IL M.D.L.Sellers. (sorry for the all caps, I just cut and pasted the information.) _http://64.107.115.148/ccha/indexes/anas.htm_ (http://64.107.115.148/ccha/indexes/anas.htm) Title: OBITUARY FOR MARCUS DELAFAYETTE SELLERS OF SAN ANTONIO, TEX. (FORMERLY OF URBANA) (DATE OF BIRTH: FEBRUARY 8, 1828) Comments: PRINTED IN THE MARCH 3, 1925, NEWS-GAZETTE (PAGE 13) UNDER THE HEADLINE "COUNTY PIONEER DIES IN TEXAS." Name(s): SELLERS, MARCUS DELAFAYETTE Article date & title: 1925/03-03/NG COUNTY PIONEER DIES IN TEXAS Title: OBITUARY FOR MARCUS DELAFAYETTE SELLERS OF SAN ANTONIO, TEX. (FORMERLY OF URBANA) Comments: PRINTED IN THE MARCH 5, 1925, NEWS-GAZETTE (PAGE 13) UNDER THE HEADLINE "SELLERS BODY HERE FOR BURIAL." Name(s): SELLERS, MARCUS DELAFAYETTE Article date & title: 1925/03-05/NG SELLERS BODY HERE FOR BURIAL Title: "SELLERS WILL IS FILED WITH COURT": ARTICLE PRINTED IN THE MARCH 8, 1925, NEWS-GAZETTE (PAGE 10) Comments: WILL REFERRED TO IS THAT OF MARCUS SELLERS. Name(s): ANDERSON, LAFAYETTE ANDERSON, MARY ANDERSON, MATTIE BELLE ANDERSON, MELISSA BERKSHIRE, REBECCA ANN BETTS, DELIAH CLEMENT, MELISSA CLEMENT, RILEY EDINGTON, LUCINDA JAMES, LUCINDA JAMES, REBECCA ANN JONES, AGNES M. MCBEE, IONA SELLERS, MARCUS DELAFAYETTE WYATT, MARY Article date & title: 1925/03-08/NG SELLERS WILL IS FILED WITH COURT Title: OBITUARY FOR REBECCA JAMES SELLERS (DATE OF BIRTH: DECEMBER 18, 1827) Comments: PRINTED IN THE FEBRUARY 23, 1917, CHAMPAIGN DAILY NEWS (PAGE 7) Name(s): JAMES, REBECCA SELLERS, REBECCA Jim Sellers
JIM, Very Good. His Texas Death Certificate may show info. We need copies of all these wills, etc from Champaign Co, IL, so we can read, decipher. WE just have extractions like you sent. MAYBE someone from this family has and will Send?? GEORGIA has proof (don't see in our TX deaths) on the other Marcus Sellers from TN HELPS sort these families out AND maybe anyone that went with him to Bexar Co., TX. OR a chart on Each or Any of his kids that went to TX? Thanks, marie, iowa -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Friday, October 13, 2006 5:50 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [SELLERS] Marcus D. L. Sellers Marie, I searched the Champaign County, IL Web site and found some references to Marcus de Lafayette Sellers in the Urbana newspapers. Apparently the M.D.L.Sellers who died in Bexar Co., TX is the same man as the Champaign Co., IL M.D.L.Sellers. (sorry for the all caps, I just cut and pasted the information.) _http://64.107.115.148/ccha/indexes/anas.htm_ (http://64.107.115.148/ccha/indexes/anas.htm) Title: OBITUARY FOR MARCUS DELAFAYETTE SELLERS OF SAN ANTONIO, TEX. (FORMERLY OF URBANA) (DATE OF BIRTH: FEBRUARY 8, 1828) Comments: PRINTED IN THE MARCH 3, 1925, NEWS-GAZETTE (PAGE 13) UNDER THE HEADLINE "COUNTY PIONEER DIES IN TEXAS." Name(s): SELLERS, MARCUS DELAFAYETTE Article date & title: 1925/03-03/NG COUNTY PIONEER DIES IN TEXAS Title: OBITUARY FOR MARCUS DELAFAYETTE SELLERS OF SAN ANTONIO, TEX. (FORMERLY OF URBANA) Comments: PRINTED IN THE MARCH 5, 1925, NEWS-GAZETTE (PAGE 13) UNDER THE HEADLINE "SELLERS BODY HERE FOR BURIAL." Name(s): SELLERS, MARCUS DELAFAYETTE Article date & title: 1925/03-05/NG SELLERS BODY HERE FOR BURIAL Title: "SELLERS WILL IS FILED WITH COURT": ARTICLE PRINTED IN THE MARCH 8, 1925, NEWS-GAZETTE (PAGE 10) Comments: WILL REFERRED TO IS THAT OF MARCUS SELLERS. Name(s): ANDERSON, LAFAYETTE ANDERSON, MARY ANDERSON, MATTIE BELLE ANDERSON, MELISSA BERKSHIRE, REBECCA ANN BETTS, DELIAH CLEMENT, MELISSA CLEMENT, RILEY EDINGTON, LUCINDA JAMES, LUCINDA JAMES, REBECCA ANN JONES, AGNES M. MCBEE, IONA SELLERS, MARCUS DELAFAYETTE WYATT, MARY Article date & title: 1925/03-08/NG SELLERS WILL IS FILED WITH COURT Title: OBITUARY FOR REBECCA JAMES SELLERS (DATE OF BIRTH: DECEMBER 18, 1827) Comments: PRINTED IN THE FEBRUARY 23, 1917, CHAMPAIGN DAILY NEWS (PAGE 7) Name(s): JAMES, REBECCA SELLERS, REBECCA Jim Sellers ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message