Here's a long one... Indiana - One Hundred And Fifty Years of American Development by Charles Roll, A.M. (Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago, 1931), Vol. III, p. 173: Dr. John S. Sellers was reared to manhood in Madison County, his father having come from Ohio and made settlement in that county prior to 1830, and thus having become one of the early pioneers of the county, where he obtained a homestead of unimproved land and reclaimed the same into one of the productive farms of that section of the state. Dr. John S. Sellers was graduated in the school that later became the present medical department of the University of Indiana, and in his profession he practiced first in Madison County and later at Montpelier, Blackford County, in which latter county he and his wife passed the closing years of their lives. Dr. John S. Sellers went forth in defense of the Union when the nation became involved in the Civil war, he having been a member of a regiment of Indiana volunteers and having lived up to the full tension of conflict at the front. In later years he perpetuated his association with old comrades by maintaining affiliation with the Grand Army of the Republic. He was a faithful and efficient physician and surgeon and was a man who ever held inviolable place in the popular confidence and esteem. It may be noted that Dr. John S. Sellers, father of the subject of this review, was a son of Isaac and Emma (Troxell) Sellers, and the date of his birth was November 18, 1845, and he had kinship with the family of which the late Gov. Oliver P. Morton of Indiana was a member. The original American ancestor of the Sellers family was of Scotch-Irish lineage. His name was either James or Cassius M., and he settled in Pennsylvania prior to the War of the Revolution, the next in line of descent to Dr. Charles A. Sellers having been the son of this original immigrant and that son having moved from Pennsylvania to Kentucky, where the birth of Isaac Sellers occurred in the year 1812. Isaac and Emma (Troxell) Sellers, who gained pioneer honors in both Ohio and Indiana, became the parents of eleven children, and of the number Dr. John S. Sellers was the last survivor. Emma (Troxell) Sellers was born in Maryland, of Welsh lineage, her ancestors having been colonial settlers near Baltimore, Maryland, where they established residence about 1740. Mrs. Sellers' grandmother was reared in the home of Governor Burbank, one of the earlier governors of Indiana, and her marriage to Isaac Sellers was solemnized at Centerville, Wayne County, Indiana. Dr. John S. Sellers was not yet eighteen years of age when, at Anderson, Indiana, in October, 1863, he enlisted for service in defense of the Union in the Civil war, he having been a member of Company B, One Hundred Thirteenth Indiana Volunteer Infantry, which was assigned to the Second Brigade, First Division, Twenty-Third Army Corps, at Nashville, Tennessee. With his command his was in active service in the Atlanta campaign, and he participated also in the pursuit of the forces of General Hood after that Confederate officer had met defeat at Nashville, Tennessee. Doctor Sellers continued in service until he was disabled by a severe scalp wound. After the war he studied medicine, under the preceptorship of Dr. N. L. Wickersham, at Anderson, Indiana, and later he completed his studies in the medical college at Indianapolis, where he was graduated as a member of the class of 1887. Shinn, B.C. (1900). Biographical Memoirs of Blackford County, Indiana. Chicago: Bowen. P. 584-9 w/ photo: Dr. John S. Sellers, M.D., b. 18 Nov 1845 Madison Co, IN, s/o Isaac Sellers (b. 1812 KY) and Emma Troxell (d/o George & Elizabeth Biggs Troxell, b. MD, German descent). Isaac & Emma were pioneers of Madison County, the family of Scots-Irish stock, settled Pennsylvania, then Kentucky. Dr. John sole survivor of 11 children. He was in practice with Dr. Charles B. Mulvey at Montpelier. Enlisted 1863 at Anderson in the Union Army. Dr. John S. Sellers (age 29) m. Emma J. Menefee, d/o Alexander & Lucretia (Weekley) Menefee, of Virginia. They had 5 children, including Charles A. Sellers (medical student). Shinn, B.C. (1914). Blackford and Grant Counties : a chronicle of their past.... Chicago: Lewis. Dr. Charles A. Sellers b. 14 Jan 1875 Alexandria, Madison Co, IN m1) Margaret Greiner who. d. 1908 in childbirth m2) Catherine Chapman, b. 30 June 1879 Fowlerville, MI Blackford and Grant Counties, Indiana A Chronicle of their People Past and Present with Family Lineage and Personal Memoirs Compiled Under the Editorial Supervision of Benjamin G. Shinn, Volume I Illustrated, The Lewis Publishing Company Chicago and New York 1914 JOHN S. SELLERS, M. D. The high professional attainments of Dr. Sellers give him impregnable vantage-ground as one of the representative physicians and surgeons of Blackford county and he maintains his residence and professional headquarters at Hartford City, the judicial center of the county. The Doctor is a scion of a family that was founded in America in the colonial days, and his lineage touches Scotch, Irish and Welsh stock, his paternal grandfather having been born in Pennsylvania, of Scotch-Irish ancestry; in the old Keystone state was solemnized the marriage of this sterling citizen, and his wife, whose family name was Brandon. She was born in Pennsylvania, of Welsh extraction. Soon after their marriage the grandparents of Dr. Sellers removed to Kentucky, in which state their children were born, and in the early "20s the family came to Indiana and numbered themselves among the pioneer settlers of Wayne county, where the grandfather bought a large tract of land in the vicinity of the present village of Walnut Level. There he reclaimed from the wilderness a productive farm of 200 acres, and he was long known and honored as one of the strong and influential men of that section of the state, where both he and his wife continued to reside until their death. The grandfather of the Doctor died in the prime of his vigorous and prolific life, having passed to his reward more than eighty years ago and his widow having survived him by a number of years. They reared a number of children, and of the number Isaac Sellers figures as the father of him to whom this review is dedicated. Isaac Sellers was born in Kentucky in the year 1812, and he was a young man at the time when he came with his parents to Indiana. He assisted in the development of the home farm, in Wayne county and had his full quota of experience in connection with the life of a pioneer. In Wayne county he wedded Miss Emma Trocksell, who was born in Maryland, in the year 1816, her paternal grandparents having immigrated to America from Germany in the latter part of the seventeenth century and having established their permanent home in Maryland. In that commonwealth was born the father of Mrs. Emma (Trocksell) Sellers. When the daughter Emma was a child the family came to Indiana and settled at Richmond, the county seat of Wayne county. After his marriage Isaac Sellers removed to Madison county, where he filed claim to forty acres of government land and effected the purchase of an additional tract of 160 acres. He brought his land under effective cultivation and became one of the substantial agriculturists and representative citizens of Madison county, where he died at the age of sixty-five years, his wife living to the age of seventy-nine years. Though both were reared in the other faiths they became zealous member of the Methodist Episcopal church, and they lived righteous lives, so that they merited and received the high regard of all who knew them. They became the parents of five sons and three daughters, and of the number Dr. Sellers of this sketch is now the only one living. Dr. John S. Sellers was born in Richland township, Madison county, Indiana, on the 18th of November, 1843, and he acquired his early educational training in the common schools of the locality and period. In the study of medicine the Doctor gained his initial knowledge under the direction of an able private preceptor, one of the leading physicians of Madison county, and finally he entered the Indiana Medical College, in the city of Indianapolis, an institution in which he was graduated as a member of the class of 1878, with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. For two years after his graduation Dr. Sellers was engaged in practice in his native county, and thereafter he was a resident and practitioner of medicine at Sulphur Springs, Henry county, until 1881, when he came to Blackford county and established his residence at Montpelier, where he built up a large and representative practice and where he remained fully thirty years, removal to Hartford City, the judicial center of the county, having been made in 1911. Dr. Sellers gave years of earnest and effective service in the alleviation of human suffering and distress and he is now retired largely from active practice, though the many representative families to whom he has ministered in past years still place insistent demands upon him, for his able service and unfailing kindliness and consideration have given him inviolable place in the affection and confidence of the people of Blackford county, He is now one of the oldest of the prominent physicians of the county, and has always been known for his civic loyalty and public spirit. Distinctive honor is due to Dr. Sellers for the intrinsic patriotism which he manifested during his service as a soldier of the Union in the Civil war. In October, 1862, from Madison county, he enlisted as a private in the One Hundred and Thirtieth Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and with this gallant command he continued in active service until the close of the war, his honorable discharge having been granted to him on Christmas day of the year 1865 and the last six months of his service having been in connection with the provost marshal's department, after the cessation of specific conflict following the surrender of General Johnston and Lee. The Doctor received a slight scalp wound in the battle of Kinston, North Carolina. Though he participated in many engagements he was never captured, but he had many narrow escapes. He has perpetuated the more gracious associations of his military career by retaining membership in the Grand Army of the Republic. The Doctor is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity and in times past he has been an active and appreciative member of the American Medical Association, the Indiana State Medical Society, and minor professional organizations. At Anderson, Madison county, in the year 1872, Dr. Sellers wedded Miss Emma J. Menefee, who was born in Virginia, and who is a representative of the fine old Southern family of this name. She is a daughter of Alexander Menefee, who had been a substantial planter and slaveholder in Virginia, but who voluntarily freed his salves prior to the Civil war.. He came to Indiana and established his home in Madison county, where he became a successful farmer, and during the Civil war he served the Union, in the commissary department. Both he and his wife were residents of Madison county until the time of their death. Mrs. Sellers has long been a most devoted member of the Methodist Episcopal church and has been specially active in benevolent and charitable work. In conclusion is given brief record concerning the children of Dr. and Mrs. Sellers. Charles A., was graduated, in 1904, in the Fort Wayne Academy of Medicine, at Fort Wayne, this state, the institution having later been consolidated with the Indiana College of Medicine. He succeeded to his father's large practice at Montpelier, and later came to Hartford City, where he now holds prestige as one of the leading young physicians of his native county. The first wife of Dr. Charles A. Sellers died shortly after the birth of her only child, which likewise died at birth. She was born at Madison, this state, and her maiden name was Greiner. As his second wife Dr. Charles A. Sellers married Miss Catherine Chapman, who was formerly a successful and popular teacher in the Montpelier high school, and the two children of this union are Gertrude and Betty Virginia. Addie, the only daughter of Dr. John S. Sellers, is the wife of Frederick Chandler, of Hartford City, and they have two children, Helen and Lucille.