This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/JWGBAEB/1299.1.1.1.1.2.1.1.1.2.1 Message Board Post: Hi Paula Since Hilliard was in Tuscaloosa in the 1830s along with Gurley Sellers of Nash, Jack Sellers and I think there is a strong chance they are brothers. I have seen birth dates for Hilliard between 1797 and 1804. I notice there is a Lucinda Sellers b in Tuscaloosa 1833. Lucinda, Louvinia, Tallulah are all Sellers family girl names. http://www.rootsweb.com/~scsparta/marthamorris.htm In an old Bible record there is said to have been 10 brothers total in that generation In "The Sellers Letters" in June, 1984 by Charles A. Sellers, grandson of Jordan Sellers, he lists some of the siblings as Mary, Martha, Samuel, Gurley, Bennett and Jordan. 4-5 names of brothers are still unidentified. ( 8 of them were supposedly still in the Carolinas while Gurly was in Alabama by 1836.) Later Gurley has a grandson with a middle name Hilliard. I forget if it was James Hilliard or William Hilliard Sellers. Two Sellers brothers were living next to each other and one went by the name Hillard or Hilliard that census. The Glover family was connected to the Sellers family and they also used the name Hilliard. 1. William S. Sellers married Mary Sherrod in Nash Co NC 2. Samuel Sellers married Sarah Rogers in Person Co. NC (was formed from Edgecomb Co. Granville Co is between it and Franklin Co. -maybe they married at her grandmother?s house. 3. Bennett ?Long? Sellers married Winny Rogers 7 March 1821 Franklin Co NC 4. Manuel ?Short? Sellers (Emanuel) married Fanny Rogers 1 June, 1825 in Franklin NC. Witness John Rogers and JJ Cothran 5. Gurley Sellers married Delilah Wyatt 31 January 1826 in Nash Co.-witneses Jourdan Sellers and Larry Brantley 6. Jourdan Sellars married Elizabeth Mason 5 Nov. 1828 in Nash, NC moved to Wake Co NC then Guilford NC (Quaker conclave where a son was listed in the Guilford Meeting)and finally Greenup, Cumberland Co, Illinois and then Indiana. 7. possibly Hilliard George Sellers 8. 9. 10. 11. Lucinda Sellers (Emanuel`s sister) married Fanny?s brother John Rogers. 12. Tallula Sellers (Emanuel`s sister) married Larry Brantley-son of Sherrod Brantley and stayed in NC. (Larry Brantley Residence: 1830 - Ferrills, Nash, North Carolina) 13. Mary Sellers 14. Martha Sellers By 1840 Bennett and Manuel had moved to Spartanburg SC. In 1850 they appear under their nicknames Short b 1800 and Long Sellers b 1787. After 1856 Emanuel and son Henderson Sellers left SC and went thru Tenn. to Guntersville AL by 1857 with the help of their uncle Gurley Sellers who came up to Tenn from Tuscaloosa to meet themhelping bring the wagons down southward after a winter pause (I assume) and then to Shades Valley and Elyton in Jefferson County and Shelby Co, presumably after they acquired land. They had one of the first 6 houses in the Shades Valley. Here is a good page for your family- http://awt.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:2916349&id=I553236907 You have Hilliard George Sellers Marriage: 1824 in [city], [county], South Carolina Hans Jacob Schneider-father in law Born: 13 Feb 1742 Eglisau, Oberriedt, Switzerland Died: 1814 Juniper, Lexington, SC, BIOGRAPHY: 1850 Tuscaloosa County Censu Hilliard SELLARS 52? SC page 148 RACHEL 53 SC ISAIAH 19 AL GEORGE A 13 AL MARY A 12 AL MAHALA 8F AL KILLIS 5M AL Children- Rachel Sellers Lethis Sellers William Hilliard Sellers 25 Jul 1825 in [city], [county], Al Julie Ann Sellers 1827 in [city], [county], Al Isaiah Sellers abt 1830 in Tuscalbosa, Tuscaloosa, Al Lucinda Sellers 1833 in Tuscalbosa, Tuscaloosa, Al George A Sellers 1837 in Tuscalbosa, Tuscaloosa, Al Mary A. Frances Sellers 1838 in Tuscalbosa, Tuscaloosa, Al Mahala Sellers 1840 in Tuscalbosa, Tuscaloosa, Al Aquilles (Ackillis/Killace mispellings) Sellers 9 Aug 1846 in Tuscalbosa, Tuscaloosa, Al Mahala SELLERS b: Abt 1842 in Tuscaloosa County,Alabama Gurley Sellers Birth: 17 JAN 1802 in Nash Co., N.C.has Marriage 1 Delila Wyatt b: 24 APR 1806 Married: 31 JAN 1826 Nash Co NC Event: Witness in Larry Brantley Children Hartney/Hartley Sellers b: 1831 in Nash County, N.C. Simon Sellers b: 21 MAY 1835 in Nash County, N.C. Polly H. (Mary) Sellers b: 1836 in Tuscaloosa County Al William (Bill) Jackson Sellers b: 11 NOV 1838 in Al. John S. Martin Sellers b: 18 OCT 1840 in Al. Robert Jemison K. Sellers b: 1843 in Al. Lavinia (Levinia) Sellers b: 11 JUL 1848 in Al. Isaac Gurley Sellers , Jr. b: 24 MAY 1849 in Tuscaloosa, Ala