The item that appeared on the Sumter County list recently, about "Jac__" and "Georgian" Sellers didn't exactly "do it"... but they set me off again searching for the answers to the mysteries in my dad's oral history about Richard M. Sellars' father's death in the Civil War and "Alford Sellars" finding Richard M. and reuniting him with the surviving members of his family many years after the war... Every time I tried that before, for almost 30 years now, I just ran in circles for awhile and gave up. This time I succeeded far above my wildest expectations. Though I must admit that some of documentation is less than perfect in detail & completeness, complemented with the oral history it both makes a coherent whole and fills in blanks in places where I didn't even know there were blanks. I found so many facts so fast that it's going to take me awhile to put them together coherently and tie up some inevitable loose ends. So... this e-mail is just a teaser... and for me to GLOAT. (Well... just a *little* bit.) <G> I'll put the finished product up on some web pages as soon as I can, and will send the URLs for those pages to the list. I have found so incredibly many Sellers family relationships that I did not previously know of, that it seems almost inevitable that my information will now tie together in various directions with that of other folks on this list. I will put together a few facts in here, though: 1. Jacob Benjamin Sellers (sic) enrolled in Company E of the 51st Georgia Infantry Regiment on 4 March 1862, as did his oldest son (who I never even heard of till a couple of days ago) George W. Sellars (sic). J.B. most likely died immediately after that. There is no specific record of his death, but there is no further record of him in the 51st Georgia and there is a sworn statement by Susan O. Sellers (wife of Elijah Sellers, I believe), made in 1864, which said that George W. Sellars and his mother and father were dead... and that she was somebody's sister in law. I cannot decipher all of the words of the document well enough to be sure whose sister-in-law she was. It reads like it might mean that she was George W.'s, but I think that she would have had to have been Jacob B.'s sister-in-law. 2. THERE NEVER WAS AN "ALFORD SELLARS"... which is, of course, a pretty good reason why I couldn't find one! <G> Georgia Ann Joiner married Jacob Benjamin Sellers in Pulaski County, GA, on 11 September 1838. Family oral history (not from my dad but from various other relatives) says that Georgia Ann Joiner was born at Camilla while it was still in Indian Lands. In the 1860 census George W. Sellers is shown as living in Camilla, Mitchell Co, in the household of ***ALFRED JOINER***! There is the long sought "Alford". He wasn't a brother of R.M. Sellers. He was a brother (I presume) of R.M. Sellers' mother, Georgia Ann Joiner!!! That's enough for now. Stay tuned folks. I'll be baaaack. <G> Richard White Tallahassee, FL

Rich later this day I plan to put up the children of Richard M "Dick" Sellers, my greatgrandfather, whos funeral I attended when I was 3 1/2 years old. Harry ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard White" <rw@pone.com> To: <SELLERS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, January 23, 2004 11:20 PM Subject: [SELLERS] Mysteries SOLVED - Jacob Benjamin Sellers & "Alford Sellers" > > The item that appeared on the Sumter County list recently, about "Jac__" > and "Georgian" Sellers didn't exactly "do it"... but they set me off > again searching for the answers to the mysteries in my dad's oral > history about Richard M. Sellars' father's death in the Civil War and > "Alford Sellars" finding Richard M. and reuniting him with the surviving > members of his family many years after the war... > > Every time I tried that before, for almost 30 years now, I just ran in > circles for awhile and gave up. > > This time I succeeded far above my wildest expectations. Though I must > admit that some of documentation is less than perfect in detail & > completeness, complemented with the oral history it both makes a > coherent whole and fills in blanks in places where I didn't even know > there were blanks. I found so many facts so fast that it's going to > take me awhile to put them together coherently and tie up some > inevitable loose ends. > > So... this e-mail is just a teaser... and for me to GLOAT. (Well... just > a *little* bit.) <G> > > I'll put the finished product up on some web pages as soon as I can, and > will send the URLs for those pages to the list. I have found so > incredibly many Sellers family relationships that I did not previously > know of, that it seems almost inevitable that my information will now > tie together in various directions with that of other folks on this list. > > I will put together a few facts in here, though: > > 1. Jacob Benjamin Sellers (sic) enrolled in Company E of the 51st > Georgia Infantry Regiment on 4 March 1862, as did his oldest son (who I > never even heard of till a couple of days ago) George W. Sellars (sic). > J.B. most likely died immediately after that. There is no specific > record of his death, but there is no further record of him in the 51st > Georgia and there is a sworn statement by Susan O. Sellers (wife of > Elijah Sellers, I believe), made in 1864, which said that George W. > Sellars and his mother and father were dead... and that she was > somebody's sister in law. I cannot decipher all of the words of the > document well enough to be sure whose sister-in-law she was. It reads > like it might mean that she was George W.'s, but I think that she would > have had to have been Jacob B.'s sister-in-law. > > 2. THERE NEVER WAS AN "ALFORD SELLARS"... which is, of course, a pretty > good reason why I couldn't find one! <G> Georgia Ann Joiner married > Jacob Benjamin Sellers in Pulaski County, GA, on 11 September 1838. > Family oral history (not from my dad but from various other relatives) > says that Georgia Ann Joiner was born at Camilla while it was still in > Indian Lands. In the 1860 census George W. Sellers is shown as living > in Camilla, Mitchell Co, in the household of ***ALFRED JOINER***! There > is the long sought "Alford". He wasn't a brother of R.M. Sellers. He > was a brother (I presume) of R.M. Sellers' mother, Georgia Ann Joiner!!! > > That's enough for now. > > Stay tuned folks. > > I'll be baaaack. <G> > > Richard White > Tallahassee, FL > > >