I note that in the Willie Pearl Ellis' Page there is some undated misinformation *from me* about John Thomas Ross and my great grandfather Richard M. Sellars' daughter Georgia Ann Sellars' family. Since that time (whenever it was) I have this information: Descendants of Georgia Ann Sellars 1 Georgia Ann Sellars b: 14 November 1878 d: 10 July 1964 . +John Thomas Ross b: 10 March 1878 d: 29 August 1948 ........ 2 Iris Olene Ross aka: Ms. Olene Ross d: 13 January 2003 in Cairo, Grady County, Georgia Burial: 16 January 2003 in Tallahassee Memory Gardens, Leon County, Florida ............ +? Palmer ................... 3 James Palmer ................... 3 Joy Palmer ....................... +? Harvey ........ 2 Alvin Ross ........ 2 Cecil Ross ................... 3 Ann Ross ........ 2 Clyde Ross .............................................................................. Iris O. Palmer - Obituary Iris O. Palmer Iris O. Palmer, 91, a retired nurse, died Monday, Jan. 13, 2003, in Cairo, Ga. The service will be at 1 p.m. EST Thursday at Abbey Funeral Home in Tallahassee (562-1518), with burial at Tallahassee Memory Gardens. Family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. EST today at the funeral home. Survivors include a son, James "Jim" Palmer; a daughter, Joy Harvey; three grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren. Published in the Tallahassee Democrat on 1/15/2003. ............................................................................... I actually met Olene once at the Howard Johnson's Restaurant in Tallahassee. I was eating there with my dad and she was eating at the next table. She saw dad and introduced herself... and said that she went to school with him. Apparently both had forgotten that they were related. With my dad that was pretty common. If I had left it up to him my family tree would be blank, as he often claimed that he had no relatives... <G> Well, actually, that was no relatives named White... but dad was very, very wrong about that too. Also, I don't think I have commented on this before but the listings of Missouri L. Sellars in the page about the Thomas County census for 1900 are all messed up, and apparently the problem was with the census, not with the web page... but still it needs "straightening out". Richard M. Sellars married Missouri Lester West in 1898 and apparently, from that census's indications, she was still keeping a separate household in 1900. She had previously been married to Levi Harper, who I understand to have been deceased, and so far as I can see in the census record her children by Levi Harper were still living with her in the separate household and great grandpa's children by Mary Ann Haven were living at his house. That is to say... there is some question on the web page about Elizabeth being listed as a Sellars... but all indications that I have seen show her clearly as Levi Harper's child. Levi was also Levi Harper's child... and I'm not sure who the "Allie" in Missouri's household in the census was... but... Richard M. Sellars had no children by Missouri West Harper Sellars that I know of. I have seen some allegations on a genealogy bulletin board that they had a child before they married... but if that is so I never heard it personally from anyone. They were still keeping separate households two years after they married... and it got worse, much worse. In 1912 Richard Sellars announced to the congregation of his church (the Long Branch Baptist Church) that they had separated... but in 1918 Missouri came storming back into the church and when great grandpa wouldn't agree with the church to take her back... they kicked him out of the church membership. I have seen those records. I have not seen records of the following... but I also understand that she came to his house once after they were legally divorced, demanding money... and that he used a horse bridle (?) as a whip to chase her off... an action for which he was arrested and may have been jailed So... that is my explanation of why Missouri L. Sellers appeared twice in the 1900 census. She and her husband were maintaining two separate households... There is a rather a nice photo of Richard M. and Missouri on my web page at: http://pone.com/ts/rw003.htm Richard White Tallahassee, Florida