Hi, I am curious where is found a middle name for Prudence. In any documentation I have seen no middle name is listed for her. Also, about the slaves....keep hearing they had slaves, but I have seen no documentation that says they did. Can anyone answer these 2 questions? Thank you, Pattie Sellers Kremnetz ----- Original Message ----- From: <ApalacheeB@aol.com> To: <SELLERS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, October 20, 2003 11:11 PM Subject: Re: [SELLERS] Re: Sellers/Coryell Co. Tx > In a message dated 10/21/2003 12:59:33 AM Central Daylight Time, > pat11138@socal.rr.com writes: > > > "My grandmother, Prudence Elizabeth REEVES, was born and reared in North > > Carolina. She graduated from medical college (one of the first American > > women to do so). Later she married Lewis Allen SELLARS and moved to > > Montgomery, Pike County, Alabama, where they bought a large plantation > > which became known as Sellars' Plantation" and at this time is a show > > place listed on some tourist maps. They went to Alabama as they thought > > it would be a good place for grandmother to practice medicine, but > > people didn't want a woman doctor and she was unable to get any patients. " > > > > > > (Notes I have on Prudence Elizabeth Robbins who married Almond Lewis Sellers: > > Prudence was a mid-wife and was killed coming home from a birth in a carriage > accident. She was 69 years old when she died. > She and her husband moved to Texas with her husband's sister Rebecca. ) > > She could have been a woman doctor but may have been called a mid-wife by > people. > Notes I have on Almond Lewis Sellers: > They moved to Alabama, Florida, and Texas. They owned seven slaves. In the > 1860 Census (in Texas) Almond was 53 years old and a farmer, Prudence was 52 > years old, Joel was 19 years old doing farm labor, Elizabeth was 14 years old, > John was 11 years old, Angeline was 7 years old, Christopher was 30 years old > and working as a carpenter and Solomon was 21 years old and also a carpenter. > Penny and Mary and E. E. were living in their own homes near their parents. > > Ann R. >