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.