Tombstone Tuesday~ Pvt. William R. Sellers, CSA

 

Pvt. William Riley Sellers

4th SC Cavalry Company A

Birth: 

abt 1842 (age 8 in 1850 Census)

Death: ^{1 2}

Mar. 23, 1865

His parents:

Father: William Eddins Sellers 

Mother Elizabeth Parsons

BURIED AT: SECTION CSA  [GRAVE]SITE 2438

WOODLAWN NATIONAL CEMETERY

1825 DAVIS STREET ELMIRA, NY 14901

His tombstone can be viewed by clicking on this Link-Find A Grave Memorial# 66214868


Between July 1864 and August 1865, 2973 Confederate’s Soldier were buried at WOODLAWN NATIONAL CEMETERY.
 
William Riley Sellers is my Great Grand Uncle. His parents are my 2nd Great Grandparents and his sister, Louise Ellen is my Great Grandmother. My 2nd great grandparents saw 3 of their boys enter into the war. The other two, Andrew Washington and James Arnold returned home after the War.

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[1] Randolph W. Kirkland Jr., Broken Fortunes: South Carolina Soldiers, Sailors and Citizens Who Died in the Service of Their Country and State in the War for Southern Independence, 1861-1865 (Columbia, South Carolina: Univ of South Carolina, 1997), page 312
[2] Find A Grave, Inc., Find A Grave, digital image, (http://findagrave.com : Accessed on 2012); Headstone for Pvt W R Sellers; (1842–23 March 1865); Records of the Woodlawn National Cemetery, Plot: CSA 2438; Elmira, Chemung County, New York, USA.
[3] http://www.civilwaralbum.com/misc13/woodlawn2.htm
[4] http://www.chemunghistory.com/confederate5.html