Tombstone Tuesday~Phillip Sellers

Phillip Sellers

b. 1774

d. abt 1835

bu. Old Sellers Family Cemetery

Cenotaph at Hopewell Baptist Church ¹

Phillip Sellers was born about 1774, the second child of Hardy Sellers and Mary Cook. Information on Phillip and his family is very sparse. We know he married a young lady with the given name Mary and had a very large family. Census records for 1810 shows 7 sons and 5 daughter under the age of 25; the names of the 5 daughters are unknown.

His father Hardy Sellers died 12 January 1835 and this record from the Court of Equity provided some data on the families. 

SOURCE: {#25} Evans, John Exer. vs. H. H. Sellers & others - Bill for partition & c 1851
See Will of Hardy Sellers. Hardy Sellers died testate on or about 17th January 1835, leaving widow, Levinia Sellers and children: Hardy Huntley Sellers and Zylpha Ann Sellers and the children & grandchildren from a former marriage, John Sellers; Abraham Sellers; Philip Sellers; Richard Sellers; Mary who intermarried with Thomas Gaddy; Elijah Gulledge, James Gulledge, & Pheobe Gulledge the children of Pheobe, a deceased daughter of Hardy Sellers who predeceased her father; and, Iverson L. Briley, the son of Jane, a deceased daughter of Hardy Sellers who predeceased her father. ²

Phillip Sellers is my 4th Great Grandfather.





 
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[1] Find A Grave, Inc., Find A Grave, database and digital images, (http://www.findagrave.com : accessed 10 January 2011); Memorial page for Phillip Sellers; (1774–1835); Find a Grave memorial # 57564492, Citing Sellers Family Cemetery; Chesterfield, Chesterfield County, South Carolina, USA.
[2] James C. Pigg, Cheraw/Chesterfield District Wills, 1750-1865: Abstracts from the Court of Common Pleas 1823-1869 (Tega Cay, South Carolina: Self-published, 1995), page 118.