Surname Saturday~Gilly Eddins

Eddins Name Meaning
English: variant of Eddings. This is a common name in TX, NC, and FL.
Eddings Name Meaning
English: patronymic from the Old English personal name Eadda.
Eadda's origin is English. Eadda's meaning is successful, wealthy.

Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press and http://www.babynamespedia.com/meaning/Eadda

Gilly Eddins was born between 1781 & 1790 based on the 1830 & 1840 census for Chesterfield County, South Carolina.¹ She appeared in the census in 1830 and 1840.² She died before 1850 in Chesterfield County, South Carolina.

Gilly Eddins and William "Old Frozen Bill" Sellers were married about 1818. This date is based on the birth of their oldest known child. William Sellers, son of Philip Sellers and Mary, was born in 1790 in Chesterfield, Chesterfield, South Carolina. He appeared in the 1830  & 1840 census for Chesterfield County, South Carolina.^3 4 Bill died in Jul 1844 at the age of 54 in Chesterfield, Chesterfield, South Carolina.^{5 6}

William Sellers and Gilly Eddins had the following children:

i. Noah Sellers, born 2 Sep 1819, Chesterfield, Chesterfield, South Carolina; married Timney Ellen Parsons, aft May 1840; died abt 1894, Madison County, Tennessee.
ii. William Eddins Sellers, born abt 1820, Chesterfield, Chesterfield, South Carolina; married Elizabeth Parsons, abt 1840; died abt 1854, Madison County, Tennessee.
iii. Sarah Sellers, born abt 1838, Chesterfield, Chesterfield, South Carolina; married John H. Eddins; died 1880, Cason Old Field, Anson, North Carolina.

Gilly and William had other children that have not been identified; both sons and daughters.

Gilly Eddins Sellers is my 3rd Great Grandmother.
 
 
 
 
 
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1. 1830 U. S. Census, Chesterfield County, South Carolina, population schedule, Chesterfield County, South Carolina, Page: 262; Line 15, Household of William Sellers; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : viewed 10 January 2012); citing National Archives Microfilm M19_172.
2. 1840 U S Census, Chesterfield County, South Carolina, population schedule, Chesterfield County, South Carolina, Page 368, Line 26, Household of William Sellers; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : viewed 10 January 2012); citing National Archives Microfilm M740_Roll 510.
3. 1830 U. S. Census, Chesterfield County, South Carolina, Population Schedule, Chesterfield County, South Carolina, Page: 262; Line 15, , Household of William Sellers.
4. 1840 U S Census, Chesterfield County, South Carolina, Population Schedule, Chesterfield County, South Carolina, Page 368, Line 26,  Household of William Sellers.
5. 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 130.
6. Ibid.