Tombstone Tuesday~Adela Lavina Sellers Burch

Adela Lavina Sellers Burch

b. 2 Feb. 1850

d. 11 May 1928

bu. Gaddy-Sellers Cemetery

Blessed are the Dead who die in the Lord.

Photo courtesy of Julious Burr

Photo courtesy of Julious Burr

Adela was the first born child of Hardy Huntley Sellers and his wife, Mary Eliza Sinclair. She had a sister and three brothers of which one died rather young. ¹

Adela married Tristum Thomas Burch, son of Joseph Thomas Burch and Susannah Jackson on 19 September 1866 in Chesterfield County, South Carolina. ²

Adela and Tristum had a family of seven children; 3 sons and 4 daughters. ^{3 4} 

Adela Burch died 11 May 1828 in Mt. Croghan, Chesterfield County, South Carolina. her lifetime husband and companion had died almost a year earlier on 20 July 1927. They were buried in the Gaddy –Sellers cemetery, Chesterfield County, South Carolina. ^{5 6 7 8}

Adela Lavina Sellers Burch is my 1st Cousin 5 times removed.








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1. 1850 U S Census, Chesterfield County, South Carolina, population schedule, Chesterfield, Chesterfield County, South Carolina, Page: 169A (stamped); Line 8, Dwelling 1085, Family 1085, Household of Hardy H. SELLERS; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : viewed 10 June 2012); citing National Archives Microfilm M432 Roll 851.
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 136.
3. 1870 U. S. Census, Court House, Chesterfield County, South Carolina, population schedule, Mount Croghan, Chesterfield County, South Carolina, Page: 338B (stamped); Line 5, Dwelling 255, Family 255, Household of T. T. Burch; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : viewed` 10 June 2010); citing National Archive Microfilm M593, Roll 1491.
4. 1880 U S Census, Chesterfield, Chesterfield County, South Carolina, population schedule, Mount Croghan, Chesterfield County, South Carolina, enumeration district (ED) 007, Page: 366D (stamped); Line 46, Dwelling 267, Family 267, Household of Tristum BURCH; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : viewed 10 June 2012); citing National Archives Microfilm T9-1225.
5. Find A Grave, Inc., Find A Grave, database and digital images, (http://www.findagrave.com : accessed 3 June 2010); Memorial page for Adela Lavinia Sellers Burch; (2 February 1850–11 May 1928); Find a Grave memorial # 40379682, Citing Gaddy-Sellers Cemetery; Ruby, Chesterfield County, South Carolina, USA.
6. James C. Pigg, Chesterfield County Cemetery Survey; Chesterfield County Genealogical Services, 1995, page 1102. Tombstone of Adela Lavinia Sellers Burch; 2 February 1850–11 May 1928, Gaddy-Sellers Cemetery, Chesterfield County, South Carolina.
7. Find A Grave, Inc., Find A Grave, database, "Record, Adela Lavinia Sellers Burch (2 February 1850–11 May 1928), Memorial # 40379682.
8. Mrs. T. T. Burch obituary, The Chesterfield Advertiser, Chesterfield, Chesterfield County, South Carolina, 24 May 1928, page 1, col. 3.