E-mail correspondence from a fellow researcher (Gary P) of Columbia, South Carolina led to some research that identified another migration of families from South Carolina.
Page 534 of the 1860 Choctaw County, Alabama Census shows Purvis, Sellers, Hurst and Massey families that migrated from Chesterfield County, SC to Choctaw County, Alabama.
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On this page (534) we find Massey, Hurst, Sellers and Purvis families. On Line 27, Dwelling 542, Family 516 is D. J. PERVEY as shown; the family is really Daniel J. Purvis and his wife Zilpha Ann Sellers Purvis.
Zilpha Ann Sellers Purvis. was born in Chesterfield county about 1844 to Mathew Sellers and his wife Sallie [LNU].
If you know Sallie’s surname please contact me.
The family is found in Chesterfield County in 1850 and in Choctaw County Alabama in 1860.
You can see Zilpha Ann, age 6 in the 1850 Census in Mathew household and again in 1860, at age 16, as the wife of Daniel J. Purvis.
Also if you study the 1860 census for the household of Mathew Sellers you will find their youngest child, S. Sellers, female. age 6/12. This particular Census was taken on 29 August 1860. This suggests that S. Sellers age 6/12 was born about February 1860.
This in turn suggest that Mathew Sellers packed up his family between February and August of 1860 and moved them to Choctaw County, Alabama.
Mathew’s wife Sally died sometime before Aug 1876. In August 1876, Mathew married Elizabeth M. Christian daughter of Alex Christian. Mathew Sellers died 1 March 1896 in Choctaw County, Alabama.
The parents of Mathew Sellers, born about 1818 have never been determined. Marie Gulledge Wiggins and James “Jim” Pigg worked extensively on the Sellers line. The Sellers line is also my direct line on the maternal side of my family and as of tonight Mathew’s parents are still unknown. If you have information on this family, please contact me.
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[1] 1850 U. S. Census, Chesterfield, Chesterfield County, South Carolina, population schedule, Chesterfield, Chesterfield County, South Carolina, Page: 143A(stamped); Line 10, Dwelling 683, Family 683, Household of Mathew SELLERS; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : Viewed 12 September 2015); citing National Archives Microfilm M432 Roll 851.
[2] 1860 U. S. Census, Choctaw County, Alabama, population schedule, Northern Division, Choctaw County, Alabama, Page: 534(stamped); Line 29, Dwelling 541, Family 515, Household of M. [Mathew] SELLERS; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : Viewed 12 September 2015); citing National Archives Microfilm M653_5.
[3] 1880 U. S. Census, Choctaw County, Alabama, population schedule, Beat 4, Choctaw County, Alabama, enumeration district (ED) 017, Page: 204D (stamped); Line 15, Dwelling NL, Family 218, Household of Mathew SELLERS; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : Viewed 12 Sept 2015); citing NARA publication T9, Roll: 007.
[4] Ancestry, "Civil War Service Records" database, Military Service Records (http://www.fold3.com/ : accessed 12 September 2015), entry for MATHEW SELLERS, Private; Company "C", 3rd Reg't Alabama Reserves; Confederate.
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