Treasure Chest Thursday~Has McCarroll & Joseph B. Sellers Mother Been identified?

In 2002 James C. Pigg published a book on the descendants of Hardy Sellers my 4th Great Grandfather. The book entitled “DESCENDANTS OF HARDY SELLERS: BORN MARCH 2, 1757 IN JOHNSTON COUNTY, NC, DIED JANUARY 12, 1835 IN CHESTERFIELD COUNTY, SC”. The book contains 424 pages with lineage details on many of the descendants of Hardy Sellers down to modern day. 

While doing research for this book it was realized that at least two known Sellers families did not seem to fit within the Hardy Sellers blood line.Those two families were:

• Joseph B. Sellers and his wife Edarkis Jane Mungo 

and

• McCarroll Sellers and his wife  Eliza Louisa Jordan

Up until this month no one has come forward with any additional information on the parentage of these two individuals – McCarroll and Joseph B. Sellers.

In my preparation to write an article for my July 17 posting I chose to write on the estate file of Flora Sellers. Prior to opening this folder on FamilySearch I had no idea how Flora Sellers would fit within the Sellers Lineage.  I wrote about her estate folder here:

http://carolinafamilyroots.blogspot.com/2016/07/chesterfield-county-sc-estatesestate_17.html

The folder #454 turned out to be a possible turning point in the research of McCarroll and Joseph B. Sellers. One document within this folder shows that Flora McNair Sellers had two surviving distributees – McCarroll and J. B. Sellers. 










If Flora McNair is the mother of McCarroll and Joseph B., then who were their father?  Further research is needed to identify the male Sellers that was Flora’s husband. Finally, we have someone to research that is most likely the mother of these two men.













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[1] Chesterfield County, South Carolina, Probate Files & Loose papers, Flora Sellers; digital images, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, FamilySearch (http://www.familysearch.org: viewed 16 July 2016); Estate Folder #454-Flora Sellers.