Tombstone Tuesday~Aurilla Katherine ’Kit’ Sellers Wallace

Aurilla Katherine ’Kit’ Sellers Wallace

b. 1 August 1897

d. 25 May 1967

bu. Zoar United Methodist Church Cemetery

Tombstone Photo Courtesy of Julious Burr

Aurilla Katherine ’Kit’ Sellers, daughter of Charles Riley Sellers and Sarah Ella Brock was born 1 August 1897. She was the 3rd born of 13 children. 

About 1919 she married James Franklyn Wallace, age 19, son of Evander B. Wallace and Julia Catherine Wright. 
 

Their 1st born, a son, named James Pershing was a 3 month old baby when the census were enumerated in 1920 having been born in November 1919.
 
1920 CENSUS: Cheraw, Chesterfield, South Carolina; Roll: T625_1690;  Enumeration District: 35; Image: 718; Page: 25A (stamped); Line 28, Dwelling illegible, Family 5; Franke WALLACE, male, age 19, born in SC; Catherine WALLACE, wife, age 20, born in SC and Pershing Wallace, Son, age 3/12, born in SC.
 
Katherine ‘Kit’ Wallace and James Franklyn had 6 children; 4 sons and 2 daughters. Katherine passed away in 1967 and was buried at Zoar UMC cemetery. Her husband James, died 10 years later in November 1977.


Aurilla Katherine ’Kit’ Sellers Wallace is my 2nd Cousin once removed.










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[1] Find A Grave, Inc., Find A Grave, database and digital images, (http://www.findagrave.com : accessed 6 June 2015); Memorial page for Aurilla Katherine "Kit" Sellers Wallace; (1 August 1897–25 May 1967); Find a Grave memorial # 32166879, Citing Zoar United Methodist Church Cemetery; Brocks Mill, Chesterfield County, South Carolina, USA.