Who Were the Parents of McCarroll Sellers?

For years my friend and fellow researcher Marie Gulledge Wiggins searched for the parents of McCarroll Sellers. Many researchers joined her in this quest but they all came up empty handed.
McCarroll Sellers first appears in the 1850 Census with his wife Louisa and 6 children in the 1850 Census for Chesterfield County.



The McCarroll Sellers family is enumerated in every census from 1850-1880 for Chesterfield County.
On 17 July 2016, I believe I made a major finding concerning this family while browsing through the Chesterfield County Probate record.

I believe Probate Record #454, Flora Sellers is the mother of two sons names within the probate record:

• McCarroll Sellars/Sellers
• Joseph B. Sellars/Sellers

The Estate folder consists of 21 images. Image 1450 of the estate names two distributees, sons of Flora Sellers – McCarroll Sellers and J. B. Sellers.



Transcription:
By amt paid E. S. Davis afc 10.21
‘’ “ “ J. B. Sellers in full
of my distributive share of Estate 5.00
“ “ paid McCarroll Sellers his
distributive share of Estate 5.00
“ “ paid State & county taxes 6.49

This is the first clue and the only known document where these two men are named as distributees in an Estate. Clearly this probate folder indicates that Flora Sellers could be the mother of both McCarroll and J. B. Sellers.

I believe half of this puzzle who been found and documented. Now if we could determine the male Sellers that Flora McNair married then the puzzle would be complete.

Calvin B. McNair requested Letters of Administration from the Probate Courts to administer the Estate of Flora Sellers. He did this because  Flora  Sellers nee McNair was his sister.  

If you have any information about Flora McNair Sellers or McCarroll Sellers please contact me.








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[1] 1850 U. S. Census, Chesterfield, Chesterfield County, South Carolina, population schedule, Chesterfield, Chesterfield, South Carolina, Page: 149B (stamped); Line 3, Dwelling 791, Family 791, Household of McCarrol SELLARS; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : viewed 1 May 2015); citing National Archives Microfilm M432 Roll 851.
[2] "South Carolina Probate Records, Files and Loose Papers, 1732-1964," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1-19420-62491-99?cc=1911928 : 21 May 2014), Chesterfield > Probate Court, Estate records > 1865-1927 > Cases 0384-0469 > image 1439 of 1665; county courthouses, South Carolina, and South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Columbia.