Death of William H. Sellers

Application of Widows of Deceased Soldiers or Sailors of the Armies of the Confederate States or the State of Alabama.

THE STATE OF ALABAMA}
Coffee County. }
To the Honorable Board of Examiners of said County:
Your petitioner Rebecca L. Sellers , respectively represents to your Honorable board, that she is a citizen of Coffee County, in the State of Alabama, and was such on the 1^st day of January 1899; That she is the widow of William H. Sellers, who served as a Private in company K of the 37 Regiment Alabama Volunteers; That her husband was killed or died, on the 27^th day of December 1899; That he did not desert the service of the state of Alabama, nor of the Confederate States, that she has not since remarried, that she has no children upon whom she can depend for support, that all of her property do not exceed four hundred dollars in value, and that her annual income from all sources do not exceed four hundred dollars, She therefore respectively ask your honorable board to place her name upon the pension rolls of the state as a member of the fourth class, that she may participate in the division of the fund provided for the relief of needy Confederate soldiers and sailors, and their widows, by an act of the general Assembly of Alabama, approved February 10, 1899.
                                                    Respectfully, s/ Rebecca X L. Sellers
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                                                                                              Applicant

Rebecca L. Sellers received a pension of $18.60 monthly.

As stated above William H. Sellers died on 27 December 1899. In July 1915, Rebecca married W. C. Smith. 

Rebecca Chambers Sellers Smith died on 21 November 1927.

William H. Sellers is my 2nd Cousin 3 times removed.



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