Friday, May 15, 2020

John Hampton Sellers Dies at Home

John Hampton Sellers was born 19 November 1866, a son of Phillip Albert Sellers and Annie Jane Douglass.

John married Mary Jane Parker, daughter of Peter Parker, in 1890 per the 1900 Census for Chesterfield County.

John Hampton and Mary Jane had a total of seven children. The five named below in the obituary; a son who died as an infant and a daughter that passed away at age 10.

Mr. Jackson H. Sellers died at his home near Ruby Saturday afternoon of neuralgia of the heart.  He had been in his usual health until a few days before when he began to complain. He was up, however, until a few minutes before his death. The funeral was conducted by Revs. Tyler, Wood and Purvis and the body was buried with Masonic honors at the Sellers burying ground Sunday afternoon about 4 o'clock. He was a Mason, a Woodman, and a splendid fellow. He leaves a widow, four sons, and one daughter, Mrs. W. T. Rivers. The sons are Lonnie, John, Leonard and Hardy Sellers. 


John Hampton Sellers is my 2nd Cousin 3 times removed.





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[1] "John Hampton Sellers died at home," Obituary, [The Pageland Journal (Pageland, South Carolina), 28 February 1917, Page 3; Digital On-Line Archives, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/ : viewed, transcribed. 1 May 2020).

Note: The obituary refers to John Hampton Sellers as Jackson H. Sellers. I have found no other document, other than this obituary, that refers to him as Jackson. 

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