My Dear Wife, Tomorrow at 12 o'clock I Have to Die

A Condemned Soldier's Letter to His Family.

The following letter, which explains itself is published by request:    

My Dear Wife:
I have to state to you the sad news that tomorrow at 12 o'clock that I have to die. I have to be shot to death for starting home to see my wife and dear children and was arrested and brought back and court-martialed and am to be shot at 12 o'clock. Me and D. M. Furr have to die but thanks be to God I am not afraid to die. I think when I leave this world I shall be where Mary and Martha are. Dear wife, don't grieve for me. Try and not. I drempt last night of seeing you but I shall never. You shall see your husband no more. 1 want you to raise my children in the way that they should go. My dear son Julius, this is my last order to you. I want you to be a good boy and try to serve God and be a good man. Farewell, Julius I must leave this world. And my son Ephriam try and be a good man and serve God. My dear daughter Rebecca Heseltine, I bid farewell to you. Be a good girl and go to preaching. Farewell my dear son Joel. You have no daddy now. Be a smart boy and mind your mother. My dear wife Nancy, I have to bid farewell to you. I, want you to Keep what things you have and pay my debts. And I want Julius and Ephraim to have my shop-tools and want them to take good care of them and remember me. I have a little looking-glass that I want to send Rebecca. I want her to remember me. I have a blanket I will get and send home. Will send many things with -----Lefler and try and get him to send them home if he will, and I have 25 or 30 dollars and will spend $5 of that in the morning before I suffer. Dear wife, that is four months service. I can't write like if I was not in trouble. I don't mind death like I do to leave my family for I suffer so much here that I don't fear. I don't want you to grieve for me for I feel like I am going home to die no more. I hope I shall be with shining angels and be out of trouble. I have a little book I want Joel to have and remember me. It has some pretty lines. I want you to send the children to school and son Julius, 1 can't hear from you any more. I sent a letter, but got no answer. I pity poor Julius for he has had no chance. I have got no chance to write for I must close my letter.

                                                                March the 4th, 1865.

A few lines to Daniel Lefler and Jane Lefler. I bid farewell to you and my dear mother: I bid farewell to you and father and brothers and sisters. I must leave this world. Farewell Julius, my dear son; farewell Joel, my dear son. I want you all to meet me in heaven.

                                                                  Joseph Huneycutt.

To Nancy Huneycutt, farewell, farewell. P. S. I want you to have my funeral preached at Pleasant Grove" I want Columbus Foreman to preach it and to sing "I am Goingg Home to Die No More." This is the 4th of March at 9 o'clock. I must soon be in eternity. I don't desire this but I am not afraid to die. I want you to get all the children's funerals preached that are dead. Nancy, I want to see you one more time if I could but we can't meet any more. I want you and all the children to meet me in heaven.                      Joseph Huneycutt.

Joseph Huneycutt is a 1st Cousin 4X Removed.

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[1] "Condemned Soldier's Letter to His Family", The Messenger and Intelligencer, Wadesboro, Anson County, North Carolina, 8 April 1915, Page 7, Column 4. Hampton B. Allen Library

[2] The Stanly News and Press, July 7, 1961.  

[3] The Monroe Enquirer; Monroe, North Carolina, 24 Dec 1942, Thu., Page 1, Column 2.

One Sow and Six Pigs

I have seen a lots of uses throughout my years of research for land deeds.  I have seen them used to record Marriage Contracts, Loans and Liens against property, the Selling of Human Property, Power of Attorney and various other uses but, this Land Deed is the first I have found where one party paid for the purchase of and Land with a sow and six pigs.

Transcription:

Charles D. Boan
To            Deed
A. J. Crowley

State of South Carolina
Chesterfield County
             Know all men by these presents That I Chas. D. Boan of the State and County aforesaid for and in consideration of the sum of One Sow and Six Pigs to me in hand paid by Andrew J. Crowley of the County and State aforesaid, have granted bargained sold (pg 729) and released and by these presents do grant bargain sell and release unto the said A. J. Crowley all that piece parcel and lot of land situated lying and being in the County and State aforesaid and on the waters of the Rising Stick containing ten acres more or less and bounded as follows to wit North and West by lands of the said A. J. Crowley South by lands of the said C. D. Boan here with all and singular  the rights hereditaments and appurtenances to the premises belonging or in anywise incident or appertaining To Have and To Hold all and Singular the Rights and Appurtenance before mentioned unto the said A. J. Crowley his heirs and assigns forever and I do hereby bind myself each and every one of my heirs executors and administrators to warrant and forever defend all and singular the Premises before mentioned unto the said A. J. Crowley his heirs and assigns against my heirs and assigns against my heirs and against all other persons lawfully claiming or to claim the same or any part thereof. Witness my Hand and seal this -----------
The above mentioned piece of land lying in a  V  and the Ve Pointing North West and the other line runs from one point to the other of the Ve
Witness my hand and seal this one thousand eight hundred and eighty 

Signed Sealed and delivered                       Charles D. Boan {Seal}  

in the presence of                                        Flora Boan {Seal}
A. E. Boan
J. A. McLane

South Carolina
Chesterfield County
             Personally appeared John A. McLean and made oath that he with A. E. Boan sign seal and as their act and deed deliver the within Deed. Sworn to before me this 21st day of Dec AD 1904.
A. E. Boan {LS}                                               J. A. McLean
Trial Justice

Recorded April 21st 1904

There's another oddity with this particular land deed and that is it’s date.  Other than the recording date (21 April 1904) the only other date on the Deed is 1880:

Witness my hand and seal this one thousand eight hundred and eighty          

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[1] Land Deed - Charles D. Boan to A. J. Crowley; 1880; Deed Book #20; Page(s) 728-729; Register of Deeds; Chesterfield, Chesterfield, South Carolina; 21 December 2020.

Merry Christmas 2020 and Happy New Year 2021

 Wishing Everyone a Merry Christmas

and

a Happy, Prosperous New Year

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[1] Christmas Graphic courtesy of Pixabay.com

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It’s Family Time~The Joshua J. Osborne Family

Joshua J. Osborne and Emaline Malinda Huneycutt were married about 1843. No marriage document has yet been located for this couple. The 1843 marriage date is based on the birth of their first known child, a daughter Leah Malinda, borne about 1844. Leah is reported as age 6 in the 1850 census and age 16 in the 1860 census for Stanly County, North Carolina. After that her birth year is reported as 1842, 1846 and 1848 with the date October 1846 recorded on her death certificate. 

Emaline Malinda Huneycutt was borne about 1819, a daughter of Eli Branson Huneycutt and Leah Stough. The parents of Joshua J. Osborne have not been identified as of yet.  

The couple can be found in Stanly County in the 1850, 1860 and 1870 censuses. There’s a lot of misinformation on the web so beware. With the lack of verification many on-line trees shows Leah Malinda as deceased (to much copying) in 1862; yet, Joshua named her in his Will dated October 1871. They also show Joshua deceased in 1906 (again to much copying) when his estate was probated in 1887.

I was unable to find Joshua and Malinda in the 1880 census. I know that Joshua was alive and should have been enumerated. I have no idea if Malinda was living in 1880 but I do know she was on 3 October 1871.  Joshua was a Framer and he and Leah raised a large family of eleven children.

The Children's of Joshua J. Osborne and Emaline Malinda Huneycutt were:

        i.    Leah Malinda Osborne, born abt 1844, Stanly County, North Carolina; married Thomas W Pinion, 28 Oct 1875; died 19 Dec 1919, Vance, Union, North Carolina.
        ii.    Adam M. Osborne was born about 1845. He died on 17 Aug 1917 at the age of 72.
       iii.    Eva Maria Osborne was born about 1848. 
       iv.    Eli J. Monroe Osborne was born about 1850. 
        v.    Hester C. Osborne, born May 1851; married Mathias M. Love, 1 Apr 1884, Stanly County, North Carolina; died 4 May 1928, Cabarrus County, North Carolina.
        vi.    Rosa Corma Osborne was born about 1853.
       vii.    Lucinda "Lucindy" Osborne, born Aug 1855; married Fredrick E. Deese, 8 Nov 1877, Stanly County, North Carolina; died 26 Aug 1918, Stanly County, North Carolina.
      viii.    James Calvin Osborne was born in Oct 1854. He died on 27 Jan 1928 at the age of 73 in Landis, Rowan, North Carolina.
        ix.    Martha Elizabeth Osborne was born about 1861.
         x.    John P. Osborne, born 13 Jun 1862; married Margaret Jane Brooks; died 19 Jul 1932, Concord, Cabarrus, North Carolina.
         xi.    Beedy L. Osborne was born about 1866.

No death date is known for Emeline Malinda Huneycutt Osborne. Joshua J. Osbourne left a Will that he wrote in October 1871 when Leah was in fact known to be living. He died in late 1887 or early 1888. When his will was probated both witnesses to his Will were deceased. His will was short and left everything he owned to his wife and two sons, Adam and Eli M. Osborne, whom he named as Executors. I see no indication in the probate folder that suggests whether Leah Malinda was alive or deceased. However, I do have in my possession a document she executed on 1 September 1898 proving her death to be after this specific date. 

Will of Joshua Osborne

Under the uncertainty of life.

State of N. C. Stanly County}

This Oct. 3rd in year of our Lord A.D. 1871.

I make this my last will and testament. I will and bequeath unto my wife Emiline all my Land and all my Stock horses cattle Sheep &c I will my wife Emiline have the privilege to Sell or convey the above Lands and Stock or to have the Sole right to manage it as she may see propper <sic> and further if any of the above mentioned propry remains at my wife Emiline’s Death it shall be appropriated to the use of raising the children I also Request that [my] two sons Adam and Eli M. Osborne See to carry out the above will and I leave her my wife an executor to my last will and Testament.

Here I set my hand and affixing my seal.

                                                                                s/Joshua Osborne {Seal}

This October 3^rd 1871

Attest. strike Joseph E. Hartsell}

Wilson Hartsell}

 

Emaline Malinda Huneycutt wife of Joshua J. Osborne is my 2nd Cousin 3X Removed.

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1. 1850 Census, Stanly County, North Carolina, population schedule, Furrs, Stanly, North Carolina, Page: 41B(Stamped), Line 37, Dwelling 584, Family 587, Houasehold of Joshua OSBORNE; online database, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : viewed 3 May 2020); citing National Archives Microfilm Publication M432, Roll 645.
2. 1860 U. S. Census, Stanly County, North Carolina, population schedule, Stanly, North Carolina, Page: 10 (Stamped); Line 15, Dwelling 126, Family 126, Household of Joshua OSBORNE; online database, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : viewed 3 May 2020); citing National Archives Microfilm Publication M653, Roll 914.
3. Ancestry, "Civil War Service Records" database, Military Service Records (https://www.fold3.com/ : accessed 3 May 2020), entry for Joshua Osborne, Pvt.; Sixth Senior Reserves; Confederate.
4. 1870 U S Census, Stanly County, North Carolina, population schedule, Furr, Stanly, North Carolina, Page: 68B(Stamped); Line 19, Dwelling 147, Family 148, Household of Josh OSBORNE; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : viewed 3 May 2020); citing National Archive  Microfilm M593, Roll 1160.
5. Joshua Osborne (1871), WILL BOOK: Last Will & Testament; 211 & 212; Probate Office, Albemarle, Stanly County, North Carolina.
6. Stanly County, North Carolina, Estate Files, 1665-1998, Joshua Osborne; digital images, Ancestry.com, Ancestry.com (http://www.Ancestry.com: viewed 15 December 2020); 1887  Estate of Joshua Osborne.
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Wordless Wednesday~NC_SC State Boundaries

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[1] https://ncgs.state.nc.us/docs/2014-06-19_History_of_NCs_boundaries.pdf

The Divorce of Mark Rivers and Catherine Hancock

Mark Rivers and Irena Catherine Hancock was married February 1840 in Chesterfield County, South Carolina. Shortly thereafter, Mark & Catherine left Chesterfield and travelled to Mississippi to be with his sister Emilia “Milly” Rivers and husband Moses Holifield.

Mark and Catherine had no children but something happen to Mark’s sister Elizabeth Rivers and her husband John Dryman leaving 3 children as orphans. Mark and Catherine cared for their younger son Jasper Newton Dryman.

                                    Decree

The State of Mississippi}     Chancery Court
Jones County}            April Tern 1859

Mark Rivers}
vs        }    Bill for Divorce
Catherine Rivers}
         This cause having been submitted for final hearing as Bill and proof and being fully understood by the Court and it appearing that the allegations of adultery in Said bill contained are fully sustained by the testimony. It is therefore ordered adjudged and decreed by the Chancelor that the bonds of matrimony existing between the said complainant and defendant be and they are hereby dissolved and the said complainant is fully and entirely released from all obligation and liabilities contracted by said marriage. It is further decreed that the complainant pay all cost herein expended. Decree the 19th day of April AD 1859.
                                 W. M. Hancock
                                     Chancelor
Decree Recorded May 6th 1859.
                  D. M. Strong clerk

There is no doubt that a divorce decree was granted and recorded on 8 May 1859 but, research shows that Mark and Catherine continued to live together as husband and wife.

Mark Rivers died sometime in the late 1870’s probably early 1879. We know that on 22 March 1878 he deeded 198 acres of land that he owned to “HIS WIFE” Catherine Rivers.

Mark Rivers}
To}         Deed of Gift
Catherine Rivers} Filed August 14th 1878

Book "N", Page 381, image 57

                                                                     

The State of Alabama )
Choctaw County}  Know all men by these Presents that I Mark Rivers of the county & State aforesaid do this day. Bequeath to my wife Katherine Rivers the following property, to wit; four cows & calves and one work horse (her choice of my horses and the following Lot on parcel of land to wit: Known and described as the W 1/z of NW 1.4 & East l/z of SW 1.4 & SE 1.4 of NW 1.4 in Sec 14T10 R 5 West containing 198 acres more or less. To have and to hold unto her the said Katherine Rivers as long as she lives on during her natural life for her own special use & benefit. I hereby give and

Bequeath said property To my wife Katherine Rivers free from all my Debts as I have other property to settle said debts &c. ln Testimony whereof I hereunto sign and fix My seal this the 22nd day of March 1878.
Witness J. J. Refshur}                     Mark X (his mark) Rivers {Seal}
J. B. Refshur}
I. C. Moody}
 
The State of Alabama}
Choctaw County}.   Personally appeared before me the undersigned Justice of the Peace in & for the said County J. J. Refshur, J. B. Refshur and J. C. Moody who acknowledged that they Signed the foregoing Deed of Gift as subscribing witnesses in the presence of each other and in the presence of the Said Mark Rivers and that he signed the same for the purposes therein stated on the day and year therein stated. Witness my hand and seal this the 31 day of July A.D. 1878.

                                                                                   D. N. Hassan, J.P. {Seal}
Recorded, August 15th, 1878.                       B. H. Hammer, Probate Judge

After his death, Catherine Rivers married George S. Fagan on 8 September 1879. Surely, Mark Rivers was deceased by this date. 

No death notice or tombstone has been found for Mark Rivers. Catherine Hancock Rivers Fagan died before 1903. She was living with Jasper Newton Dryman in Texas in 1900. Jasper was the young Dryman boy that was a child of Mark’s sister Elizabeth Rivers Dryman. No death notice or tombstone has been found for Catherine Fagan.

Mark Rivers is a distant Cousin on my paternal line. 

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        1. 1860 Census, Jones County, Mississippi, population schedule, Ellisville, Jones County, Mississippi, Page 705, Line 11, Dwelling 304, Family 304, Household of Mark RIVERS; online database, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : viewed 2009); citing National Archives Microfilm Publication M653, Roll 584.

2. 1850 Census, Jones County, Mississippi, population schedule, Jones County, Mississippi, Page 129B, Line 13, Dwelling 3194, Family #194, Household of Mark RIVERS; online database, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : viewed 2011); citing National Archives Microfilm Publication M432, Roll 374.

3. 1853, Jones County, Mississippi, mississippi state and territorial census collection, 1792-1866, Jones County, Mississippi, Mark Rivers; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.om : viewed 11 June 2011); Microfilm V229. 3 rolls. Heritage Quest .Roll : v229_2.

4. 1860 Census, Jones County, Mississippi, Population Schedule, Ellisville, Jones County, Mississippi, Page 705, Line 11, Dwelling 304, Family 304, Household of Mark RIVERS.

5. Choctaw County, Alabama, Volume 1  page 31-35 Roll# S2005-0347, "Apprenticeship Records (1823-1924), Index - Adams, Judge - Young, Mattie", Minors for Apprenticeship-Milley, Ransom, Miles Holifield, 5 January 1868; Clerk of Probate, Butler, Choctaw County, Alabama.

6. 1870 U. S. Census, Choctaw County, Alabama, population schedule, Township 10, Choctaw, Alabama, Page: 412B; Line 27, Dwelling 162, Family 163, Household of  Martin RIVERS; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : viewed 11 June 2011); citing NARA publication M593_7.

7. Land Deed - Mark Rivers to Catherine Rivers, Deed of Gift; 14 August 1878; Deed Book #Vol . N.; Page(s) 381-382; Register of Deeds; Butler, Choctaw County, Alabama; 13 September 2015.

8. Jones County, Mississippi, Volume 1  page 31-35 , Mark Rivers vs. Catherine Rivers, Divorce Case, April Term, 1858; Circuit Court Chancery, Ellisville, Jones County, Mississippi.

9. Jones County, Mississippi, Volume 1  page 31-35 , Mark Rivers vs. Catherine Rivers, Divorce Case, April Term, 1858.

10. 1880 U. S. Census, Choctaw County, Alabama, population schedule, Beat 7, Choctaw County, Alabama, enumeration district (ED) 014, Page 154A, Line 14, Dwelling 225, Family 125, Household of George S. FAGAN; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : viewed 11 June 2011); citiing NARA publication T9, Roll: 006.

11. Land Deed - Catherine Fagan to J. N. Dryman; 24 March 1880; Deed Book # Deed Book "N"; page(s)page 533.

12. Land Deed - Catherine Fagan to Jacob P. Hayne; 18 December 1888; Deed Book # "P"; page(s)3.

13. 1900  U. S. Census, Robertson County, Texas, Justice Precint #6, population schedule, Robertson County, Texas, Justice Precint #6, enumeration district (ED) 121, Page 247B/6B, Line 85, Dwelling 116, Family 116, Household of Jasper N. DRYMAN; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : viewed 11 June 2011); citing National Archives Microfilm T623, Roll 166.

Four Tracts of Land and a $1650.00 Note Due 31 Sept. 1850

A land deed is a valuable document and can tell us many things about its participates. However, the motive behind the transaction is hidden in the thoughts of the parties involved. 

In 1850, Roland R. Sellers mortgaged 4 tracts of land for $1650.00. That's a lot of money for that specific time period. Sixteen hundred and fifty dollars in 1850 is worth $55,082.08 cents in today’s currency. 

Roland was a very successful man. He had married the Widow Brooks back on 25 December 1844. They had two children's. The widow Brooks was Sarah Pratt, daughter of Samuel Pratt and Clarinda Ann Teal. Samuel was a prosperous farmer and was nearing his end if time. He wrote his Will on 12 May 1843 referring to his daughter Sarah as Sarah Brooks.

Transcription:

Item: I give and devise to Alexander McAlpin and John Pratt and their heirs in Trust for the sole and separate use and benefit of my daughter Sarah Brooks and her heirs the lands situated North of Jones Creek of the first purchase I made of H. W. Harrington together with one half of the old tract I purchased of William Evans also the slaves Hal, Little Joe and Marlow.

Item: I give and devise to Alexander McAlpin and John Pratt and their heirs in Trust

At the death of her Father in 1845 she received Lot #5 in the Land Division of Samuel Pratt, deceased. (DB 13, Pg 92)

Transcription:

Valued at $1000 Lot No. 5 is allotted to Sarah Sellers beginning at a rock by 2 pines 2nd Corner of Lot No. 4 and runs No 8 Wt 4.38 to a rock pile by 2 pines then Wt 11.60 to a stake So 8 Est 4.38 to a stake then Est 11.60 to the beginning containing 5 acres valued at $20. Lot No 6...

In the 1850 census, Roland & Sarah had one child, a son, by the name of William A. D. Sellers, b. 1849. In the 1860 Census, the boy is missing (presumed to have died) and a sister is listed.

1860 CENSUS: Lilesville, Anson County, North Carolina; Roll: M653_887; Image: 157; Family History Library Film: 803887, Page: 299A(stamped); Line 36, Dwelling 1217, Family 1167; Rowland SELLARS, male, age 37, farmer, born in SC; Sarah SELLARS, female [wife], age 53, born in NC; Sarah SELLARS, female, age 9, born in NC and [Mary] Elizabeth LAMPLEY, female, [granddaughter] age 8, born in NC.

Transcription

Roland R. Sellers to John Pratt

State of North Carolina}
Anson County} Know all men by these presents that I Roland R. Sellers of the County and State aforesaid have this day for and in  consideration of ten dollars to me in hand paid the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged have bargained Sold and by these presents do give sell and convey unto John Pratt Four tracts of land three tracts of which I this day purchased of D.D. Daniel for the for the boundary reference may be had to the deed of conveyance made by the said D.D. Daniel to me this day the other in the one on which I now live adjoining the lands of  Samuel Pratt deceas'd and Lemuel D. Bennett supposed to contain in all about five hundred and twenty five acres I also have bargained and sold unto the said Pratt for the said consideration Two negro slaves that is to say Becky and Zylph two Girls about 18 or 19 years of age the right and title to the above property I warrant and defend against all claims whatsoever the condition of the above obligation is such that whereas the said Roland R. Sellers hath this day executed to John Pratt one note of hand for Sixteen hundred and fifty dollars bearing date the 31st September 1850 payable one day after date now if the said R. R. Sellers shall well and truly pay to the said John Pratt the above named noted of Sixteen hundred and fifty dollars when thereunto required by the said John Pratt then this obligation to be void and of no effect but should the said R. R. Sellers neglect or refuse to pay the said Note when thereunto required of the said Pratt then and in that case the said Pratt shall have power and it shall be lawful for him the Sd. Pratt to expose to public sale at the Court House door in the town of Wadesboro after giving due notice thereof to proceed to sell all or so much of the above named property as will satisfy the above named Note with all incidental cost that may accrue on said debt. In witnefs whereof I have this day set my hand and seal this the 30th day of September 1850. 
Test. J. T. Streeter}                                R. R. Sellers {Seal}
D. D. Daniel} State of North Carolina Anson County January Term 1851 Then the execution of this deed of trust was duly acknowledged in open Court and ordered to be Registered.
                                     N. D. Boggan Clk
January Term 1851 Then the above came into my office and was registered.
                                     W. Hammond, Rgt.

Register of Deeds
Wadesboro, NC
Deed Book 13, page 345

Roland R. Sellers died on 13 December 1864 in Savannah, Georgia while serving his country. He is buried in Laurel Grove Cemetery (North); Savannah, Chatham County, Georgia.

Sarah Pratt Brooks Sellers died 23 November 1871 in Anson County, North Carolina. Her place of burial is unknown. There were two known children from this union. William A. D. Sellers died young before the 1860 census. The fate of his sister, Sarah Elizabeth Sellers, b. abt 1851 is unknown.

Roland R. Sellers is my 1st Cousin 4X Removed.

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1. Ancestry, "Civil War Service Records" database, Military Service Records (https://www.fold3.com/ : accessed 9 June 2014), entry for Roland R. SELLERS, Private; Third Artillery, 40th State Troops; Confederate.
2. North Carolina, Deed Book:12, page 314, ALEXANDER S. W. ALPIN to ROLIN R. SELLERS; Register of Deeds, Wadesboro, Anson County, North Carolina.
3. 1850 Census, Anson County, North Carolina, population schedule, Morven, Anson County, North Carolina, Page: 172B; Line 12, Dwelling 203, Family 203, Household of Rolen SELLERS; online database, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : viewed 19 March 2014); citing National Archives Microfilm Publication M432, Roll 619.
4. North Carolina, Deed Book: 13: 345.
5. Chesterfield County, South Carolina, Deed Book 6: pages 112 & 113, Rolin R. Sellers and Phillip A. Sellers to William R. Sellers Deed; 7 October 1850, Register of Deeds, Chesterfield, Chesterfield County, South Carolina.
6. Land Deed - Roland R. Sellers & Wife to Phillip A. Sellers; 17 February 1851; Deed Book #13; Page(s) 410-411; Register of Deeds; Chesterfield, Chesterfield County, SC; 6 January 2020.
7. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), "Record of Appointment of Postmasters, 1832-Sept. 30, 1971," Microfilm Roll #: 92; Archive Publication #: M841, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : viewed 19 May 2014), Appointments of U. S. Postmasters,Morven, Anson, North Carolina; National Archives and Records Administration (NARA); Rolen R Sellers appointed 6 October 1854.
8. 1860 U. S. Census, Anson County, North Carolina, population schedule, Lilesville, Anson County, North Carolina, Page: 299A(stamped); Line 36, Dwelling 1217, Family 1167, Household of Rowland SELLARS; online database, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : viewed 19 May 2014); citing National Archives Microfilm Publication M653, Roll 887.
9. Ancestry,Military Service Records, database entry for  Rolen R. SELLERS, Private; Company "K", 26th NC Regiment; Confederate.
10. Ancestry,Military Service Records, database entry for  Rolen R. SELLERS, Private; Co. "C", 3rd Artillery (40th State Troops); Confederate.
11. Louis H. Manarin, North Carolina Troops, 1861-1865: A Roster (Raleigh, North Carolina: Office of Archives and History, 2013), Volume 1, page 716, Column 2, ROLAND R. SELLERS.
12. Ancestry,Military Service Records, database entry for  Rolen R. SELLERS, Private; 3rd Artillery, (40th State Troops); Confederate.
13. Manarin, North Carolina Troops, 1861-1865, Volume 1,  page 716, Column 2, ROLAND R. SELLERS.
14. Find A Grave, Inc., Find A Grave, database and digital images, (http://www.findagrave.com : accessed  14 June 2014); Memorial page for Roland R. SELLERS; (1841–13 December 1864); Find a Grave memorial # 37497140, Citing Laurel Grove Cemetery (North); Savannah, Chatham County, Georgia, USA.
15. Find A Grave, Inc., Find A Grave, database, "Record, Roland R. SELLERS (1841–13 December 1864), Memorial # 37497140.
16. Anson County, North Carolina, North Carolina, Estate Files, 1663-1979, Sarah PRATT SELLERS; digital images, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, FamilySearch (http://www.familysearch.org: viewed 14 June 2015); NC Estate File -Sarah Sellers. Marriage date source.
 17. Land Deed - Sarah Sellers To Elizabeth Lampley; 4 March 1868; Deed Book #16; Page(s) Pages 620-621; Register of Deeds; Wadesboro, Anson County, North Carolina; 19 May 2014.
18. 1870 U S Census, Anson County, North Carolina, population schedule, Morven, Anson County, North Carolina, Page: 395B (stamped); Line 15, Dwelling 83, Family 83, Household of  S. [Sarah] SELLARS; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : viewed 19 May 2012); citing National Archive  Microfilm M593, Roll 1122.
19. Anson County, North Carolina, Sarah PRATT SELLERS, NC Estate File -Sarah Sellers, Death date.
20. Anson County, North Carolina, Sarah PRATT SELLERS, NC Estate File -Sarah Sellers, nee Brooks.
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Mathew Sellers, b. 1818, Re-Visited~Where Does He Connect?

Mathew Sellers is an enigma. He was borne about 1818 based on his reported age in the 1850 Chesterfield County Federal Census.

1850 CENSUS: Chesterfield, Chesterfield County, South Carolina; Roll:  M432_851; Image: 290, Page: 143A(stamped); Line 10, Dwelling 683, Family 683; Mathew SELLERS, Male, age 32, born in SC; Sally SELLERS, Female, age 26, born in SC; Zilpha A. SELLERS, Female, age 6, born in SC; Jerusha L. SELLERS, Female, age 3, born in SC; Sarah SELLERS, Female, age 1, born in SC and Zilpha SELLERS, Female, age 74, born in SC.

His Mother or Grandmother might be the Zilpha SELLERS, Female, age 74, born in SC listed among the Mathew Sellers 1850 household. Otherwise, his parents are unknown. The Sellers of Chesterfield County are descendants of Hardy Sellers and Mary Cook. Mathew Sellers is believed to be part of this Sellers lineage but proof of a connection has been very elusive for many Sellers researchers.

Mathew Sellers married Sarah [LNU] about 1843. This date is calculated based on the oldest child (Zilpha Ann, age 6) listed in the 1850 census above. His wife Sarah has not otherwise been identified.

Between 1860 and 1863, Mathew and Sarah left Chesterfield County and moved their family to Choctaw County, Alabama. There, Sarah his wife, also known as Sally, passed away sometime before August 1876; leaving her husband and eight children surviving. No document has been found that proves her exact death date.

To help him with the care of his children, Mathew married Elizabeth M. Christian on 9 August 1876. No  children have been identified from this union. 

On 1 March 1896, Mathew Sellers died in Choctaw County, Alabama. His 2nd wife, Elizabeth, survived and lived another 31 years passing away on 4 March 1927. Elizabeth Christian Sellers is buried in the Providence Cemetery, Butler, Choctaw County, Alabama. No tombstone has been found for Mathew Sellers.

Mathew Sellers was borne about 1818 in Chesterfield County, South Carolina. There very little doubt as to his connection to the extensive lineage of Hardy Sellers, Sr. (1757-1835) but, as of today this connection has eluded many researchers over the past years.

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1. 1850 U. S. Census, Chesterfield, Chesterfield County, South Carolina, population schedule, Chesterfield, Chesterfield County, South Carolina, Page: 143A(stamped); Line 10, Dwelling 683, Family 683, Household of Mathew SELLERS; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : Viewed 12 September 2015); citing  National Archives Microfilm M432 Roll 851.
2. 1860 U. S. Census, Choctaw County, Alabama, population schedule, Northern Division, Choctaw County, Alabama, Page: 534(stamped); Line 29, Dwelling 541, Family 515, Household of M. [Mathew] SELLERS; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : Viewed 12 September 2015); citing  National Archives Microfilm M653_5.
3. Ancestry, "Civil War Service Records" database, Military Service Records (https://www.fold3.com/ : accessed 12 September 2015), entry for MATHEW SELLERS, Private; Company "C", 3rd Reg't Alabama Reserves; Confederate.
4. 1880 U. S. Census, Choctaw County, Alabama, population schedule, Beat 4, Choctaw County, Alabama, enumeration district (ED) 017, Page: 204D (stamped); Line 15, Dwelling NL, Family 218, Household of Mathew SELLERS; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : Viewed 12 Sept 2015); citing NARA publication T9, Roll: 007.
5. Find A Grave, Inc., Find A Grave, database and digital images, (http://www.findagrave.com : accessed 3 December 2020); Memorial page for Elizabeth Christian Sellers; (19 May 1840–4 March 1927); Find a Grave memorial # 68176663, Citing Providence Cemetery; Butler, Choctaw County, Alabama, USA.

Its Family Time~The Rev. Noah Parker Family

Catherine Eddins was born on 23 Aug 1809 in Chesterfield, South Carolina, a daughter of Williams Eddins and his wife Elizabeth Ingram. She was their first borne child.

On 12 January 1825, Catherine Eddins married Noah Parker of Georgia. The marriage took place in Conecuh County, Alabama. Her parents had migrated from Chesterfield to Alabama some years before her marriage to Noah Parker.

Noah Parker was a Baptist Minister. Noah Parker and Catherine Eddins reared a large family of eleven or twelve children. I have identified eleven and other on-line trees have twelve children.

Noah Parker and Catherine Eddins had the following children:

       i.    John Travis Parker was born on 4 Sep 1828. He died on 17 Feb 1909 at the age of 80.
       ii.    Noah Parker Jr. was born on 9 Feb 1830. He died on 29 Jan 1893 at the age of 62.
      iii.    Elisha Parker was born on 23 Sep 1831. He died on 9 Dec 1909 at the age of 78.
     iv.    Mary Catherine Parker was born on 12 Apr 1832 in Conecuh County, Alabama. She died on 17 Nov 1881 at the age of 49 in Bellevue, Clay, Texas.
     v.    Elizabeth Parker was born about 1835.
    vi.    William Hawthorne Parker was born on 9 Jun 1837 in Conecuh County, Alabama. He died on 13 Nov 1917 at the age of 80.
   vii.    Martha Jane Parker was born on 24 Feb 1839 in Alabama. She died on 20 May 1922 at the age of 83 in Covington County, Alabama.
   viii.    Eliza Parker, born 23 Aug 1840, Conecuh County, Alabama; married Andrew Jackson Searcy, 15 Sep 1859; died 30 Nov 1899, Midway, Butler County, Alabama.
    ix.   Samuel Parker was born about 1842.
     x.    Benjamin Wilson Parker was born on 23 Jul 1843. He died on 28 Apr 1909 at the age of 65 in Cass County, Texas.
    xi.    Sarah Ann Matilda Parker was born about 1845.

Catherine Eddins Parker died at age 54 on 28 December 1863. Her husband, The Rev. Noah Parker died on 3 October 1867. Both are buried in the Fairmount Cemetery, Red Level, Covington County, Alabama.

Catherine Eddins Parker is my 1st Cousin 4X removed.

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1. Find A Grave, Inc., Find A Grave, database and digital images, (http://www.findagrave.com : accessed  3 May 2019); Memorial page for Rev.  Noah Parker, Sr.; (10 April 1804–3 October 1867); Find a Grave memorial # 26011661, Citing Fairmount Cemetery; Red Level, Covington County, Alabama, USA.
2. 1850 U. S. Census, Conecuh County, Alabama, population schedule, Conecuh, Alabama, Page: 360B (Stamped); Line 33, Dwelling 446, Family 446, Household of  Noah PARKER; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : viewed 3 May 2019); citing  National Archives Microfilm M432 Roll 3.
3. 1860 U. S. Census,  Butler County, Alabama, population schedule, Precinct 3, Butler, Alabama, Page: 143 (Stamped); Line 16,, Dwelling 1052, Family 1052, Household of N. PARKER; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://ancestry.com : viewed 3 May 2019); citing National Archives Microfilm M653_3.
4. "U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900," database, Ancestry (http://www.ancestry.com : viewed 23 May 2020), Marriage: Noah parker & Catherine Rddins, Married Alabama, 1825.
5. Find A Grave, Inc., Find A Grave, database, "Record, Catherine C Eddins Parker (23 August 1809–28 December 1863), Memorial # 26011660.