William Daughtery ‘Dock’ Sellers was borne 11 Feb 1864 in Butler, Choctaw County, Alabama. He was a son of Mathew Sellers and Sarah “Sallie” Turnage whose roots began in Chesterfield County, South Carolina. He was the last of eight children borne to Mathew and Sallie.
At age 28, William D. Sellers and Melissa Christian were united in marriage on 6 January 1893 in Butler County, Alabama. William was a farmer for most of his life but the 1940 Census shows him as a retired Loomer.
William Daughtery Sellers and Melissa Christian had the following children:
i. Maggie V. Sellers was born in Jul 1893 in Choctaw County, Alabama.
ii. Sallie M. Sellers was born in Dec 1894 in Choctaw County, Alabama.
iii. William Frank Sellers was born in May 1897 in Choctaw County, Alabama.
Melissa Christian Sellers passed away on 20 May 1905 at the age of thirty-one. William Daughtery Sellers, age 84, died on 27 February 1948. She was buried in Choctaw County, Alabama; he is buried in Ralls Cemetery, Ralls, Crosby County, Texas.
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1. Find A Grave, Inc., Find A Grave, database and digital images, (http://www.findagrave.com : accessed 2 December 2020); Memorial page for William D. Sellers; (11 February 1864–27 February 1948); Find a Grave memorial # 28448938, Citing Ralls Cemetery; Ralls, Crosby County, Texas, USA.
2. 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 September 2015); citing NARA publication T9, Roll: 007.
3. 1900 U. S. Census, Choctaw County, Alabama, population schedule, Precinct 4, Choctaw, Alabama, enumeration district (ED) 013, Page 13B/235(Stamped), Line 55, Dwelling 217, Family 217, Household of Dock SELLERS; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://ancestry.com : viewed 2 December 2020); citing National Archives Microfilm T623_7.
4. 1910 U. S. Census, Clarke County, Mississippi, population schedule, Quitman, Clarke, Mississippi, enumeration district (ED) 0002, Page 6B/52 (Stamped), Line 79, Dwelling 85, Family 85, Household of William D. SELLERS; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : viewed 2 December 2020); citing NARA publication T624.
5. 1930 U. S. Census, Crosby County, Texas, population schedule, Precinct 1, Crosby, Texas, enumeration district (ED) 0002, Page 12B/186 (Stamped), Line 76, Dwelling 244, Family 245, Household of William D. SELLERS; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : viewed 2 December 2020); citing National Archives Microfilm T626.
6. 1940 U. S. Census, Crosby County, Texas, population schedule, Crosby, Texas, enumeration district (ED) 54-8, Page 4B/102 (Stamped), Line 47, Household #73, Household of William D. SELLERS; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : viewed 2 December 2020); citing National Archives Microfilm T627.
7. William Daughtery Sellers, death certificate #6330 (Death Date: 27 Feb 1948), Vital Records, Department of Health, Austin, Travis County, Texas.
8. "W. D. Sellers, 84, Of Ralls, Death Victim," Death Notice/Obituary, Lubbock Morning Avalanche, Lubbock, Texas, 28 February 1948, Page 2, Column 2; Digital On-Line Archives, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/ : clipped 3 May 2021); https://www.newspapers.com/.
9. "Alabama Marriages, 1816-1942," database, Ancestry (http://www.ancestry.com : viewed on-line 2 December 2020), Marriage: W. D. Sellers & Melissa Christian; FHL Film Number: 1788198.
10. Find A Grave, Inc., Find A Grave, database, "Record, Mittie J. Sellers (26 February 1874–20 May 1905), Memorial #68176679.
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