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.

Treasure Chest Thursday~Has McCarroll & Joseph B. Sellers Mother Been identified?

In 2002 James C. Pigg published a book on the descendants of Hardy Sellers my 4th Great Grandfather. The book entitled “DESCENDANTS OF HARDY SELLERS: BORN MARCH 2, 1757 IN JOHNSTON COUNTY, NC, DIED JANUARY 12, 1835 IN CHESTERFIELD COUNTY, SC”. The book contains 424 pages with lineage details on many of the descendants of Hardy Sellers down to modern day. 

While doing research for this book it was realized that at least two known Sellers families did not seem to fit within the Hardy Sellers blood line.Those two families were:

• Joseph B. Sellers and his wife Edarkis Jane Mungo 

and

• McCarroll Sellers and his wife  Eliza Louisa Jordan

Up until this month no one has come forward with any additional information on the parentage of these two individuals – McCarroll and Joseph B. Sellers.

In my preparation to write an article for my July 17 posting I chose to write on the estate file of Flora Sellers. Prior to opening this folder on FamilySearch I had no idea how Flora Sellers would fit within the Sellers Lineage.  I wrote about her estate folder here:

http://carolinafamilyroots.blogspot.com/2016/07/chesterfield-county-sc-estatesestate_17.html

The folder #454 turned out to be a possible turning point in the research of McCarroll and Joseph B. Sellers. One document within this folder shows that Flora McNair Sellers had two surviving distributees – McCarroll and J. B. Sellers. 










If Flora McNair is the mother of McCarroll and Joseph B., then who were their father?  Further research is needed to identify the male Sellers that was Flora’s husband. Finally, we have someone to research that is most likely the mother of these two men.













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[1] Chesterfield County, South Carolina, Probate Files & Loose papers, Flora Sellers; digital images, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, FamilySearch (http://www.familysearch.org: viewed 16 July 2016); Estate Folder #454-Flora Sellers.