Treasure Chest Thursday~Marriage Licensee, Thomas Brooks Sellers and Mary Hinson

State of North Carolina
Anson County
1 D. M. Johnson a 2 Justice of the Peace of Anson County united in Matrimony 3 Thomas B. Sellers and 4 Mary Hinson the parties licensed above, on the 3rd day April of 1889 at 5 Thomas B. Sellers Sr. in 6 Morven Township, in said county, according to law.
D. M. Johnson J. P {seal}
Witnesses Present at Marriage
T. B. Atkinson  of Morven Township
E. B. Curtis of Morven Township
Leon Hinson of Morven Township
1. Name of person officiating 2. If Minister, what denomination, if Justice of Peace, so state 3. Name of man married 4. Name of Woman married 5. Place of Marriage 6. Township 7. At least 3 persons present at marriage must sign as witnesses.


Thomas Brooks Sellers, son of Phillip A. Sellers and Martha Ann Brooks Sellers married Mary M. Hinson on 3 April 1889 in Wadesboro, Anson County NC.

Mary M Hinson was the daughter of  Thomas Benjamin Sellers and Saline Caroline ‘Sallie’ Clark. 

Her marriage license show Mary as being age 21, and the daughter of Thomas B Hinson and H. Mattie Dense. [Dense was mostly likely Deese]. Either way, the mother’s name on the marriage license is incorrect. 

Thomas Benjamin Hinson was twice married. His first wife Saline Caroline ‘Sallie’ Clark whom he married about 1865. Thomas and Sallie had 3 children:

• Benjamin Franklin Hinson, b. 21 Dec 1866
• Mary M. Hinson, b. 1868
• Leonidus James ‘Leon’ Hinson, 28 Oct 1869

Sallie Clark Hinson died in 1870 according to her tombstone in the Hinson Cemetery, Morven, NC. See Find A Grave Memorial# 48525958.

After the death of Sallie,  Thomas Benjamin Hinson married Margaret Jane Sellers daughter of Phillip A. Sellers and Martha Ann Brooks Sellers.

Thomas Brook Sellers and Mary M. Hinson married in April 1889 had two children.

• Julian Thomas Sellers, b. 1 June 1888
• Carrie Sellers, b. Jan 1890

Thomas Brooks Sellers died unexpectantly on 25 April 1894 when he was shot and killed by his brother-in-law. 

His widow, Mary Hinson Sellers, married George Washington Ratliff, 3 children, and then John Tyler Henry in 1902. Mary Hinson Sellers Ratliff Henry died on 2 August 1931. 




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Sources:
1. 1860 U. S. Census, Anson County, North Carolina, population schedule, Morven, Anson County, North Carolina, Page: 278B (page 116 , top right corner); Line 27, Dwelling 899, Family 864, Household of Philip SELLERS; online database, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : viewed 11 January 2012); citing National Archives Microfilm Publication M653, Roll 887.
2. J. Frank Smith Shoots and Mortally Wounds T. B. Sellers, His Brother-in-Law. obituary, The Messenger and Intelligencer, Wadesboro, Anson County, North Carolina, United States, 26 April 1894, Page 3.
3. Find A Grave, Inc., Find A Grave, database and digital images, (http://www.findagrave.com : accessed 10 June 2014); Memorial page for Thomas B Sellers; (1857–25 April 1894); Find a Grave memorial # 23368544, Citing Shiloh United Methodist Church Cemetery; Cairo, Anson County, North Carolina, USA.
4. State of North Carolina, marriage (3 April 1889), Thos. B. Sellers and Mary Hinson; https://www.ancestry.com, Raleigh, Wake County, North Carolina.

Sunday’s Obituary~J. Frank Smith

Mr. J. Frank Smith died at his home in South Wadesboro Monday, age about 45. Mr. Smith, who was night watchman at the cotton mill, was taken violently ill Friday with uremia poison and sank rapidly until death relieved him of his sufferings. A wife and seven children survive him. The remains were taken to Ruby, S.C. for interment.
Mr. Smith, it will be remembered, was tried here for his life several years ago, for the murder of his brother-in-law, Mr. Thos. Sellers, and acquitted.




J. Frank Smith married Dora Sellers, daughter of Phillip A. Sellers and Martha Ann Brooks on 19 January 1881. Before his death in 1901 Frank and Dora would have nine children; 5 Daughters and four sons.

Frank was acquitted in 1895 for the murder of his brother-in-law, Thomas Brooks Sellers on 25 April 1894. He shot his brother-in-law on the 24 April 1894 at the Covington Bros. merchandise store on Rutherford Street, Wadesboro, NC.  Thomas died the next day, Doctor Kollock of Cheraw was summoned in an effort to save the life of Thomas Brooks Sellers.

Dora Sellers Smith is my 2nd Cousin 3 times removed. Thomas Brooks Sellers is also my 2nd cousin 3 times removed. Dora and Thomas are siblings.







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[1] [The Messenger and Intelligencer, Wadesboro, North Carolina, 28 February 1901, page 3.] Obituary courtesy of Julie Hampton.