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Family Sheet

HUSBAND
Name: George Sellers Jr. Note Born: 5 Mar 1794 at Cherryville, , , NC Married: 3 Mar 1818 at Lincoln Co., , , NC Died: 22 May 1836 at Cherryville, , , NC Other Spouses: Magdalena Schneider
Father: George Sellers Mother: Susannah Best
WIFE
Name: Anna Mary Froneberger Note Born: 3 Jan 1793 Died: 27 Nov 1869 at Cherryville, , Gaston Co., NC Father: William Froneberger Mother: Anna Catherine Sides
CHILDREN
Name: Elizabeth Sellers Born: 1818 Died: 1870
Name: Eli Sellers Born: 1819 Died: 1902
Name: Philip Sellers Born: 1821 Died: 1883
Name: William M. Sellers Born: 1823 Died:
Name: Abraham Sellers Born: 1824 Died:
Name: George Sellers Born: 1827 Died: 1864
Name: Newton Sellers Born: 1830 Died: 1900
Name: Jacob Sellers Born: 1834 Died:
Name: Robert Daniel Sellers Born: Abt 1834 at Cherryville, , , NC Died: 1864 Wife: Nancy Elizabeth Sparrow
NOTES
1). Annotated Federal Census info for the Sellers family of NC Lincoln, Cleveland, and Macon Counties All comments in parentheses are my commentary, and merely represent my guesses on the identities of the people involved. In addition, the census especiallyin the early years was notoriously inaccurate, and the handwriting of census takers is often hard to decipher. Be warned. Lincoln County 1820 Census p. 296 George Sellers, Jr. He was indexed as George Sellers, Jr., but the actual entry on the microfilm looks like Sr to me 1 male 0 to 9 2 males 10 15 2 males 16 25 1 male 26 44 And I think this is George Sr, age notwithstanding, living with mostly grown children and possibly a grandchild. 1 female 16 25 1 female 45 Susannah Best, 60 Lincoln County 1830 p. 166 George Sellors 2 males 0 to 5 George, age 3 and Jacob, age about 1 2 males 5 to 10 William, age 7 and Abraham, age 6 1 male 10 to 15 Eli, age 11 1 male 30 to 40 George, age 36 1 female 5 to 10 Elizabeth, age 12 1 female 20 to 30 Anna Mary Froneberger Sellers , age 37? Cleveland County 1850 Page 183 Felix Sellers, 59 NC Katherine, 27 NC Susan J., 27 NC Phillip, 7 NC Sarah A 4 NC Mary, 3 12 NC Tabitha Neal, 17 NC Page 184 Mary Sellers, 50 NC If I m correct, this is Anna Mary Froneberger, widow of George Sellers, Jr. Seemy page of speculation. Her age is a little off, but that s not uncommon. Eli, 30 NC And here s Eli. Abram, 24 NC George, 22 NC Jacob, 20 NC Newton, 18 NC Daniel, 16 NC Jane Froneberger, 16 NC This may be Anna Mary s niece. Source www.bonanzajellydog.com gene sellerscensus.html MINDY S PAGE Mindy Green bonanza@nc.rr.com March, 2001 http home.nc.rr.com bonanzajb gene sellers.html My name is Mindy Green and I am descended from George Sellers 1755 56 1839 of PA and Lincoln Co., NC. On your Lincoln County page you quote from my website at http home.nc.rr.com bonanzajb gene sellers.html I was wondering if you would mind putting a link to my site on the page, before or after the quote so people can find out about updates and more information. You could also list my new email address at bonanza@nc.rr.com it s recently changed. You also might be interested to see the two Sellers wills I have transcribed. They re available from http home.nc.rr.com bonanzajb gene will.html I hope to have some new info up soon. I recently found the much overgrown Froneberger cemetery where George Sellers and some of his family are buried. Here are some of my observations about what I found According to the IGI, George Sellers 1756 1839 was married three times first to Susannah Best ?d. before 1809, mother of George Jr, John, Philip, Henry, and Caty among others , second to Magdalena Schneider who he married in PA, mother of Felix , andthird, debatedly, to Anna Mary Froneberger. My info is from a woman I met over the internet, who was a descendant of Felix. She had done a lot of research and had info to back it up, but unfortunately when my hard drive perished I lost all the emails we had exchanged, and her snail and email addresses. I m pretty sure I have a printout somewhere, but I ll have to dig. In any case, according to her, George was married twice to Susannah Best and Magdalena Schneider, and his son George actually married Anna Mary Froneberger. They had one son Philip who was raised by his uncle Philip after George Jr s death presumably in 1825 or thereabouts. She believes that Eli and siblings were actually the children of John Sellers and Mary Rush. With all that in mind we went to the Froneberger cemetery. In a line are Barbara Sellers, Philip Sellers, Susannah Sellers, George Sellers, Anna M. Sellers, and a small stone that reads C. Sellers. Barbara and Philip s graves are similar and the dates support our belief that this is George Sr s son Philip and his wife Barbara Froneberger. Susannah and George s stones are identical as befits a husband and wife, and are also signed by the carver, WNC. His reads In memory of George Sellers died Dec. 3rd 1839 aged 83 years, which fits with everything we know about him. Hers however was a surprise. It saysshe died Jan 19, 1843, aged 83 years. The four in 1843 was hard to read, but we rubbed it and you can definitely see the angle and the crossbar of a 4 . If this really is Susannah Best, as I believe it is, then George Sr. cannot legally have married either Magdalena Schneider, orAnna Mary Froneberger! Anna Mary Froneberger s stone is in fact next to George Sr s, but on it s other side is C. Sellers, died May 22 1836 or 1830 the stone is very poorly carved . This is the only other Sellers buried there except for an Eli F Sellers, who I think may havebeen a child. What if the C. with a period very close to the bottom of the C was actually a G? And this is George Sellers, Jr? The dates aren t right, but I don t think we ever knew his death date with any certainty. Coming at it from another angle, Anna Mary s headstone reads born Jan 3 1793 died Nov 22 1869, so in 1850 she would have been 57 years old. However, in the 1850 Cleveland Co census, Eli age 30 appears living with his brothers and his mother, Mary, age 50. It s just another reason to believe Anna Mary was not Eli s mother. I hope this is of interest. Any light you can shed on all this would be much appreciated. Mindy Green bonanza@nc.rr.com March, 2001
2).  Froneberger Cemetery, Gaston Co., NC.  Directions   From Dallas Courthouse, take Hwy. 279 West, 6.9 miles.  Left on Bess Town Rd.   SR 1 Miles Best Rd.   SR 1476  three tenths of a mile.  Site is directly in front of you.  From handwritten notes of Robert D. Sellers concerning his trip to Froneberger Cemetery with his cousin, Patrick C. Smith, on March 11, 1989  Froneberger Cemetery Travel a mile or two out of Bessemer City on Hwy. 274 toward Cherryville.  Turn right Best Home Rd.  There is a 66 station and food mart at the intersection.  Take a left on Philer ?  Best Rd.  Go to the dead end of this road.  Mr. and Mrs. Steve Head live in the house where the road ends.  She is a Best.  Cemetery is to the rear of the house.It is in a thicket of several years growth in the middle of a field.  We did not find the stones for George Sellers Sr. or George Sellers Jr. but did find the stones for both of their wives   1  Susannah Sellers Died 1 19 1843    Age 83  2  Anna Froneberger Sellers Died 11 27 1869    Age 76  Also   1  Philip Sellers Died 1 17 1852 in 67th year.  This would appear to be George Jr.  s brother  2 John A. Sellers Died 7 4 1854     11 mos. 5 days  3  George E. Sellers Died 8 12 1856  2 yrs. 6 mos. & 25 days  4 Barbara Sellers Died 8 17 1856     20yrs. 10 mos 6 days  5 ? D. Sellers Died 8 13 1856    5 mos.  There was obviously some kind of epidemic in the summer of 1856 that took the lives of these children.  MGHB 2002

						

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