Martha H. Morris, daughter of James Morris and Jane Saultor of Spartanburg, SC married Henderson Sellers in SC, son of Emanuel Sellers born Nash NC and Fannie Rogers born Franklin NC . This Photo of Martha Morris when she was over 80 years old living near Homewood, Jefferson Co. AL was found by Harry Kinane, whose ancestor was Laura Frances Sellers, Martha’s daughter. Martha was born near Glenn Springs or Glendale Springs, Spartanburg, SC. In 1856 or 1857 the related families  left Spartanburg in wagons to come to Alabama. It is believed they came thru Tennessee, staying a year in Guntersville in northern AL where Thomas J. Morris and wife Louvina Sellers, d/0 Emanuel are living in the 1860 census. In 1857 they arrived in Shades Valley near Elyton, Jefferson Co. AL, now Birmingham. Jefferson County is bordered by Blount, Bibb, St. Clair, Shelby, Tuscaloosa, and Walker counties. It encompasses 1,119 square miles. The county seat was at Carrollsville from 1819-21, at Elyton from 1821-73, and since 1873 has been at Birmingham. I am not sure if Elyton was not swallowed up by Birmingham. 

Wilson's Raiders  was formed at Elyton Headquarters March 28-31, 1865. by Gen. James H. Wilson, USA, having crossed the Tennessee River with a large force of well equipped cavalry, he grouped them at Elyton, AL. Their mission: to destroy Alabama's economic facilities for supporting the War. From these headquarters he sent; (a) cavalry unit to burn the military school, foundries and bridges at Tuscaloosa. (b) soldiers to destroy mines and furnaces in Jefferson, Bibb, and Shelby Counties. (c) cavalry to dash south to destroy railroads and factories at Selma. (Located at Arlington, in Birmingham). Wilson’s presence at Elyton was Godsend for Henry Emanuel Sellers and his compatriots who had been laying out the war in the wooded hills near there, supported by Unionists of Shelby and Jefferson Co,

If anyone has corrections or additions for me I will be delighted to receive them. I did  this mostly out of census data, as well as burial information at the Homewood Sellers Cemetery in Jefferson Co, Alabama. Credit to Nellie Mae Sellers Newton of Pinson, Jefferson Co. AL,  Jack Sellers of Texas, Harry Kinnane and Michael Farren of  Jefferson Co, Alabama.

 

Confirmation about Henderson’s father was acquired by  Michael Farren from a part of his grandfather Will Franks’s work in the early 1900s is in private hands and not available at Samford University.  Will Franks’s extensive genealogy work about Jefferson county residents was a result of a lifetime devotion. This work was almost thrown in the trash after he died, but in the end, 2 of his descendants took 2 parts of it and the third part of it finally came after persuasion into the genealogy collection at Samford. That means 2 parts of Will Franks’s work are unfortunately in private hands and may meet the same fate which almost met the work now at Samford.

Title: Will Franke's Notes
Author: William F. Franke
Date: 1914

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Martha Morris received a Pension after Henderson Sellers died at Chickamauga GA in hospital, but it was revoked in 1915 because they could not find a record of him-probably because he was listed as H. Sellers. In 1850 census he also gives only H. Sellers-he must not have liked his name. In the following paper Stephen Horton Watkins gives testimony for her as a confederate soldier. This says Henderson enlisted at -----boro? Dalton GA  While Dalton was pro-Union prior to the outbreak of The Civil War, after Georgia votes to secede in January 1861 only a few Unionists could be found. One suspected northern sympathizer was Ansley Blunt, postmaster and first mayor of the city whose home, the Blunt House, stands south of the downtown area.  Many of the men who would fight at Chickamauga (September 1863) arrived at Dalton by train, passing through the depot. including Henderson Sellers.  From 1862 until 1864 Dalton serves as a front-line hospital town.

 

Confederate Pension File Martha Morris Sellers provided by Nellie Mae Sellers Newton
Martha Morris -wife of Henderson Sellers pension paper, signed by W.A. MeHarg- Notary Public- related to Martha  by way of Etta Caladonia Hardy (whose mother was a MeHerg) who married Martha’s grandson James Thomas Jefferson Sellers 1915-1917. Signing also were James M. Morris her nephew -son of her brother Augustus G. Morris, Dan Acton Bailey her son in law, Stephen Horton Watkins born 24 Aug 1832 AL -the brother of the father of her daughter-in-law Passa C. Watkins, and J.T. Walker JP

 

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Andrew Jackson had warned the South that to fight the Union would be the most foolish thing they could do and that they would lose the fight-and he was right. Emanuel agreed with Jackson and he voted for Douglas as president in the 1860 election and the Union candidates in Shelby Co. (but I could not read the names very well). Henderson Sellers’ father was against succession and stated this in a claim he made for bacon at 20 cents a pound provided to the Union Army under the command of General Wilson on about 1st April 1963 at 11 in the morning at his farm. Emanuel states he lived in Shelby County near the county line which is 7 miles south of his PO at Elyton in Jefferson Co. AL. He lived one and half miles from “the main public road leading to Selma.” He proved his loyalty by it by feeding runaway soldiers in the woods. He calls the War “the Rebellion.”  To question 17) Who were the leading Unionists of your vicinity during the War? His answer was: “ John A. McLintock (McClintock, John A., b. 25 Aug 1826, d. 28 May 1906 buried Bluff Park Cemetery, Oxmoor Heights), Robert B. Patton, Pickney Brock (b 1822 SC wife is Parvelle Redding, Death: 18 Apr 1894 - Haleys PO, Marion, AL Marriage: 21 Dec 1848 - Elyton, Jefferson, AL), and Joseph Gice of Shelby Co., John C. Morris, Thomas Sanford (birth 1816 Henderson Co TN died 1879 Jefferson Co. married Margaret B. Burford,  Permelia P. and Jane DeJarnette Jones) , Thomas Haughey ( a doctor b 1824 Scotland who had married Elizabeth b. 1829 SC and they had a son John b 1845) and Sam Thompson (m. Ann Eliza/Louisa Camp in Jefferson) of Jefferson Co.”

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SELLERS:

SELLERS:

In an old Bible record there is said to have been 10 brothers total in that generation In "The Sellers Letters" in June, 1984 by Charles A. Sellers, grandson of Jordan Sellers, he lists some of the siblings as Mary, Martha, Samuel, Gurley, Bennett and Jordan.  

 

1. William S. Sellers married Mary Sherrod in Nash Co NC

2. Samuel Sellers married Sarah Rogers in Person Co. NC (was formed from Edgecomb Co.  Granville Co is between it and Franklin Co. -maybe they married at her grandmother’s house.

3. Bennett “Long” Sellers married Winny Rogers 7 March 1821 Franklin Co NC

4. Manuel  “Short” Sellers (Emanuel) married Fanny Rogers 1 June, 1825 in Franklin NC. Witness John Rogers and JJ Cothran

5. Gurley Sellers married Delilah Wyatt 31 January 1826 in Nash Co.-witneses Jourdan Sellers and Larry Brantley

6. Jourdan Sellars married Elizabeth Mason 5 Nov. 1828 in Nash, NC moved to Wake Co NC then Guilford NC and finally Greenup, Cumberland Co, Illinois and then Indiana.

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11. Lucinda Sellers (Emanuel`s sister) married Fanny’s brother John Rogers.

12. Tallula Sellers (Emanuel`s sister) married Larry Brantley-son of Sherrod Brantley and stayed in NC. (Larry Brantley Residence: 1830 - Ferrills, Nash, North Carolina)  

13. Mary Sellers

14. Martha Sellers

 

By 1840 Bennett and Manuel had moved to Spartanburg SC.  In 1850  they appear under their nicknames Short b 1800 and Long Sellers b 1787. After 1856 Emanuel and son Henderson Sellers left SC and went thru Tenn. to Guntersville AL by 1857 with the help of their uncle Gurley Sellers who came up to Tenn to meet them and then to Shades Valley and Elyton in Jefferson County, presumably after they acquired land. They had one of the first 6 houses in the  Shades Valley.

Emanuel’s son Henderson appears as H. Sellers with Henry (could be a nickname for Martha who had a middle initial H.) in 1850 Spartanburg SC  and Margaret age 1 could be his first child by Martha. Henderson’s younger brother Emanuel Henry fought with his brother Henderson in the D 28th  Confederate Alabama Infantry.   William and Alison were in the D group too, as well as his uncle Thomas Morris.

 

The known children of Emanuel “Short” Sellers and Frances “Fannie” Rogers

Henderson about 1825- m. Martha Morris  

1. Lucinda Louvina about 1834 m. Thomas J. Morris

2. Allison about 1835 m. Margaret “Peggy” Rutherford b. abt 1840 SC

3. Emanuel Henry about 1842 m. Mary Elizabeth Hollingsworth, d/o John Wesley Hollingsworth

4.Nancy 1843

 

1850 28th August  South Carolina > Spartanburg

near his brother Long Sellers (Bennett Sellers and Winney Rogers)

Short Sellers 55 (Emanuel) 

Fanny Sellers 50

Lucinda Sellers 15

Allison Sellers 18

E. Henry sellers 10

 

1860 Shelby, Alabama

Post Office:       Hillsboro

Emanuel Sellers 55 SC

Fanny Sellers 61 NC

Nancy Sellers 17 SC

 

Next door to his father Emanuel  

Allison Sellers 35  NC

Peggy Sellers   30 SC (Margaret Rutherfurd)

Jack Sellers     8  AL (John is usually a Jack) Jack moved out by the next census

Jane Sellers     6 AL (could be James, by mistake)

Bettie Sellers   1  AL (Elizabeth or Lizza- could be Frances middle name is Lizza)

 

1860 Elyton, Jefferson Co., AL                              

Henderson Cellars 35 SC

Martha Cellars        29 SC

Jane Cellars             10 (Elizabeth Jane) SC m. Charles C. Scott

Ann Cellars             6 SC

James Cellars          5 (James Thomas ) SC m. Passa C. Watkins

Laura Cellars          2 (Laura Frances) AL m. Dan Acton Bailey

 

Martha is the child of James Morris and Jane Saultor / Salter of Spartanburg. The Morrises may have had many more children than I have been able to verify.  

The Patriarch and Matriarch of the Elyton, Jefferson County, AL  Morris family:

James Morris b. 1796 SC –Patriarch d. after 1860 census

Jane Saultor    b. 1796 SC-Matriarch d. after she was living with Martha in 1870

In 1840 James Morris age 40 and under 50 and Jane the same age group have 9 children in the house- 5 boys and 4 girls.

2 boys age 5 and under 10 Augustus G. and Thomas

1 boy age 10 and under 15

1 boy age 15 and under 20 Thomas Morris

1 boy age 20 and under 30 William Simpson Morris

1 girl age 5 and under 10

1 girl age 10 and under 15 Martha Morris

1girl age 15 and under 20

 

1850 Not Stated, Spartanburg, SC

House 1640 

James Morris          abt 1796          South Carolina

Jane Morris            abt 1801          South Carolina

Augustus Morris      abt 1832      b. Oct. 1833 SC married Harriet J. b. Sept. 1834 SC               

Thomas Morris       abt 1834    married Louvina Lucinda Sellers  

Cornelius Morris      abt 1840  married 1st Sarah  born 1841 SC 2nd Sarah L. b. 1857 SC m. in 1885

 

1860 census- Elyton, Jefferson, AL which was 7 miles from Emanuel’s farm in Shelby Co.

James Morris 59 South Carolina

Jane Morris 57  South Carolina

Children:

 

1.         William Simpson MORRIS b. 24 Dec 1817 d. 3 Dec 1903 Glendale. Glenn Springs, Spartanburg, SC married daughter of Robert Johnson Coggins and Jane White on 28 Oct 1841 Chasey COGGINS b. 1813 SC  Died: 21 Apr 1868 in Glendale, Spartanburg and 2nd  Malissa KIRBEY Born: 1845 in Glendale.:

            A. Sarah Jane MORRIS 7 Jul 1844 in Glendale SC Died: 28 Oct 1882

Clifton, Spartanburg, SC m. 22 Feb 1869 in Glendale, Spartanburg Robert Coleman Poole

Known children, courtesy Gordon Atkin

                        i.    John Simpson POOLE b: 8 Jun 1870 in Pacolet Township,,SC

                        ii.   Martha Jane POOLE b: 25 Oct 1871 in Clifton/Pacolet

                        iii.  Nancy Madora Poole  22 Feb 1875 in Pacolet, Spartanburg   

                        iv.  Robert Hampton Poole   25 Mar 1878 in Spartanburg

                        v.   Thomas Alexander POOLE b: 13 Apr 1880 in Clifton Spartanburg,Pacolet Twnsp,SC

                        vi. George Morgan POOLE b: 8 Oct 1882 in Pacolet Township,Spartanburg Co.,SC

            B. Jesse Robert MORRIS 1846 SC died 1864/65 ((Gordon ADKIN)

            C. Eliza Frances “Fannie”  MORRIS 21 Oct 1848 in Glendale SC Died:  29 Nov 1930 Glendale m. Albert Wylda Crocker Born: 7 Sep 1847 in Clarendon, Spartanburg  SC  Died: 9 Apr 1926 in Spartanburg

            D. Mary Angeline MORRIS 1849 SC Died: 13 Aug 1863 District Spartanburg  

            E. Amanda Tallulah MORRIS b. 10 September 1855 Cedar Springs, SC Died: 13 Dec 1932

 Cherokee m. 13 Nov 1879  Alfred Monroe Burdett

            F. William Simpson MORRIS 3 June 1859 SC Died: 31 May 1902

            G. Jackson Beaureguard MORRIS 4 October 1861 Glendale Died: 17 Dec 1928 m. Huldah Rhodes

 

2.         Thomas W. MORRIS b. 1822 SC m. Sarah b ? This may be a younger brother of James Morris or a cousin or his son and the other Thomas in the family may be a nephew. I cannot say why there are 2 Thomas names in the family, but they are related. Sometimes Southern families has 2 children of the same name, although it is rare. This Thomas stayed in SC and the younger Thomas went as far as Guntersville, AL   fought in the Civil War and then returned to Spartanburg by 1870.

            A.         William 1843 SC

            B.         S.A. Mills 1845 SC

            C.         Susan A. 1847 SC

            D.         Cynthia 1849 SC

            E.         James 1862 SC

            F.         Mary 1865 SC

            G.        Augustus 1866 SC            

 

3.         Martha H. MORRIS  b. August about 1831 SC died after 1910 either 11 June 1911 or 19 April 1916  Jefferson Co., AL , married Henderson Sellers, son of Emanuel /Manuel "Short" Sellers.

census Before the War-

1860 Elyton, Jefferson Co., AL                              

Henderson Cellars 35 SC

Martha Cellars        29 SC

Jane Cellars             10 (Elizabeth Jane) SC m. Charles C. Scott

Ann Cellars             6 SC

James Cellars          5 (James Thomas ) SC m. Passa C. Watkins

Laura Cellars          2 (Laura Frances) AL m. Dan Acton Bailey

 

A.    Margaret SELLERS b. about 1849 died before 1860

 

                B. Jane Elizabeth SELLERS b. Feb. 1850 SC  married 31 Aug 1873 Jefferson Co. AL Charles C. Scott CSA–who was with General Lee at Appomattox VA where he surrendered.      

                        i. Florence A. Scott b 1876

                        ii. Thomas J. Scott  Sept- 1877 m. Maime Sellers

                        iii. unknown

                        iv. Ada L. Scott  b Oct. 1886

                        v. Oliver S. Scott  Jan. 1889

C.    Ann b 1854 SC no idea what happened to her

 

                D.  James Thomas SELLERS b. SC March 1855 d. 1942 married 1876 Passa Parlena C. Watkins b. June 1857 AL d 1941 Sellers cemetery. She was the daughter of Enoch Anderson Watkins              

                         i. Henderson Sellers, b Dec 10, 1876 d Jul 19, 1889 named after his grandfather             

                         ii.  Edward Guster SELLERS b. 9 Dec. 1880 Al d Oct 22, 1921 Sellers Cemetery in Homewood  - widower age 39 in 1920 living with parents J. T. Sellers and wife P. C.                 

                         iii. Emma SELLERS b. Jan. 1883 m. William Bredehoeft b: 3 Dec 1879 Ohio

                         iv. Joseph W. SELLERS b. 4 Nov. 1885 Al married Ida A. Hogan b 1889 AL, daughter of Alexander A. Hogan and Mary, d. 1958 Sellers Cemetery -named after Joseph Sellers? supposed father? of Emanuel Sellers

                         v.  Enoch died young- probably born about 1878 and died as a baby or about 1887  named after Passa’s father Enoch Anderson Watkins                   

                         vi. Murdice Mae SELLERS b. May 1890 m. Thomas Ebenezer Starr b: 27 Apr 1877 in Jefferson Co., Alabama

                         v. Agnes Evadina SELLERS b. 30 Jan. 1894  Al m. Harold Ross b: Abt 1888 in Hungary. He was probably German from the area of Hungary settled by Germans. I believe it was called Siebenburgen-The Seven Mountains.

Agnes Erudina and James C went to live with Samuel c. Sellers in 1910. In 1920 she is living with her parents as a widow McLann

                         vi. James Carl SELLERS b. 8 Oct. 1899 Al 

            E. Laura Frances SELLERS b. 1858 AL  married  Dan Acton Bailey  itinerant Baptist Preacher, a "Circuit Rider" who started several churches around Columbiana & Marion AL, in Shelby County & Jefferson Co. -had preached if not pastored at what is now Shades Mtn. Baptist Church. Parents:  Father:  Acton W Bailey     Mother:  Martha Jane Watkins    

                        i.          Richard Luther BAILEY Dec. 1896

                        ii.         Bennie BAILEY died 1909

                        iii.        William Henderson BAILEY-"Red Bailey" or "Pa Pa Will" 4 May 1890 died 11 May 1938 m. Rosa Mae Tylor b: 23 Oct 1892 in Jefferson Co

                                 a. Annie Laura BAILEY

                                 b. William Arthur BAILEY

                                 c.             Edith Lyle BAILEY

                                 d. Jeanette Mae BAILEY                  

                

Dr. Harry Kinane says: “Rosa Mae Tyler was the daughter of William Andrew Jackson Tyler and Susan Lee Ann Kimbrel. They lived in a dog trot cabin at Genery Gap on the north side of Bluff Ridge in Jefferson Co. near the Bibb Co. line. Rosa Mae Tyler, a grandmother of mine was one of 21 children of this Tyler family, 18 of whom lived to adulthood. For reasons unknown to me, "Mama Rosa" as a young teenager went to live in the home of Rev. Dan Acton Bailey and his wife Laura Frances Sellers in their house right beside the Sellers/Bailey cemetery in present day Homewood, near Oxmoor Rd./ Green Springs Hwy. She later married William Henderson Bailey, son of Rev. Dan Acton Bailey and Laura Frances Sellers. Benny Bailey & William Henderson Bailey were twins. Benny had a seizure disorder, i.e. had Epilepsy and died at an early age. (My mother thinks he was about 13 at death). Dan Acton Bailey & Laura Frances Sellers Bailey are buried side by side in two graves, covered in semi-cylindrical shaped concrete-over-brick tombs. They are not marked otherwise. A smaller in length similar grave I suspect is that of Benny Bailey their son. The cemetery is greatly deteriorated (what a shame for some of the pioneer families of Homewood). A fence around it is deteriorating and on one boundary, Paw Paw's restaurant has put their smelly garbage dump, and the fence by it is broken down, just as one enters to walk on Rev. Dan Acton Bailey and his wife's grave. A wooden fence has been erected, by the Howard Johnsons Motel on the adjacent boundary, to protect Motel occupants from realizing they are sleeping by a cemetery. In olden times their parking lot driveway was a road into the community and an access to the cemetery, which now really has no access. the next adjoining boundary has the fence eroding off a small embankment, which at one time was dug out for a shopping center which burned down years ago and was not rebuilt. There is an open field on the fourth cemetery boundary, beyond which is another restaurant, this one facing the Green Springs Hwy.”

 

            F.  Tallulah C. Parthena SELLERS b. Feb. 1861  d. Jan 1926 m. 1st  Mr. Sellers 2nd   Mr. Ollie,   named after her father Henderson Sellers’ great aunt Tallulah Sellers who married Larry Brantley in Nash NC about 1820 and did not come on the trek to Alabama

                         i.   Samuel C. SELLERS  - b. Oct 1881 m. Ellen Ada Majors b. Nov. 1893  parent is John B. Majors b. May 1862-4 AL John Majors is a jeweler in  1900 Texas > Mitchell > Justice Precinct 1 > District. The Sellers family is in  Trumbull > Liberty > District 281 Ohio for working in 1920 and he works as Puddler at a Puddle Mill. These Alabama families often went north to Ohio, Illinois and Detroit for work-always returning to Jefferson Co and St. Clair.

                                a.  Mary Blanche SELLERS b. AL 1903 works as sales lady -dry goods store

                                b.  Ruby B. SELLERS b. AL 1905

                                c.  Myra I. SELLERS b. AL 1906

                                d.  Nora El--yse SELLERS b.AL 1907

                                e.  Ada Kathleen SELLERS b. AL 1909                               

                          ii.  Regina  M. OLLIE b. July 1896 Al   m. Samuel B. "Aly"  Baker b. Feb 1899, son of William H. Baker (son Herbert A. b. abt. 1917)         

                          iii. Lelia/Lila OLLIE b. January 1891 m. 1909 William Willis Archibald Hardy b. Feb. 1886-son of Stephen Ransom Hardy, and grandson of William Allen Lansing Hardy and Mary Ann Elizabeth Meadows of Nixburg, Coosa Co and great grandson of Ransom Meadows, one of the richest men in Alabama in his time.

a.   Mildred E. HARDY b. 1911

b.   Mary Frances HARDY 1923

c.   James L. HARDY 1928

                 

            G. William Simpson SELLERS b Jan 7, 1863 during the Civil War d Jun 30, 1890 Sellers Cemetery m. Amanda Grace Sims b May 12 1866 d Dec 21, 1947 Sellers Cemetery -dau. of Martha L.G. ALLEN and William SIMS.                                  

                                   i.            Maime B. SELLERS 1884 married Thomas L. Scott-William Simpson Sellers´s nephew.

                                   ii.          William "Billy"  SELLERS                              

                                   iii.         Nora  SELLERS b. October 1885 married Wylie Thornton Poe Jr. b. Aug 1874. Nora died in a car accident after 1910 where she is living with mother Amanda Sellers and son. Nancy Josephine Watkins married Wylie Thornton Poe Sr. who believed in the cause of the Union and fought in Company C 1st  Alabama Calvary with his brother  Jesse and cousin Robert Poe.

                                          a. James Walter POE-   b. 1907

                                   iv. James Thomas Jefferson SELLERS -b. June 1888 married Etta Caladonia Hardy b  27 February 1894, died 7 July 1992, daughter of Stephen Ransom Hardy (son of William Allen Lansing Hardy and Mary Ann Elizabeth Meadows of Nixburg, Coosa Co)  and Etta Caladonia MeHarg (daughter of Willis William Archibald MeHarg and Sarah Elizabeth Perkins)

                                          a.   Harold Thomas SELLERS 15 Dec 1916 died July 1992 married Evelyn Hamilton  Children: 

1. Harold Douglas Sellers

2. Ronald Wayne Sellers

 

                      b.    Nellie Mae SELLERS 28 Jan 1920 died December 13, 1932 buried next to Margaret Eleanor Catherine Sellers Aldridge at Elmwood Cemetery   

                      c.    Robert Lionel SELLERS 2 May 1926 died 4 August 1973 in Birmingham. AL married Florence Irene Byerly child Nellie Mae b about 1946   

                                           d.   Margaret Eleanor Catherine SELLERS b. 29 May 1929 died 10 April 2006 Birmingham, AL married Roscoe Claude Aldridge b. 2 December 1926 in Illinois while his father worked at a rubber factory or steel.  Children: 

1.    Thomas Eugene Aldridge b. 29 APR 1950 in Fairfield, AL died November 8, 1989 Charleston SC, married Susan Millicent Taylor Slider, widow, 5 children Benjamin, Misha Michel, Thomas Taylor, Blaire Elizabeth, Charles Brookes

2. Larry Wayne Aldridge  AL b. 1948 married Joan chicldren- 2 girls Alexandra and Courtney

3. Patricia Anne Aldridge b. 1946 married Phillip Brantley children-twin sons Daniel and Patrick Brantley

4. Roscoe Claude Aldridge Jr. b. 1954 1 child -Chase  

 

                                   v. Raymond (not a Sellers)-  b Dec 20, 1897 d Mar 27, 1932 (from a brief marriage?) Sellers Cemetary- in 1900 Amanda Sellers appears as Amanda Saygar.  Could be the name Segar. It appears Raymond is a Saygar/Segar.    

                            

4.         Augustus G. MORRIS CSA b. 17 Oct. 1834 SC Died: 28 August 1905 Homewood, Jefferson buried At Morris Cem.-Shades Valley Cemetery married Harriet J. Susy?  b. Sept. 1831 SC died 4 Jan 1910 buried At Morris Cem.or Acton,  Shades Valley by Brown Service. She had 9 children and 7 were still alive in 1900.

                  A.  Lougenia  G. MORRIS  b. 25 Nov. 1857 SC Death: 26 Apr 1936 m. Stephen Vincent ACTON b: 16 OCT 1858, AL m. 9 OCT 1879 in Jefferson Co., Al died 2 Aug 1934 - AL, Parents:  Zephaniah William Acton, Passey Drucilla Watkins

i.                   Ida Belle ACTON b: 27 AUG 1880 in Jefferson Co, Al m. A. F. Hunter b. June 1876. 4 children: Maurine  26 Aug 1898, Ona Beryl Belle 31 Jul 1899, Stephen Acton 20 Aug 1902, Carl L. 30 Sep 1905

ii.                Harriet “Hattie” Elizabeth ACTON b: 16 OCT 1883 in Jefferson Co, Al married 16 Oct 1901 Richard Henderson Herring Born: 20 Feb 1880 Died: 16 Mar 1948 child: Harry Whiteside Herring 21 Jul 1902

 

                  B.  Malinda MORRIS  b. 1857 SC

                  C.  James M. MORRIS b. Jan. 1860 SC died March 1939 Homewood –never married- buried Morris cemetery most likely

                  D.  Sarah J. MORRIS   b. 1862 AL     

                  E.  Elizabeth MORRIS b. 1864 AL      

                  F.  Augustus J. MORRIS b. 21 February 1867 AL  died 15 June 1889 buried at Morris Cem. across from Palisades Shopping Center and behind a house Shades Valley 

                  G.  Florence MORRIS  b. 1868 AL           

                  H.  Richard R. MORRIS  lived on Columbiana Road b. May 1872 AL died August 1930 married 1894 1st Margaret Austella born Nov. 1874 married died 1905 2nd Pearl b. 1876

i.        Edwin J. MORRIS b Dec 1894

ii.       Harriet Austella MORRIS b 23 April 1906 died 28 April 1906 buried At Morris Cem.-Shades Valley

iii.      Augustus G. 1904

iv.       Jessie Lee female 1908 married James Brock - did   report her Aunt Josephine’s death

v.        Lawrence W. b. Jan. 1910

vi.       Laurette 1913

vii.      Margaret Lillien? 1917

                   I. Thomas Jefferson MORRIS  b. May 1874 AL married about 1896 Hattie Pauline b. June 1873 d. 23 July 1911 buried At Morris Cem.-Shades Valley

                        i.          Leon G. MORRIS b Sept 1896

                        ii.         Thelma I. MORRIS b Sept 1898

                        iii.        Thomas J. Jr. b. 1925

Household:

Name	Relation	Marital Status	Gender	Race	Age	Birthplace	Occupation	Father's Birthplace	Mother's Birthplace
A. G. MORRIS	Self	M	Male	W	44	SC	Farmer	SC	SC
Harriet J. MORRIS	Wife	M	Female	W	43	SC	Keeping House	SC	SC
James M. MORRIS	Son	S	Male	W	20	AL	Farm Laborer	SC	SC
Sarah J. MORRIS	Dau	S	Female	W	17	AL	At Home	SC	SC
Elizabeth MORRIS	Dau	S	Female	W	15	AL	At Home	SC	SC
Arther MORRIS	Son	S	Male	W	13	AL		SC	SC
Florence MORRIS	Dau	S	Female	W	11	AL		SC	SC
Richard MORRIS	Son	S	Male	W	8	AL		SC	SC
Thomas MORRIS	Son	S	Male	W	6	AL		SC	SC

 

Source Information:

	Census Place	Jefferson, Alabama
	Family History Library Film	1254017
	NA Film Number	T9-0017

Page Number

448D

 

5.         Thomas J. MORRIS b. about 1835 SC married about 1854 Louvena/Levina Sellers born Spartanburg SC abt 1835, daughter of Emanuel Sellers b. 1795 Nash Co. NC and Frances “Fannie” Rogers b. Nash/Franklin Co NC. She was Henderson Sellers sister. This Thomas may be nephew or son of James Morris or a cousin and the other Thomas in the family may be a brother to James. Or they could be 2 boys in the family of the same name. I cannot say why there are 2 Thomas names in the family, but they are related.  Thomas  J. went as far as Guntersville, fought in the Civil War and then returned to Spartanburg by 1870. There he and his boys worked in a cotton mill.

            A.         Edward A. MORRIS b. about 1855 Spartanburg, SC married Mary E.

            B.         Frances E. E. MORRIS  b. about 1859 Guntersville, AL

            C.         John MORRIS b  about 1864 Spartanburg, SC

 

6.         Cornelius MORRIS b. Sept. 1839  SC married

1st  Sarah born 1841 SC She had at least 10 children.

2nd  Sarah L. b. Sept 1858 SC m. in 1885.

She had 7 children total, including last 5 on list below

known children-

              

            A.         Josephine MORRIS b.  31 JAN. 1860 AL  married Jesse Buchanan Bailey on 8/21/1878. She was in the 1880 census twice, once at home with parents and once with her new husband b 18 April 1857 AL and 1 year old child next door to her uncle “Gus” Morris    d.  23 April 1949,  Lipscomb, Jefferson, AL buried at Union Cem. By Brown Service of Bessemer, AL  reported by “Mrs. Jesse Brock”  (wife of James Brock)

Children

1.       Naomi "Minnie" Bailey b: 1879

2.       Ida Frances Bailey b: Nov 1882

3.       Jessie Josephine Bailey b: 30 Nov 1884

4.       Lewis Bailey b: Jan 1889

5.       ”Bessie” Elizabeth Bailey b: 8 Oct 1894

            B.         Lafayette “Fayette” MORRIS 1862 AL m. Frances Caroline “Callie” Jones dau. of Henry Lee Jones and Mary Elizabeth Bailey who is buried where her infant babies are buried at Samuel Acton Cemetery

                        i.  Nettie M. MORRIS b. Dec. 9, 1883 died 27 Oct. 1913 and is buried in Union Hill Cemetery lot 14, plot 29 married Joel Byars Bearden

                                                                         a.   Joel Elwyn BEARDEN b: 4 Oct 1909 in , Jefferson, Alabama

                                     b. (m) BEARDEN b: in Alabama

                                     c. Merrill BEARDEN b: 22 Oct 1911 in , Jefferson, Al

                                     d. BEARDEN

                                     e. (m) BEARDEN b: in Alabama

                                     f. BEARDEN b: 27 Oct 1913

                        ii.  infant Morris buried Samuel Acton Cemetery

                        iii. infant Morris buried Samuel Acton Cemetery

 

            C.    Sarah F. MORRIS b. AL 25 November 1865  5 d. 26 March 1939 Croff-Acton Cem.Cem., Jefferson married Perry Lee JONES born: 3 Mar 1861 Shelby  Died: 26 Feb 1936 c 1883, son of Henry Lee Jones and Mary Elizabeth Bailey living with her son Ervan (Irvin) Jones in > 1880 United States Federal Census > Alabama > Shelby > Actons > District 127. She is a descendant of Thomas L. Bailey and Needham Lee. Sarah and Perry live their lives always near Jones, Bailey and Watkins  families.

                   i.       Lela Leone JONES b: 22 Oct 1884 in Jefferson Co., Al m. Cuba Young Bailey

ii.      Hester JONES b: Feb 1886

iii.     Maude Josephine JONES b: 12 Mar 1889 m. John Columbus Bailey

iv.     Ada Frances JONES b: 8 Mar 1892 in , , Al m. Joel Byars Bearden

v.       Samuel Oscar JONES b: 24 Apr 1894 m. Mary Etta Dodd

v.       Jesse JONES b: Abt 1898 in Al m. Self

vi.     Amos P.  JONES b: Abt 1899 in Alabama

vii.    Gracie Effie JONES b: Abt 1901

 

            D.         Maryetta MORRIS 1867

            E.         John H. MORRIS 1869

            F.         William MORRIS 1871

            G.         Robert MORRIS 1873

            H.         Ellen MORRIS 1875

            I.          Henry MORRIS 1878

            J.         Adia MORRIS b March 1881

            K.         Arthur  MORRIS b Aug. 1886-still alive in 1910 (perhaps his full name is Augustus Arthur after his cousin) 

            L.         Annie MORRIS  b. AL Sept. 1888

            M         Lula MORRIS  b. AL March 1893 named after Talullah Sellers her aunt

            N.         Nora MORRIS -  b. Al January 1896

            O.         Ethel  MORRIS   b. AL July 1899 

 

 Household:

Name	Relation	Marital Status	Gender	Race	Age	Birthplace	Occupation	Father's Birthplace	Mother's Birthplace
Cornelius MORRIS	Self	M	Male	W	39	SC	Farmer	SC	SC
Sarah MORRIS	Wife	M	Female	W	37	AL	Keeping House	AL	AL
Josephine MORRIS	Dau	S	Female	W	19	AL	At Home	SC	AL
Laffayette MORRIS	Son	S	Male	W	17	AL	Farm Laborer	SC	AL
Sarah F. MORRIS	Dau	S	Female	W	14	AL	At Home	SC	AL
Maryetta MORRIS	Dau	S	Female	W	12	AL	At Home	SC	AL
John MORRIS	Son	S	Male	W	10	AL	Farm Laborer	SC	AL
William MORRIS	Son	S	Male	W	8	AL		SC	AL
Robert MORRIS	Son	S	Male	W	6	AL		SC	AL
Ellen MORRIS	Dau	S	Female	W	4	AL		SC	AL
Henry MORRIS	Son	S	Male	W	1	AL		SC	AL

 

Source Information:

	Census Place	Jefferson, Alabama
	Family History Library Film	1254017
	NA Film Number	T9-0017
	Page Number	447A

Some Sellers are buried in these cemeteries:

http://files.usgwarchives.org/ al/jefferson/cemeteries/sellers.txt

including Oak Grove Presbyterian Church Cemetery.  Also called the Bailey or Sellers Cemetary.  Located on the south side of Oxmoor Road in Edgewood (Homewood) between I65 and Green Springs Hwy, adjacent to the motel parking lot.