| Name: SELLERS,
WILLIAM |
| Rank: Private |
| Enlisted: age
20 |
| Service History:
Absent sick: Winchester, Va., 25 May 1862; Cross Keys, 8 Jun 1862;
Cold Harbor, 27 Jun 1862; Malvern Hill, 2 Jul 1862; Cedar Mt., Va., 9
Aug 1862. Present: Hazel River, 23 Aug 1862; Manassas Junction &
Manassas Plains, 27-30 Aug 1862; Chantilly, Va., 1 Sep 1862; Harper's
Ferry, 13 Sep 1862. Mortally wounded: Sharpsburg 17 Sep 1862. |
| Date of Birth: 1842 |
Place of Birth: Alabama |
| Date of Death: 17
September 1862 |
Place of Death: Maryland |
| Buried: Maryland |
| Father: Thomas
Sellers (b 4 October 1813 in Sampson County, North Carolina, d 15
October 1899 in Geneva County, Alabama; son of William Sellers and Nancy
Moye) |
| Mother: Mary
Ann Kinsaul (b 1821, d 1867; daughter of John Kinsaul and Sarah A. Moye) |
| Spouse(s): Elizabeth
Jane Hood (b 22 October 1836 in Alabama, d 24 June 1918 in Samson,
Geneva County, Alabama; married 1860; daughter of Daniel Stone Hood and
Elizabeth Jane Jernigan) |
| Children: Daniel
T., Mary Jane, Brown Lee |
| Occupation: Farm
laborer |
| Residence(s): High
Bluff, Dale
County, Alabama |
| Other:
Claim filed 15 Jan 1863. Eliza J. Sellers, widow, High Bluff, Dale
County, Alabama. No des. list.-Verified 20 Jan 1865. |
| Photographs:
Parents Thomas and Mary Ann Sellers, Mt. Gilead Primitive Baptist
Cemetery, Geneva County, Alabama
|
| Submitter:
Georgia V. Fleming |
E-mail: hyacinth@ala.net |
