CHARLES'S PAGE
Mickey Souleyret <mickey1s@pacbell.net
Sellers of Stearns, KY et al
My mother was Ava Sellers, born
1896. Brother Thomas
Jefferson Sellers, sister Clara T. Sellers, brother McKinley
(?) (Major), All perhaps of Indian Head, Ky (no longer in
existence.) My mother's mother was a Strunk. She had one
uncle I know of named Charles Zachary Strunk (I was name
Charles Zachary Souleyrette after him.) Any of this ring a
bell.
BTW, Tom (TJ) had two children Elizabeth Louise (Betty Lou)
and Glenn Wood.
I run dry right about there.
I hope I've connected into some relatives and I can learn
more. If not, sorry to have bothered you.
Charles
CHARLES, Thanks for helping and Will send copy of this to STELLA also
for her help. We do have a Little Info on our Pulaski Co, KY page =
STRUNKS - Perhaps you could help their also =
http://www.netins.net/showcase/sellerfamily/kypulask.htm
marie, iowa
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Mickey Souleyret wrote:
> The person with the best collection of information is my
> sister-in-law, Stella Flowers Souleyrette in Upton, Ky.
> I'll make some notes, but Stella has something of a family history.
> Try Stella Souleyrette, 14476 S. Dixie Hwy., Upton, KY.
42784. Also,
>
> marie sellers hollinger wrote:
>
>> CHARLES - I see the following census, etc= in PULASKI CO, KY =
>> STEARNS,KY=
>> Can you Help Fill in ANY Info on these Families?=
>> ========
>> ANY SELLERS know these families?msh
>> =========
>>
>> 1900 PULASKI CO, KY census=
>> MAGGIE SELLARS 42 KY/FEB/1858 Suspect it could be my
grandmother.
>> DAU OF A. STRUNK
>> ALL living with A. STRUNK
>> T.J. SELLERS 7 KY/DEC 1893 Thomas Jefferson Sellers (I'm
suspect of
>> birth date)
>>
Married to Mable
>> (?), two children, Glenn Wood and Elizabeth
Louise (Betty Lou)
>
>> WILLIAM MCKINLEY SELLERS 3 KY/NOV 1896 Brother of above, never
>> married.
>
>> A.W.SELLERS 6F KY/4/1894 Ava Western Sellers born 1896,
married
>> Lon Souleyrette with two sons, Dumont Alden and Charles Zachary.
>> ====
>> Didn't See this/their marriage Sure wish I could find
these
>> =======
>> There is a JOHN F. SELLERS married Pulaski Co, Ky to Sarah STRUNK=
>> =======
>> 1900 PULASKI CO, KY=
>> JOHN F. SELLERS 57 KY /NOV 1842
>> SARAH 35 KY
>> LOUIS E. 10M KY
>> MARETHA A. 8 KY
>> STEPHEN H. 6 KY
>> FRANK 2 KY
>> =====
>> J. R. SELLER 64 KY
>> FRANCES 62 KY, WIFE
>> PHIL 17 KY , SON
>> JACK 13, KY, GRANDSON
>> ======
>> JACK SELLERS 38 KY
>> MILLEY 27 KY
>> FRANK 9M KY
>> JESSIE 7 KY
>> WALTER 5 KY
>> LESLIE 3 KY
>> EFFIE TUCKER 11 KY , NEICE
>> ========
>> 1910 PULASKI CO, KY = Again, seems to be my mother's family,
Ava
>> Western, Thomas Jefferson and William McKinley. Carrie T may
have
>> been known to me as "Aunt Toney"
>> MAGGIE SELLERS 50 KY
>> CARRIE T. 17 KY Known to me as Clara Tony (married to a Woods)
>> THOMAS J. 16 KY
>> AVA W. 15 KY I'm very certain she was born in 1896.
>> WM M. 13 KY
>> ======
>> YOU should be able to Order Death Certificate and Obit on this
>> Family - I do have for Ava and her husband, my father Lon.
I'll see
>> what I can dig up.
>> Do You have?
>> marie, iowa
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NOW, I notice another cc = marie1s@pacbell.net AND I didn't send to them
- sorry.
BUT, pulling out the JOHN R. SELLERS book, I see Harold SELLERS shows =
JOHN R. SELLERS 1794/1873/79
son = Son BAILEY SELLERS 1821/1883
and LUCY ANN CARRIGAN 1836/1924 both WayneCo/McCreary Co, KY
Son THOMAS JEFFERSON 1861/1899 WAYNE/MCCREARY CO, KY
married ca 1891 Wayne Co, Ky Mary Margaret "Maggie" STRUNKC 1856/?
and KIDS =
CLARA TONLY JUNE 30,1892/AUG 1973 MI md ORAN WOODS
THOMAS JEFFERSON SELLERS DEC 7,1893/APR 26,1952
md MABEL E. TRAINHAM JULY 30,1893/APR 23,1954. SOMERSET CITY CEM,
PULASKI CO, KY
AVA WESTERN APR 13, 1895/JUN 18/1937 md LON SOULETRETTE
WM MCKINLEY NOV 5, 1896/JUL 23, 1965 SOMERSET CEM, PULASKI CO,KY
====
HAROLD E. SELLERS wrote/researched this and use to be member, but,
don't believe the old e-mail address was good - his page=
http://www.netins.net/showcase/sellerfamily/harold.htm
marie, iowa
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Charles Souleyret wrote:
> Marie, my Pacbell.net is down and it will be a few
> days to get out. I think this yahoo system will work.
> I use csouleyret@yahoo.com here. If so, write to my
> sister-in-law with family history and dates,
> Stella Souleyrette
> 14476 So. Dixie Hwy
> Upton, Ky 42785.
> At one time they had an
CHARLES - Thanks for Sharing - Perhaps some of our KY SELLERS will
recognize
these names -
Otherwise, we read a 1900 KY census on SELLERS and look for
SELLERS family with kids named
AVA, THOMAS, CLARA, MCKINLEY, MAJOR,
And YOU can advise where Indian Head, KY is NOW=
ALSO, When/Where ANY KIDS married=
IF you Connect to SELLERS , You will Never Bother us - We are searching
for Unknowns = We share what we have and Search for the rest -
SEND the County or Town in KY = SO others will look up their info there
-
----
AND AVA SELLERS may have Birth Certificate and should have Death
Certificate and OBIT - do You have - Please Share-
Other SELLERS need your info on Ava and ANY of her brothers/sisters -
esp Where Are We?
marie, iowa
Sherri Souleyrette Hall forwarded a message from you;
and I am sending information
on "US" which I sent to her yeserday!
I am a bit confused with your
addresses but guess all is OK!
I remember some time ago, that
my husband Chuck [Charles] had
some correspondence with you
about the SELLERS in his
lineage! I believe he
sent the info to Sherri's Mom {Stella}.
You may or may not know the reason for the
> difference in name spellings. Briefly, Dumont's name
> was 'registered' at birth and Lon was using the 'new'
> spelling! Charles' ["Chuck" is preferred] was not
> registered. Ava told Chuck that Dr. Guthrie was drunk at
> the time he attended Ava on December 21, 1926! When Chuck
> needed a birth certificate for enlistment in the military,
> one had to be 'manufactured' [can't think of the legal
> term]. "Sworn to" and the information taken from Lon's
> birth certificate - which had the Souleyret spelling. Chuck
> decided to "live" with that because of his military records,
> etc.
>
>
I am sending the info below for your records,
> you may have it or some of it from Stella or her daughter,
> Sherri; but I put this info together for Sherri yesterday -
> so it is as current as it can be right now.
>
Hope this is some help in filling in "genie" blanks
which you may have.
>
>
Feel free to be in touch if we can answer any
> questions.
>
> {I am very sorry if this arrives on your screen in a
> 'splattered' configuration....difficult to read! Sometimes
> that happens]
>
> Best
wishes Mickey [FYI
- my birth
> certificate says "Floydena" - but when we lived in Virginia,
> I had my name Legally changed to "Marie F Souleyret"].
>
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>
> AVA
SELLERS SOULEYRET [that is name on her
> grave!]
>
> >>
> >> We
have no 'records' regarding birth, baptism,
> >> death for her.
> >>
>
>>
Chuck is certain his Mom was born in 1896.
> >> Ava told Charles that she was 2 years older than Lon,
> >> and that Lon was "uncomfortable" with that fact.
> >> She died at home in Danville, Ky.
> >>
> >> >
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> >>
> >>
>
>>
Charles Zachary Souleyret Lon
> >> Souleyret
Ava Sellers
>
>>
B: 21 December 1926, Danville, Boyle
> >> County, Kentucky
>
>>
M: 10 August 1952 , Baltimore, Maryland
> >> - A Methodist Church Parsonage
>
>>
{Floydena} Marie
> >> MacTAGGART
Floyd Charles MacTaggart Irma
> >> Marie Bowman
>
>>
B: 28 May 1927, Strawberry
> >> Point, Clayton County, Iowa
> >>
>
>>
Children: Ava Marie B: 25 April 1959
> >> - Kaiser Hospital, Oakland, Alameda County, California
>
>>
Chr'nd: 9
> >> Aug 1959-Westminster Presby. Church, Hayward, California
> >>
>
>>
M. 3
> >> Feb 1984 - Calvary Church, Santa Ana, Orange County,
> >> California
>
>>
Thomas Joseph Cabelus
> >> III Thomas Joseph Cabelus
II Lorraine Collani
>
>>
B:
> >> 3 April 1959
> >>
>
>>
Robin Carol B: 20 Aug
> >> 1960- Kaiser Hospital, Oakland, Alameda County,
> >> California
>
>>
Chr'nd:
> >> 18 Dec. 1960 -Westminster Presby.Church, Hayward,
> >> California
>
>>
M:
> >> 23 June 1984 - Calvary Church, Santa Ana, Orange County,
> >> California
>
>>
Craig William
> >>
Franzen
Victor
Franzen
Nellie
> >> Murray
>
>>
B:
> >> 25 May 1958 -Glendale, Los Angeles County, California
> >>
>
>>
Children: Michael William B:
> >> 15 August 1992, St. Joseph's Hospital,
> >>
>
>>
Orange, Orange
> >> County, Calif.
>
>>
Lisa
> >>
Marie
B 19 May 1994, St. Joseph's
> >> Hospital
> >>
> >>
> >> Orange, Orange County, Calif.
> >>
> >>
09/14/2000 Ava is employed as Clinical
> >> Supervisor, Telemetry Dept., Fountain Valley Regional
> >> Hospital, Fountain Valley, California. Tom is employed
> >> by Bell Telephone Company. Ava and Tom live in
> >> Westminster, Orange County, California
> >>
> >> Robin is a
Pediatrics Intensive Care Nurse, for
> >> Children's Hospital of Orange County, in Orange,
> >> California. Craig is employed as a Computer
Programer
> >> for a company in Orange, California.
> >>
Michael began 3rd grade. Lisa began 1st
> >> grade.
> >> ------
> --------------------------------------------------------------
Somewhere I have an account of Chuck's recollection
of Major 'shooting' a man to death. I'll locate it and
send it on. OK?
Thanks - best wishes Mickey
Marie: I 'lifted this' from email message to Sherri - I suspect
she will send you what I sent to
her;
but she is busy with reunion Souleyrette/Souleyret at the moment. So.....
here is what Chuck recalls of the Major - gun - shooting incident.
take care Mickey
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LON told Charles this
story: A neighbor woman came pounding on Ava's front door. When
Ava admitted the woman, the woman said her husband was
drunk and beating her. Major was
upstairs sleeping. The drunken neighbor came
bursting through the front door, yelling loudly and
using profane language; which awaken Major. Major
came half way down the stairs, and when
the drunken man saw him, he cursed and threatened
Major. Without saying a word, Major turned
and went back up the stairs; picked up Lon's
pistol, came back downstairs, and, without saying a
word, shot the neighbor to death!
Whereupon, Major disappeared.
Lon and Tom Sellers spent a lot of time and effort searching for Major. When
they located
him, they convinced him that he must return to Danville, he would not be imprisoned, but he would
be "wanted' until he cleared the matter up. According to
Lon, that is exactly what happened, and
Major was never jailed.
Chuck's opinion is that the only thing Major could have been jailed for would
have been
"murder," and had he been convicted of murder, Charles
doesn't believe he would have seen Uncle
Major again! Major would have been executed or given a life
sentence.
Chuck remembers walking with Uncle Maj when Chuck was about 4 years old.
In fact,
every time Uncle Major came to visit, he and Chuck went for long
walks.
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Charles remembers an Aunt Sarah [Sara] whose last name was Roberts; he doesn't
know
how that relationship worked!
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From:
Charles Souleyret
<msouleyret@earthlink.net>
To:
Marie SellersHollinger
<mari@netins.net>, nana_maria@yahoo.com
MARIE AND ROSE MARY
In the 'facts' I sent about Charles Souleyret, I made a huge
error!
Daughter Ava and Tom Cabelus were married on 3 February
1996;
I read over the info before I hit the clicked
"send".....but......
{they began dating in highschool - dated in college- but
Ava moved to California to be near us [she graduated from
Geo. Mason Univ. in Fairfax, VA]...after a few years they
lost touch. In 1992, Tom wrote a postcard -hoping the
address would be correct -to say he had a nephew. Robin and
Craig had just had Michael a couple of months earlier! One
thing lead to another - and in 1996 they were married.
Ending the bicoastal courtship!!! Lisa and Michael were
part of the wedding party.}
Isn't that romantic????
Robin and Craig met at Disneyland where they both
worked!!!
More info than you wanted to know, but......
Looking forward to see you, RoseMary at the reunion on 7
Oct..
Marie: I'll keep alert for any other connections to Sellers
- doubt there is any, but you never can tell.
Best wishes to you both!
Mickey in Westminster, California
Subject:
Re:
SELLERS/STRUNKS/PULASKI CO, KY
Date:
Sun, 17
Sep 2000 00:31:33 -0700
From:
Charles
Souleyret <msouleyret@earthlink.net>
Hi, Marie;
Charles Souleyret here. My wife Marie is going to write you tomorrow
about the following. It
seems to me all of your info is incorrect. My mother was A.W.Sellers,
(Ava Western Sellers);
however, that does not give me an inside track. I've
learned more from Sherri than I did from all of
my family.
Anyway, it's just after midnight here and all eyes are blurred.
Oh, one more thing, my wife Marie MacTaggart Souleyret was wondering where
in Iowa you live.
My wife grew up in Strawberry Point, Iowa. It's still a
"hotbed" of MacTaggarts. If you don't mind,
let her know where you live. We've moved to Westminster (Orange
County) Ca. My children,
Ava and Robin grew up in the S.F. Bay area (Hayward).
Cheers and off to bed.
Chuck
PS You must have heard about the big Souleyret and Souleyrette and
Souleret (all the same family)
blow out in Upton, Ky., on 7 October. We expect to double the
population of Upton. Wife Marie
is typing up name tags from 2 x 4 shipping labels and she is well over the
100 mark and more
coming in every day.
Again, Cheers
marie sellers hollinger wrote:
Lost a couple names from these families = PLEASE forward
1900 PULASKI CO, KY=
T.J. SELLERS 6,KY, BORN DEC 1893
GRANDSON of A. STRUNK
A.W. SELLERS 6 KY, BORN APRIL 1894
GRANDDAUGHTER OF A. STRUNK
MAGGIE SELLARS 42 KY, BORN FEB 1858
DAUGHTER OF A. STRUNK
WM MCKINLEY SELLERS 3KY, NOV 1896
GRANDSON OF A. STRUNK
THERE should be More/Another Child, but, didn't see=fast check
marie, iowa
CHARLES, Thanks, Yes, Please send any corrections, so we can post same
on these county pages,etc.
I was born in Decatur Co, IA, middle of the state, right on the MO
border. I believe in Cerro Gordo Co, IA , middle of the state, almost on
the MN border.
IF the SOULEYRET reunion looks like it connects to SELLERS, we can post
it on the HARDIN CO, KY page and send it thru this discussion group to
advise all. Thanks, marie, iowa
===========
Charles Souleyret wrote:
> Hi, Marie;
> Charles Souleyret here. My wife Marie is going to write you
tomorrow
> about the following. It seems to me all of your info is
incorrect.
> My mother was A.W.Sellers, (Ava Western Sellers); however, that does
> not give me an inside track. I've learned more from
Sherri than I
> did from all of my family.
> Anyway, it's just after midnight here and all eyes are blurred.
> Oh, one more thing, my wife Marie MacTaggart Souleyret was wondering
> where in Iowa you live. My wife grew up in Strawberry Point,
Iowa.
> It's still a "hotbed" of MacTaggarts. If you don't
mind, let her know
> where you live. We've moved to Westminster (Orange County)
Ca. My
> children, Ava and Robin grew up in the S.F. Bay area (Hayward).
> Cheers and off to bed.
> Chuck
> PS You must have heard about the big Souleyret and Souleyrette
and
> Souleret (all the same family) blow out in Upton, Ky., on 7 October.
> We expect to double the population of Upton. Wife Marie is typing
up
> name tags from 2 x 4 shipping labels and she is well over the 100 mark
> and more coming in every day.
> Again, Cheers
>
From:
Charles & Marie
Souleyret <msouleyret@earthlink.net>
I'm not sure just how I should post this, but I now have written evidence
that Ava
Western Sellers was born on April 13, 1896, and NOT in 1895 as previously
reported.
More than likely Sherri Hall will be making a report also. The
confirmation of
birth date comes from Ava's scholarship application to Eastern Kentucky
University
in 1914. The deal was that if Ava (and others) would agree to go back
into the
hills and teach then EKU would give a full scholarship to whoever.
If any others have a connection to EKU (at Richmond, KY) "Lainhart,
Sue"
<Sue.Lainhart@eku.edu> is the person to contact. She was very
helpful to me.
Charles Zachary Souleyret (son of Ava Western Sellers Souleyret/te & Lon
Souleyret/te)