1856 =(Where 1850?)
(ck 1860 Taylor Co,IA)
clay twn - Davis SELLERS 28 Oh (1 yr in state)(check
1880
Cedar Co,Ia-same?)
Mary J.
20 Nc
Luther
2 Ill
Francis
1f Ill
NO Sellers/Hinsons
1860 HARDIN CO, IOWA
GEORGE SELLERS 39,OH,
M.J.36F IN
E. 17M IL
S. 15F IL
G. 11M OH
A 8F IL
M.E. 6F IL
C. 4M IL
1870 HARDIN CO, IOWA
David SELLERS 1830 Oh (ck 1860 Taylor Co,IA)
Mary 1835 Nc
Luther 1854 Il
Francis 1855f Il
John 1857 Ia
Malinda 1859 Ia (married John McMillian
Louisa 1860 Ia
T.A. 1866m Ia (twin)
T.W. 1866m Ia (twin)
Loyd 1868 Ia (married Anna Maria Kerner)
1880 HARDIN CO, IOWA
(NOT on soundex)
1900 HARDIN CO, IOWA
(NOT on soundex)
"HISTORY OF HARDIN COUNTY, IOWA 1883 Page 979
On Friday, February 28, 1868, Enos B. Sellers was in Eldora with
his father.
They rode home together, and on their arrival found John B. Henderson
and
Charles Flemming in the house. Enos walked up to Flemming,
and, taking
deliberate aim with a revolver, shot him through the right breast.
Sellers
was at once arrested, taken to Eldora and a preliminary examination
held.
The evidence all tended to conclusively show that he was insane,
and
therefore not responsible for the deed. He was taken to and
confined in the
Insane Asylum at Independence."
> I can supply a little more information about the men who are named
within
> the article:
>
1. Enos' father is George Sellers, my 2g-grandfather.
2. Enos is George's oldest child -- by his first wife, Indiana
Ballah who
d. 6 Sep 1846 (probably in Vermilion Co., Illinois,
or in Vermillion Co.,
Indiana).
3. Charles Fleming is the second son of John William and Angeline
(Sellers
-- or Dunn) Fleming. This Fleming family was resident in the
New Boston
area of Mercer County, Illinois, while
Jacob Sellers and his children's
families lived there in the early and mid-1850s. Angeline
is, I believe,
the older child of George Sellers' mother, Deborah Dunn -- who was
born
prior to Deborah Dunn's marriage to Jacob Sellers of 1793, and is
the
step-daughter of Jacob Sellers, Deborah Dunn's [second (?)] husband.
Charles Fleming, thus, is George's nephew and (in a rather complicated
fashion) Enos' first cousin.
4. Charles Fleming and George Sellers' next younger brother,
Davis John
Sellers, both served in the same Iowa infantry regiment during the
Civil War
-- the 32nd Iowa Volunteer Infantry. Davis became very ill
during his
service and eventually received an invalid's pension therefrom.
Charles
Fleming accompanied his uncle on the steamboat as they were shipped
north on
the Mississippi to receive their discharge papers. Charles
was his Uncle
Davis' nurse during that steamboat trip.
5. John B. Henderson was Enos' uncle by marriage and was George
Sellers'
brother-in-law. John married George's second younger sister,
Wealthy
(Sellers) Henderson. The Henderson family removed from Mercer
County,
Illinois, to Hardin County, Iowa, before George Sellers and his
family did.
Both these families were enumerated in Steady Run Township, Keokuk
County,
Iowa, in the 1850 federal census returns.
6. The electronic source, the Illinois Marriages Index, gives
the following
citation: "Enos B. Sellers married Virginia J. Bollman on
20 February 1868
in Rock Island County, Illinois. (Volume C, p. 106, License
# 5656)." I do
not know whether this is the same Enos B. Sellers, or not.