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The Gleaner - June 22, 1916
Contributed by NORA JACKSON
Mr. B. R. Sellars, Prominent Citizen and Business Man,
Dead.
The county has sustained a distinct loss in the death of
Benjamin
Rainey Sellars, who passed away at his home in Burlington Tuesday
p.m.
about 8
o'clock. For some months his health had not been very
good.
Sunday night he was stricken with paralysis and never
rallied. The funeral
was
conducted from the Presbyterian church yesterday afternoon at 5
o'clock By
his
Pastor,
Rev. B
Melver, in the presence of a large concourse of friends,
and the
interment
was in Pine Hill Cemetery.
Mr. Sellars was the eldest son of the late Dr. B. A.
Sellars
and was 61 years of age. He was born near Long's Mills, Randolph county.
He is
survived by his aged mother, his widow, who was Miss Fannie
Cheek of
Orange
county,
three
children - one boy and two girls, six brothers and four
sisters,
as follows:
Thomas
L., D. Ernest, Charles V. Walter R., of Burlington;
Fred
Sellars
of
Kansas; John Sellars of Pennsylvania; Mrs. Mary Walker,
Mrs. J.
H. Brooks of Burlington; Mrs. Eliza White near Mebane; Mrs.
H. H.
Jordan of
Gastonia.
More than
thirty years ago Mr. Sellars and his father
established
the
mercantile firm of B. A. Sellars & Son and ever since he has
been
the
judicious business man that has made the house the leading
dry goods
house of this county. Mr. Sellars for many years has been prominent
in the
business
life of Burlington and has helped to direct the business of
some of
the
strongest institutions of this town. He was at one time a
member of
the Board of County Commissioners and at the time of his death was
Chairman
of the
Board of Trustees of the City Graded School