TEXAS, FAYETTE CO(made in 1837 from Bastrop, Colorado)
lays next to
From: Christine Smith [ccartersmith@mac.com] Re: Isaac Sellers 1842/1930 letter 3-27-1922 to his Nephew Frank > Andrews > about Sellers and Andrews family
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Robinson Cemetery
NEAR RUTERSVILLE, TEXAS
Burial place for Lucinda & George Robinson and four sons:
Thomas, Vincent, Oliver, and Robert James
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According to the Joe Cole Survey of 1959, this cemetery is located 3 miles
east of Rutersville on the John Baron Estate. Word has it that several of
the Robinsons were teachers at the Rutersville College and Military School
and that one of them was hung while teaching there. There is a rock vault
and several other graves at this site.
Until recently the small cemetery was so overgrown with underbrush that one could not even enter it. The Griffin family had to use a chain saw to cut out the undergrowth around their ancestors' graves. The cemetery is enclosed with a decorative iron fence, and the headstones are still legible.
In the Robinson folder in the Freytag Files of the Fayette Heritage Archives, there is an abstract from "The Flatonia Argus" of Thursday, November 20, 1879. It is an obituary which states that Robert J. Robinson was born in Brazoria County, Texas, 25 January 1831 and he belonged to one of the "old colonial families of Austin's second colony, his parents having emigrated from Mississippi with that colony."
Robert J. Robinson died near Columbus, Colorado County on the 2 of November 1879. Fred L. Allen was quoted as saying, "We were called upon to lay him by the side of most of his family in the old Rutersville grave yard to await the resurrection."
George and Lucinda Robinson were the parents of V. G. (Vincent), J. R. (Robert J.), Thomas, and O. V. (Oliver).
George Robinson is listed in the Handbook of Texas as follows:
George Robinson, one of Stephen F. Austin's Old Three Hundred, was in Texas prior to November 28, 1823, when he subscribed twenty bushels of corn to raise funds to send Erasmo Seguin as Texas deputy to the Mexican Congress. Robinson received title to a sitio of land in present Brazoria County on July 8, 1824. On February 2, 1825, he wrote Austin requesting an additional half-league of land, preferable on the San Bernard River, and reported that his father was on the way to join the colony in Texas. The census of 1826 classified George Robinson as a farmer and stock raiser, aged between twenty-five and forty. His household included his wife, Lucinda, two sons, and a daughter. In February 1830, he took over operation of the ferry at San Felipe de Austin.
from Terri Leinneweber [mterril@rcn.com]
Sec V. Ch.21, Fayette TX
C450 s: COLLUM, Lucinda
J SELLERS,
Isaac
25 Mar 1841
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1846 FAYETTE CO, TX, POLL TAX=
ROBERT SELLERS
1850 FAYETTE CO, TX=
from GEORGIA (SELLERS in Texas)
chickflet@aristotle.net
1850 Fayette County, TX - created 1837 out of Bastrop and Colorado
Counties.
Robert Sellers married Margaret
Miller 10 May 1832 Gibson Co., TN
Robert Sellers married Mrs. Nancy
Sellers Wallace 30 Sep 1841,
Wilson Co., TN
#25 Sellers,
Robert 41 TN son of
Isaac Sellers Sr. and Elizabeth Huddleston
of Gibson Co., TN
Nancy 38 TN
nee Sellers Wallace; daughter of Laird Sellers &
Annie Hackney; widow of Sam'l Wallace
Martha 15 TN
[Robert's dau by first marriage to
Margaret Miller]
Leathy 14 TN
[Wallace; Nancy's dau by marriage to Samuel Wallace]
Elizabeth 13 TN [Robert's dau by
first marriage to Margaret Miller]
John 12
TX [Wallace; Nancy's son by marriage to Samuel Wallace]
Isaac 8
TN
Nancy 3
TX
Robert 10/12 TX
Wallace,
Laird 19
TN [Nancy's son by marriage to Samuel Wallace]
#360 Harper,
Thomas 27 TN
Lucinda [Collum] 24 AR first married William Isaac Sellers,
from Gibson Co., TN, son of Isaac Sellers Sr.
Sellers,
Stephen 10 TX
William 5 TX
Harper,
Francis 1/12 TX male
1860 FAYETTE CO, TX =
Sellers 346b
F C Seller Fayette, TX 31 abt 1829 Tennessee Male
Mary W Seller Fayette, TX 24 abt 1836 Tennessee Female
F A Seller Fayette, TX 3 abt 1857 Texas Female
Namelett Seller Fayette, TX 11.12 abt 1859 Texas Male
next HENRY GAGE 30 TN
Sellers, Finis
From: A&J DaCosta <adacosta@ktc.com>
1870 FAYETTE Co TEXAS Allen SELLERS- 52-B 1818-Mississippi, Eliza Ann- 46-b 1824- Mi. James 16-b Mi. Felix 13-b Mi. Margaret 10-b Mi. Jeff Davis 7-b Mi. Allen 22- b Mi.
1870 Fayette Co Texas:
Page 282-B 7 Nov 1870-
John Sellers-age 20 W.--Farm Hand b.MS-----Family NO. 699 659 Eliza J.
16--W. b.Texas Decker Wallace B--15 --Field Hand--
I Believe that this is brother Of Allen Sedora Sellers-son of Allen D.
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1870 FAYETTE CO, TX
Allen Sellers Between Halletsville Road and Buckners Creek, Fayette, TX abt 1818 Michigan White Male (Michigan=MS,msh)
Eliza Ann Sellers Between Halletsville Road and Buckners Creek, Fayette, TX abt 1844 Michigan White Female
James Sellers Between Halletsville Road and Buckners Creek, Fayette, TX abt 1854 Michigan White Male
WM DECKER 15 TX, field hand
next
John Sellers Between Halletsville Road and Buckners Creek, Fayette, TX abt 1850 Mei White Male
Eliza J Sellers Between Halletsville Road and Buckners Creek, Fayette, TX abt 1854 Texas White Female
Felix Sellers 15 MS, field hand
Margaret Sellers 10 TX
Jeff Davis Sellers 7 TX
ALLEN Sellers 22 MS, farm hand
next
JOSEPH AND ELIZ VOLTAN? 59/28 MS
next
JOHN AND LIZZY HOLIBY
next
HEZIKIAH and VERBALINE HOLIBY
1870 Fayette County Texas Color
Birth
Do not have page #
Sellers, Finis M age 42
W
Tennessee
Mary
F age
34
"
Adline
F age 13
W
Texas
Robert
M age
10
"
Wm.
H
M age
9
"
Martha
F age
5
"
Mary
F age 2
W
"
Baby Gender unknown age 4/12 Months "
1870 FAYETTE CO, TX
ISAAC SELLERS, PAGE 519
From: GEORGIA
chickflet <chickflet@aristotle.net>
1870 Fayette
County, Texas Census:
Oso PO:
p. 450B:765:
Sellers,
Finis
42 M W TN; farmer
$2,500/1,000; son
of Robert Sellers and Rebecca Fletcher; grandson of
Jacob Sellers and
Anna Scott
Mary
34 F W TN
Adeline
13 F W TX
Robert
10 M W TX
William
C.
9 M W TX
Martha
5 F W TX
Mary
2 F W TX
"Baby"
4/12 F W TX July
LaGuire,
Sarah
66 F W GA
La Grange PO:
p. 519:229
Sellers,
Isaac
27 M W TN lawyer $700/125;
son of Robert
Sellers & Nancy Stuart Sellers
Eugenia H.
25 F W AL nee Blanton
Robert
S.
3 M W TX
Deckard,
Elizabeth
40 F W TN
Georgia L.
Fletcher
chickflet@aristotle.net
From:
chickflet <chickflet@aristotle.net>
The Finis Sellers in 1870 Fayette Co., Texas is Finis Ewing
Sellers born
1829 Gibson County, Tennessee, son of Robert Sellers
(who died 1838 in
Fayette Co., TX) and Rebecca Fletcher. Rebecca remarried Richard Hilburn,
who she later divorced.
Georgia
From:
"M.Georgia Rivera"
<georgia@tisd.net>
Subject: Harriet Francis Harper Tx
Hi Rooters,
I have information and then a question.
I found the following on the LDS site:
Harriet Francis Harper
b. Aug. 28, 1850 Huntsville Tx
d. July 10, 1937 Collin Tx
buried July 12, 1937 Grand Prairie Dallas Tx Southland Cem.
She is listed as the child of Thomas and Lucinda Harper.
Thomas and Lucinda are my gggrand parents and they didn't have a child
named Harriet Francis. They had a son named Francis Marion who
was
born in Fayette co Tx in 1850. The LDS listed Lucinda's two sons
from a former marriage
Stephen and William Sellers. Thomas, Lucinda, Stephen, William and
Francis are all listed on the 1850 Federal Census in Fayette co
Texas. The LDS didn't have any additional information about any of
these individual so I don't know who was being researched but I
suspect it was Harriet because she is the only one that didn't belong
in the group.
Now for the question...how do I get the error fixed? I have the
census with Francis listed as a male child born in 1850. He is listed
with the Sellers boys. Will that be enough?
Thanks
georgia@tisd.net
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From:
"M.Georgia"
<georgia@tisd.net>
To:
mari@netins.net
http://genconnect.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Tx/Fayette?read=23
Subject: Harper Va Tenn Ala Ark Tex
Looking for anyone researching this Harper line
Josiah Harper Sr Smith co Tenn...he was on the 1820 census. His son
was Josiah Jr who had a son Thomas Wesley Harper in 1823 in Tenn. He
had two children prior to 1820 a son and daughter names unknown to
me. He went to Ala where his son Robert Hamilton Harper was born in
1833. He then went to Ark where his son Benjamin Franklin 1836 and
daughter Rebecca Jane 1841 were born. He then moved his family to
Fayette County Texas near La Grange. Where he died in 1859.
Josiah was a Primitive Baptist Elder in Fayette co Tx.
He may have had older children named John, Josiah, Sally, and Rachel.
Thomas Wesley Harper married Lucinda (Cook) McCollum Sellers. She had
two sons when he married her William and Steven. They had a son
named Francis Marion Harper. Francis married first Mary Caine who
died and then Nancy (Booth)Ledbetter.
Please contact me if you see a connection
Thanks
MGeorgia
georgia@tisd.net
lucretia56@hotmail.com
Sun 10/6/2002 8:25 PM
I recently went to Fayette Co Texas to do genealogy research. I believe John H. Baker to be my GGGrandfather. The wife's maiden name may have been Lane but am unsure of this. I found the following document:
Estate of the Minors
John H. Baker
John H. Baker represents that his wife, M.J. Baker, had died in 1873, leaving minor children, to wit: John T., Mary A., Mattie., William A., Fannie, Jennie & Green.
He further declares that there being "about one thousand dollars worth of property or cash "due and coming from the Estate of the grand father of said minors in the State of Georgia," that he is the father of the minors, and asks to be appt their guardian. (Attorney in the case was Isaac Sellers.) Filed 3/21/1874
He was appt with bond $2000.00 Sureties of John L. House, C.R. Cunningham, Date 3/21/1874
In his first and only report to the Court, the guardian declares that he had received nothing from minors' grandfather's estate in that when it was settled in Georigia, it was insolvent.
Does anyone know about this John H. Baker? Thanks for any input or info.
DEATH CERTIFICATES
SAM BEN SELLERS born July 16, 1873 TX, died July 27, 1940 Fayette Co., TX, son of MEL SELLERS and MOLLIE BROWN
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