Roane-Rhea-Mcminn County TN Archives Biographies.....Sellers, Micah January 13, 1786 - November 23, 1870
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Sketches Of



Tennessee's Pioneer Baptist Preachers



 MICAH H. SELLERS



(pages 473 - 474)



        Micah H. Sellers was born in North Carolina, January 13, 1786. In his

seventeenth year he professed faith in Christ. With his conversion came

impressions to preach, but he struggled against his impressions of duty for

several years. In 1809, or thereabout, after a protracted delay and painful

kicking against the goads, he began his ministry, with little education and

under very "unfavorable circumstances," but with a keen sense of responsibility

and a fixed purpose to qualify himself as best he could by the study of the

Scriptures for his high calling as a minister of Christ. Little is known of his

early ministry, which was in North Carolina, but we are told that he had a

"strong mind, an indomitable will, great energy, and ardent zeal for the cause

of Christ; that he was an original thinker, and at length attained to a great

knowledge of the Bible."



        Somewhere between 1812 and 1815 he came to Tennessee, settling in the

Hiwassee district. He was ordained in 1820 by Little Emory Church. He was

instrumental in gathering and organizing most of the older churches of the

Hiwassee Association, south of the river, and is credited with baptizing the

first convert ever baptized in the Hiwassee district before its purchase from

the Indians.



        At the organization of the Hiwassee Association at Pisgah meeting-house,

"May, the fourth Saturday, 1823," Micah Sellers was clerk. In 1829 he was chosen

Moderator, and was reelected Moderator of that body for thirty-eight consecutive

years (till 1867), with the exception of two years. As a presiding officer and

as a preacher his manner and bearing were dignified and impressive. His language

was chaste and his style attractive - all acquired from the classic English of

the King James' version of the Bible, which was his daily companion.



        The theme with which "he melted the hearts of his hearers moved them to

tears was Christ and Him crucified." At the close of life he realized the. truth

and power of the promise: "Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace whose mind is

staid on thee; because he trusteth in thee."



        November 23, 1870, Elder Micah H. Sellers, in his eight-fifth year,

finished his earthly course. The Association which he had so long been a

standard-bearer appointed Elder Z. Rose, Jesse P. Roddy and J. B. McCallon a

committee to memorialize him before the body and in its minutes. The committee

in its report, spoke of him in terms of appreciation anal affection as an able

minister of the New Testament and as a Father in Israel: "He labored with us in

the ministry more than half a hundred years, and enjoyed the affection of the

entire brotherhood, and shared the unbounded confidence of all who knew him."



         



    Burnett, J .J.  Sketches of  Tennessee's Pioneer Baptist Preachers. 

Nashville, Tenn.:  Press of Marshall & Bruce Company, 1919.



    URL:  http://www.knoxcotn.org/tnbaptists/index.html

Additional Comments:
M.H. Sellers married first Isabella Unknown in North Carolina. Their son William

Pleasant Sellers born 1804 in NC, died 1846 in MO. He married second Sarah

"Sally" Breeden about 1815 in TN. They had Nancy, Polly, Mariah, Henriette,

Isaiah, and Newton Micah. Perhaps others. 

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