Coryell Co. TX - Dr. John Ward Sellers

Submitted by Bobbie Ross  <bwross@htcomp.net>

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                           DR. JOHN WARD SELLERS
                                      
    Dr. John Ward Sellers was born in 1827 Alabama. His parents names are not
    known for sure but thought to be Matthew Sellers and Sarah Jane Ward due to
    the naming patterns and verbal family history which indicates he lived
    neighbors to his brothers, Solomon, Edmond and Joel, while in Coryell
    County, Texas. They are all neighbors in the 1870 census. John was
    neighbors to Matthew's daughters, Rebecca Sellers Whatley and Elizabeth
    Sellers Wilson, in the 1860 wise county census and again in the 1880 Burnet
    County census. John's parents came from North Carolina, with several other
    families of Sellers, Wards, Wilsons and Godwins. On November 22, 1845, in
    Pike County, Alabama, John married Lynia Jane Godwin born 1830 in North
    Carolina. They were blessed with daughter, Emmaline Bethania born 1850 (m.
    Levi Dean, Jacob L. Bruner) and son, Marvel Whitney (became physician) born
    July 7, 1853, (m. Rebecca Jane Wilson) before coming to Texas, in 1854.
    John and Lynia Jane settled down to raising cattle and children in the
    Cactus Hill area of Wise County, by 1860. They had Laura Francis (became
    famous artist, philanthropist in Beaumont) born 1856 (m. Henry Davidson,
    Jeff Morrow, Alfred Busha, William Kreiter) and Orrin Pierce (became
    physician) born 1859 (m. Lula Wilson). Unfortunately the War Between the
    States interrupted their lives and John served with the Texas Frontier
    Regiment of Mounted Rangers, Texas State Troops-CSA under Colonels Norris
    and McCord from March 15, 1862, until March 1, 1864, when honorably
    discharged. By 1870, the family had moved to Coryell County, where they
    lived on the old Edmond place about 10 miles north of Gatesville. Here they
    had Oliver Lofton born December 24, 1861, (m. Idella Custer) and Bell Zora
    born August 28, 1866, (m. James A. Oldham). John Ward was a physician and a
    sheep man. Lynia Jane died sometime between June 1869 and June 1870 and is
    buried near Gatesville. John remarried on October 20, 1870 in Coryell
    County, to Mrs. Nancy R. (Clemons) Sirman, born 1848 Georgia. They were
    living in Burnet County by the 1880 census. He made a trip out to Glorieta,
    New Mexico, in the winter of 1888, to visit his son, Dr. Marvel Whitney
    Sellers. After having climbed a mountain, John became ill and never
    recovered. He died and was buried there, far from home, on January 1, 1889.
    Nancy died in 1898 and is buried in Bethel Cemetery, Katemcy, Mason County.
    Submitted by great great granddaughter, Lynda Wyatt Green 

                                      
            copyrighted by Lynda Green and Bobbie Ross Sept 2000