Dr. Adam Sellers b. 4 Jul 1802 Northwest Territory, United States d. 13 Mar 1894 Lebanon, Warren County, Ohio, United States: Tangled Roots

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Name	Adam Sellers
Prefix	Dr.
Born	4 Jul 1802	Northwest Territory, United States [1, 2]
	near Lebanon, Warren County, Ohio
Gender	Male
Census	1850	Lebanon, Warren County, Ohio, United States [3]
	as Adam Sellars, physician, head of household
Census	1860	Lebanon, Turtle Creek Township, Warren County, Ohio, United States [4]
	as Adam Sellers, physician, head of household
Newspaper	4 Jul 1861 [5]
	The Weekly Western Star. Lebanon, Ohio, 4 July 1861, p3
	ATTACHMENT. Adam Sellers, pl'ff, } vs. } Arthur Compton, def't } Before George W. Frost. J. Warren county, Ohio On the 7th day of June, A. D. 1861, said Justice issued an Order of Attachment in the above action, for the sum of $11.35; and said action is continued for hearing until the 24th day of July, 1861, at 8 o'clock, A. M. Adam Sellers.
Census	1870	Lebanon, Warren County, Ohio, United States [6]
	as Adam Sellers, physician, head of household
Census	1880	Lebanon, Warren County, Ohio, United States [7]
	Address: Cincinnati Pike
Buried	Mar 1894	Warren County, Ohio, United States [8]
	Address: Lebanon Cemetery
Died	13 Mar 1894	Lebanon, Warren County, Ohio, United States [9]
Obituary	15 Mar 1894 [10]
	The Western Star (Lebanon, Ohio) 15 March 1894
	Death of Dr. Adam Sellers, Dr. Adam Sellers, one of the oldest and best known residents of Lebanon, died at his room in the VanNote property, on Broadway, Tuesday afternoon at 1 o'clock, in the ninety-second year of his age. Death came as the result of no particular illness, but from a general failure of vital powers, brought on by Dr. Sellers' extreme age. He has been exceedingly feeble for some time and the end was not unexpected. Dr. Sellers was born near Lebanon, July 4, 1802. He was the second son of Peter and Blanche Sellers. His father was a native of Germany, who settled first in Virginia and afterwards, in 1789, moved to what is now Warren county. Dr. Sellers was one of four children, three sons and one daughter. The latter, in after years, became the wife of William Cameron, who, in partnership with John McLean, published the Star in the early days of the present century. Dr. Sellers, about the time he attained his majority, visited Virginia. In 1824 he was converted at a Methodist camp meeting and joined the church in whose communion he died. One year later he was licensed to exhort. He joined the Ohio conference in 1826. In 1828 he was ordained deacon by Bishop Roberts and in 1832 was ordained elder by Bishop Emory. He intended to devote his life to the ministry but owing to some throat trouble his voice failed him and he was compelled to abandon his chosen calling. He accordingly entered the mercantile trade at Springfield, with his father-in-law, only to lose everything in the financial crisis of 1837. He then turned his attention to medicine and in 1840 graduated from Worthington Medical College. For a few months he practiced at Newark but in the fall of the year he came to Lebanon and from that time to 1879 actively practiced his profession here. In the latter year he withdrew from practice and he has divided his time between Lebanon and his mom's home in Cincinnati. At one time he was president of the Lebanon Medical Society. Dr. Sellers was married twice. His first wife, Miss Mary A. Nixon, lived but a few months after the marriage. In 1833, he married Miss Nancy Colbert Bretney, who died in 1873. They had two children, a daughter, who died in 1862, and a son, William B. Sellers, of Cincinnati. The funeral services will be held this (Thursday) afternoon at one o'clock, in the Methodist church, of which he was such a faithful and consistent member. They will be conducted by Rev. J. P. Porter, who will probably be assisted by other ministers who were friends of Dr. Sellers. The remains will be interred in the Lebanon cemetery.
Occupation	Physician [11]
Person ID	I8469	TangledRoots
Last Modified	16 Jun 2021

Father	Peter Sellers, b. Between 1770 and 1771, Augusta County, Virginia, British Colonial America , d. 15 Aug 1807, Warren County, Ohio, United States (Age 37 years)
Mother	Elizabeth Runkle, b. 1775, Augusta County, Virginia, British Colonial America , d. 16 May 1859, Lebanon, Warren County, Ohio, United States (Age 84 years)
Married	20 Feb 1797	Rockingham County, Virginia, United States
Family ID	F3420	Group Sheet \| Family Chart

Family 1	Mary Ann Nixon, b. 1808, Warren County, Ohio, United States , d. Dec 1829, Warren County, Ohio, United States (Age 21 years)
Married	19 Aug 1829	Warren County, Ohio, United States [12, 13]
Last Modified	16 Jan 2022
Family ID	F3422	Group Sheet \| Family Chart

Family 2	Nancy Colbert Bretney, b. 12 Feb 1819, Lebanon, Warren County, Ohio, United States , d. 25 Jan 1871, Lebanon, Warren County, Ohio, United States (Age 51 years)
Married	19 Feb 1834	Clark County, Ohio, United States [14, 15]
Last Modified	16 Jan 2022
Family ID	F3423	Group Sheet \| Family Chart

Notes

27 May 1808 Mentioned in the probate records of Peter Sellers as Adam Sellers five years and six months of age.

Adam Sellers appears in a list of Physicians in Turtle Creek Township, Warren County, taxed on their incomes in 1840.

OLD LETTER.....
Mr. Peter Sellers,

The following are some of my recollections of the Sellers' family. Three brothers emigrated from Germany some two centuries ago. One settled in Pennsylvania; one in Maryland, and the other in Virginia. They were German Lutherans. Our families are from the Virginia branch. My father, Peter Sellers, was the son of Adam Sellers. Your grandfather, Jacob Sellers, was the son of John Sellers, and they were cousins. They married sisters by the name of Runkel.

My father immigrated, with other families, soon after Wayne's treaty with the Indians, say 1798, by way of the Monongahela and Ohio rivers, from Brownsville, Penn. known as Red Stone. Their horses were brought through from that point along Indian trails. Their wagons and other effects were floated down in family boats, to Columbia, then known as Round Bottom, five miles above Cincinnati, then called Losantville. My father remained there one or two years and raised some grain. He was followed about two years after by your Grandfather Jacob Sellers, and made the first purchase of land from Sims in that valley. By examining the deed that has been transcribed by order of the Commissioners, from Hamilton County, records to Warren County, records, my father's deed is dated January 4, 1799. Their names in the deeds are written "Celler", in one or two places, "Sellers". I recollect when it was very uniformly spelled with a "Z".

About 70 years ago, 1817, my grandfather, then living on the Shenandos River, Rockingham County, Va. (where all of that branch of the family then lived) being a widower about 72 years of age, and having a desire to free his slaves, wrote to my brother, William Sellers, to come to Virginia and superintended the disposal of his property, and pilot them to this wilderness, as it was then considered by them. The trip was made in two four-horse wagons in about thirty days, camping out every night. They stopped one week at our house, one mile north of Lebanon.

At that time he purchased 206 acres of land of George Hamsbarger, where the old road crossed Clear Creek, on the west side of that road. The creek running from East to West through the center of it, and the road from Ridgeville to Springboro running along the north bank. The house was endwise north of the road. His only daughter, Christine Null, lived one or two miles below. He freed all his slaves, (Negroes) about 16 in number, I think, and purchased land for that in Darke County, Ohio. He had to give security under the then laws of Ohio, for their support. Some of them became distinguished for wealth and morals. One of the sons graduated in one of our colleges and became a preacher in the African Methodist Church. He called to see me some 25 years ago.

Grandfather Adam Sellers was born in 1742 and died in 1821, 79 years of age. I find a final record of the Administrators' Wm. Sellers and Christine Null, dated June 2, 1823, and amounting to between ten and eleven thousand dollars. I was absent at that time in Virginia with power of attorney from my mother and the heirs of your grandfather by his first wife, looking after their interests in Grandfather Runkels' estate.

This imperfectly written sketch is written in great haste, and is about the best I can do at the age of 85. You may find some items of interest to someone, in it. Yours truly, A. Seller [Source: Transcript of a letter dated "Lebanon, Ohio June 28, 1887", addressed to Mr. Peter Sellers and the original written by A. Sellers (Adam); the letter was copied and put in a letter written by P. Sellers (Peter Sellers 1896) and later copied by Fred A. Sellers in a letter dated January 5, 1960]

Sources

[S942] Book: Gateway to the West, Warren County, Ohio, Guardianships, 1818-1826, pg. 639, 648.
5-27-1808 - Elizabeth relict of Peter Sellers and Henry King appointed guardians of William Sellers 10 yrs., Elizabeth Sellers 8 yrs., Adams Sellers 5 yrs. 6 mos. and Joseph Sellers 3 yrs., minors of Peter Sellers. (Probate Record 1-p25; Estate Docket O=p21; box 3=#8)....and 4-10-1819 - Adam Sellers 16 yrs., Joesph Sellers 14 yrs. chose Elizabeth Swift and William Sellers as guardians. (probate record 1 (special sessions)- p203; estate docket-p164; box18-#3 no papers)
[S936] Book: Cradled by the Masanutten: The Zellers-Sellers Family, pg. 75.
Adam Sellers b. 4 Jul. 1802
[S1292] 1850 Federal Census: Ohio, Warren County, FHL#444730., Lebanon, Turtlecreek Township, p44.
DW 311-312
...line 15 - Adam Sellars, age 48 male, Physician, born Ohio
...line 16 - Nancy Sellars, age 31 female, born Ohio
...line 17 - William Sellars, age 15 male, student, born Ohio
...line 18 - S. M. Sellars, age 9 female, born Ohio
Lebanon, Turtle Creek Township, Warren County, Ohio p44
[S634] 1860 Federal Census: Ohio, Warren County, p207B Lebanon, Turtle Creek Twp.
DW 27-27
...line 15 - Adam Sellers, age 57, male, white, physician, born Ohio
...line 16 - Nancy Sellers, age 41, female, white, born Ohio
...line 17 - Wm. B. Sellers, age 26, male, white, merchant, born Ohio
...line 18 - Sarah Sellers, age 19, female, white, born Ohio
Lebanon, Turtlecreek Township, Warren County, Ohio
[S1934] Newspaper: The Weekly Western Star (Lebanon, Ohio), 4 July 1861, p3.
ATTACHMENT.
Adam Sellers, pl'ff, }
vs.
Arthur Compton, def't }
Before George W. Frost. J. Warren county, Ohio
On the 7th day of June, A. D. 1861, said Justice issued an Order of Attachment in the above action, for the sum of $11.35; and said action is continued for hearing until the 24th day of July, 1861, at 8 o'clock, A. M.
Adam Sellers.
Order of Attachment
4 July 1861
[S1006] 1870 Federal Census: Ohio, Warren County, Lebanon, Turtlecreek Township, p10.
DW 78-80
...line 2 - Adam Sellers, age 68, male, white, physician, born Ohio (also listed: Thomas Drake, age 29, male, white, grocer's clerk, born Ohio) Village of Lebanon
...line 3 - Nancy Sellers, age 51, female, white, keeping house, born Ohio
Lebanon, Turtle Creek Township, Warren County, Ohio p10
[S636] 1880 Federal Census: Ohio, Warren County, p436B Lebanon.
DW 526-529
...line 48 - Adam Sellers, white, male, age 78, widowed, retired physician, born Ohio
Lebanon, Warren County, Ohio p436B
[S1888] Find A Grave, MEMORIAL ID 37518574 Adam Sellers.
Dr Adam Sellers
BIRTH 4 Jul 1802 Warren County, Ohio, USA
DEATH 13 Mar 1894 (aged 91) Lebanon, Warren County, Ohio, USA
BURIAL Lebanon Cemetery, Lebanon, Warren County, Ohio, USA
MEMORIAL ID 37518574
Lebanon, Warren County, Ohio
Adam Sellers 1802-1894Lebanon, Warren County, Ohio
Adam Sellers 1802-1894
[S936] Book: Cradled by the Masanutten: The Zellers-Sellers Family, pg. 75.
d. 13 Mar. 1894
[S1259] Newspaper: The Western Star (Lebanon, Ohio), 15 March 1894.
Obituary for Dr. Adam Sellers
The Western Star
15 March 1894
[S206] Based on Census Records.
[S936] Book: Cradled by the Masanutten: The Zellers-Sellers Family, pg. 75.
m. 1st 19 Aug. 1929 Mary Ann Nixon (date has to be typing error as it is after his death date, should be 1829)
[S773] Ohio: County Marriages 1789-2013, v1 #3032 Adam Sellers and Mary Ann Nixon.
State of Ohio, Warren County
Adam Sellers and Mary Ann Nixon married according to the rites of the Methodis E. Church on 9 August 1829, by Tho A. Morris
Warren County, Ohio
19 August 1829
[S936] Book: Cradled by the Masanutten: The Zellers-Sellers Family, pg. 75.
m. 2nd Nancy Bretney
[S773] Ohio: County Marriages 1789-2013, v2 p61 Adam Sellers and Nancy Colbert Bretney.
State of Ohio, Clark County
Adam Sellers and Nancy C. Bretney, 19 February 1834 by Eli Truitt, preacher Methodist Episcopal Church
Clark County, Ohio
19 February 1834