"COUNTIES OF MORGAN, MONROE & BROWN, INDIANA. HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL."
CHARLES BLANCHARD, EDITOR. CHICAGO: F. A. BATTEY & CO. PUBLISHERS. 1884.
F. A. BATTEY. F. W. TEPPLE
CLAY TOWNSHIP, MORGAN CO., INDIANA
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BARTLEY SELLERS, a prominent farmer and stock-raiser, was born in Guilford
County, N.C., October 21, 1830, and is the second of nine children born to
Jordan and Mary (Mason) Sellers, natives of Virginia and of English and
Irish extraction. Mr. Mason was a soldier of the Revolutionary war.
Bartley's parents came from north Carolina to Indiana in the fall of 1850,
and located in Brown Township, in this county, where they remained until
Mrs. Sellers' death, in 1856. She was a member of the Methodist Episcopal
Church. Mr. Sellers, Sr., is also a member of that church, and he is now
residing with his son Peter, in Hendricks County. Bartley was reared upon a
farm, received limited schooling, and at nineteen years of age began life
independently in North Carolina, and when he had earned money enough for the
trip, he came to Indiana in 1851, and located in Morgan County with $1 in
his pocket, engaged in farming, and worked at $15 per month. August 12,
1855, Mr. Sellers was married to Mary a daughter of Andrew and Elizabeth
Wright, and a native of Morgan County, by whom he has had three
children--Andrew, John and an infant unnamed. Mr. Sellers and wife belong
to the Methodist Episcopal Church. He owns and manages a farm of 140 acres
of well-improved land, all cultivated. His farm is supplied with a fine
orchard and a commodious residence, and stocked with horses, hogs, cattle
and sheep. Mr. Sellers is engaged extensively in shipping stock to
Indianapolis, Cincinnati and Pittsburgh. He belongs the A. F. & A. M.
Lodge, No. 78, Mooresville, Ind., and has had three brothers who were in the
late war. Mr. Sellers has built up his own fortune, has had no assistance
whatever from anybody except his industrious wife, and the couple are
rewarded by the possession of their comfortable home.
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