Georgia Ethel Sellars

Female7 June 1882–6 May 1917

Brief Life History of Georgia Ethel

When Georgia Ethel Sellars was born on 7 June 1882, in Round Prairie, Benton, Arkansas, United States, her father, Wesley A Sellars, was 42 and her mother, Mary Ann Frances Phillips, was 33. She married Otis W. Kisner about 1903, in Watertown, Wilson, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in Jasper, Missouri, United States in 1900 and Joplin, Jasper, Missouri, United States for about 10 years. She died on 6 May 1917, at the age of 34, and was buried in Joplin, Jasper, Missouri, United States.

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Family Time Line

Benjamin Berton Boatright
1866–1957
Georgia Ethel Sellars
1882–1917
Marriage: 15 October 1906
Burton Benjamin Boatright
1907–1964
Pearl Myrtle Boatright
1909–1993
Helen Frances Boatright
1912–1997

Sources (4)

  • Georgia Sellars in household of Frances Sellars, "United States Census, 1900"
  • Georgia Boatright in household of B B Boatright, "United States Census, 1910"
  • Georgia Sellars in entry for Helen B Temples, "United States, Social Security Numerical Identification Files (NUMIDENT), 1936-2007"

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  • Marriage
    15 October 1906Joplin, Jasper, Missouri, United States
  • Children (3)

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    Siblings (7)

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    World Events (8)

    1883 · The Mosaic Templar is Founded

    Age 1

    The Mosaic Templar is an African American fraternal organization founded in Little Rock. it was founded by former slaves, John Edward Bush and Chester W. Keatts. It was part of a movement that was going on at the time, where everyone was forming fraternities and sororities. The main departments for this one where endowment, monument, analysis, uniform, rank, recapitulation, records, and a juvenile division.

    1886

    Age 4

    Statue of Liberty is dedicated.

    1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson

    Age 14

    A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.

    Name Meaning

    English: variant of Sellers .

    Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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