When James M Sellers Sr was born on 4 September 1836, in Appling, Georgia, United States, his father, John Millender Sellers Sr, was 22 and his mother, Mary Ann Mobley, was 17. He married Jane Roberson in 1857, in Appling, Georgia, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Georgia, United States in 1870. He died on 8 August 1896, at the age of 59, and was buried in Ten Mile Creek Baptist Church Cemetery, Baxley, Appling, Georgia, United States.
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A small group of Cherokees from Georgia voluntarily migrated to the Indian Territory. The remaining Cherokees in Georgia resisted the mounting pressure to leave. In 1838, U.S. President Martin Van Buren ordered U.S. troops to remove the Cherokee Nation. The troops gathered the Cherokees and marched them and other Native Americans from North Carolina, Tennessee, and Alabama along what is now known as “The Trail of Tears.” Approximately 5,000 Cherokees died on their way to Indian Territory.
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Civil War History - Some 11,000 Georgians gave their lives in defense of their state a state that suffered immense destruction. But wars end brought about an even more dramatic figure to tell: 460,000 African-Americans were set free from the shackles of slavery to begin new lives as free people.
English (Lancashire and Yorkshire): variant of Seller , with post-medieval excrescent -s.
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