Dannie Mae Worsham

Brief Life History of Dannie Mae

When Dannie Mae Worsham was born in November 1891, in Taylor, Georgia, United States, her father, Zachariah Job Worsham, was 33 and her mother, Mary Elizabeth Carswell, was 22. She married William Archie Sellers on 4 July 1909, in Mitchell, Georgia, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in Branchville, Mitchell, Georgia, United States in 1920. She died on 29 January 1976, in Mitchell, Georgia, United States, at the age of 84.

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William Archie Sellers
1881–1975
Dannie Mae Worsham
1891–1976
Marriage: 4 July 1909
Forrest W Sellers
1912–1984

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  • Dannie M Sellers, "United States Census, 1920"

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Name Meaning

English: habitational name from either of two places called Worsham, in Oxfordshire and Sussex. The first is named from the Old English personal name Wulfmǣr + hām ‘homestead’ or hamm ‘enclosure hemmed in by water’; the second is from an unattested Old English personal name Wyrtel + .

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

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