Maxie Gerl Sellers Sr. (1935 - 1975)

Born 6 Feb 1935 in Mississippi, USA

Ancestors

Husband of Jo Ann (Dukes) Sellers — married 8 Oct 1961 in Smith County, Mississippi, USA

Died 22 Aug 1975 at age 40 in Rankin County, Mississippi, USA

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Maxie Sellers Sr. is buried in White Oak Cemetery.

Biography

Maxie Gerl Sellers Sr was born on Feb 06, 1935 in Mississippi, USA as the eleventh child of Ervin Ansel Sellers and Annie Jane Robinson. He had ten siblings, namely: Lavaughn, Lois Missouri, Ervin Ore, Montez, James Clinton, Birtrez, Ernest Francis, Olean Katherine, Genevieve "Billy Jean", and Barbara Jane "Quida". He died on Aug 22, 1975 in Rankin County, Mississippi, USA (Age at Death: 40).

When he was 26, he married Jo Ann Dukes, daughter of Daniel Hurshell Dukes and Margie Dukes on Oct 08, 1961 in Smith County, Mississippi, USA (also date on headstone). ^[1]

Maxie Gerl Sellers Sr lived in Bolivar, Mississippi, USA on Apr 01, 1940. He served in the military between Oct 15, 1957–Oct 02, 1959 (Age: 22; US Army). ^[2]

He was buried in Smith County, Mississippi, USA (White Oak Cemetery).^[3]

Maxie Gerl Sellers Sr and Jo Ann Dukes had children.

State mishaps take 4 lives .... [one of which was]

Maxie G. Sellers, 40, of White Oak, who died in a one-car mishap on Mississippi 18 about five miles south of Brandon; ^[4]

Sources

1. ↑ Marriage of Dukes / Sellers
2. ↑ Ancestry.com, U.S., Department of Veterans Affairs BIRLS Death File, 1850-2010 (Provo, UT, USA, Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011), www.ancestry.com, Record for Maxie Sellers. http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=VADeaths&h=5639717&indiv=try. TEXT: Name: Maxie Sellers Birth Date: 6 Feb 1935 Death Date: 22 Aug 1975 SSN: xxx Branch 1: ARMY Enlistment Date 1: 15 Oct 1957 Release Date 1: 2 Oct 1959
3. ↑ "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QV2W-DRBX : 13 December 2015), Maxie Gerl Sellers, 1975; Burial, White Oak, Smith, Mississippi, United States of America, White Oak Cemetery; citing record ID 65288682, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.
4. ↑ Delta Democrat Times, August 25, 1975

• "United States Social Security Death Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JL8V-5PP : 20 May 2014), Maxie Sellers, Aug 1975; citing U.S. Social Security Administration, Death Master File, database (Alexandria, Virginia: National Technical Information Service, ongoing).
• "United States Public Records, 1970-2009," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K5S2-T5X : 22 May 2014), Maxie Sellers, Residence, Magee, Mississippi, United States; a third party aggregator of publicly available information.

• "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VYL1-2WR : accessed 30 November 2016), Maxie Sellers in household of Annie Jane Sellers, Beat 5, Bolivar, Mississippi, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 6-63, sheet 7B, line 53, family 114, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 2010.