James Norris "Tinker Jim" Sellers and Lodena Sullivan had the following children:
Minnie Mae Sellers was born on Sep 23, 1902 in Covington County, Mississippi, USA (Shady Grove). She died on Feb 25, 1972 in Mendenhall, Simpson, Mississippi, USA (Simpson General Hospital; Age at Death: 69). She married Tilmon Melvin "T-Model" Bishop on Feb 15, 1920 in Simpson, Mississippi, USA.
James Richard Sellers was born on Sep 30, 1904 in Mississippi, USA. He died on Feb 11, 1967 in Polkville, Smith County, Mississippi, USA (at home: Age at Death: 62). [4]
Elzie Loraine Sellers was born on Sep 13, 1907 in Smith, Mississippi, USA. He died on Jul 17, 1976 in Magee, Simpson, Mississippi, USA (Magee General Hospital; Age at Death: 68).
↑ 1880 United States Federal Census, Smith, Mississippi, ED 105, roll T9_664, page 322.1000, Record for W. A. Sullivan "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M4P3-D66 : accessed 21 January 2016), Lodena Sullivan in household of W A Sullivan, Beat 3 Taylorsville, Smith, Mississippi, United States; citing enumeration district ED 105, sheet 322A, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 0664; FHL microfilm 1,254,664.
Lodena having only been married for seven years, gave birth to three children. She died at the age of 27 a month after the birth of her last child. One life so short with little to no formal documentation. The only census record found was the 1880 census. She died in 1907, the only documentation was a torn Bible page. She was buried in an unmarked grave where later her husband would also be lain to rest. Lodena's husband faced with the task of rearing three small children, found an older woman, Margarett Ware to accept the responsibly for loving and caring for this family. Family oral history credits her, a woman who had never been married nor given birth, as being a good wife and step mother. My loving thanks to both women, my great grandmother and my step great grandmother!
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