Born in Senatobia, DeSoto, Mississippi, United States
Ancestors 
Daughter of Noah James Diffee
and Seaney Elizabeth (Henshaw) Diffee
Sister of
Amanda Diffee, John Thomas Diffee, William Henry Diffee, Margaret Tabitha (Diffee) Grayson, Mary Catherine (Diffee) France, Ida Clarabelle Diffee and Avon Lee Diffee
[spouse(s) unknown]
[children unknown]
Died
at age 76
in McMinnville, Yamhill, Oregon
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Biography
Sarah was born in 1869 in DeSoto Co., Miss., the daughter of Noah Diffee and Elizabeth Henshaw.[1] When she was about age 4, her parents moved to Tate Co., Miss. She was with them and her siblings on the 1880 census there.[2]
In Aug 1889, in Tate Co., Miss., she married John Warner Sellars (1869–1911).[3] Their children were Nora Lee, Lester, Marguerite Alice, Arnold Claude, Metral Mae, James Noal, Sam M., and John Warner, all born between 1889 and 1910, in Sarah, Tate Co., Miss.[4][5]
John was a Farmer. He died in 1911. By the 1920 census, Sallie had moved to Kirk, McCurtain Co., Okla., where she was farming with four of her children.[6]
In 1930, she and her children were in Osborn, Maricopa Co., Ariz. She was not working, but the children were working a variety of jobs.[7]
In 1940, She was with Nora on a farm in Kirk, McCurtain Co., Okla.[8]
She passed away in 1945, in McMinnville, Yamhill Co., Ore.[9] She was probably living there with Nora, who was living in Oregon about that time.
Sources
- ↑ Year: 1870; Census Place: Township 5 Range 6, DeSoto, Mississippi; Roll: M593_728; Page: 308A; Family History Library Film: 552227
- ↑ Year: 1880; Census Place: Beat 1, Tate, Mississippi; Roll: 665; Page: 198A; Enumeration District: 181
- ↑ Mississippi, U.S., Compiled Marriage Index, 1776-1935
- ↑ Year: 1900; Census Place: Beat 1, Tate, Mississippi; Page: 15; Enumeration District: 0090; FHL microfilm: 1240829
- ↑ Year: 1910; Census Place: Beat 1, Tate, Mississippi; Roll: T624_760; Page: 16A; Enumeration District: 0082; FHL microfilm: 1374773
- ↑ Year: 1920; Census Place: Kirk, McCurtain, Oklahoma; Roll: T625_1468; Page: 4A; Enumeration District: 144. With Arnold, Metral, Sam, and John, as well as her nephew, John Thomas Diffee (1902-1971), son of her brother John Thomas.
- ↑ Year: 1930; Census Place: Osborn, Maricopa, Arizona; Page: 3A; Enumeration District: 0111; FHL microfilm: 2339795. With Arnold, Sam, John, and widowed Nora with her two Lewers sons, and separated Metral with her Hankins daughter.
- ↑ Year: 1940; Census Place: Kirk, McCurtain, Oklahoma; Roll: m-t0627-03309; Page: 1B; Enumeration District: 45-20A
- ↑ Oregon, U.S., State Deaths, 1864-1968
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Sallie by comparing test results with other carriers of her ancestors' mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Sallie:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Sallie by comparing test results with other carriers of her ancestors' mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Sallie:
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