A resident of West Carroll parish for 13 years, prior to eight years ago, F. M. Sellers, who succumbed to a heart ailment Tuesday night of last week at his home in Monticello community, several miles east of Epps in East Carroll, was buried last Thursday afternoon in Forest cemetery.
Funeral services were conducted at Monticello Baptist church, of which the deceased was a member, with the Rev. O. O. Bryan, pastor, in charge of the rites.
Mr. Sellers was stricken on Monday afternoon, while working in his cotton field, and had remained in bed until death came Tuesday around midnight.
A native of Mississippi, Mr. Sellers moved with his family to West Carroll about 21 years ago. He left the parish eight years ago and moved to Texas where he remained only one year. Since that time he had lived in Monticello community, East Carroll parish.
Surviving are his wife; two daughters, Mrs. W. F. Kennedy and Miss Jewell Sellers, of Monticello community, and three sons, Edward Sellers, Lubbock, Texas, and Leonard and Howard Sellers, Monticello.
Clipped from The West Carroll Gazette, Oak Grove, Louisiana, 27 May 1937, Thu • Page 1
A resident of West Carroll parish for 13 years, prior to eight years ago, F. M. Sellers, who succumbed to a heart ailment Tuesday night of last week at his home in Monticello community, several miles east of Epps in East Carroll, was buried last Thursday afternoon in Forest cemetery.
Funeral services were conducted at Monticello Baptist church, of which the deceased was a member, with the Rev. O. O. Bryan, pastor, in charge of the rites.
Mr. Sellers was stricken on Monday afternoon, while working in his cotton field, and had remained in bed until death came Tuesday around midnight.
A native of Mississippi, Mr. Sellers moved with his family to West Carroll about 21 years ago. He left the parish eight years ago and moved to Texas where he remained only one year. Since that time he had lived in Monticello community, East Carroll parish.
Surviving are his wife; two daughters, Mrs. W. F. Kennedy and Miss Jewell Sellers, of Monticello community, and three sons, Edward Sellers, Lubbock, Texas, and Leonard and Howard Sellers, Monticello.
Clipped from The West Carroll Gazette, Oak Grove, Louisiana, 27 May 1937, Thu • Page 1
Inscription
Francis Marion Sellers
Jan 15, 1878
May 19, 1937
John 3:16
To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die
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Jeriah Catherine "Sissy" Sellers
1867–1950
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John Hardy Sellers
1869–1918
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Eugenia "Jennie" Sellers Kennedy
1872–1932
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James Franklin Sellers
1874–1929
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William Henry Sellers
1875–1912
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George Washington Sellers
1880–1962
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Hubbard A. Sellers
1882–1885
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Columbus Alexander Sellers
1885–1960
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Dock Sellers
1894–1925
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Ervin Ansel Sellers
1894–1937
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