Wade & Webb Family History

Mary Elizabeth Sellers1795–1820

Town Creek · Nixburg

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  1. Family Record
  2. Life
  3. Documents (1)
  4. Places
  5. Timeline
  6. Open questions
  7. Notes

Birth

  1. 1795 Town Creek, Brunswick, North Carolina

Marriages

  1. 1814 Solomon Robbins Sr., at Town Creek, Brunswick, North Carolina

Death and burial

  1. 1820 Death: Nixburg, Coosa, Alabama
  2. Date unknown Burial: Nixburg, Coosa, Alabama

Family

Parents
Not recorded
Spouse, 1814
Solomon Robbins Sr. 1791–1879
Children
Elizabeth Robbins 1814–1881
Solomon Robbins Jr 1818–1878
Betsy Robbins 1817–?

Line of descent Webb line

  1. Mary Elizabeth Sellers
  2. Wife of Solomon Robbins Sr.
  3. Eliza Robbins, daughter
  4. William Walker Walden, son
  5. Lila Walden, daughter
  6. Hilda Webb, daughter
  7. William Albert Webb Wade, son

Wife of 3rd great-grandfather of Webb Wade, from whom this history is traced. Why Webb Wade?

Life

Mary Elizabeth Sellers is known from the FamilySearch tree, which has no source attached to any fact about her, and from two family accounts printed in George E. Brewer's history of Coosa County, Alabama, in 1942, which remember her only as the first wife of Solomon Robbins, "a Miss Sellers."1 The tree gives her birth as 1795 at Town Creek, Brunswick County, North Carolina, and her marriage there in 1814 to Solomon Robbins, later known as Solomon Robbins Sr.2 According to the letter of his daughter Kate Grayson, one of the two accounts, Solomon was born in Brunswick County on 14 January 1791 and served as a private through the War of 1812.3

The same letter says that "with a wife and babe" Solomon came to Alabama about 1816 and settled in Montgomery County, near Judkins Ferry on the Tallapoosa River, where their second child, Solomon Jr., was born.4 The place "proving unhealthy," the family moved to Autauga County, near the Alabama River in the neighbourhood of Coosawda, and "there his wife died."4 The tree gives her death as 1820 and places both her death and her burial at Nixburg, Coosa County, without a date for the burial.2 The letter conflicts with the place: it puts her death in Autauga County, and it has the family move to Coosa County only after Solomon's second marriage, to Mary Wilson, on 27 May 1822.5 Inference If she died in Autauga County she was probably buried there rather than at Nixburg.5

The tree names four children of the marriage: Elizabeth, born on 20 March 1814 in Brunswick County; Betsy, born about 1817 in Alabama; Solomon, born on 9 April 1818 at Montgomery, Alabama; and George Washington, born about 1820 in Alabama.6 The family accounts name only two.7 Kate Grayson lists Elizabeth, born in Brunswick County on 20 March 1814, and Solomon Jr., born in Montgomery County on 9 April 1818, before the first child of the second marriage, born in 1823, and H. R. Robbins says that Miss Sellers "bore two children (Betsy and Solomon, Jr.), and died."7 Inference Betsy is a common form of Elizabeth, and the two accounts together suggest that the tree's Elizabeth and Betsy are one daughter; the tree's George Washington of about 1820 is in neither account, both of which place a son George, born in 1836, among the children of the second marriage.7 Her husband's marriage to Mary Martha Wilson took place in Autauga County, according to the tree, and his youngest son by that marriage, born in 1845 according to the tree, was named Sellers, although Kate Grayson's list of her father's children does not include him.8

Documents

  1. 1942 History of Coosa County: the Robbins family (Kate Grayson's letter and H. R. Robbins's sketch) George E. Brewer, "History of Coosa County, Alabama," The Alabama Historical Quarterly, vol. 4, no. 2 (Montgomery, Alabama, Summer 1942) · book

Places

  1. 1795–1814Town Creek
  2. 1820Nixburg

Timeline

  1. 1795BirthTown Creek, Brunswick, North Carolina
  2. 1814Marriage, Solomon Robbins Sr.Town Creek, Brunswick, North Carolina
  3. 1820DeathNixburg, Coosa, Alabama

Open questions

None recorded yet.

Notes

  1. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile GKFS-RSF: no sources attached History of Coosa County: the Robbins family (Kate Grayson's letter and H. R. Robbins's sketch), George E. Brewer, "History of Coosa County, Alabama," The Alabama Historical Quarterly, vol. 4, no. 2 (Montgomery, Alabama, Summer 1942): Solomon, the oldest son, married a Miss Sellers who bore two children (Betsy and Solomon, Jr.), and died (H. R. Robbins, p. 245) back to the text
  2. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile GKFS-RSF: birth 1795, Town Creek, Brunswick, North Carolina; marriage 1814, Town Creek; death 1820, Nixburg, Coosa, Alabama; burial Nixburg; no sources attached back to the text
  3. History of Coosa County: the Robbins family (Kate Grayson's letter and H. R. Robbins's sketch), George E. Brewer, "History of Coosa County, Alabama," The Alabama Historical Quarterly, vol. 4, no. 2 (Montgomery, Alabama, Summer 1942): My father, Solomon Robbins, was born in Brunswick County, N. C., January 14th, 1791 … My father served as a private soldier through the War of 1812 back to the text
  4. History of Coosa County: the Robbins family (Kate Grayson's letter and H. R. Robbins's sketch), George E. Brewer, "History of Coosa County, Alabama," The Alabama Historical Quarterly, vol. 4, no. 2 (Montgomery, Alabama, Summer 1942): With a wife and babe he came to Alabama about the year 1816, settled in Montgomery County, near Judkins Ferry on the Tallapoosa River. While living there his second child, Solomon, Jr., was born. The location proving unhealthy, he moved from there to Autauga County, settled near the Alabama River in the neighborhood of Coosawda. There his wife died back to the text
  5. History of Coosa County: the Robbins family (Kate Grayson's letter and H. R. Robbins's sketch), George E. Brewer, "History of Coosa County, Alabama," The Alabama Historical Quarterly, vol. 4, no. 2 (Montgomery, Alabama, Summer 1942): My father, Solomon Robbins, was marired [sic] to his last wife, Mary Wilson, May 27th, 1822. In 1882 [sic, for 1832] he moved with his family to Coosa County FamilySearch Family Tree, profile GKFS-RSF: death and burial, Nixburg, Coosa back to the text
  6. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile GKFS-RSF: children Elizabeth, Betsy, Solomon Jr and George Washington FamilySearch Family Tree, profile KGMS-18R (their page): born 20 Mar 1814, Brunswick, North Carolina FamilySearch Family Tree, profile GM74-LHC (their page): born about 1817, Alabama FamilySearch Family Tree, profile KL67-Y2M (their page): born 9 Apr 1818, Montgomery, Alabama FamilySearch Family Tree, profile GKFS-WSL (their page): born about 1820, Alabama back to the text
  7. History of Coosa County: the Robbins family (Kate Grayson's letter and H. R. Robbins's sketch), George E. Brewer, "History of Coosa County, Alabama," The Alabama Historical Quarterly, vol. 4, no. 2 (Montgomery, Alabama, Summer 1942): Elizabeth was born in Brunswick County, N. C., March 20th, 1814 … The next child, Solomon Robbins, Jr., was born in Montgomery County, Ala, April 9th, 1818 … The next child, Martha Ann … was born in Autauga County, Ala., February 16th, 1823; The next, George Washington, was born in Nixburg, Coosa County, Ala., May 6th, 1836 (Kate Grayson); Solomon, the oldest son, married a Miss Sellers who bore two children (Betsy and Solomon, Jr.), and died … Those were Putnam, John, Thomas, and George (H. R. Robbins) back to the text
  8. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile KT3X-L4D (their page): marriage to Mary Martha Wilson, 27 May 1822, Autauga, Alabama FamilySearch Family Tree, profile 9HC4-7H1 (their page): Sellers Robbins, born 1845 History of Coosa County: the Robbins family (Kate Grayson's letter and H. R. Robbins's sketch), George E. Brewer, "History of Coosa County, Alabama," The Alabama Historical Quarterly, vol. 4, no. 2 (Montgomery, Alabama, Summer 1942): The names and ages of my father's children are as follows back to the text
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