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Note: My father was 15 years old when his Grandfather, Joseph B. Ausburn died, and he told that he helped make the coffin that his Grandfather, Joseph B. Ausburn, was buried in. My father was 17 years old when his Grandfather Sellers died. My father did not remember either of his Grandmother's at all.
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Before my Daddy was born, Papa Sellers told that he thought he had killed a man. Now Papa was a "hot-headed" man in his younger years and we don't know who the man was that Papa thought he shot and killed. Papa said he left the State of Georgia alone. He made it to Illinois, changed his name, and sent for Granny and the children. Granny was expecting a child, which was my father. She gave birth to my Daddy some where in Illinois under an "assumed" name. We think it was Pekin, Illinois. No birth record has ever been found in Illinois for my Daddy, as we do not know what name they were living under at the time. It was learned later that the man Papa shot did not die and the man was not going to charge Papa with anything, so Papa moved his family back to Georgia. When the law came into effect that everyone had to have a Social Security Card, a birth certificate was needed to prove your age. At the beginning of the Social Security era, they would accept a Family Bible as proof of you being born. Daddy went to see his Uncle Mac and Aunt Vera Ausburn and they had in their Bible the date of Daddy's birth. He used this Bible to prove to the World that he was born. However, when I found the 1920 Banks County Census, the census said he was born in Georgia, but the 1930 census says he was born in Illinois.
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My father attended Concrete Grammar School in Powdersville, S.C. He only went to the 7th grade as he had to quit school and go to work in the Textile Plant at Judson Mills in Greenville, S.C. to help support his father, mother, and the other siblings. Grandfather Sellers was a sharecropper on Martin James land in Powdersville. All the brothers and sisters helped on this farm of Martin James. I have a picture of my father at the Concrete School with his other classmates. He worked all his life in a Textile Mill at the following locations: Judson Mills in Greenville, S.C.; Watts Mill in Laurens, S.C.; Haynesworth Mill in Anderson, S.C.; and at Woodside Mills in Simpsonville, S.C.
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My father told me that he went hunting with his grandfather, Ephram Sellers. His grandfather asked him if he would carry all the rabbits back to the house that he killed. Daddy told him, "he sure would" ... Ephraim killed 8 rabbits that day and daddy had to carry them on a pole back to the house and they made "Rabbit Stew".
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Howard T. Sellers, Simpsonville
Howard Thurman Sellers, 86, of 113 Harts Lane, widower of Edna C. Sellers, died Monday, Jan. 21, 2002, at Hillcrest Hospital.
Born in Banks County, Georgia. Mr. Sellers was a son of the late Leonard S. and Annie Ausburn Sellers. He was a retired employee of Woodside Mills and was a member of Temple Baptist Church.
Surviving are a daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Melvin (Carole) Walker, of Rock Hill; a son, Terry Sellers, of Simpsonville; a sister, Mrs. Fred (Jeanette) Gambrell, of Piedmont; 10 grandchildren; 13 great-grandchildren; one great-great-grandchild; four step-grandchildren; and three great-step-grandchildren.
Funeral services will be conducted at 4 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 24, 2002, at Cannon Funeral Home, Jones Chapel, Simpsonville, with burial at Greenville Memorial Gardens. The family will receive friends from 7 to 9 tonight at the funeral Home.
The family is at the residence, 113 Harts Lane, Simpsonville.
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SSDI SEARCH:
HOWARD T SELLERS 31 Oct 1915 - 21 Jan 2002 (V) 29681 (Simpsonville, Greenville, SC) (none specified) 247-01-6467 South Carolina.
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