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Note: World War I Service Record
Name: Leonard Styles Sellers
City: Not Stated
County: Banks
State: Georgia
Birth Date: Aug 12 1881
Race: White
Roll: 1556959
DraftBoard: 0
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1910 Census, Jackson County, Georgia, Newton Township, ED101
219/224
Lenard Sellers, Head, M. W. age 28, M1
Annie B., Wife, F., W., age 28, M1
Alma, Daughter, F., W., age 5
Doyle, Son, M., W., age ?/12
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1920 Banks County, Georgia census:
David's District, Enumerated February 1920
258/267
Lenard A. Sellers, Head, M., W., age 38, b. Ga.
Annie, Wife, F., W., age 40, b. Ga.
Alma, Daughter, F., W., age 14, b. Ga.
Doyle, Son, M., W., age 9, b. Ga.
Jewel, Son, M., W., age 7, b. Ga.
Howard, Son, M., W., age 4-3/12, b. Ga.
Edward, Son, M., W., age 1-3/12, b. Ga.
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1930 Census Soundex Cards, SC, Greenville County (Ed 64, Sh132, Vol 32):
Page 25 on Ancestry.com Images
L.Styles Sellers, age 49, b. Ga., Farmer
Annie, wife, age 50, b. Ga.
J.Doyle, son, age 20, b. Ga., worked in Cotton Mill
Jewel, son, age 16, b. Ga., worked in Cotton Mill
Howard T., son, age 14, b. Illinois
R. Edward, son, age 11, b. Ga.
Edith M., dau., age 9, b. Ga.
N.Jeanett, dau., age 7, b. SC
Lived on Washington Road in Greenville, S.C.
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Death Certificate #014483, SC
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Leonard Styles Sellers, 77, of 4 Judson St., Judson, died Tuesday at 9:05 A.M. in a Greenville hospital after being in declining health for some time.
A son of the late EPHRAM and MARTHA JANE NORTON SELLERS, he was born August 12, 1881 at COMMERCE, GA. In 1923 (WRONG, HE MOVED FROM Banks County, GEORGIA IN THE YEAR 1922) he moved to the Brushy Creek section of Anderson County and lived there until three years ago when he came to Greenville. Mr. Sellers was a retired farmer and cattleman.
He was a member of Siloam Baptist Church of Anderson County.
His wife, the late Mrs. Annie Ausburn Sellers, died October 22, 1952.
Surviving are 2 daughters, Mrs. Edith Rumage of Tulsa, Okla., and Mrs. Jeanette Gambrell of Piedmont; 4 sons, J.Doyle Sellers and Jewel L. Sellers of Greenville, Howard T. Sellers of Anderson and Pfc. Edward R. Sellers of Panama; 2 sisters, Mrs. Fannie Jewell of Nicholson, Ga., and Mrs. Onnie Arnold of Winterville, Ga.; 4 brothers, Bratcher Sellers of Greensboro, Ga., J.B. Sellers of Greenville, B.C. Sellers of Brushy Creek section of Anderson County and A.L. Sellers of Jacksonville, Florida; 12 grandchildren and 6 great-grandchildren.
Funeral services will be conducted Thursday at Siloam Baptist Church at an hour to be announced. Burial will be in the church cemetery.
Thomas McAfee Funeral Home is in charge. The body is at the funeral home. The family is at the home of his son, J.Doyle Sellers, 4 Judson St., Judson.
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This is what we heard about Granny and Papa moving to Anderson County, South Carolina from Banks County, Georgia. Lewis James, son of Martin James of Powdersville, Anderson County, S. C., tells this tale. "One day Mr. Martin James found a lad wearing coveralls and was barefoot walking along the road. He picked the man up and took him to his house and told his wife to fix this lad something to eat. Then he put this man to work on his farm." This man was my grandfather, Leonard Styles Sellers. Papa, as we called him, then sent for his family and they rode the train to South Carolina. They lived in Banks County, Georgia, and most of their children were born in Georgia, except Aunt Jeanette, who was born in Anderson County, SC., and my father Howard Thurman Sellers, who we were told born in Illinois under an assumed name his father took when he left Banks County. Eventually they moved back to Banks County, Georgia. My father was about 3 years old when they returned.
My father told that one of the Ausburn men helped Granny and Papa move. They put all their belongings in a wagon pulled by horses, and started their journey from Georgia. I think that some of the other Ausburn families were already in South Carolina, but Granny and Papa may have been the first of our family to move from Banks County, Georgia to Anderson County, South Carolina. It probably took them a few days with a horse and wagon. By this time they were in Powdersville, South Carolina, in the Brushy Creek Section of Anderson County on the farm of Martin James. Papa was a sharecropper on Martin James farm. They lived in the Brushy Creek Section of Anderson County in Powdersville until their deaths. Papa also had a syrup mill, a lumber yard, horses and mules, pigs and hogs, chickens and roosters, a cow for milk, a fishing pole to catch all that good fish, and would do anything to make a living for his family.
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