MARY
SELLERS (POLLY SELLERS):
Mary
is listed as Polly Sellers in the 1850 Tuscaloosa Al Census, age 14 and born in
Al. She is listed as Mary in subsequent
censuses. She apparently never married
and lived with Gurley/Delila until their deaths. Tracking her ages by her listed age & the
dates of the censuses, she would have been born between Sept 5 and Oct 21, 1836. This
helps establish the dates that Gurley/Delila moved to
Alabama (see Tracing Gurley). Mary received two land grants in 1884 adjacent
to Gurley’s 1884 grant (see Land Grant Maps) & another in the adjacent
township 20 Range 5 near her brothers, Robert Jemison & William (Bill)
Sellers and sister Lavinia Lawson. She doesn’t appear in the 1900 census and the
date and location of her death is not known.
Strangely, she is not buried at Old Blue Creek unless it was an unmarked
grave.