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Francis Marion Sellers Full Name: Francis Marion Sellers Date of birth: September 12, 1847 Date of death: May 22, 1917 Terms of Service Biographical Notes Committee Information Terms of Service top Chamber District Dates of Service Legislatures Party City/County Note Counties in District H 62 Jan 13, 1891 - Jan 10, 1893 22nd (1)   Democrat Thornton / Limestone   Falls, Limestone, McLennan (1) Democrat. Biennial Report of the Secretary of State of the State of Texas: List of Senators and Representatives.   Biographical Notes and Resources top Biographical Sketches Biographical sketch, Francis Marion Sellers, pp. 323-324. Born 9/12/1847 in Camden, Wilcox County, Alabama, married L.C. Moody of Choctaw County, Alabama, on 9/8/1868. Elected Tax Assessor of Limestone County, Texas, in 1883. Personnel of the Texas State Government with Sketches of Representative Men of Texas, 22nd Legislature, 1892. Military Service Notes Confederate States Army, Company I, 3rd Alabama Cavalry. Personnel of the Texas State Government with Sketches of Representative Men of Texas, 22nd Legislature, 1892. Other Resources Francis Marion Sellers, birth date 9/12/1847 in Camden, Wilcox County, Alabama, death date 5/22/1917 in De Leon, Comanche County, Texas, lawyer. FamilySearch Texas Deaths, 1890-1976. Francis Marion Sellers, birth date 9/12/1847, death date 5/22/1917, burial in De Leon Cemetery, De Leon, Comanche County. Find a Grave. Death notice, F.M. Sellers, 5/24/1917, p. 3. "He was a lawyer and educator, and moved here recently from Groesbeck, where he had resided for years." Fort Worth Record-Telegram. F.M. Sellers/Hon. F.B. Sellers moved from Groesbeck to De Leon, March 1917. Located in Limestone County in 1876 from Alabama, Limestone County Tax Assessor about 40 years ago, lawyer, educator; served in Confederate army as a youth. 3/8/1917, pp. 2, 8. Groesbeck Journal. "F.M. Sellers, for sixteen years tax assessor of Limestone county, suddenly expired at DeLeon. He had lately moved from Groesbeck." Palo Pinto County Star, 6/1/1917, p. 1, crediting Boyce Ditto Public Library. Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries). Composite Photographs on Display in the Capitol 22nd session composite photo of House members (Ground floor elevator vestibule, north wall. GW.V3). State Preservation Board. Committee Informationtop 22nd R.S. - 1891 Education   Finance   Public Building and Grounds   Public Debt

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