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Salome <I>Sellers</I> Travis

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Salome Sellers Travis

Birth
Brunswick County, North Carolina, USA
Death
1837 (aged 61–62)
Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, Louisiana, USA
Burial
Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, Louisiana, USA Add to Map
Memorial ID
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Great-great-great granddaughter of William Sellers

Wife of Thomas Travis. Married at Livingston County (Crittenden County), Kentucky on August 15, 1805. Following the death of her father Matthew Sellers, her mother Ann Corbett Sellers and children moved to the new territory of Mississippi after settlement of her father's estate and siblings selling of their inherited lands.

The 1816 Tax List shows Salome and Thomas Travis living in Warren County, Mississippi. Burial monument of her mother Ann Corbett Sellers at the Oakland Cemetery included Salome's name on one of the sides of the monument.

Thomas and Salome from Kentucky were among the very first settlers of Warren County, Mississippi about 1817.

1820 Census (Warren County, MS)
Thomas Travis
310110-21010-0

Mississippi Court Records
[p.127] Warren County
[p.133] Travis, Thomas.
November 25, 1822. Admr: Salem Travis.
Bondsmen: Mathew B. Sellers, Andrew Glass, Bellfield Wrenn.

Her husband died in 1822 at an early age, indicating he may have died from Yellow Fever.

1830 Ouachita Parish (West Carroll Parish), LA)
Travis, Saloma
0030000000000 0100001000000

Children:

1. Urban E. Travis (1807 KY-1873) m. Lucy Jane Jeffries on December 23, 1829, Warren County, MS; m. (2) Mary Couch Oct. 21, 1847

2. Teresa Travis (1808, KY-1833, East Carroll Parish LA) m. George Robinson Newman on 24 Feb 1824, Warren County, MS.

3. Nancy Ann Matilda Travis (1810 KY-Sept. 1850, Bossier Parish, LA) m. Charles Achilles (Killis) Jeffries (1810 VA-Jun. 1850) on May 26, 1827, Warren Co., MS.

Children: Mary Ann (#132849205) m. Jeesse (James) P. Prescott on May 26, 1853, Lavinia m. William B. Parks, Olivia Elizabeth (#5212132) m. Robert James Lowry, Minerva, Caroline, Charles K., Cornelia

4. Lavinia (Lucinda) Travis (1814 KY-1845) m. Peter John Guier (1808-1860) on June 5, 1829.

Children: Mary Salome Guier m. James C. Mapp, Elizabeth Ann Guier m. Creed Taylor Motley, Alice Minerva Guier (1843) m. Thomas D. McCandless, Peter John, Guier, Jr. (b. abt. 1845) m. Ida Landfair

5. Edmond R. Travis (1816 MS-1859) m. Elizabeth Ann Forston on Jan 3, 1847, Carroll Parish, LA.

6. Matthew Travis (abt.1821, Warren Co., MS)

7. Mary Elizabeth Travis (1822, Warren Co., MS-Sep. 30, 1853, Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, LA) m. Francis Bowling Richardson on 16 December 1844, East Carroll Parish, LA.
Great-great-great granddaughter of William Sellers

Wife of Thomas Travis. Married at Livingston County (Crittenden County), Kentucky on August 15, 1805. Following the death of her father Matthew Sellers, her mother Ann Corbett Sellers and children moved to the new territory of Mississippi after settlement of her father's estate and siblings selling of their inherited lands.

The 1816 Tax List shows Salome and Thomas Travis living in Warren County, Mississippi. Burial monument of her mother Ann Corbett Sellers at the Oakland Cemetery included Salome's name on one of the sides of the monument.

Thomas and Salome from Kentucky were among the very first settlers of Warren County, Mississippi about 1817.

1820 Census (Warren County, MS)
Thomas Travis
310110-21010-0

Mississippi Court Records
[p.127] Warren County
[p.133] Travis, Thomas.
November 25, 1822. Admr: Salem Travis.
Bondsmen: Mathew B. Sellers, Andrew Glass, Bellfield Wrenn.

Her husband died in 1822 at an early age, indicating he may have died from Yellow Fever.

1830 Ouachita Parish (West Carroll Parish), LA)
Travis, Saloma
0030000000000 0100001000000

Children:

1. Urban E. Travis (1807 KY-1873) m. Lucy Jane Jeffries on December 23, 1829, Warren County, MS; m. (2) Mary Couch Oct. 21, 1847

2. Teresa Travis (1808, KY-1833, East Carroll Parish LA) m. George Robinson Newman on 24 Feb 1824, Warren County, MS.

3. Nancy Ann Matilda Travis (1810 KY-Sept. 1850, Bossier Parish, LA) m. Charles Achilles (Killis) Jeffries (1810 VA-Jun. 1850) on May 26, 1827, Warren Co., MS.

Children: Mary Ann (#132849205) m. Jeesse (James) P. Prescott on May 26, 1853, Lavinia m. William B. Parks, Olivia Elizabeth (#5212132) m. Robert James Lowry, Minerva, Caroline, Charles K., Cornelia

4. Lavinia (Lucinda) Travis (1814 KY-1845) m. Peter John Guier (1808-1860) on June 5, 1829.

Children: Mary Salome Guier m. James C. Mapp, Elizabeth Ann Guier m. Creed Taylor Motley, Alice Minerva Guier (1843) m. Thomas D. McCandless, Peter John, Guier, Jr. (b. abt. 1845) m. Ida Landfair

5. Edmond R. Travis (1816 MS-1859) m. Elizabeth Ann Forston on Jan 3, 1847, Carroll Parish, LA.

6. Matthew Travis (abt.1821, Warren Co., MS)

7. Mary Elizabeth Travis (1822, Warren Co., MS-Sep. 30, 1853, Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, LA) m. Francis Bowling Richardson on 16 December 1844, East Carroll Parish, LA.


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