Son of Matthew B. Sellers I and Angelina "Annie" Lewis.
Great-great-great-great grandson of William Sellers
Samuel prepared for Harvard at the Brown & Nichols School at Cambridge, Massachusetts. He obtained his Law Degree from Harvard University (A.B. 1893-1897, LL.B. Law 1899-1902), and was admitted to the Massachusetts Bar in March of 1903. He never married and never practiced law as a profession, but rather helped with the properties in Baltimore and Grahn, Kentucky. The family traveled often from the house in Baltimore to Grahn, Kentucky, as his brother Matthew was experimenting with early fight. Had traveled around the world with his sister Annabel in the 1920's.
But after 1930, he and his sister Annabel just sat at home. His sister Annabel read detective stories and wrote letters to her cousins, keeping copies of every one she mailed. Samuel listened to records – Caruso records, Frank Sinatra records. These were his only pleasure, save for trips, to check his safe deposit box, and an occasional stroll into the square where he talked to the friendly Negroes who lived around it. No one ever came into the house, except the man who checked the meter.
After the passing of his sister Annabel, his meals were brought in by a neighbor woman whom – he signaled by closing a shutter.
He was the last to die in the old Baltimore house, that was occupied by the family from 1868 to 1954.
Samuel’s nephew, Matthew Bacon Sellers III, found Samuel in the dusty parlor, a high-ceilinged room carpeted with thick rugs and decorated with huge mirrors and plush drapes.
“He was lying there in the suit he always wore”, Matthew Sellers says. “It was a twenty-year-old suit, one of his better ones; he owned a dozen suits and some of them were very old. He never threw anything away; none of the family ever did”.
The family is all at rest together at the cemetery in Baltimore, with exception to his brother Matthew.
Great-great-great-great grandson of William Sellers
Samuel prepared for Harvard at the Brown & Nichols School at Cambridge, Massachusetts. He obtained his Law Degree from Harvard University (A.B. 1893-1897, LL.B. Law 1899-1902), and was admitted to the Massachusetts Bar in March of 1903. He never married and never practiced law as a profession, but rather helped with the properties in Baltimore and Grahn, Kentucky. The family traveled often from the house in Baltimore to Grahn, Kentucky, as his brother Matthew was experimenting with early fight. Had traveled around the world with his sister Annabel in the 1920's.
But after 1930, he and his sister Annabel just sat at home. His sister Annabel read detective stories and wrote letters to her cousins, keeping copies of every one she mailed. Samuel listened to records – Caruso records, Frank Sinatra records. These were his only pleasure, save for trips, to check his safe deposit box, and an occasional stroll into the square where he talked to the friendly Negroes who lived around it. No one ever came into the house, except the man who checked the meter.
After the passing of his sister Annabel, his meals were brought in by a neighbor woman whom – he signaled by closing a shutter.
He was the last to die in the old Baltimore house, that was occupied by the family from 1868 to 1954.
Samuel’s nephew, Matthew Bacon Sellers III, found Samuel in the dusty parlor, a high-ceilinged room carpeted with thick rugs and decorated with huge mirrors and plush drapes.
“He was lying there in the suit he always wore”, Matthew Sellers says. “It was a twenty-year-old suit, one of his better ones; he owned a dozen suits and some of them were very old. He never threw anything away; none of the family ever did”.
The family is all at rest together at the cemetery in Baltimore, with exception to his brother Matthew.
Son of Matthew B. Sellers I and Angelina "Annie" Lewis.
Great-great-great-great grandson of William Sellers
Samuel prepared for Harvard at the Brown & Nichols School at Cambridge, Massachusetts. He obtained his Law Degree from Harvard University (A.B. 1893-1897, LL.B. Law 1899-1902), and was admitted to the Massachusetts Bar in March of 1903. He never married and never practiced law as a profession, but rather helped with the properties in Baltimore and Grahn, Kentucky. The family traveled often from the house in Baltimore to Grahn, Kentucky, as his brother Matthew was experimenting with early fight. Had traveled around the world with his sister Annabel in the 1920's.
But after 1930, he and his sister Annabel just sat at home. His sister Annabel read detective stories and wrote letters to her cousins, keeping copies of every one she mailed. Samuel listened to records – Caruso records, Frank Sinatra records. These were his only pleasure, save for trips, to check his safe deposit box, and an occasional stroll into the square where he talked to the friendly Negroes who lived around it. No one ever came into the house, except the man who checked the meter.
After the passing of his sister Annabel, his meals were brought in by a neighbor woman whom – he signaled by closing a shutter.
He was the last to die in the old Baltimore house, that was occupied by the family from 1868 to 1954.
Samuel’s nephew, Matthew Bacon Sellers III, found Samuel in the dusty parlor, a high-ceilinged room carpeted with thick rugs and decorated with huge mirrors and plush drapes.
“He was lying there in the suit he always wore”, Matthew Sellers says. “It was a twenty-year-old suit, one of his better ones; he owned a dozen suits and some of them were very old. He never threw anything away; none of the family ever did”.
The family is all at rest together at the cemetery in Baltimore, with exception to his brother Matthew.
Great-great-great-great grandson of William Sellers
Samuel prepared for Harvard at the Brown & Nichols School at Cambridge, Massachusetts. He obtained his Law Degree from Harvard University (A.B. 1893-1897, LL.B. Law 1899-1902), and was admitted to the Massachusetts Bar in March of 1903. He never married and never practiced law as a profession, but rather helped with the properties in Baltimore and Grahn, Kentucky. The family traveled often from the house in Baltimore to Grahn, Kentucky, as his brother Matthew was experimenting with early fight. Had traveled around the world with his sister Annabel in the 1920's.
But after 1930, he and his sister Annabel just sat at home. His sister Annabel read detective stories and wrote letters to her cousins, keeping copies of every one she mailed. Samuel listened to records – Caruso records, Frank Sinatra records. These were his only pleasure, save for trips, to check his safe deposit box, and an occasional stroll into the square where he talked to the friendly Negroes who lived around it. No one ever came into the house, except the man who checked the meter.
After the passing of his sister Annabel, his meals were brought in by a neighbor woman whom – he signaled by closing a shutter.
He was the last to die in the old Baltimore house, that was occupied by the family from 1868 to 1954.
Samuel’s nephew, Matthew Bacon Sellers III, found Samuel in the dusty parlor, a high-ceilinged room carpeted with thick rugs and decorated with huge mirrors and plush drapes.
“He was lying there in the suit he always wore”, Matthew Sellers says. “It was a twenty-year-old suit, one of his better ones; he owned a dozen suits and some of them were very old. He never threw anything away; none of the family ever did”.
The family is all at rest together at the cemetery in Baltimore, with exception to his brother Matthew.
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