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My Great Aunt Fran, my grandmother's sister is 93 and was urged by the family to write her history. I received the first installment last night as I agreed to do all the typing and binding. I have know for years that my great great grandfather was overseer of the Middleton's Plantations and my maternal roots are in South Carolina. So I was tip tappitying away (normally I read first what I'm going to type, but this was one time I didn't) when I ran into this (Tedie was my grandmother):
The four Rabb sisters had a wonderful time growing up in Yemassee and were very popular. They lived in a house that had a large front porch and they all loved to sit on the porch and watch “the boys go by”. Attelia kept seeing this handsome young man go by often and she told her sisters that he was the man she would marry. The sisters all laughed of course (Tedie told me this). She did finally meet him, Francis Bachman Sellers, fell in love and married him. A real love story. He worked for the Atlantic Coastline Railroad. He was from Charleston, SC – the son of Benjamin Thomas Sellers and Anna Jane Swift. Benjamin had been overseer of the three plantations owned by the wealthy Middleton Family – Rice Hope, Bonney Hall and Harboney. This is the story I have been told by Tedie. The Sellers Family lived in a house on the Harboney Plantation near Yemassee during the Civil War. When General Sherman made his famous March to the Sea he and his troops came right through that area and stopped at Harboney and did great damage. Tedie said that Anna Sellers went out to the road and begged General Sherman to spare their house – even took hold of the bridle of his horse. He told her that she was the first woman to touch the bridle of his horse! The troops did not burn the Plantation House but stole all the silver and food, but they did burn the house of Benjamin Sellers and his family. The Middleton Family brought in boxcars for the family to live in while they built a new home ...
My jaw dropped. Apparently a cousin of mine, Greaton Sellers, has pictures of the boxcars. I'll post them when I get a hold of them.
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