1.      Sellers Birth Notices in the Van Buren News Eagle

2.      Leroy McKendose Sellers Biography

3.      Obituaries for Leroy McKendose Sellers

4.      Obituary for Mary M. (Rush) Sellers

5.   Obituary for Emory Bing Sellers

6.   Obituary for Norah Leah (Doyle) Sellers

1.   Sellers birth notices in the Van Buren News Eagle (Van Buren, IN) (Emory Bing Sellers, Isaac, Martha Rodman, Roseann Cusac, Andrew John)

24 January 1913… Mr. and Mrs. Emory Sellers of Poneto, are the proud parents of a baby girl on January 11. The baby was named Mary Margaret. Mrs. Sellers is a sister to Mrs. John Anderson and Mrs. Clyde Waggaman.

04 August 1920… Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Sellers of Poneto, announce the birth of a baby girl, born August 2 and named Dorotha Dean.

19 May 1922… Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Sellers of near Poneto, are the proud parents of a baby girl born on Wednesday, May 18. She was named Ruth Rosella.

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2.   Leroy McKendose Sellers Biography (Isaac Sellers, Martha Rodman, Roseann Cusac, Andrew John)

            Sellers Farm

      FIRST GENERATION: Leroy “Lee” McKendose Sellers, age twenty five, and his firstcousin, Finley H. Rhodes (Corporal – Civil War), age twenty two, Somerset, Perry County, Ohio, traveled by horseback to Zanesville, Muskingum County, Ohio, June 4, 1866. They bought land; section six, Nottingham township, Wells County, Indiana, at $10.00 an acre from the original owners, Jacob and Aciah Lane, who had purchased the land, 1850, from the government.

      Starting July 14, 1866, land was cleared to build a log cabin. Leroy and family lived in the cabin until 1904 when his son Emory Bing, built the present Sellers home.

      June 6, 1878, Leroy, four neighbors, County Surveyor Finley Rhodes, presented a petition to the Board of Commissioners for the establishment of an open ditch, known as Sellers Ditch. Leroy helped to build the early roads, which many called corduroy roads. Later, Leroy was a Nottingham Township Road Supervisor.

      February 1, 1871, Leroy married Mary M. Rush, daughter of John B. and Lydia (Stanforth) Rush. Two children were born to this couple: Matilda E. and Daniel Emory Bing Sellers. Leroy’s wife, Mary M., died November 7, 1883, at age thirty one. The daughter’s death occurred October 3, 1887, at age fifteen.

      One-half acre was sold (1874) to Nottingham Township Trustee, where the Sellers School House was built. Later it was replaced by a brick school house named Frog Pond School.

      Leroy died January 22, 1905, age sixty four and was buried in the Sellers Family plot, Grove Cemetery.

      SECOND GENERATION: During the 1890 oil boom in this area, Emory Bing left farming to work as a driller, receiving about $65.00 a month. IN 1904 he left the oil fields near Van Buren, and with his new bride, Nora Leah (Doyle) Seller, daughter of Thomas and Margaret (Kessinger) Doyle, returned to the Sellers farm and to his newly built house. Four children were born to this couple: Leroy Thomas Sellers (born August, 1907, died August 25, 1907), Margaret, Dortha, and Ruth Sellers.

      Emory’s farming was done by horses and later by a Farmal tractor. He joined the neighbors in threshing grain. With his experience as a driller, he was called upon to repair many broken ropes during hay-making season. In 1921, a new barn was built, put together with wooden pegs. During the years, many additions were added to the original house. Emory’s last farming chore was shucking corn. He suffered a stroke and died on April 27, 1955, at age eighty years.

      Nora Sellers was a homemaker, an excellent cook, and a seamstress. She was very active in the Poneto Baptist Ladies Aid. Her death occurred October 26, 1959, at age seventy-nine years. Both Emory and Nora Sellers were buried in the Masonic Cemetery, Van Buren, Indiana.

      More family information may be found in The Doyle History Book, Grant County, 1984 and Sellers History Book, Wells County, 1991.

      THIRD GENERATION: This Sellers house continued to be the residence of Sellers family since 1904. All three daughters, Margaret, Dorotha, and Ruth, graduated from Petroleum High School. Their teaching degrees were granted from Manchester College and Ball State University, with extra graduate work at Indiana University and University of Colorado. They taught a combined total of 133 years. They were members of Delta Kappa Gamma Society International for Women Teachers and Honorary members of Psi Iota Xi Sorority.

      Margaret retired in 1979 with forty-seven years of teaching: Vera Cruz (grades one to four with forty-eight students), Poplar Grove (grades three and four), and Montpelier, Blackford County (fourth grade).

      Dorotha taught music and art at Vera Cruz, Poplar Grove and Poneto Elementary Schools, forty years at Lancaster Central School, retiring in 1986 after forty-three years of teaching. In 1968 she received the Wells County Community Service Award, and in 1970 the Distinguished Service Award from Indiana Music Educators Association.

      Ruth retired in 1986 after forty-three years of teaching in Wells County: 14 years (one year as third and fourth grade, 13 years as first grade teacher) at East Rockcreek School, twenty-nine years as first grade teacher in Bluffton (8 years at Central and twenty-one years at East Side School). In 1970 she received the “Outstanding Educators of America” Award.

      The Sellers farm was recognized, 1976 in Indianapolis as a Hoosier Homestead Farm, having been in the same family name for over one hundred (110) years. Nineteen hundred and ninety one marks its one hundred and twenty-fifth year as being the Sellers farm.

3.   Obituaries for Leroy M Sellers (Isaac Sellers, Martha Rodman, Roseann Cusac, Andrew John)

                                                  LEE SELLERS A SUICIDE.

                                           Farmer’s Mind became Deranged from

                                                two Weeks Illness and he Took

                                                        his Own Life Sunday.

      Lee Sellers, a farmer aged sixty three, shot himself at his home a mile east and three quarters of a mile south of Poneto between the hours of 2 and 3 o’clock Sunday and died instantly. No cause for his suicide is known unless it was despondency over a two weeks illness but this is hardly considered the cause as his illness had not been severe enough to confine him to his bed and he had been in his usual frame of mind during his sickness.

      Mr. Sellers owned an eighty acre farm and lived on the farm with his son and wife, his own wife having died several years ago. About noon the son took his wife and child to the home of a neighbor but told his father he would return in a short time. He was gone about half and hour and as he returned he heard a shot coming from the direction of the milk house. He ran there and found his father lying on the floor dead. He had held a 32 calibre revolver to his head and pulled the trigger. The bullet entered the left temple and caused almost instant death.

      The funeral will be held at the Poneto Methodist church at 10 o’clock tomorrow and burial will take place at the Grove cemetery. The deceased was born in Ohio in 1841 and was sixty three years, eleven months and ten days of age. He leaves but one son, Emery Sellers, with whom he lived.

                   Evening News, (Bluffton, IN?) Monday 23 January 1905 p. 2 col. 5

                                                  LEE SELLERS A SUICIDE.

                                           Farmer’s Mind became Deranged from

                                                two Weeks Illness and he Took

                                                        his Own Life Sunday.

      Lee Sellers, a farmer aged sixty three, shot himself at his home a mile east and three quarters of a mile south of Poneto between the hours of 2 and 3 o’clock Sunday and died instantly. No cause for his suicide is known unless it was despondency over a two weeks illness but this is hardly considered the cause as his illness had not been severe enough to confine him to his bed and he had been in his usual frame of mind during his sickness.

      Mr. Sellers owned an eighty acre farm and lived on the farm with his son and wife, his own wife having died several years ago. About noon the son took his wife and child to the home of a neighbor but told his father he would return in a short time. He was gone about half and hour and as he returned he heard a shot coming from the direction of the milk house. He ran there and found his father lying on the floor dead. He had held a 32 calibre revolver to his head and pulled the trigger. The bullet entered the left temple and caused almost instant death.

      The funeral was held at the Poneto Methodist church at 10 o’clock Tuesday and burial took place at the Grove cemetery. The deceased was born in Ohio in 1841 and was sixty three years, eleven months and ten days of age. He leaves but – one son, Emery Sellers, with whom he lived.

            Bluffton Chronicle, (Bluffton, IN) Wednesday 25 January 1905 p. 1 col. 5

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LEE SELLERS OF POENTO COMMITTED SUICIDE SUNDAY

      Lee Sellers, aged 54 years, a resident of this county near Poneto, committed suicide Sunday afternoon by shooting through the head. Death was instantaneous and when his son reached his side the father was dead. Sellers made his home with his son, Bing Sellers, one mile east and a mile south of the little town of Poneto. His rash act is attributed to ill health and melancholy.

      Sellers was a man of rather peculiar habits. For fifteen years he resided on his farm alone. Last fall his son Bing, was married and a new house was built on the old farm. Here Bing and his wife with the father, who had been a widower for fifteen years, took up their residence. The family relations, so far as known, have always been of the most friendly sort. Nothing occurred to mar their pleasure

      For the past two weeks, Lee Sellers, the dead man, had been in poor health. However, nothing in his actions had led his family to think that he contemplated the taking of his own life. Sunday just at noon, Mrs. Sellars, the daughter-in-law, decided that she would call at the home of a neighbor. The place, where she intended visiting was the Frank Courtney home nearby, and Bing, her husband, carried their little child to this place.

      Before leaving the house he informed his father that he would return in a few minutes. As a matter of fact he was gone probably half an hour. He returned along the road and as he neared the house he saw his father leave the residence and walk hurriedly to an outbuilding standing nearby. He entered this building and almost instantly the report of a pistol rang out.

      The son heard the shot and surmising that all was not right, he ran to where his father had disappeared in the house. Arriving there he was horrified to find the elder man lying on his back, the body already stiffening in the rigors of death. A gaping bullet would over the right eye and the still smoking revolver told all too plainly the tale of self-destruction. The boy made assurance that his father was dead and then called assistance. The remains were not disturbed, pending the arrival of Coroner McBride from this city.

      Selllars took his life with a .32-calibre revolver. But one shot was fired, it penetrating the brain and causing instant death. The news of the death spread rapidly and caused a considerable sensation as the dead man was well known and universally respected.

      It is rumored that at several times in recent years, Mr. Sellars had shown signs of despondency and moroseness. This was at times when his health was not of the best. He had no other cause for taking his life as he with his son and daughter-in-law were living in the utmost harmony and their relations were the most pleasant.

      Sellars was the owner of considerable property, being the owner of the farm upon which he resided and also having some funds in the bank. His suicide cannot be attributed to financial troubles.

      Coroner McBride went to the home Sunday evening and began the examination of witnesses. He ascertained that about a week ago the family had been informed by Dr. Dickason of Petroleum that Sellars was slightly unbalanced mentally. About a year ago it is learned that he suffered from a similar condition of health and that at the time he made threats of taking his life. But little attention was paid to these threats at the time, however, as it was thoughts that with his health becoming better, all such thoughts would be banished from his mind.

      The funeral was held Tuesday forenoon. The cortege left the house at 10 o’clock and the services were held at Poneto with interment in the Grove cemetery.

4.   Obituary for Mary M. (Rush) Sellers (wife of Leroy M Sellers, Isaac, Martha Rodman, Roseann Cusac, Andrew John)

      The wife of Leroy M. Sellers, of Nottingham towship, who has been lying low with consumption, died Tuesday. The funeral will take place to-day at 11 o’clock.

5.   Obituary for Emory Bing Sellers (Leroy M, Isaac, Martha Rodman, Roseann Cusac, Andrew John)

                                               Bing Sellers, 80, Dies at Hospital

      Emory Bing Sellers, 80, Nottingham Township farmer, died at 4:20 a.m. today at the Wells County Hospital. He had been ill a week and death was attributed to a cerebral hemorrhage.

      A lifelong resident of Wells County, Mr. Sellers was born in Nottingham Township Oct. 9, 1874, a son of Leroy and Mary Rush Sellers. His married at Van Buren Nov. 28, 1903, was to Nora Doyle, who is deceased.

      Mr. Sellers was affiliated with the Baptist Church.

      Surviving are three daughters, Margaret, Dorotha and Ruth Sellers, all at home. A son, Leroy Thomas Sellers, and a sister, Matilda Sellers, are deceased.

      The body was taken to the Thoma Funeral Home, where friends may call after noon Thursday.

      Funeral services will be conducted at 3:30 p.m. Friday at the Thoma Funeral Home with Rev. W. H. Day and Rev. Matthew Worthman officiating. Burial will be in the Van Buren Cemetery.

              Bluffton News Banner (Bluffton, IN) Wednesday 27 April 1955 p. 1 col. 6

6.   Obituary for Norah Leah (Doyle) Sellers (wife of Emory B, Leroy M, Isaac, Martha Rodman, Roseann Cusac, Andrew John)

                                                Attack Fatal to Mrs. Sellers, 79

      Mrs. Nora Leah Sellers, 79, widow of Emory bing Sellers, died at 7 a.m. today at her home, one mile east and three-fourths mile south of Poneto. Death was due to a heart attack.

      She was born Sept. 29, 1880, in Grant County, to Thomas B. and Margaret Kessinger Doyle. Her marriage Nov. 28, 1903, at Van Buren was to Emory Bing Sellers, who died in 1955.

      A resident of this county 55 years, Mrs. Sellers was a member of the Poneto Baptist Church.          

      Survivors include three daughters, Miss Margaret Sellers, Miss Dorotha Sellers and Miss Ruth Sellers, all at home.

      A son, Leroy Thomas, four brothers and four sisters are deceased.

      The body is at the Thoma Funeral Home, where friends may call after noon Tuesday.

      Services will be conducted at 3 p.m. Wednesday at the funeral home. Dr. Marvin Hall will officiate and burial will be in the Van Buren Cemetery.

              Bluffton News Banner (Bluffton, IN) Monday 26 October 1959 p. 1 col. 8

7.   Biography of Emory and Nora (Doyle) Sellers written by their daughter Dorotha Sellers (Leroy M, Isaac, Martha Rodman, Roseann Cusac, Andrew John)

                                            NORA LEAH (DOYLE) SELLERS

                                                   EMORY BING SELLERS

      Nora Leah Doyle, the youngest child of Thomas Benton and Margaret (Kessinger) Doyle, was born September 29, 1880. Their home was three and one half miles south and three fourths mile east of Van Buren. This farm home was located on a section one half mile east of the old Doyle Homestead, Van Buren Twp., Grant County, Indiana. It consisted of 160 acres.

      Nora was the ninth child of the T.B. Doyle family. She had four brothers and four sisters. They were: Matthew, Mrs. John (Sarah Jane Doyle) Anderson, George Washington, Samuel Franklin, John Albert, Mrs. Clyde (Rosella Doyle) Waggaman, Annette, and Addie Doyle. Her oldest sister, Sarah Jane, was married when Nora was three years old.

      She received her early education (grades 1 – 3) while attending the Anderson School, three miles south of Van Buren. She also attended summer school. Her teachers at the Anderson School included James Landess (first grade), Lottie Adkinson, Etta Boxell, Mack Jeffery, Frank Strite (or Strint).
      When Nora was around 10 or 11 years old, the Doyle family moved to Van Buren, where T.B. Doyle had purchased forty acres of land in the south part of Van Buren (1890). Nora then attended the Van Buren School for grades 4 – 8. Some teachers there were Leona Adkinson, George Johnson, Charles Johnnson, Ritta Huff, and Henry Nicewanger. However, she had to quit school during the eighth grade in order to take over the duties of caring for her brother, George Doyle, and his four children, Golda Chloe, Neva, Norma D., and Ruth Doyle. George’s wife had died in 1895, so the family moved in with Thomas and Margaret Doyle. This increased the family to eight. Nora, age 15, and her sister Rose, age 19, were responsible for doing the home chores as their mother wasn’t able to get around to do all the work. Nora’s responsibilities becam greater when Rose married Clyde Waggaman and left home. Margaret Doyle, her mother, and the children of George Doyle became very sick, and Nora had to take over the cooking for this large family. In 1889 Neva, the daughter of George Doyle, died following a severe case of measles.

      Nora was quite interested in sewing, and became an excellent seamstress. She earned her first money by sewing for other people. Her wages for sewing were five cents an hour when she went to the home to do the sewing. This was about fifty cents a day. Nora was 17 years old when she made the wedding dress for her sister, Rose Doyle. Another time she was asked to sew a burial dress for a little baby. She made graduation dresses for her nieces, also.

      Nora liked to walk the seven blocks up town in Van Buren. Her favorite stop was at the Van Buren store where she could buy coconut stick candy for a cent a stick.

      Many times Nora mentioned her experience in being in a parade. It was during the big celebration in Van Buren for William Jennings Bryan, the Democratic nominee for President of the United States. A special train bearing Bryan was to arrive in Van Buren where he was to appear in the parade. Bryan supporters were resplendent with silver ribbons on their coat lapels, for his campaign cry – Free Silver! Sixteen to One – his slogan was the theme of the parade. (The meaning was to advocate the free coinage of silver at a fixed rate with gold.) The school children had a float in the parade. Nora’s brother, George Doyle, drove the wagon. There were seventeen children on the wagon representing the  - 16 to 1- slogan. Nora was dressed in gold to represent the gold piece, while the others were dressed in silver. Nora was 16 years old then.

      Traveling was done by horse and buggy. Nora was 12 years old when she took her first excursion with her parents, brother, and sister. This was to Toledo, Ohio. She never told how many days it took to make this trip. She also went with several young people from Van Buren to Lake Webster, Indiana.

      Nora attended the Methodist and Christian Churches in Van Buren. She was secretary for the Good Templer’s Lodge, which was similar to the W.C.T.U. She was eighteen years old when she became a member of the Van Buren Rebekah Lodge, No. 482, and later became their secretary. Her father, who was active in the lodges of Van Buren, would keep her dues paid while she was active in Rebekahs.

      Her romance began one day while she was walking up town in Van Buren. She met a young man, Emory Sellers, a driller in the oil fields in the township and in Marion. Emory’s home was near Poneto, Indiana. During the week he would stay at various homes in Van Buren where he received his board and room. This romance continued for a few years. Then on a Saturday night after the Thanksgiving Day celebration at T.B. Doyle’s, Nora and Emory decided to get married – November 28, 1903. They walked through snow to the Van Buren Methodist Parsonage where Rev. H. W. Miller spoke the words that united them in marriage. The Van Buren News Eagle, 1903, carried this announcement and added this to the article: “Both young people are well known in the community and society. Their friends wish them a long and prosperous voyage over the matrimonial sea.” Nora’s wedding dress was a tannish brown silk taffeta that she had made for her Easter dress. No one else attended the wedding.

      Sundays were always a big day at the T.B. Doyle home, when many of their children came home for dinner, Sunday, November 29 was on exception, with her brother John, and his family Everett, Fay, and Raymond, and her sister, Rose Waggaman, Clyde, and their family – Dora (3 yrs. old) and Ross (3 wks. old), all being there in attendance. It was on this day that Nora and Emory announced their marriage.

      Emory Bing (often spelled Emery), was born on a farm a mile east and 3/4 south of Poneto. His parents were Leroy MacKendose and Mary (Rush) Sellers. His father was born in Perry Co., Ohio, and his mother near Poneeto. Two children weree born to this union – Matilda and Emory Bing. His mother died of tuberculosis at the age of 31 years (Nov. 7, 1883). His sister Matilda (Tillie) was 15 years old when she died of tuberculosis, (Oct. 3, 1887). Emory, at the age of twelve, and his father continued to live in the log cabin home. They cleared the woods, ditched the fields, and helped dig the big open ditch which is still known (1980) as the Sellers Ditch. They planted their crops, cradled the grain by hand, and worked together to make a living for themselves. A maple tree planted by Emory as a small lad, grew into a big shade tree, but was almost dead and was cut down the year of Emory’s death (1955). At the same time his father planted a maple tree which still furnishes shade for the Sellers’ house when this article was written (1980). Emory attended grade school at Frog Pond, which was a school located at the corner of thee Sellers’ farm – just one fourth mile south. When Emory became a young man, he left for Van Buren and the oil fields. He would take the interurban from Poneto to Bluffton, then another interurban to Van Buren, and return to Poneto over week ends.

      After marriage, Emory and Nora stayed at the Doyle home until October, 1904, when they moved to a newly built four-room home on the Seller’s home place near Poneto, a home built by Emory and his father, and Clyde Waggaman. They tore down the original log cabin and built just east of it. They began building in August and it was completed so they could celebrate their first Thanksgiving dinner in November. Clyde Waggaman drove the horse and wagon to move the furniture to the new home. It took half a day to make the trip of 18 miles.

      Nora and Emory lived over 50 years on this 60 acre farm. Corn, wheat, oats, and beans were the main crops. Most of the farming was done using two horses – Nell and Queen. These horses were used for plowing, cultivating, threshing grain, and putting up hay in the mow. In later years, a Farmall tractor was used. They both worked to plant their garden, the food which was stored in barrels, in a straw-filled hole dug in the ground, and by canning for their winter food supply. Apples and pears from the orchard, and pumpkins were also used. Their meat consisted of chicken and pork, as Emory’s main interest on the farm was raising white hogs. One or two cows furnished the milk. Mild and home-made ice cream was always available at the Sellers. It was Nora’s job to milk the coew, use the separator for the milk, sell the cream, make butter and smierkase (cottage cheese). For special Thanksgiving dinners Nora would mold the butter into the shape of a duck. During the summer there was always ice cream being made, maplenut being the favorite, made with Mapeline flavoring. Emory got the ice at an ice-house in Poneto. Ice from ponds east of Poneto was cut and stored in sawdust to keep for summer months. A two gallon freezer was always ready to be used for a summer treat.

      A big day during the winter was butchering day. Clyde Waggaman and family would come up and help butcher three or four hogs at one time. This provided meat for both families. The hogs were hung on three poles with a big black kettle of hot water below for lowering the hog into for scalding. Another black kettle was used for boiling fatty pieces for lard, and the skins made cracklings. There was a smell of fresh meat in the kitchen, along with the fixing of hams with salt to be smoke-cured. The last thing was grinding the meat into sausage. The sausage grinder was in the center of a 6-ft. board, then a person would sit at each end of the board to hold it down while another turned the crank of the grinder. Others would often put the meat into casings, which was canned the next day.

      Another project came in the spring when an incubator was used for hatching several dozen eggs. Three weeks later, there would be fluffy little yellow or black chicks hatch out of the eggs. Then in the summer it furnished fried chicken for a good many meals.

      Being used to having many people in the family, Nora and Emory would always have some nieces and nephews up to spend a few days with them. Dora Waggaman and Celesta Anderson often visited them. The Waggaman boys quite often helped Emory with the farm work during summers. Louise Waggaman visited in the Sellers’ home often, too. Surprise birthday dinners for either Nora or Emory were often held. At Christmas time, quite a few would spend Christmas Eve with the Sellers. The Waggamans and Sellers always got together on Christmas or Christmas Eve. Featherbeds, strawticks, and blankets were put on the floor for the children, and shoes placed against the wall around the coal baseburner stove. Children found goodies the next morning. Many times the long table was set for family dinners, threshing ring dinners for the working men, and for church dinners.

      The Sellers family was active with the Poneto Baptist Church, Ladies Aid, and many functions connected with serving dinners for sales and other activities associated with the church.

      Nora was very gifted. She was always working on a quilt, either piecing or quilting, crocheting, tatting, embroidering, as well as sewing clothes for her three daughters and herself. Every birthday, her daughters could expect some needlework piece for a gift. She also liked to write poetry.

      Four children were born to Nora and Emory. Their oldest child, Leroy Thomas, died at birth. The other three were daughters: Mary Margaret, Dorotha Dean, and Ruth Rosella. Emory always said, “Education is something no one can take away,” so he encouraged the three girls to continue their education after graduation from Petroleum High School, Wells County. This education was done at Manchester College and Ball State University, where all three girls received degrees to teach school, and all did teach many years.

      A big and last celebration for Nora and Emory was their 50^th Wedding Anniversary at their Poneto farm home on Sunday, November 29, 1953. Their daughters helped them celebrate the anniversary on Saturday, November 28, which was really their wedding date, by going to dinner at Bear Field Inn near Ft. Wayne. Many friends and relatives attended the Open House on Sunday from 1:00 to 4:00 o’clock. Telephone calls and many cards were received, as well as many lovely gifts.

      One day in April, Emory had spent the day working in the cornfield. The next day he suffered a stroke and was taken to the Wells County Hospital in Bluffton, where he died April 27, 1955. Four years later, on a Monday morning October 26, 1959, Nora suffered a heart attack and died a few minutes later. Both Emory and Nora were buried in the Van Buren Cemetery in Grant County.

                                                     By Dorotha Sellers, 1980

8.   Marriage Notice of Emory Sellers and Nora Doyle (Leroy, Isaac, Martha Rodman, Roseann Cusac, Andrew John)

      Last Saturday evening at the M. E. Parsonage in Van Buren, the Rev. H. W. Miller spoke the words that united in marriage Emory Bing Sellers and Nora Doyle.

      Mr. Sellers is a driller in the oil field, and the bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T. B. Doyle. Both young people are well known in the community and society. Their friends in legion wish them a long and prosperous voyage over the matrimonial sea.

                                         “The Marion Paper”, 28 November 1903

      I am not sure of the exact name of this newspaper. It is probably The Daily Chronicle, (Marion, Grant Co, IN) newspaper.

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