_Peter John SELLARDS Jr._+
| (1706 - ....)
_Hezekiah SELLARDS __|
| (1732 - 1760) |
| |_________________________
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_John SELLARDS ______|
| (1765 - 1838) |
| | _John BREVARD ___________
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| |_Jean BREVARD _______|
| (1734 - 1770) |
| |_________________________
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|--Thomas Alford SELLARDS
| (1808 - 1889)
| _________________________
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| _____________________|
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| | |_________________________
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|_Annie ALFORD _______|
(1770 - 1820) |
| _________________________
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|_____________________|
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|_________________________
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Thomas Alford Sellards, the son of John and Annie (Alford) Sellards and the grandson of Hezekiah Sellards, was born ca 1808 in Floyd County, Kentucky. He died ca 1889 at Frederickstown, Missouri. On January 16, 1834, Thomas married Mary Clark, born January 2, 1815 in Floyd County, Kentucky and died in the spring of 1880 in Dassel, Minnesota. This family along with a party of relatives and friends migrated from the old settlement on Buffalo Creek, Floyd County, Kentucky to Minnesota in 1866. The party arrived in Minnesota to find the scars of Indian warfare still fresh, when they settled in Meeker County, near the spot where Little Crow, the Indian Chief fell. Thomas established his new homestead on a lake, approximately one mile west of Dassel, which lake bears the name Sellard Lake. Mary and other relatives are buried on this farm.
Thomas went to visit his nephew, Alex Sellards, in Frederickstown, Missouri, where he became ill and was buried there. The inscription on his grave stone reads "Friends on earth I have but few, but over the river a noble crew. Our increase has become multiplied. Only four are left alive, come on you remaining four."