36 STREEPER : 



Joseph Barlow 

 Co. B 

 124 th 

 Pa. Inf. 



On the tomb of Coleman Sellers : 



West side : 



Sophonisba Sellers * 

 born April 24111 1786 

 died Oct. 26th 1859. 



East side : 



Coleman Sellers f 



born November 27th 1781. 



died May 7th 1834. 



* Sophonisba Sellers, daughter of Charles Willson and Rachel 

 (Brewer) Peale, was born in Philadelphia, 4-24-1786, and died at "Mill- 

 bank," Upper Darby, Pa., 10-26-1859. 



t Coleman Sellers (Thomas, Samuel, Samuel, John, Nathan) was the 

 eldest son of Nathan Sellers and Elizabeth Coleman, and was born in 

 Upper Darby Township, 1781. Received his education in private schools 

 in Philadelphia. He acquired an interest in the reorganized paper and 

 carding business of Nathan & David Sellers, which thereafter became 

 known by the firm name of Coleman Sellers & Sons. In 1828 he 

 erected a carding machinery factory on the Cobb's Creek, near Marshall 

 Road, and later established his entire business there, erecting homes for 

 his employees, and named the settlement "Cardington." His firm also 

 built locomotives for the old Columbia Railroad, in which for the first 

 time iron was substituted for wooden frames for the running gear, and 

 the introduction of the pivoted forward truck. In 1821 he was appointed 

 a commissioner by the State Legislature for the erection of the Eastern 

 Penitentiary. The land upon which was erected Union School, on the 

 Marshall Road, in Upper Darby Township, was donated by him, while it 

 was largely through his financial assistance that the New Jerusalem 

 Temple was erected. He married Sophonisba, daughter of Charles Will- 

 son and Rachel (Brewer) Peale, on 9-23-1805. By this union there were 

 four sons and two daughters : Charles, born 10-25-1806 ; George; Escol, 

 born 11-26-1808; Elizabeth Coleman, born 10-24-1810 ; Harvey Lewis, 

 born 2-25-1813 ; Anna, born 9-30-1824 ; Coleman, born 1-27-1827. 



Coleman Sellers, the first, died at No. 10 North Sixth Street, Pliila- 

 adelphia, on May 7th, 1834. 



