Extracted from The Big Spring Daily Herald (Big Spring, TX)
Attorney General's Brother Dies Today
DALLAS, Feb. 22 (AP) -- Hugh [sic Henry] Grady Sellers, 54, of Sulphur Springs, older brother of Attorney Geenral [sic General] Grover Sellers, died early today at the Veterans Hospital at Lisbon, Tex. He was ill with pneumonia.
His body was taken to Sulphur Springs for burial at 10 a.m. tomorrow.
Hugh [sic Henry] Sellers, a World War I veteran, had a son, Hugh [sic Henry] Grady Sellers, Jr., serving overseas with parachute troops.
Attorney General Sellers came from Austin yesterday to be at his brother's bedside.
Other survivors include Dr. Hodge Sellers, C. D. Sellers and E. T. Sellers, brothers who reside at Sulphur Springs.
Sellers was born May 25, 1890, in Walnut Lane, La., and was reared in Louisiana before his family moved to Sulphur Springs about 1909, where he farmed before serving in the army.
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Extracted from The San Antonio Express (San Antonio, TX)
Attorney General's Brother Succumbs
By Associated Press
DALLAS, Tex., Feb. 22 -- Henry Grady Sellers, brother of Atty. Gen. Grover Sellers, died Tuesday at the Veterans' Hospital at Lisbon. He was 54, had been in ill health since serving with a veterinary corps in France during World War I, and died after a three-week siege of pneumonia. The attorney general came from Austin Monday to be at his bedside.
Funeral services will be held Wednesday at Sulphur Springs, his home town.
Survivors include four brothers, the attorney general, and Dr. Hodge, C. D. and E. T., of Sulphur Springs, and a son, Sgt. Henry G. Sellers Jr., serving overseas with parachute troops.
Tuesday, February 22, 1944
Wednesday, February 23, 1944