By James Margedant Press Staff Writer

SEBREE, Ky., Feb. 12.--- Perhaps it was because they had grown up together. Perhaps it was because the young man and young girl were fine, sensible, sturdy people. Or perhaps it was because it was Valentine Day when they made promises "until death do us part."
Whatever the cause, Adelbert Brown Sellers and Sallie Hancock have kept those promises, and Monday, Valentines Day, they will celebrate their sixty- first wedding anniversery.
Bert Sellers and Sallie Hancock lived on adjoining farms near Onton, Ky.
"I guess I never had another sweetheart but Sallie," Mr. Sellers confessed. "I used to take her valentines, too!"
"Now, Bert!" protested Mrs. Sellers.
Both are 81, gentle people, fond of each other and their memories.

DIDN'T GO TO DANCES

"We're only six weeks apart in age," said Mr. Sellers. "We were always in the same grades."
"I don't think we ever attended a dance together."
"No, we didn't," confirmed Mrs. Sellers.
"But there were plenty of corn shuckings and parties. And we played 'snap.'"
Snap was a game that when explained, sounded suspiciously like 'postoffice.'
Did Mr. Sellers ever find a red ear of corn at the shucking and thereby win a kiss?
"I found plenty of red ears," he chuckled, "but our rules didn't give the finder a kiss; he could take another drink."
Did they ride in a buggy when the moonlight was bright in Kentucky?
"Shucks no," said Mr. Sellers. "There weren't any buggies, there weren't any roads, when I went to visit Sallie, I walked or rode horseback."

CHOSE THE DATE

They decided to married in February, 1876.
"We thought it would be nice to have our wedding on Valentine Day." Mrs. Sellers explained.
And, from all accounts, it was nice, Rev. Perian Howell of Madisonville Methodist Church rode to the Hancock home to perform the ceremony. Betty Toombs was the bridesmaid and H. L. Ashby best man.
Then, after Bert and Sallie had made those promises they have kept so faithfully, a big dinner was served. After that, the young couple went to the Sellers home to live.
The following year they moved into the Hancock home, while Bert built a house. It was completed two years after their wedding and there they have lived and farmed for 10 years.
Then they deserted the farm, and moved to Sebree where Bert and his younger brother O.P. Sellers opened a livery business. Soon they sold out, the younger brother going back to the farm and Bert entering the mercantile business.

SON IS PARTNER

Later he owned a third of Sebree dry goods store. He maintained this intrest for 17 years and remained in the mercantile business for 35.
Now he and his son, Amplias, are partners in a hardware store. "We're partners," Mr. Sellers explained, "but he does all the work."
They have five children, Amplias is the only boy. The daughters are Miss Bertha Sellers, who keeps house for her parents; Mrs. Viola Edwards, operator of a store in Sebree; Mrs. Norris Allen, Repton, Ala., and Mrs. R. H. Dowden, Greenbriar, Tenn.