Could history be changing? Did a Carter County man really take flight before the famous Wright brothers?

This might be the most interesting story ever printed in The Morehead News.

Could it be true that Matthew Bacon Sellers of Grahn was actually first in flight and not the Wright Brothers?

Lloyd Dean of Rowan County and other interested parties say they believe it could be factual and hope to find the answers that would certainly change history.

Dean is the great-great nephew to Lincoln Binion who was part of aviation history as Sellers’ assistant and possibly the first person to die while working in the aviation field.

“I’ve always thought that it could be true that the Wright Brothers made their flight several years after Sellers,” Dean said. “My cousin Mary Lee Dean Mauk spent a lot of time at the Blakemore Mansion that was located in Grahn and the place where Sellers grew up. She was about 16 years old when Linc was killed when the plane’s propeller fell off and then fell to the ground striking Linc in the head. She said Sellers’ plane flew twice before the accident that killed Linc.

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While you’re busy reading that… Everyone in Richmond is going to die of the cicada wrath!