| My SELVEY story begins with CHARLES SELVEY, his wife�s name is still unknown. Charles was born in England in 1740, where they were married is also unknown, all we know is that he and his wife died in Virginia around 1810. Children known to Charles Selvey... Charles Selvey 2 born 1780 in Botetourt Co. VA., and he died around 1840. William Selvey born 1765 he married Fannie Davis on November 16, 1790. Samuel Selvey born 1768, married Mary Gibbons on April 21, 1793. Mary Selvey born 1773, married Samuel Hall on April 25 1793. John Selvey born 1775, married Sarah Gibbons London on October 25, 1800. CHARLES SELVEY 2, my line, was born 1780 in Botetourt County Virginia, as stated before he died about 1840. In the 1790 census there is a Charles Selvy as the head of house in Botetourt County. He married Martha Farmer believed to have been born March 6, 1806. Children of Charles and Martha are... Garnett Selvey born 1802 in Virginia. Nancy Selvey born 1798, married Henry Routsong on January 21, 1817. Matthew Selvey born 1800, married Nancy Craft on September 9, 1824. Sherwood Selvey born 1804, married to Elizabeth, last name unknown. Phillip Selvey born 1806, married to Susan. Mary Selvey born 1808, married to John Rhodes on November 24, 1825. Sally Selvey born 1810, and married to William Fisher on July 15, 1830. GARNETT SELVEY and his wife SUSAN BAKER SELVEY lived in Botetourt County Virginia. In the Botetourt County, Va. census of 1850 Garnett Selvey is listed as being 49 years old and a farmer having been born in Virginia. His wife Susan is 42 years old and the census does not list her birthplace. Children are... JOHN B. SELVEY is 22 years old and is listed as a Laborer. Charles Selvey is 20 years old, Martha A. Selvey is18, William H. Selvey is 16 years old, Matthew N. Selvey is 11 years old, James L. is 10 years old, Amanda A. 9 years old, George F. is 6 years old, and Rufina is 2 years old. In the early 1730�s a number of settlers found their way to Botetourt Co. large grants were made in November 1730, the first contained eight thousand acres on James River. The second grant was to Colonel James Patton, in 1750. Patton took up several thousand acres along Buffalo Creek, Roanoke, and James River. George Washington bought property in Botetourt Co. and William Clark, of the Lewis and Clark expedition also owned property in Botetourt Co. In an old newspaper clipping, it was noted that My Great Uncle Matthew N. Selvey had moved from Tennessee to Jackson County Missouri in the year of 1826. This is probably a mistake and should have been 1856. The 1830 and 1840 Federal census shows a John Selvey living in Howard Co. Missouri, Selveys are also in Macon Co., and some in St. Louis but no Selveys in Jackson County. The year 1856, is probably the date they moved to Missouri. JOHN B. SELVEY, was born July 6, 1828 in West Virginia, he married ANN ELIZABETH CRAWFORD Jan. 24, 1854, in Jackson County Missouri. John and Ann had 11 children, all born in Jackson County. The children were... James Louis Jackson Selvey, Susan Elizabeth Selvey, ROBERT R. SELVEY, Sarah Francis Selvey, Amanda Elin Selvey, Harriet Lorenia Selvey, John Dee Selvey, Missouri Ann Selvey, William M. Selvey, Ida May Selvey, Charles Elmore Selvey. The first child was born in 1855, and the last one in 1872. My Great grandfather ROBERT R. SELVEY was the 3rd of these children. When Order No. 11 was issued during the Civil War, the SELVEYS left Jackson County, as did most of their friends and neighbors. Where the Selveys went is not known but at the end of the War, they returned to find their homes and fields had been completely destroyed. John B. Selvey told his friends and family, years later, if he had it to do over he�d rather have been in the War than suffered the way they did trying to stay out of the Civil War. There were many stories about the destruction in Jackson County. One resident in Missouri said, at one time, he could stand on the high part of his land and count 165 fires burning his neighbors and friends homes, fires set by the Kansas Redlegs. One Selvey story handed down from that time. One day the alarm came that the Kansas Redlegs were on their way through Jackson County. As the men and boys were gathering up their firearms, Grandma Selvey headed for the kitchen to get her broom, as she came outdoors holding the broom as a gun, one of the fellows asked her what she was going to do with that broom. She replied �I guess not a lot, but they�ll sure know which side I�m on�. ANN ELIZABETH CRAWFORD SELVEY died in 1874. She is buried in the Blue Springs Cemetery next to her husband John B. Selvey who died in 1904. It is believed that they had another child after Charles and the child and Ann Elizabeth both died during that birth. A daughter, Susan Selvey helped with the sewing, mending and the making of clothes for John� family. John Selvey also helped raise two of his brothers, Charles, boys. Obituary For John B. Selvey� Died� John B. Selvey an old citizen of Jackson County, died early on Saturday morning. Funeral services were held at 11 o�clock Sunday morning at the Baptist Church and Blue Springs. Rev. J. D. Thompson officiating. Interment in the Blue Springs cemetery. This obituary was in the Sni-Bar Voice Newspaper dated February 19, 1919. Both John B. Selvey and his brother Matthew Selvey obituaries were carried in that paper. They both attended the Baptist Church, and both of their funeral services were held there. Children of John and Ann Elizabeth Crawford Selvey� Robert R. Selvey b. 1858 James Lewis Jackson Selvey James was born July 14, 1855, married Susie Virginia Richardson 1885, James died Feb.21, 1899. James went by his middle name Lewis or Lu. Lu and John B. made a trip to Lamar one year to see Robert and Mattie and their family. Susan Elizabeth �Susie� Selvey Susie was born Oct. 12, 1856, married Silas Bridges in 1875, she died July 7, 1938. Sarah Francis �Sadie� Selvey Sadie was born May 30, 1859, married Robert L. Jones and later Ben Marr. Amanda Elin �Ella� Selvey Ella was born June 8, 1861, married Mr. Gray, she died July 23, 1888. She died young and they had no children. Harriett Lorenia �Rena� Selvey Rene was born Sept. 28, 1863, married Arch. Ford and then later Henry Reynolds, she died Aug. 31, 1925. John Dee Selvey John was born April 13, 1865, he married Sally Burris. John D. owned land in 1911 Sec.8, T48, R30. Missouri Ann �Zura� Selvey Zura was born Sept. 23, 1866, She married Edward T. Richardson. William M. Selvey William was born March 8, 1868, he died March 23, 1886. Willy died before he was married. Ida May Selvey Ida was born Oct. 2, 1869, married Isaiah Richardson, she died Dec. 9, 1907. Charles Elmore Selvey Charles Selvey owned land in 1911 Sec.14, T48, R30. In 1912 he owned land in Sec.13, T48, R30. ROBERT R. SELVEY was born February 6, 1858, in Jackson Co. Missouri, second child to John and Ann Elizabeth Crawford Selvey. He was married to MARTHA ANN HALL of Blue Springs on July 25, 1880, and the following year moved to Barton County Missouri. Mattie was 17 years old when they were married. Robert attended school when he was young but when his mother died he quit school and never returned. As a young man Robert Selvey living near Blue Springs, worked on the railroad when it came through town. Ray Selvey remembered him telling stories how he drove a pair of mules and worked with the Irish immigrants that were working there at the time. The wagons were all loaded by hand. The drivers would drive up to an area, dirt was shoveled in by hand, then hauled to where they needed it and the handwork would start all over again. The railroad was called the C. and A. Railroad and the tracks were north and east of the old town of Blue Springs. Years later the town moved closer to the tracks, a depot was built, and that�s the old part of Blue Springs today. Martha Ann Hall was the daughter of my 2nd Great grandmother LETHA JANE NOWLIN and JAMES DANIEL HALL of Jackson Co. Missouri. James Hall was born Aug. 10, 1839 in a log home on the same piece of property that he made his home for most of his 86 years near Blue Springs, Missouri. John Bridges, LETHA NOWLIN HALL�S second husband, had been a good stepfather to both Martha Hall and her sister Mary, but he disliked Robert Selvey when they first met. She thought him to be an awfully bold and brass fellow. He didn't really have anything against "Bob," it was just the way he was courting Mattie. When Robert "came courting" he always brought two horses for them to ride, to John, this didn't seem quite cricket. My Grandmother Ethel Selvey Joyce, and daughter of Mattie and Robert's as she was relating this story to me paused a moment, and then said, �I don't know why he thought that way, I'd think it would have been worse if they had been courting on just one horse.� At the time of their move to Barton County ROBERT R. SELVEY and MARTHA ANN HALL, SELVEY had one child, a daughter Iva Selvey. They settled on a farm near Bethany, the old Henry Nowlin farm, and although they lived the rest of their lives in Barton County, they did return in 1906 to live one year again in Jackson County�s Lee�s Summit area. The Robert and Mattie Selvey family first lived north of the Bethany Church, east of Lamar or southwest of Milford, between the years of 1883 and 1902. From an old 1886 map of Barton Co. Robert Selvey lived in Lamar Township 3 miles north and 3 miles east of Lamar. Section 2, Township 32, Range 30, they owned 120 acres. From the old map, they lived on the west side of the road, half mile north of the School (No. 1) which stood on the northwest corner of section #12. One mile west of Robert and Mattie Selvey was the residence of John M. Nowlin, Mattie�s uncle. Section 3 T32 R30. John Nowlin owned 245 acres. Neighbors of Robert and Martha Selvey were M. Vincent to the north, T. Dobson on the south, back of them on the west were the Lybers and the Fosters, and Isaac Harness lived across the road east. While living in the Bathany area, northeast of Lamar, Robert and Mattie raised seven children... Iva L. born 1881 in Jackson Co. Missouri, Myrtle Letha born 1884, my Grandmother Ethel Susie Selvey born 1887, Roy R. born 1890, Floyd John born 1892, Leland Ira born 1895, Ocie Mary born 1899. All except Iva were born in Barton County, Missouri. In a directory of Barton County 1911, Robert and Mattie�s address was RR 3, Lamar, Missouri. The farm they bought had a barn, a couple of out buildings, and a log house. Daughter, Ethel Selvey Joyce said, � It was log on the outside but was very nice and clean on the inside.� Myrtie and Ethel were both born in the log house then the new house built and the rest of the kids were born in the new house. Grandma said the old log house stood there for a long time after the new house was built and they used it for storage and one thing or the other. Her mother, when she made soap, would hang the soap from the log beams that were exposed. One day my Grandmother, while playing around the old house kept looking at the soap hanging there and it looked so nice. In fact it looked good enough to eat, so Ethel found herself a box, something to stand on and untied a cake of the soap and tasted it. She said her mouth burned for a long time, she never did that again. Lye soap was made from the wood ashes left over from the cook stove. The next place they lived, 1902 through 1904, was called the George Lilley Place near Jasper, Missouri. This farm was in the Blue School neighborhood about a mile south of Hwy. 126. (Section 31 or 32). From 1904 through 1906 Robert and Mattie Selvey lived west of Lamer, about 2 miles on what is now 160 Hiwy. This house burned, Robert and Mattie lost everything. After the fire the family constructed a tent and lived for months in the tent while a new house was being built. In 1906 they returned to Jackson Co. and bought a farm west of Lee�s Summit. When they returned to Barton Co. everything was loaded on the train, furniture in one car and the horses and cows in another. Roy and Floyd Selvey had to ride in the car that held the horses to keep them settled. Property was acquired in the City View area. They bought the farm Henry Nowlin owned, north of Lamer, and the first road south of Nie Cemetery, then east. They lived at this location until WW I, then moved to Lamer. |
| The Selvey Family of Jackson County, Missouri and Later Lamar, Barton County, Missouri by David Clow |
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| John B. Selvey Jackson Co. Missouri Father of Robert R Selvey John Selvey is on line 7 of the Charts |
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| Below Robert Selvey and Mattie Hall Selvey Lamar, Missouri 1941 Robert's father was John Selvey See line 7 on the Selvey Charts |
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| David Clow, Lucille Joyce Clow, Ethel Selvey Joyce,Martha Hall Selvey Lamar, Missouri 1941 |
| A Short History of the Selvey Family by David Clow From Virginia, to Jackson County, Missouri and then to Barton County Missouri... |
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| John Selvey and Ann Elizabeth Crawford Blue Springs, Missouri |
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| During the Civil War, the summer of 1863, a devastating blow of federal injustice besieged the Selvey family. Union military authorities had been arresting women and children suspected of aiding Quantrill and his men, or being sympathetic to the southern cause, and had imprisoned many of them in a badly dilapidated building at 1409 Grand Street in Kansas City. Among the girls held in the building was my Great Aunts Armenia Crawford Selvey and Susan Crawford Vandiver. In August, of 1863, Armenia Selvey and her son Jeptha Selvey, 7 years old, had been imprisoned in the old building. Along with them were three sisters of Quantrill's second in command, Bill Anderson. Susan Crawford Vandiver, and Armenia Crawford Selvey were also known to be cousins of Cole Younger another member of the Quantrill raiders. With family members of Quantrill's, highest ranking officers, the Union was sure that they had the upper hand, a bargaining tool. A few of the Union soldiers had decided on a plan to execute two or three of the women hoping for the surrender of some of the Raiders, but this plan was discovered by a hotel owner, another cousin to Cole Younger, and the plan was scrapped. Another plan of the Union, was to undermine and weaken the to the point that the building would collapse, the women and children would be killed, accomplishing their objective, and the old tumble down building their scapegoat. On August 13, 1863 the building did suddenly collapsed killing my Great Aunt Armenia Selvey, Josephine Anderson, Susan Vandiver, then 10 years old and shacked to a 20 pound ball, and Charity Kerr. Their bodies were crushed and mangled in the rubble and debris, and Mary Anderson was left a cripple the rest of her life. Jeptha Selvey, Armenia's 7 year old son, jumped from a window as the building was falling and spent 2 days getting back to Blue Springs and relatives. The body of Armenia Selvey was taken back to Blue Springs and buried at the Smith's Cemetery. (Sec 15,Twp 48, R32) Other Selvey's were buried here many years later. John McCorkle, another rider for Quantrill, in his book written after the war stated that he was sure this event was one reason for the sack of Lawrence, Kansas, eight days later on August 21, by the Confederates, led by Anderson and Quantrill. Now, to prove an old adage, "When it rains, it pours." four days after the raid on Lawrence, August 25, 1863, Order No. 11, was issued by General Ewing, in command of the Federal troops at Kansas City. The effect of this order meant ruin to some 20,000 southern citizens in Jackson and Cass Counties. They were banished and robbed by the same order. Their homes, fields, barns, and buggies were burned. Their horses and cattle were stolen, pigs and chickens were left to starve, and they had only 15 days to leave. If they did not leave, they would be imprisoned or shot. As one man said, they didn't have much left to move. The beautiful farming country of Jackson and Cass Counties were worse than desert, and on every hillside stood lone blackened chimneys, sad sentinels and monuments to the memory of once happy southern homes. |
| Robert Selvey, son of John Selvey, and Mattie Hall Selvey Wedding Photo Blue Springs, Missouri |
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| The Selvey name goes back to around 1066 in England. It came from the people living in Nottingham at the Manor of Silvan |
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| Selvey Information and Notes |
| 1740 Charles Selvey, England 1780 Charles Selbe, Botecourt Co, VA 1802 Garnett Selvey, Botecourt Co, VA 1838 John and Matthew Selvey, VA |
| Posted by: charlou dolan Date: August 16, 2001 at 08:44:03 In Reply to: Re: Garret Selvey b. 1802, VA by David Selvey of 95 I am tracing the descendants of Joseph Snodgrass & Hannah Vernon of Botetourt Co., VA. Their great-granddau., Nancy E. Snodgrass, m. 10 Nov 1859, Jackson Co., MO, James L. Selvey, who d. 19 May 1894 in Jackson Co., MO, & who is buried in Blue Springs Cem., Jackson Co., MO. Nancy d. 27 Jun 1889, and is also buried in Blue Springs Cem. Their children were: 1. William G. Selvey, b. 26 Dec 1860. 2. Mary Lee Selvey, b. 4 Dec 1865; d. 11 Mar 1888. 3. Robert E. Selvey, b. 19 Oct 1870; d. 28 Jan 1871. 4. Hattie May Selbey, b. 25 Dec 1876; d. 1893. I would be interested in knowing the parents of James L. Selvey and his birth date & place. Nancy E. Snodgrass's brother, John Snodgrass, b. 10 Oct 1854, Jackson Co., MO; d. 15 Dec 1931; m. Martha Susan Selvy, who d. 12 Apr 1943. Both are buried in Blue Springs Cem., Jackson Co., MO. John Snodgrass & Martha Susan (Selvey) Snodgrass's children are: 1. George Snodgrass, b. 28 Nov 1880. 2. Delta Snodgrass (m.), b. 25 Aug 1884; m. Vyra ___. 3. Reuben Snodgrass, b. 21 Jun 1890. 4. Robert Snodgrass, b. 12 Jun 1892; d. bef. 1943. 5. Ruth or Ida Belle Snodgrass, b. 24 Oct 1899; m. ___ Ogburn. (Ruth & Ida Belle may be one daughter or two!) I am interested in knowing Martha Susan Selvy's parents, plus more about her descendants. Charlou (short for Charlotte Louise) Dolan [email protected] |
| Posted by: Virginia Selvey Davidson (ID *****1830) Date: April 23, 2002 at 17:03:46 In Reply to: Selvey Family Ponca City, Oklahoma by Virginia Selvey Davidson of 95 1890's Melchi Esley Selvey & Lillie Jane Moore.Missouri-Oklahoma Lillie Jane Moore was the eigth child born to Simira Angeline and James Nicholas Moore. She was born Sept 12, 1875(died January 10, 1955) in Lone Jack,MO. She Married Melchi Esley Selvey(born September 21, 1870;(died May 21,1931), in Blue Springs, Mo. She was a very small woman, probably less than five feet tall, and before her first child was born had polio or paralysis and was unable to walk well.About 1891 Lillie Jane and Melchi Esley moved to Oklahoma, near Ponca City. They had 7 boys;Buford, Eugene Virgus,James Matthew Lloyd, Dillard, John Wesley, Paul B. and Silas and two daughters; Ollie Jane and Grace Elizabeth. |