Daniel ShelorAge: 96 years1750–1847
- Name
- Daniel Shelor
- Given names
- Daniel
- Surname
- Shelor
Birth | March 15, 1750 33 20 |
Death of a mother | Margaretta Beatty 1767 (Age 16 years) |
Marriage | Mary Wickham — View this family about 1770 (Age 19 years) |
Birth of a daughter #1 | Elizabeth Shelor 1777 (Age 26 years) |
Birth of a son #2 | George Shelor December 25, 1778 (Age 28 years) |
Birth of a son #3 | William Shelor 1781 (Age 30 years) |
Birth of a son #4 | Daniel Shelor II 1785 (Age 34 years) |
Birth of a son #5 | Jacob Shelor 1787 (Age 36 years) |
Birth of a son #6 | John Shelor October 24, 1791 (Age 41 years) |
Birth of a daughter #7 | Mary Polly Shelor 1793 (Age 42 years) |
Birth of a daughter #8 | Sarah “Sallie” Shelor 1795 (Age 44 years) |
Death of a father | Lawrence Shelor 1795 (Age 44 years) |
Marriage of a child | Daniel Shelor II — Joannah “Annie” Goodson — View this family November 30, 1803 (Age 53 years) |
Birth of a grandson #1 | Thomas Bonaparte Shelor February 24, 1807 (Age 56 years) |
Marriage of a child | Thomas Scott — Sarah “Sallie” Shelor — View this family March 7, 1809 (Age 58 years) |
Birth of a granddaughter #2 | Lucinda Eliza Scott December 10, 1809 (Age 59 years) |
Marriage of a child | John Shelor — Nancy Howell — View this family February 16, 1818 (Age 67 years) |
Birth of a granddaughter #3 | Roxana Shelor April 22, 1822 (Age 72 years) |
Marriage of a grandchild | Tirea Barnard — Lucinda Eliza Scott — View this family about 1829 (Age 78 years) |
Marriage of a grandchild | Thomas Bonaparte Shelor — Mary Polly Barnard — View this family March 8, 1831 (Age 80 years) |
Death of a wife | Mary Wickham October 4, 1834 (Age 84 years) |
Marriage of a grandchild | James Bartholomew Reynolds — Roxana Shelor — View this family February 1840 (Age 89 years) |
Death of a son | Daniel Shelor II 1840 (Age 89 years) |
Death | February 12, 1847 (Age 96 years) |
Family with parents |
father |
Lawrence Shelor Birth: about 1717 — Germany Death: 1795 — Virginia |
mother |
Margaretta Beatty Birth: 1730 — Germany Death: 1767 — Pennsylvania |
himself |
Daniel Shelor Birth: March 15, 1750 33 20 — Bayern, Germany Death: February 12, 1847 — Floyd County, VA |
Family with Mary Wickham |
himself |
Daniel Shelor Birth: March 15, 1750 33 20 — Bayern, Germany Death: February 12, 1847 — Floyd County, VA |
wife |
Mary Wickham Birth: 1756 23 16 — Frederick County, MD Death: October 4, 1834 — Floyd County, VA |
Marriage: about 1770 — Frederick County, MD |
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8 years daughter |
Elizabeth Shelor Birth: 1777 26 21 Death: 1850 |
2 years son |
George Shelor Birth: December 25, 1778 28 22 — Frederick, Maryland, United States Death: September 10, 1856 — Little River, Floyd County, VA |
3 years son |
William Shelor Birth: 1781 30 25 — Botetourt, VA Death: March 11, 1847 — Floyd County, VA |
15 years daughter |
Sarah “Sallie” Shelor Birth: 1795 44 39 — Floyd County, VA Death: 1860 — Patrick County, VA |
-9 years son |
Daniel Shelor II Birth: 1785 34 29 Death: 1840 — Floyd County, VA |
3 years son |
Jacob Shelor Birth: 1787 36 31 — Botetourt, VA Death: March 1857 — Montgomery, VA |
5 years son |
John Shelor Birth: October 24, 1791 41 35 — Patrick County, VA Death: September 27, 1877 — Meadows Of Dan, Patrick County, VA |
2 years daughter |
Mary Polly Shelor Birth: 1793 42 37 — Floyd County, VA Death: 1863 — Patrick County, VA |
Note | Served as Captain in the Revolutionary War. |
Note | Andrew Scott Dennison gives his death date as 1830. This seems more credible than the unsourced 13 JUN 1847 date listed here previously, since that would involve him living to the ripe old age of 97. Dennison also lists the cemetery: Pine Creek Church
Cemetery, Floyd County, Virginia
http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/floyd/bios/scott2.txt
He did live to the ripe old age of 97. |
Note | Another Revolutionary Soldier gone
Capt. Daniel Shelor breathed his last at the residence of George Shelor, Esq., in the County of Floyd, on the 12th day of February, 1847, in the 97th year of his age. He served in the struggle for American Independence, first as a Lieutenant, and secondly as a Captain. His spirit has gone (it is believed,) where the bollowing of thecannons, the clamor of the drum, and the shrill voice of the fife are known and heard no more—but,
"Where anthems of rapture unceasingly roll,
And the smile of the Lord is the feast of the soul."
The Lynchburg Virginian, April 12, 1847 |
Note | Inscription:
Daniel Shelor
1750 - 1847
Maryland
Captain Continental Line
Revolutionary War
Captain Daniel Shelor was the son of Lawrence Shelor and the husband of Mary Wickham Shelor (1756-1834). They were married in 1784.
Captain Daniel Shelor, from Maryland, came to the banks of Furnace Stack Creek in Floyd County and opened an iron mine and smelter in the early 1790's. He mined the ore, refined it and made cooking utensils which he then hauled by wagon to Lynchburg, the closest town, to sell.
It is said that when he hauled his first load of pots and pans into Lynchburg, he could not find buyers and out of sheer frustration, or perhaps good salesmanship, he threw one of his pots against a rock in the unpaved street. To the dismay of those who witnessed his act, the pot didn't break as most of the brittle iron of the day would have normally done. It seems that the ore that Captain Shelor was mining contained just enough copper to create an alloy which made his wares more durable than others available.
After seeing Captain Shelor's pot didn't shatter when thrown against a rock, he quickly sold the entire load to the merchants and townspeople of Lynchburg. He then returned to Floyd County where he continued to operate the smelter and mine until once again, the nation he had fought to help create needed volunteers and Captain Shelor, already in his sixties, walked to Norfolk, Virginia to offer his assistance in the War of 1812.
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=24193049 |
Note | Daniel was either born in Bavaria or Maryland. Several online trees list Bavaria; a genealogical index lists Maryland. If he was born in Bavaria, he came to the New World at a very young age. According to A.S. Dennison, Daniel's father "came to America some twenty-five years
before the revolutionary war", which would have been right around Daniel's birth date. |