Nelson Siner (1809 - 1868)

Born 3 May 1809 in Breckinridge Co., Kentucky

Ancestors

Husband of Desdemona (Shelburn) Siner — married 30 Nov 1825 in Vigo Co., Indiana

Descendants

Died 12 Feb 1868 at age 58 in Shelburn, Sullivan, Indiana

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Biography

Nelson Siner was born the 3rd of May 1809, in Kentucky (or Bedford Co Va), the son of Benjamin Siner and Mary "Polly" Malady, and died in 1868, in Indiana. He married Dessie Shelburn in 1825. Dessie was born in Virginia circa 1809 and died in 1871, in Indiana. The town of Shelburn, Indiana was named after her brother Pascal Shelburn.

Nelson is buried in Little Flock Cemetery, Sullivan, Indiana. [Find-A-Grave]

Served as Postmaster in his store near Shelburn from 1861 to 1865. One evening some of his neighbors and customers loafed about the store. Nelson, suspecting their purpose and also suspecting their membership in the confederate Knights of the Golden Circle, was careful that they learned nothing. That night, they broke into the home of Nelson and Dessie, demanding their money and threatening to put hot irons to their feet unless they disclosed its hiding place. They did not get the money, nor did they carry out their threat. They took flight and fled and were later arrested for this and other marauding. Besides being a storekeeper, Nelson also had a stave factory and was a farmer. Nelson joined the Little Flock Church on October 12, 1834. He died on February 6, 1868 in Shelburn and is buried in the Little Flock Cemetery.

Source: " Sullivan County, Indiana, " Compiled by Sullivan County Historical Society, Turner Publishing Company 1991 (Walter Lech)

Sources

Maud Russell 1937: “Compiled and drawn by Maud Russell, McAlester, Oklahoma (1937) from bible records and other records, remembrances of older relatives, county records, History of Sullivan and Green Counties, Indiana, by Professor John W. Spencer (1887). Information furnished by many relatives, notably, Miss Gay Edna Calvert.”

Mary L. Pickrell, March 1979: “This information was taken from a chart on file at the Vigo County Library, Terre Haute, Indiana.”

“ The information was compiled and the chart drawn by Maud Russell, McAlester, Oklahoma, 1931, from bible and other private records, county records, and the Pound Genealogy as to some dates.”

“Also on file at the Vigo County Library is a chart on the St.Clair family which was also prepared by Maud Russell. In comparing the Fanny/Siner/Eli St.Clair section, a few discrepancies were found.”