Selden B Welton (1795 - 1881)

Born 10 Aug 1795 in Waterbury, New Haven, Connecticut, United States

Ancestors

Husband of Sarah (Wright) Welton — married 1818 in Connecticut, United States

Husband of Sarah (Russell) Welton — married 16 Apr 1852 in Medina, Medina, Ohio, United States

Descendants

Died 14 Nov 1881 at age 86 in Ohio, United States

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Biography

Seldon married Sarah Wright in 1818 in Connecticut.

Spouse

Sarah B Wright (Welton) 1797–1850

Children

Sarah Abigail Welton 1825–1877

Samuel Nelson Welton 1827–1904

Norton Wright Welton 1832–1922

Seldon married Sarah Russell Tollman in 1852 in Ohio.

Spouse

Sarah Russell Tallman 1817–1884

Child

Charles McIllvain Welton 1854–1913 ^[1]

1830 US Census - Medina Township, Medina County, Ohio

Selden Welton - Males: 1 (30<40), 1 (10<15), 1 (<5); Females: 1 (30<40), 1 (5<10)

Medina County Gazette-December 2, 1881: another of our pioneer fathers has gone to his last home. A man identified in familiar with the growth and development of Medina for over 63 years. A man modest and retiring, yet known and loved far and wide. Sheldon B. Welton was born in Waterbury, Connecticut, August 10, 1795, and was baptized in his infancy. He worked in a clock factory in Winsted for seven years, and married there. When he was 23 years of age he started with his wife and sister-in-law, on July 1, 1818, for Ohio, and reached Weymouth on August 16 of the same year, traveling by ox cart. He settled in Baghdad; and where the Weymouth meeting house now stands, logged off 5 acres and sowed them to wheat in the same fall. Here he remained about seven years, when he exchanged places with his brother, Jacob R. Welton, and moved to the farm where he died. This place, also, he partially cleared. He was confirmed by Bishop Chase in 1819, and has ever since been a faithful, self-denying and consistent communicant in St. Paul's Church. His first wife died in 1849, and on April 14, 1851, he married Mrs. Sarah E. Tollman. His children by his first wife were; Norton W., Samuel N., and Sarah A. , late wife of P.C. Alcott. He had one child by his second wife, Charles McIlvaine Welton. His sons and wife survived him. Seldon B. Welton was a man of kindly disposition and genial hospitality, and given to hard work, even up to a comparatively short time before his death. He was a Vestryman and Warden in St. Paul's church for many years, regular and devout in his attendance at church, with full of zeal and good works. He was one of the most liberal and gifts, and deficient in work, of those who built the present church edifice of the Episcopal Church, and afterwards, when debt overhung the struggling parish, none were more self-sacrificing then he in lifting the burden. ^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/162083602/person/362176096921/facts
2. ↑ https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/43876077

• 1830; Census Place: Medina, Medina, Ohio; Series: M19; Roll: 135; Page: 201; Family History Library Film: 0337946
• Year: 1840; Census Place: Medina, Medina, Ohio; Roll: 412; Page: 222; Family History Library Film: 0020171
• Year: 1850; Census Place: Medina, Medina, Ohio; Roll: M432_709; Page: 200B; Image: 99
• Year: 1860; Census Place: Medina, Medina, Ohio; Page: 184; Family History Library Film: 805007
• Year: 1870; Census Place: Medina, Medina, Ohio; Roll: M593_1241; Page: 370A; Family History Library Film: 552740
• Year: 1880; Census Place: Medina, Medina, Ohio; Roll: 1047; Page: 353C; Enumeration District: 194
• U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 Name Selden B Welton Gender Male Birth Place CT Birth Year 1795 Spouse Name Sarah Wright Spouse Birth Place CT Spouse Birth Year 1796 Marriage State CT Number Pages 1
• U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 Name Selden B Welton Gender Male Birth Place CT Birth Year1795 Spouse Name Sarah Russell Tallman Spouse Birth Place NY Spouse Birth Year 1813 Marriage Year1852 Marriage State OH Number Pages 1
• U.S., Indexed County Land Ownership Maps, 1860-1918 Owner's Name Selden B Welton State Ohio County Wood Town Liberty Year 1886
• Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 23 March 2020), memorial page for Selden Barnes Welton (10 Aug 1795–14 Nov 1881), Find A Grave Memorial no. 43876077, citing Weymouth Cemetery, Weymouth, Medina County, Ohio, USA ; Maintained by Joyce (contributor 831)
• Ohio, Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center Obituary Index, 1810s-2016 Name Selden Welton Death Date 1889 Death Place Ohio, USA Other Source Information Title: Wood County Probate; Location: HPC - LG 30 - Wood County Probate; Description: Wood County Ohio Wills and Estates; Details: WC-1899Library Link1366143