Andrew Selsor
Andrew Selsor was born around 1807 in Virginia. He moved to Kentucky by the 1820s, and he married Nancy Wade there in 1828. They had at least nine children: Ritty, born around 1829; Syntha, born on March 1, 1830; Mahala, born around 1834; Francis, born around 1836; George, born around 1838; Andrew, born around 1839; Cave, born around 1841; James, born around 1843; and Nancy, born around 1846. They moved to Indiana in the late 1820s. By 1850, they were living in Brown, Indiana, and Selsor was working as a farmer. They owned $400 of real estate. They moved to Medicine, Missouri, in the 1850s, and by 1860, he owned $1,500 of real estate and $600 of personal property.
 
Selsor enlisted in the Union army on September 1, 1864, and he mustered in as a private in Company A of the 43rd Missouri Infantry. His wife died sometime in the 1860s, and he married Amelia Massach. They had at least three children: Stephen, born around 1866; Josephine, born around 1867; and Maria, born around 1871. They lived in Hamilton, Iowa, and by 1870, Selsor owned $1,600 of real estate and $450 of personal property. He applied for a federal pension in July 1879 and eventually secured one. They moved to Doyle, Iowa, in the 1870s, and he died there on August 24, 1881.
1821
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(1821)Selsor, Andrew18071881-08-24
  • Conflict Side: Union
  • Role: Soldier
  • Rank in: Private
  • Rank out: Private
  • Rank highest: Private
  • Gender: Male
  • Race: White

Documents - Records: 1

  • (6011) [recipient] ~ Francis M. Selsor to Ritty A. Sanders and Andrew Selsor, 3 January 1864

People - Records: 10

  • (1821) Selsor, Andrew is the [parent of] (1804) Sanders, Ritty Ann
  • (1821) Selsor, Andrew is the [grandparent of] (1805) Sanders, Minerva Jane
  • (1821) Selsor, Andrew is the [grandparent of] (1806) Sanders, Emily F.
  • (1821) Selsor, Andrew is the [grandparent of] (1807) Sanders, Jacob M.
  • (1821) Selsor, Andrew is the [grandparent of] (1811) Sanders, Nancy Panina
  • (1821) Selsor, Andrew is the [parent of] (1820) Selsor, Francis Marion
  • (1821) Selsor, Andrew is the [parent of] (1847) Selsor, James Hardin
  • (1866) Selsor, Nancy Jane is the [child of] (1821) Selsor, Andrew
  • (1956) Selsor, Andrew J. is the [child of] (1821) Selsor, Andrew
  • (1959) Minnick, Syntha A. is the [child of] (1821) Selsor, Andrew

Places - Records: 2

  • (120) [birth] ~ Virginia
  • (1468) [death] ~ Doyle, Clarke County, Iowa

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Regiments - Records: 1

  • (565) [enlisted] [A] ~ 43rd Missouri Infantry
SOURCES

1850, 1860, 1870, and 1880 United States Federal Censuses, available from Ancestry.com; Kentucky County Marriage Records, 1783-1965, available from Ancestry.com; Civil War Soldier Records and Profiles, 1861-1865, available from Ancestry.com; Iowa Deaths and Burials, 1850-1990, available from Ancestry.com; General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934, available from Ancestry.com