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James P. Selby
Male 1844 - 1864

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  • Birth  30 Oct 1844  , Callaway, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender  Male 
    Died  4 Nov 1864  , Callaway, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Cause: Killed by Union Troops 
    Buried  Prairie Chapel Cemetery, , Callaway, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID  I11541  Herring Family of Callaway County, Missouri
    Last Modified  26 Dec 2008 
     
    Father  William J. Selby,   b. 27 Mar 1809, , , Kentucky, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1872 
    Mother  Julia A. Turley,   b. 11 Apr 1808, , , Kentucky, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 6 Oct 1861 
    Married  19 Sep 1832  , Callaway, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID  F14348075  Group Sheet
     
  • Headstones
    James P. Selby    		 James P. Selby
    James K.P. Selby, son of W.J. and J. A. Selby born Oct. 30, 1844 died Nov 4. 1864. James P. Selby was a son of William J. Selby and Julia A. Turley. He was a grandson of John Selby and Rebecca Jones. He was killed by Union troups at the Ham Brown barn on Four Mile Creek, west of Hatton and southwest of Gantt near the intersecton of Audrain,…
     
  • Notes 
    • In Pleasant Grove Cemetery (Township 49-Range 8 - Section 11-ne/se) Callaway Co., Missouri, there is a monument erected to the memory of those "murdered" by Union soldiers November 4, 1864 contains the names of: C. Adair; G. B. Allen; R. C. Davis; A. Kemp; William Key; J. P. Selby; J. St. Clair.:

      "This tragedy took place at the Ham Brown barn on Four Mile Creek, west of Hatton and southwest of Gantt near the intersecton of Audrain, Callaway, and Boone Counties. Major James C. Bay's patrol of Union troops out of Wellsville, perhaps of the 67th Enrolled Missouri Militia, tracked through the snow eight or nine teenagers who had been recruited earlier by Confederate Colonel Caleb Dorsey. Bay's men followed the tracks to the Brown family barn, captured the boys, and executed them on the spot. Major Bay spared one of the youngest of the captives, sixteen-year-old J. E. Bradley, at the urging of Miss Mary A. Brown. Major Bay's men also captured eleven other southerners during this same patrol, but did not execute them". ("Official Records of the War of the Rebellion" Dept. of War, U.S. Government Printing Office, series 1, volume 41, part 4, page 479; Daughters of Union Veterans, "Missouri: Our Civil War Heritage," 1994, p. 10.)

      James P. Selby was one of those killed. He is not buried here, but in Prairie Chapel Cemetery. Ten years earlier, James father, William Selby, was a trustee of the Pleasant Grove church.
     
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    Link to Google MapsBirth - 30 Oct 1844 - , Callaway, Missouri, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDied - Cause: Killed by Union Troops - 4 Nov 1864 - , Callaway, Missouri, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBuried - - Prairie Chapel Cemetery, , Callaway, Missouri, USA Link to Google Earth
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