Family Card - Person Sheet
Family Card - Person Sheet
NameReason SHELY 
Birth Date28 Sep 1794
Birth PlaceVirginia
Death Date29 Jan 1868 Age: 73
Death PlaceCedar City, Callaway County, Missouri
Burial PlaceCallaway County, Missouri, Sheley Family Cemetery
FatherJohn SHELY (1757-1823)
MotherAnn RIDGEWAY (1759-1831)
Spouses
Birth Date15 Jan 1802
Birth PlaceFranklin County, Kentucky
Death Date22 Sep 1885 Age: 83
Death PlaceCalloway County, Kentucky
Burial PlaceCallaway County, Missouri, Sheley Family Cemetery
Family ID5568
Marr Date25 Jul 1820
ChildrenSallie Ann (1831-1855)
Notes for Reason SHELY
Reason Sheley was born in 1794 to Capt. John and Ann Ridgeway Sheely. He was the Grandson of John Sheley Sr and Mildred Davis Sheley of Greene County, Ohio. In the early 1800's the family moved to Scott County, Kentucky. Reason married Nancy Gale White on 25 Jul 1820. Reason and his wife continued to live in Scott County where 6 of their children were born. In 1833 the family moved to Callaway County, Missouri where their last 2 children were born. Reason bought land in the Ceder Township area and began farming with his wife and family. The family prospered and he lived on the farm until his death in 1868. His wife Nancy lived untill 1885. They are buried together in the family Cemetery on the old homestead.
Gravesite Details
Buried in the Sheley Family Cemetery in Callaway Co. MO
On Find A Grave.
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Gravesite Details
Buried in the Sheley Family Cemetery in Callaway Co. MO
On Find A Grave.
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Notes for Nancy Gale (Spouse 1)
Nancy Gale White was born in Kentucky in 1802. Not much is known about her early life but she married Reason Sheley on July 25, 1820 and they farmed in Kentucky until 1833. That year Reason and his family moved to Callaway County, Missouri and began homesteading near Cedar Township in Callaway County. The bought land under the homestead acts prevalent during the nations westward expansion. Their efforts were successful and they owned several hundred acres of Missouri farmland when Reason died. Nancy and Reason had seven children together, two of which died in their teens. Her husband died in 1868. During the last years of her life she lived with her daughter, Catherine Grace Sheley Hawkins, in the home of her grandaughter, Judith Frances "Judy" Hawkins. Nancy followed Reason in death in 1885. They are buried side by side on their original homestead.
Gravesite Details
Buried in the Sheley Family Cemetery in Callaway Co. MO
On Find A Grave.
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Gravesite Details
Buried in the Sheley Family Cemetery in Callaway Co. MO
On Find A Grave.
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