• Origin: France to England to America
• Earliest Date Known: mid 1600's
• Religion: Huguenot
• Arrived in America: 1727

Senet was the original spelling used by family in France, and became Seney while family spent time in England before coming to America. Settled in Church Hill, Queen Ann's County, Maryland. The Family were French Protestants (Huguenots) member's of the Reformed Church of France who were forced to flee from pursecution after the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685 by Henry XIV. They joined the thousands of Huguenots welcomed to settle in England, Netherlands, Germany, Ireland and Canada. Later some members immigrated to America from England in 1727.

Recommended reading:The Trail of The Huguenots in Europe, United States, South Africa and Canada by G. Elmore Reaman, Genealogical Publishing Co. Inc. 1986

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Who were the first Seney's in America?

Daniel Sene(Seney) b. 1625? d.1650? First recorded in MD 1667. From: 'The Early Settler's of Maryland' by Skordas. Index of the early land records. Daniel may have been a son of a John Sene who arrived in VA in 1636 or of Ralph Seena who came to VA in 1648, or he could have come directly from England.

Some Observatons About The Early Seaneys: by J. Bartley Smith, St. Petersburg, Florida-May 7, 1985.

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First born whom we have records in America is John SENEY Sr. b. 18 May 1694 in St. Perters parish, Talbot Co., MD.

John Seney b. 18 May 1694 St. Peters Parish, Talbot Co. MD. m. Unknown (?) -- John was the son of Bryant Seany andvAnn__________.

Solomon Seney Sr. b. abt 1710/1712

Solomon SENEY Sr. b. abt 1710/1712 d. 1761. 1st m. 23 Apr 1732 to Mary NEVIL in Queen Annes Co. MD. 2nd m. Anne NEVIL.
Children of Solomon Seney and Mary Nevil:

• John b. 1733 m. Ruth BENTON b. 1737. ( John was a Lt. Colonel in the American Revolution)
  • Nevil b. abt 1735 m. Mary ROCHESTER
  • Solomon Jr.* b. 1737 m. Corn Stalk -Shawnee woman
  
  Solomon Seney Sr. is in the St. Luke's Parish Church Register, Church Hill, Queen Ann's County, Maryland. Also his Last Will and Testament: Will of Solomon Seney of Queen Ann's County and Province of Maryland, 7th September, 1761.

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  Solomon SENEY Jr.,, Jr. b. 1737, married Corn Stalk -Shawnee woman in Western Virginia. Perhaps a relative of Shawnee Chief Corn Stalk.

  Children of Solomon Seney, Jr. and Corn Stalk woman:

  • David* b. 9 Apr 1762 (Direct: Claude M. Shawbell III)
  
  

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  Our Ancestral History 1505-1986©1986. Written and Compiled by Selah Pomeroy Thayer, II b. 17 Mar 1907 d. 15 Dec 1999. Published by: Walsworth Publishing Co.,Marceline, Missouri.

  After David Seney's death in 1817 in OH:
  In 1826, Averilla and her remaining nine children(of 14) who lived to be grown, moved from OH to IN, where they all settled on Big Blue River near Shelbyville, Shelby Co, IN.

  In 1835, Averella once again moved westward accompanying her severn remaining children with their families to North Missouri. Traveling by ox team and covered wagon through open thinly settled country, fording the streams and crossing the Mississippi River on the ice during the extreme cold of winter, they finally reached their destination, where they all settled in a group in what later became Macon County. She passed away seven years later.
  The cemetary in which the family members were buried was destroyed and there are no tombstones remaining. 14 Children born. All buried in the Valley Township Cemetary that is destroyed.
  Averilla (Snow) Seney, her son, Ira Seney and his wife, Susannah (Sleeth) Seney lie buried at the break of the Chariton River hills west of where Charley Coleman now lives this date, 1981. Many of the old Macon Co. Pioneers are buried there.
  Aunt Polly Ann and 'Big Jim' Seney told me many years ago that our great-great grandmother, Averilla (Snow) Seney was buried in the old cemetery at the break of the prairie and Chariton River hills west of where Charley Coleman now lives this date-1981- This burial ground is located about one quartaer mile south of the older original 'Old Chariton' Cemetery. Ira and Susannah (Sleeth) are also buried here. I recall the hallowed spot well as a teenage boy and young man. Many of the old pioneer settlers of the community are buried here. Some 40 years ago (1945) Albert Coleman (now deceased) who then owned the land surrounding the cemetery, removed the fence and all gravesstones, thus obliterating all trace of a cemetery. The ground is now in cultivation. Except for these records, perhaps no one of a future generation would know the burial place of these loved ones of long ago.

  
  
  David SENEY b. 9 Apr 1762 d. 9 Aug 1817 married Averilla SNOW b. 4 Oct 1774. d. 7 Jul 1842.

  Children of David Seney and Averilla Snow:

  • Seney b. 1794
  • Elizabeth b. 1795 m. William SMITH (they stayed in IN)
  • Mary b. 1797 m. James B. WIGGANS
  • Joshua b. 1799 m. Marcie BARTON
  • Fanny b. 1801 KY m. Albert G. SLEETH b.9 Nov 1806 OH d. 1847 MO Son of Alexander Sleeth.
    Children: Fanny Seney and Albert G. Sleeth:
    • Leander b. 1830 KY
    • Ora b. 1832 IN
    • Elevia b. 1834 IN
    • Wylie b. 1835 IN d. Libby Prison, Civil War. m. Joan Parr b. 1839 d. 1904 2nd Husb. Joseph Hart, m. 1870
    • Melvina b. 1837 IN
    • John F. b.1839 IN
    • Albert b. 1841IN
  • Jane b. 8 Jul 1803 m.Jonathan West HACKER b. 15 Oct 1805 WV d.?
  • Hemsley b. 15 Aug 1805 KY d. 20 Mar 1865 MO m. Cynthia Ann SLEETH b. 19 Jul 1809 OH d. 29 Jan 1897 MO. (Direct: )
    Chlldren: Hemsley Seney and Cynthia Ann Sleeth:
    • Andrew Jackson b. 2 Sept 1830 IN d.20 Aug 1856 MO Never married.
    • Jane Eveline b.1832 IN d. 20 Sep 1895 m. Weldon Truitt
    • Wesley Wylie b. 7 Dec 1833 IN d. 23 Sep 1900 MO m. Lizzie Knight
    • Harriet E. b.26 Jul 1836 MO d. 6 Jan 1919 MO m.Selah Pomeroy Thayer 2nd Marriage. (Father of Selah Pomeroy Thayer II)
    • Catherine H. b.4 Mar 1838 MO d.1862 MO m. Selah Pomeroy Thayer 1st Marriage: She and Baby died in childbirth.
    • David Marion b.1 Jun 1843 MO d. 30 May 1922 MO m. Martha King
    • John V. H. b. 1844 MO d.?
  • Ira* b. 1807 m. Susannah SLEETH
  • Martha b. 1808
  • Katherine b. 1810 m. Mr. HARSON
  • Seney b.1811
  • Seney b. 1813
  • Seney b. 1814
  • David b. 1817

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  Ira SENEY b. 18 Apr 1807 d. 3 Nov 1845 married Susannah SLEETH b. 18 Apr 1808 d. 2 Jan 1890. [Claude M. Shawbell: Direct]

  Ira was buried in the same cemetery as his Mother, Averilla (Snow)Seney. Ira was crushed to death by a huge, heavy beam joist that fell on top of him during a barn building on his farm in Macon Co. MO. His son, John L. was born six days after his death (my gg grandfather).

  Children of Ira Seney and Susannah Sleeth:

  • Nancy Ann b. 1828
  • Averilla b. 1831 m. Charles P. JAMES
  • Polly Mary Ann b. 1832 Unmarried.
  • Albert Galilion b. 1833 m. Floretta STEADMAN
  • Robert Nilton b. 1835 (twin)
  • Lucinda b. 1835 (twin) m. James Wesley CAVENDER
  • Wilburn I. b. 1839 m. Amanda S. KNIGHT
  • Caroline b. 1842 m. John BOHERS-VOHREES
  • James M. 'Big Jim'. b. 1844 (Served Confederacy in Civil War) Unmarried.
  • John L.*b. 1845 m. Laura A. RAINES (cms: GG Grandparents)
  Our Ancestral History 1505-1986©1986. Written and Compiled by Selah Pomeroy Thayer, II b. 17 Mar 1907 d. 15 Dec 1999. Published by: Walsworth Publishing Co.,Marceline, Missouri.

  Among my most fond recollections of boyhood days are those fequent visits with 'Uncle Jim' and 'Aunt Polly Ann Seney'. How I loved to sit and listen tothem tell of the days of their youths and the early settlement of western Virginia, Kentucky, southern Ohio and Indiana.

  Aunt Polly Ann Seney: She was only three years old when her mother Averilla started overland by wagon and oxen to Missouri. The Mississippi River was crossed during the winter months on the ice, and they all were frightened as the ice was breaking up as they crossed.
  During the Civil War our kindred served with the Confederacy. Aunt Polly Ann's first love was a Confederate soldier, one of the first to answer to call to arms in defense of his country. How proud she was to see her soldier boy enrolled with the 'Silver Grays' that spring morning, May, 1861 at 'Old Bloomington' Missouri. Alas, he did not return__he died in battle facing the enemy. Aunt Polly Ann heard the news with great sorrow. She never married, but lived out her life content with the memory of her loved one, and with hope in Christ that someday they would be reunited. She lived to the age of Ninety-eight years, passing away in the winter of 1930-31.

  Uncle 'Big Jim' Seney: As a boy how I loved to listen to Uncle Jim and others relate their war-time experiences. At the Battle of Pea ridge, Arkansas he stated that he fought barefooted having no shores. He finally obtained a pair of boots___one so small and tight he could hardly put it on, the other so large and loose he could hardly keep it on. food was scarce and men were often hungry. Clothing often came by donation from some kind, patriotic southern housewife, or taken from a dead 'Blue Coat'. On one occasion Uncle Jim and a comrade in arms carried a kettle of molasses on foot for fifteen miles to the place where their fellow soldiers were camped. 'Big Jim' was wounded at the battle of Pea Ridge, Arkansas. He was aiming to fire and was hit by a 'mini-ball' in the hand and thumb.

  
  
  John L. Seney and Laura A. Raines : Missouri 1890
  
  John L. SENEY b. 9 Nov 1845 d. 6 Aug 1911 m. Laura A. RAINES b. 4 Jan 1850 d. 24 Sep 1891.

  Children of John L. Seney and Laura A. Raines:

  • Katherine Susan * b. 16 Sep 1869 MO d. 17 Dec 1927 OK m. 22 Sept. 1889 to Lewis Evans SHAWBELL b. 17 Mar 1851 PA d. 29 May 1915 OK
  • Lillian Eva b. 30 Mar 1872 MO d.aft 1948 MO m. 22 Sept. 1889Martin G. GENTNER.
  • Nettie King b. 14 Jul 1875 MO d. 9 Dec 1939 MO m. William Marion GENTNER
  • Martha O. b. 1 Jan 1882 MO d. 1887 MO
  
  
  Seney Sisters: Lillian, Nettie and Katherine 'Kate'
  1920 at Pauls Valley, Oklahoma
  
  Katherine Susan 'Kate' SENEY b. 16 Sep 1869 d. 17 Dec 1927 m. Lewis Evans SHAWBELL b. 17 Mar 1851 d. 29 May 1915.
  Double Wedding: Susan Katherine Seney and Lewis Evans Shawbell / Lilian Eva Seney and Martin G. Gentner.
  Married 22 September 1889 at the residence of brides father, John L. Seney in Valley Township, Macon Co., Missouri. Witnessed by Albert Galilion Seney, uncle of bride. [archived: Both Marriage Certificates. Issued at Independence Township, Macon Co. Missouri]
  
  
  Children of Lewis Evans Shawbell and Katherine Susan 'Kate' Seney
  • John Roy b. 1891 m. Ada Mae KRAHL
  • Claude Marion Sr*. b. 1894 m. Edna Maybel COVINGTON
  • Clem Lewis b. 1895 m. Arminta Joy JOHNSON
  • Laura Maria b. 1897 m. John WORLEY
  • Eva Anna b. 1900 m. Harry DELBRIDGE
  • Kathleen Lulu b. 1902 m. Jessie WILSON
  • Nettie Sarah b. 14 Mar 1905 d.15 Dec 2001 m. Robert Wayne CALDWELL
  • Alice Martha b. 1910 m. Clyde SIMMONS.
  
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