Saluda "Luedy" Mustain^[1]

1772 - 1812  (40 years)

• Name	Saluda "Luedy" Mustain  [2]
  Birth	1772	, Halifax, Virginia, USA
  Gender	Female
  Name	Saludy Mustain
  Name	Seluda Shelton  [3]
  Death	1812	Chimney Rock, Gallia, Ohio, USA
  Person ID	I22304	Master
  Last Modified	9 Sep 2019

  
  

  Father	Thomas Averleigh Mustain,   b. 1725, , Halifax, Virginia, USA d. 21 Nov 1791, , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA (Age 66 years)
  Mother	Mary Haley,   b. 1722, , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA d. 1791, , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA (Age 69 years)
  Marriage	1748	, Halifax, Virginia, USA
  Family ID	F5772	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Claiborne A Shelton,   b. 1768, , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA d. 1848, , Madison, Indiana, USA (Age 80 years)
  Marriage	16 May 1785	, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA   [4, 5, 6]
  Children	1. Joel Shelton,   b. 1788, , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA d. 30 Oct 1847, , Madison, Indiana, USA (Age 59 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   2. Hudson Shelton,   b. 1790  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   3. Henley Shelton,   b. 16 Dec 1790, , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA d. 20 Apr 1868, Center Point, Gallia, Ohio, USA (Age 77 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   4. John Shelton,   b. 15 Nov 1792, , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA d. 2 Oct 1864, Center Point, Gallia, Ohio, USA (Age 71 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   5. Saluda Shelton,   b. 1794, , , Virginia, USA d. 1858, , Warren, Iowa, USA (Age 64 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   6. Tabitha Shelton,   b. 28 Oct 1794, , , Ohio, USA  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   7. Jesse Shelton,   b. 9 Apr 1797, , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA d. 5 Jul 1884, Prairie City, Shelby, Illinois, USA (Age 87 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   8. Betsy Shelton,   b. 1798, , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA d. 21 Dec 1826 (Age 28 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   9. Haman Shelton,   b. 27 Feb 1799, Stuart, Patrick, Virginia, USA d. 8 Mar 1876, Scio, Linn, Oregon, USA (Age 77 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   10. Thomas Mustain Shelton,   b. 26 Nov 1800, , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA d. 25 Apr 1858, Adams, Madison, Indiana, USA (Age 57 years)   11. Rosetta Shelton,   b. 1801, , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA   12. William C Shelton,   b. 8 Mar 1806, , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA d. 23 Apr 1875, , Gallia, Ohio, USA (Age 69 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
  Family ID	F9002	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	9 Sep 2019

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 1772 - , Halifax, Virginia, USA Marriage - 16 May 1785 - , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA Death - 1812 - Chimney Rock, Gallia, Ohio, USA  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  Death of Saluda Mustain Shelton She was the daughter of Thomas and Mary Haley Mustain. One of eleven children.The wife of Claiborn Shelton, and mother of nine children. When they were moving from Virginia to Indiana, they were in Ohio and Saluda took very ill she was no longer able to proceed on their journey to Indiana. So they stayed where they were in Ohio, the story goes they lived in a cave as there was no house there and she was too ill to travel. she passed away and was buried there near the cave. Much later Claiborn and two of the boys traveled on to live in Indiana.

  
  

• Sources

  [S761] Yates Publishing, Ancestry Family Trees, (Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.), Ancestry Family Tree. http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=163172091&pid=234 [S472] Lela C. Adams, Abstracts of Pittsylvania County Virginia Wills, 1767-1820, (Southern Historical Press Inc, Greenville South Carolina, 1986), Pg. 31. [S472] Lela C. Adams, Abstracts of Pittsylvania County Virginia Wills, 1767-1820, (Southern Historical Press Inc, Greenville South Carolina, 1986), p. 31, Will of Thomas Mustain. [S302] FamilySearch, Virginia, U.S., Select Marriages, 1785-1940, (FamilySearch ([http://familysearch.org http://familysearch.org]/)). [S627] Dodd, Jordan, Virginia, U.S., Compiled Marriages, 1660-1800, (Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 1997.Original data - Electronic transcription of marriage records held by the individual counties in Virginia.Original data: Electronic transcription of marriage records held by the individu). [S51] Ancestry.com, Virginia, U.S., Compiled Marriages, 1740-1850, (Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 1999.).