John Shelton, 1^st Lord of Shelton, was born about 1140 in Shelton, Norfolk, England.  He

was Lord Mayor in Stradbrooke, Suffolk, England.  John married and they had at least one son:  John, 2^nd Lord of Shelton.  This son John was born about 1160 in England.  He married and they had at least three children:  Ralph 4^th Lord of Shelton, Nicholas, 3^rd and 5^th Lord of Shelton, and Peter.  Ralph, 4^th Lord of Shelton, was born about 1180 in England.  Nicholas, 3^rd and 5^th Lord of Shelton was born about 1185 in England.  He and his brother Peter were among the rebelling barons who forced King John of England to sign the Magna Carta in 1215.  They forfeited their great estates, which were restored after the agreement was reached.  In 1215 Nicholas purchased an estate in Weybridge, Surrey, England.  He was Lord of Stradbrooke, Suffolk, and Lord of Shelton in 1257.  Peter was born about 1187 in England.

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Ralph Shelton, 4^th Lord of Shelton, was born about 1180 in England.  He married Catherine de Elleigh, daughter of Henry de Elleigh, in 1228 in England.  Catherine was born about 1205 in England.  They had at least seven children:  Ralph, 6^th Lord of Shelton, Nicholas, Henry, 7^th Lord of Shelton, Robert, 8^th Lord of Shelton, John, Thomas, and William.  Ralph, 4^th Lord of Shelton, died in 1245 in England at about age 65.  Son Ralph, 6^th Lord of Shelton, was born about 1229 in England.  Nicholas was born in England.  Sir Henry, 7^th Lord of Shelton, was born about 1231 in England.  He was Overlord in Warwickshire and Leicestershire.  He held titles of Brent (Burnt) Elleigh and Barningham, Suffolk, England.  He died in 1286 about age 55.  Sir Robert, 8^th Lord of Shelton, was born about 1235 in England.  Robert married Isabella in England.  In 1302 he held titles with his wife to Shelton, Barningham, Mudhaven, Scole, and Brent (Burnt) Elleigh.  Robert died on August 25, 1306, in England at about age 71.  John was born about 1237 in England.  Thomas was born about 1240 in England.  William was born about 1242 in England.  He had large grants in Kent in 1296.

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Ralph Shelton, 6^th Lord of Shelton, was born about 1229 in England.  He held titles to estates in Norfolk and Suffolk, England.  He succeeded his uncle Nicholas in the Shelton estate.  Ralph married and had at least four children:  John, 13^th Lord of Shelton, Ralph, Henry, and Robert.  John was born about 1249 in England.  Ralph was born about 1251 in England.  Henry was born about 1253 in England.  Robert was born about 1255 in England.

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Sir John Shelton, 13^th Lord of Shelton, was born about 1249 in England.  He succeeded his cousin, Richard, to the Shelton estates and was also on record as Sir John of Skelton Castle, Cumberland, and as John de Schelton.  He married and had at least two children, Adam and Ralph, 14^th Lord of Shelton.  John was the Knight of the Shire of Cumberland in 1318.  Adam was born in England.  He was the Knight of Shire of Cumberland in 1330.  Ralph, 14^th Lord of Shelton, was born in 1315 in England.

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Sir Ralph Shelton, 14^th Lord of Shelton, was born in 1315 in England.  He built the Old Shelton Hall (probably in the mid-1300s), a fortified castle, and St. Mary’s Church at Shelton, Norfolk.  He married Anne Burgulion.  At his mother’s death in 1334, Sir Ralph Shelton was Lord of the Shelton Manor.  He was eighteen years old.  Through the marriage of his first wife, Anne, he became heir to the great estates of Sir Ralph Burgulion, of Great Snoring, Suffolk, England, and of Rediston.  He was also Lord of the Manor of Brent (Burnt) Elleigh in Suffolk.   Ralph next married Joan de Plais, daughter of Sir John de Plais, in 1346 in England.  Joan died in 1405.  Ralph fought in King Edward III’s own company at the Battle of Crecy

and was knighted for helping save the life of the King’s eldest son, Edward (1330-1376).  Edward was known as the Black Prince because he wore black armor when he led part of the English forces in this battle on August 25, 1346, at age 16.  The Battle of Crecy was a great English victory in the Hundred Years’ War (1337-1453), a succession of wars between England and France.  It was one of the first battles in which the English soldiers used gunpowder.  It was won largely, however, because the French in their heavy armor were no match for the English archers with their longbows and steel-tipped arrows.  The English had only 19,000 men but they destroyed over half of the French army of more than 60,000 men.  Sir Ralph also won high favor at Poitiers ten years later when the English again routed the French.  Ralph and Joan had at least four children:  Ralph, 15^th Lord of Shelton, John, William, 18^th Lord of Shelton, and Robert.  Ralph, 15^th Lord of Shelton, was born about 1330 in England.  John was born about 1337 in England.  William Shelton, 18^th Lord of Shelton, was born in England.  He married Catherine Barrett in England.  Catherine died in 1456.  William and Catherine were buried in Shelton Church, Shelton, Norfolk, England.  Robert was born about 1340 in England.  Sir Ralph, 14^th Lord of Shelton died November 17, 1358, at age 43.  Both he and his wife Joan were buried in Shelton Church, Shelton, Norfolk, England, and the brass effigy of this warrior adorned the floor.  The figure was described as being in complete armor, having Saracens head couped (an honorable memorial of the Crusades.  The crest with the following inscription was placed at the head:  “Perez pour l’ame due to Monsieur Raulf de Shelton le pere iidis (?) Maistre de ceste Ville qui mousot (?) xvii soin de Novembre Vande grau MCCCLVIII, le plus le femme in fille due Monsieur de Plais de corps du guel gist ici Dieu ed son ame ait merci.”  Written in old French, the inscription loosely means:  “Pray for the soul of Sir Ralph de Shelton the ideal father and master of this city who died the evening of November 17, 1358.  His wife, the daughter of Monsieur de Plais, also lies here.”

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Sir Ralph Shelton, 15^th Lord of Shelton, was born about 1330 in England.  He was living in 1385.  Sir Ralph was with John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, on his great expedition into Spain, and was at the famous battle of Nazarett.  Ralph married Alice Uvedale, daughter of Sir Thomas Uvedale, in England.  They had at least two children:  John and Ralph, 16^th Lord of Shelton.  John was born about 1360 in England.  In 1398 he released Manor of Gedney in Lincolnshire to Abbott of Ramsey.  Ralph, 16^th Lord of Shelton, was born about 1361 in England.

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Sir Ralph Shelton, 16^th Lord of Shelton, was born about 1361 in England.  This Sir Ralph was on the “Voyage of St. Maloes de L’ifle” and on that to Scotland with Richard II and that to Spain where Sir Hugh Hastings died.  Ralph married and they had at least two children:  John, 17^th Lord of Shelton, and Richard.  He was about 58 years old when Joan de Plais Shelton, widow of his grandfather, died in 1405.  Ralph died on April 25, 1424, in England at about age 63.  He was buried in Great Snoring Church, Suffolk, England.  John, 17^th Lord of Shelton, was born about 1380 in England.  Sir Richard was born in England.  He was with Henry V at Agincourt.  Richard’s sword at Armathwaite Castle, Cumberland, is said to rival that of King Edward II at Westminster.

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Sir John Shelton 17^th Lord of Shelton was born about 1380 in England.  He had possession of the Norfolk and Suffolk estates in 1427.  He also had possession of Skelton Castle, Yorkshire, and of Armathwaite Castle, Cumberland.  He married Margaret Brews, daughter of Sir Robert Brews, of Stinton, and Eleanor Stapleton, in England.  Margaret was born about 1412 in Wenham Parva, England.  She died in 1479 in England at about age 67.  They had one son, Ralph, 19^th Lord of Shelton, born in 1430.  Sir Ralph, 17^th Lord of Shelton, died in 1431 in England at about age 51.

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Sir Ralph Shelton, 19^th Lord of Shelton, was born in 1430 in Shelton, Norfolk, England.  Ralph married Joan in England.  He next married Margaret Clere, daughter of Robert Clere and Elizabeth Uvedale, in England.  Margaret was born about 1433 in Ormesby, Norfolk, England.  They had at least five children:  John, 20^th Lord of Shelton, Ralph, Richard, Elizabeth, and Alice. Son John was born about 1450 in Shelton, Norfolk, England.  Ralph was born in Shelton, Norfolk, England.  He married Mary Brome in England.  Ralph died on October 25, 1538, in England and was buried in Shelton, Norfolk, England.  Richard was born in Shelton, Norfolk, England.  Elizabeth was born in Shelton, Norfolk, England.  She married Sir Richard Fitz Lewis in England.  Alice was born about 1460 in Shelton, Norfolk, England.  Sir Ralph was knighted in 1485 and named Knight of the Garter in 1488.  He was the High Sheriff of Norfolk, England.  From his uncle, William Shelton, 18^th Lord of Shelton, he inherited Shelton in Norfolk, Harwick, Netherhall, Overhall, Great Snoring Thursford, and Burgulion in Kerdeston, and Brent (Burnt) Elleigh and Stradbrooke in Suffolk.  He also had a grant from Henry VII for “The Custody and Marriage of the Body and Lands of Ralph, Brother, and Heir of Robert Berney, Esquire of Gunton.”  It was this Sir Ralph and his wife, Margaret Clere, who built the Shelton Church of 1480 in Norfolk.  The same Ralph Shelton built the Shelton Hall, half a mile from the church, of which nothing remained in 1925 but the deep shaded moat.  Ralph died on July 16, 1497, in Shelton, Norfolk, England at age 67.  Margaret died in about 1498 at about age 65.  In Margaret’s will, proved December 5, 1500, it is expressed that she “wills to be buried in the chancel of Shelton Church (Shelton, Norfolk, England) by her husband in a tomb which is ordained to that intent.”

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Sir John Shelton, 20^th Lord of Shelton, was born about 1450 in Shelton, Norfolk, England.  He married Margaret in England.  He was born about 1450 in England.  Together they had at least four children:  John, 21^st Lord of Shelton, Dorothy, William, and Ralph, Esquire.  Son John was born about 1472 in Shelton, Norfolk, England.  Dorothy was born in Shelton, Norfolk, England.  William was born in Shelton, Norfolk, England.  Ralph was born in Shelton, Norfolk, England.  Sir John was living in 1492 but had died before Margaret in 1500.  Margaret died at about age 50.

Alice Shelton was born about 1460 in Shelton, Norfolk, England.  She married Sir John Heveningham, son of Thomas Heveningham, Esquire, in England.  John was born in England and died in 1530.  They had at least one son, Anthony.

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Sir John Shelton, 21^st Lord of Shelton, was born about 1472 in Shelton, Norfolk, England.  He married Lady Anny Boleyn, daughter of Sir William Boleyn and Margaret le Butler, in about 1497 in England.  Anne was born on November 28, 1475, in Blickling, Norfolk, England.  She was the aunt of Anne Boleyn, the second wife of Henry VIII.  Queen Anne Boleyn and King Henry VIII were the parents of Elizabeth I (b. 1533; d. 1603), who became Queen of England in 1558.  Elizabeth I never married.  Sir John and Lady Anne Boleyn Shelton were great-uncles and –aunt to Elizabeth I.  As a Protestant, Princess Elizabeth was the center of suspicion by her half-sister Queen Mary I (daughter of King Henry VIII and his first wife, Catherine of Aragon).  The Sheltons were very good to Elizabeth and when she was still a princess they received her into their home at Shelton.  On occasions, they even hid her within the tower of Shelton Church.  She had her own pew in the church.  When Elizabeth was crowned, she summoned her aunt’s family to London.  They lived with her in the Palace, and their descendants lived at the Court for her entire reign.  Sir John was Governor of the Household of the King.  Lady Anne was governess to Princess (later Queen) Mary.  It was this John Shelton who glazed the east window of St. Mary’s Church in Shelton, Norfolk, England, with effigies of himself and his wife.  In a devotional attitude, each figure is covered with a surcoat of the respective arms.  Sir John had the grant of Carrow Abbey, Norfolk, where he displayed a very fine

collection of Shelton Armorial Glass.  Carrow Abbey was founded in 1146 when King Stephen granted a piece of land by charter to two nuns.  The Benedictine Nunnery was built overlooking the Wensum River in Norfolk.  The Nunnery occupied an important position in medieval times and carried on its work for nearly 400 years until about 1539 when Henry VIII commanded the Dissolution of the Monasteries.  The Prioress’ House (the northern wing of Carrow Abbey) fortunately escaped destruction, having been given to Sir John.  It had been built by the last of the Lady Prioresses, Isabell Wygun, earlier in Henry’s reign, presumably on the site of an older house.  The parlor was paneled throughout in oak and the guest room was finely proportioned with the oak ceiling and carved spandrels.  Sir John and Lady Anne had at least nine children:  John, 22^nd Lord of Shelton, Margaret, Ralph, Thomas, Anne, Mary, Gabriella, Emma, and Elizabeth.  Sir John was High Sheriff of Norfolk, England in 1504.  He was knighted in 1509 and was present as Knight of the Bath at the Coronation of Henry VIII.  Sir John died in 1539 in Shelton, Norfolk, England about age 67.  He was buried in Shelton, Norfolk, England.  Lady Anne died on January 6, 1556, in Carrow Abbey, Norwich, Norfolk, England at age 80.  She was buried in Carrow Church, Norwich, Norfolk, England.  Son John, 22^nd Lord of Shelton, was born about 1504 in Shelton, Norfolk, England.  Margaret was born in Shelton, Norfolk, England.  She was called “Pretty Madge” and “Cousin Madge.”  She was an attendant at the Court of Queen Anne Boleyn and was commanded by her to distract the attention of Henry when he was making love to Jane Seymour.  Margaret married Thomas Wodehouse in England.  Sir Ralph was born in Shelton, Norfolk, England.  He was granted all land and appurtenances of John Amerye and of the Monastery of Brodsley in Worcestershire.  Ralph and his uncle William Shelton, Receiver for the King, had large grants in Worcestershire and Warwickshire from 1539 to 1547.  Ralph married Amy Wodehouse in England.  Thomas was born in Shelton, Norfolk, England.  He was Gentleman Porter of Her Majesty’s Tower.  Thomas married _____ Appleyard in England.  Anne was born in Shelton, Norfolk, England.  She married Sir Edmund Knevett in England.  Edmund was born in England.  Anne next married Christopher Coote, Esquire, in England.  Mary was born about 1512 in Shelton, Norfolk, England.  She married Sir Anthony Heveningham, son of Sir John Heveningham and Alice Shelton, in England.  Anthony died in 1558 in England.  They had at least one son, Sir Arthur Heveningham.  She next married Philip Appleyard, Esquire, in England.  They had no children.  Gabriella was born in Shelton, Norfolk, England.  Emma was born in Shelton, Norfolk, England.  Elizabeth was born in Shelton, Norfolk, England.

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Sir Anthony Heveningham first married Katherine Calthorpe, daughter of Sir Philip Calthorpe, in England.  He next married Mary Shelton, daughter of Sir John Shelton, 21^st Lord of Shelton, and Lady Anne Boleyn, in England.  Mary was born about 1512 in Shelton, Norfolk, England.  They had at least one son:  Sir Arthur.  Sir Anthony died in 1558 in England. “In 1546, Sir Anthony Heveningham settled, by fine on himself and Mary, his second wife, daughter of Sir John Shelton, senior, of Shelton, Knight, a lordship in this parish.  Sir Anthony died in 1558, and Mary his widow, re-married to Philip Appleyard, Esquire, but died soon after, leaving Sir Arthur Heveningham, Knight, her son, and heir, who, about 1570, appears to have been the owner of this Manor.” – from page 217 of A SUPPLEMENT TO THE SUFFOLK TRAVELER compiled by Augustine Page, published in 1844.

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Sir John Shelton, 22^nd Lord of Shelton, was born about 1504 in Shelton, Norfolk, England.  He married Margaret Parker, daughter of Sir Henry Parker and Alice St. John,

in England.  Margaret was born about 1510 in Bletsoe, Bedford, England.  They had at least five children:  Alice, Anne, Thomas, Ralph, 23^rd Lord of Shelton, and Mary.  Alice was born in Shelton, Norfolk, England.  Anne was born in Shelton, Norfolk, England.  Thomas was born in Shelton, Norfolk, England.  Sir Ralph, 23^rd Lord of Shelton, was born on November 1, 1530, in Shelton, Norfolk, England.  Mary was born about 1538 in England.  Sir John was High Sheriff of Norfolk from 1522 through 1525.  He was called “Sir John the Younger.”  He was knighted in 1546 and later became Knight of the Bath.  This Sir John was one of the gentlemen who joined Queen Mary at Kenninghall in order to advance her to the throne.  When Elizabeth became Queen in 1558, the family at Shelton Hall went to Court and lived in London for nearly fifty years.  One of his daughters was engaged to Thomas Clere at the time of her death in 1554.  She is the “Shelton for Love” mentioned in the inscription of the Earl of Surrey’s sonnet “To Clere.”  Sir John held the manors of Shelton, Stradbrooke or Stratton, Sois, Reeham, Scole, Burgulion, Barningham (Birmingham), Great Snoring, Carrow, Brent (Burnt) Elleigh, and Meldyng (probably Wetyng).  Sir John died on November 15, 1558, in England at about age 54.  He was buried in Shelton, Norfolk, England.

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Sir Ralph Shelton, 23^rd Lord of Shelton, was born on November 1, 1530, in Shelton, Norfolk, England.  He was High Sheriff of Norfolk in 1571 and Knight of the Garter.  He was knighted by Queen Elizabeth in 1578.  He married Mary Wodehouse, daughter of William Wodehouse and Elizabeth Calthorpe, on September 13, 1551, in Shelton, Norfolk, England.  In Shelton Church, Shelton, Norfolk, England, the tomb of ten panels on the left side of the altar is a record of his marriage to Mary Wodehouse and the birth of their children.  Mary was born in 1534 in Washam, Norfolk, England.  She died in 1565 in Shelton, Norfolk, England at age 31.  They had at least seven children:  Alice, Margaret, Thomas, 24^th Lord of Shelton, John, 25^th Lord of Shelton, Ralph, 26^th Lord of Shelton, Edward, and Audry.  Alice was born about 1555 in Shelton, Norfolk, England.  She married Thomas Waller in England, then married William Wrool in England, then married Tobias Wilkinson in England.  Margaret was born on December 24, 1556, in Shelton, Norfolk, England.  She married Anthony Southwell, Esquire.  Anthony died in 1623 in Ireland and was buried there.  Thomas, 24^th Lord of Shelton, was born on April 6, 1558, in Shelton, Norfolk, England.  He married Elizabeth Flowerdew in England.  Elizabeth was born in England and was buried there.  Thomas died in 1595 in England at age 37 and was buried in St. Peter’s Church, Tower of London, London, Middlesex, England.  John Shelton, 25^th Lord of Shelton, was born on December 21, 1559, in Shelton, Norfolk, England.  He married Joan (Jane) Maleverer in England and then married Elizabeth Cromwell in 1597 England.  Elizabeth was born in England.  John died in England, where he was buried.  Sir Ralph, 26^th Lord of Shelton, was born on November 1, 1560, in Shelton, Norfolk, England.  Edward was born on December 1, 1564, in Shelton, Norfolk, England.  He died on March 10, 1565, in Shelton, Norfolk, England, where he was buried.  Audrey was born on June 10, 1568, in Shelton, Norfolk, England.  She married Sir Thomas Walsingham in England.  Thomas was born in Scadbury, Kent, England.  Ralph married Anne Barrow, daughter of Thomas Barrow and Mary Bures, on October 16, 1570, in England.  Anne was born about 1540 in Shipdham, Norfolk, England, and died on October 3, 1580, in England at about age 40.  They had at least eight children:  Maurice, Richard, Margaret, Ann, William, Henry, Barbara, and Mary.  Maurice was born about 1570 in England.  Richard was born about 1571 in England.  Margaret was born about 1572 in England.  She died on May 29, 1580, in England at about age 8.  Ann was born on July 26, 1573, in Shelton, Norfolk, England.  She died on July 15, 1574, in Shelton, Norfolk, England, where she was buried.  William was born on February 11, 1575, in Shelton, Norfolk, England.  He married Martha Emory in England.  Martha was born in 1575 in Barningham, Kent, England.  Henry was born in 1577 in Shelton, Norfolk, England.  He married Elizabeth Jermyn on April 7, 1619, in Shelton, Norfolk, England.  Elizabeth was born in England.  Henry died in October 1635 in Barningham, Suffolk, England.  Barbara was born on November 30, 1578, in Shelton, Norfolk, England.  She married Sir George le Hunt in England.  George was born in England.  They had at least one daughter, Jane, who married Edward Harvey, Esquire, in England.  Mary was born on January 26, 1580, in Shelton, Norfolk, England.  She married Edmund Daundy, Esquire, son of Thomas Daundy, Esquire, and Martha Poley, on January 30, 1608, in England.  Edmund was born in England.  They had at least one son, Thomas, who was born in England.  This Thomas married and had a son named Thomas.  Sir Ralph was living in Warwickshire in the late 1500s.  He died on October 3, 1580, in England at age 49 and was buried in Shelton, Norfolk, England.  At the time of his death, he owned Shelton Overall in Shelton and Shelton Netherhall and diverse lands in Norfolk; Barrett in Hardwicke; Snoring 2, Magna and Parva; Thursford 2, Magna and Parva, and Barrett’s held by Earl of Arundel.  He named his son Thomas, Porter of the Tower of London, as his heir.

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Sir Ralph Shelton, 26^th Lord of Shelton, was born on November 1, 1560, in Shelton, Norfolk, England.  He was the third son of Sir Ralph Shelton and Mary Wodehouse.  He was knighted at Theobald’s, Warwickshire, England in 1607.  According to records in the British Museum, he was Minister to Spain, Secretary to the Prince of Wales, and one of the entourage of the Earl of Carlisle on the trip to France in 1612 to arrange for the marriage of Charles I with the sister of the French King.  It was this Sir Ralph who held the Norfolk and Suffolk estates in 1606 (succeeding his brother John) before the sale of Shelton.  Ralph married Jane West, daughter of William West and Elizabeth Strange, in England.  In an account of his marriage to Jane, he is given as Ralph Sheldon, Esquire of Beoley, Worcestershire.  Jane was born about 1558 in England.  They had at least two children:  James, and Thomas.  James Shelton, Gentleman, was born about 1585 in England.  Thomas was born about 1588 in England.  He invented the first process of shorthand in 1630.  This was used by Samuel Pepys in his “Diary.”  Sir Ralph was a member of the Second and Third London Companies.  In all the Colonial Records of the Second Charter granted to the London Company, May 23, 1609, the names of Sir Ralph Shelton of Norfolk, England, a Captain Shelton, and a James Shelton, Gentleman, appear.  The Second London Company sailed under Lord de la Warr with nine ships and 500 people.  The admiral’s ship was named “Sea Venture.”  They landed in America in 1610.  A charter was granted to the Third London Company in 1611.  As a Member of Parliament, Sir Ralph signed the petition circulated there by the Company in 1610.  There is nothing to indicate Sir Ralph ever came to America to live.  If so, he returned to England; but his son James Shelton, Gentleman, came with Lord de la Warr in June 1610, remained, and founded the Shelton family of America in Virginia.  Sir Ralph was killed in 1628 at the Isle of Rhe, France at age 68.

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James Shelton, Gentleman, was born about 1585 in England.  He came to Virginia from England with his kinsman Lord de la Warr in June 1610.  He was a member of the first courts from 1619 to 1624 and was a resident of Jamestown, Virginia in 1620. James married Anne Hebert in England.  Anne was born in 1588 in England and died in 1639 at age 51.  James and Anne had at least 10 children:  James, Stephen, Joane, John, William, Thomas, Robert, George, Richard, and Ralph.  James was born about 1600 in England.  He married Eleanor West.  Eleanor was born about 1600 in England.  They had at least one son, Peter.  James lived in Warwickshire, England.  After the death of his father, he went with his family to Bermuda as heir to his father’s estate.  James died on May 28, 1668, in Bermuda at about age 68.  Stephen was born about 1602 in England.  He married Anne West.  In 1634 Stephen owned the ship “Captain John Stone.”  He was one of the earliest justices of Accomac, Baltimore County, Maryland, and was on record in Northampton County as Captain Stephen Charlton.  He died in 1654 about age 52.  Joane was born in England and married _____ Hall.  John was born about 1603 in England.  He was living in Shadwell, England in 1639.  He was a ship owner and merchant and in 1683 he came to South Carolina, where he was given 300 acres of land.  John died on August 15, 1690, in Bermuda at about age 88.  He was buried in Bermuda.  William was born about 1605 in England.  He wrote his will on November 20, 1640, in the East Indies, while aboard his ship “The William.”  He died shortly thereafter at sea, where he was buried.  The will, filed in London, named his mother, Anne; brother John of Shadwell, executor; and sister Joane Hall.  Thomas was born about 1606 in England.  Robert was born after 1606 in England.  George was born about 1607 in England.  Richard was born in 1610 and died in 1701 at age 91.  He married Susannah.  He had land grants in Isle of Wight County, Virginia.  In 1642 James Shelton, Gentleman was a member of the later court in Jamestown.  He and his father were members of the London Company.  James had a land grant on the Potomac on October 16, 1650.  Part of “Currioman” Westmoreland County, Virginia, was one of the original land grants of James.  This grant was probably taken up by Thomas Shelton, who died in Cecil County, Maryland in 1650.  James moved to Bermuda, where he also had large land grants.  He is named on the “Partial List of Families in America Entitled to Bear Arms.”  The illustration of the plate he used, however, is not given.  Coats of Arms were, in the Middle Ages, the distinctive sign of the “gentleman” in English society.  The rigid etiquette observed in the county records of Virginia for the 17^th century showed that these distinctions prevailed in Virginia as well.  None at this early period assumed the name of “gentleman” without claim to arms, and the bearer of arms was a “gentleman” according to the original definition of Sir Edward Coke:  “It has been generally agreed by English and American writers that in America the use of arms by a family previous to the Revolution may be taken as evidence that this family had a right to use thereof.”  An English coach painter came to New England about 1750 and furnished several families with arms that have since been discovered bogus.  Virginia was the special scene of Thomas Jefferson, who, as the apostle of democracy, strove to do away with all distinctions in society.  When Queen Elizabeth died in 1603, England for the first time since 1485 was not under the rule of the Tudors.  In that year the English crown passed from Elizabeth I to James VI of Scotland.  He was known as King James I and was the first ruler of the House of Stuart.  In 1606 King James I granted a charter for the settlement of South Virginia to an association of “noblemen, gentlemen, and merchants.”  The association was known as the London Company, or the Virginia Company of London since most of its members lived in London.  Some of the Sheltons belonged to this company.  Some Sheltons also owned their own ships and did a large trading business with Bermuda and America.  The Governor of Bermuda, Captain Wodehouse, was a kinsman of Sir Ralph Shelton, whose mother was a Wodehouse.  Sir John Shelton, son of James Shelton, Gentleman, is given on a list of shipowners and merchants who made large sales of commodities to the Virginia planters.

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Thomas Shelton was born about 1606 in England. He moved to Bermuda and then to Virginia on the “Hopewell” in 1628.  He married Hannah Wood, daughter of Henry Wood, in 1629 in Maryland.  Hannah was born about 1606 in England.  Thomas and Hannah settled in Norfolk County, Virginia.  He had large grants of land in Virginia and Maryland.  Hannah died in 1684 in Cecil County, Maryland about age 78, and was buried in Maryland.  They had at least seven children:  James, John, Stephen, George, Thomas, William, and Elizabeth.  James was born in 1629.  John was born in 1632.  Stephen was born about 1633 and died in 1718.  He was also known as Stephen Charlton and Stephen Chilton.  George was born about 1634.  Thomas was born in 1638.  William was born in 1640.  Elizabeth was born after 1640.  She married _____ Whitten and then married Reuben Shelton.  Reuben was born about 1652 in York County, Virginia.  Thomas died October 24, 1683, in Cecil County, Maryland about age 77.  He was buried in Maryland.

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James Shelton was born about 1629.  He married Mary Jane Bathurst, daughter of Edward Bathurst and Susannah Rich, in 1650 in Virginia.  Mary was born in 1630 and died in 1682 in Virginia at age 52.  They had at least seven children:  Bathurst, William, John, Reuben, Richard, Thomas, and Daniel.  Bathurst was born in 1652 in Virginia.  William was born in 1655 in Virginia.  He married Katherine Metting.  William died in 1727 in Virginia at age 72.  John was born in 1659 in Virginia.  He married Jane.  John died on November 15, 1706, in Virginia at age 47.    Reuben was born in 1659 in Virginia.  He died in 1759 in Virginia at age 100.  He died without issue.  When Reuben’s will was probated it was found to have named his brother Daniel as the beneficiary.  The other living brothers brought suit for settlement of the estate, as it was not known up to that time whether Reuben was living or dead.  His ship was supposedly cut off by the Indians.  Richard was born in 1664 and died in 1759 in Virginia at age 95.  Thomas was born after 1665 in Pittsylvania County, Virginia.  He married Jane (Jenny).  Daniel was born in 1668 in Virginia.  James was a clerk of York County, Virginia from 1714 to 1716 and a vestryman at St. Paul’s Church.  He died in 1716 in Virginia at about age 87.

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Daniel Shelton was born in 1668 in Virginia.  He married Elizabeth Welles on April 14, 1692, in Stratford, Fairfield County, Connecticut.  Elizabeth was born in 1670 in Connecticut and died on April 1, 1747, in Connecticut at age 77.  They had at least two children:  Sarah and Samuel.  Sarah was born on January 2, 1694, in Connecticut.  She married James Wakelee, son of James Wakelee and Hannah, in 1715 in Connecticut.  James was born on December 28, 1688, in Connecticut and died on May 4, 1762, in Connecticut at age 73.  They had at least one son, James, born in 1733 in Connecticut and died in 1799 in Connecticut at age 66.  Sarah died on August 31, 1787, in Connecticut at age 93.  Samuel was born on February 10, 1705, in Connecticut.

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Samuel Shelton was born in 1704 and baptized on February 10, 1705, in Connecticut.  He married Abigail Nicholls, daughter of Joseph Nicholls and Mary Curtiss, on October 2, 1735, in Connecticut.  Abigail was born on January 1, 1715, in Connecticut.  They had at least 14 children:  Mary, Daniel, Samuel, Elizabeth, David, Abigail E., Joseph, Andrew, Sarah, Ann, Josiah, Philo, Isaac Wells, and Agur.  All their children were born in Connecticut.  Mary was born on February 13, 1736.  Daniel was born on April 26, 1737, and died on May 12, 1813, at age 76.  Samuel was born on August 24, 1738.  Elizabeth was born on February 13, 1740, and died on January 6, 1819, at age 78.  David was born on June 16, 1741, and died on October 12, 1824, at age 83.  Abigail E. was born on December 29, 1742.  Joseph was born on February 2, 1744, and died on July 7, 1771, at age 27.  Andrew was born on November 26, 1746, and died on November 4, 1828, at age 81.  Sarah was born on July 19, 1748, and died in 1810 at age 62.  Ann was born on February 7, 1750, and died in May 1836 at age 86.  Josiah was born on December 30, 1751, and died on June 20, 1864, at age 112.  Philo was born on May 5, 1754.  He married and had at least one son, William.  William was born on September 11, 1798, in Connecticut.  He married Lucretia Shethar Stanley, daughter of Rufus Stanley and Lydia Collins, on April 7, 1845.  Lucretia was born on July 21, 1798, in New York.  Lucretia died on September 6, 1881, in New York at age 83.  William also died in New York.  Philo died on February 27, 1825, at age 70.  Isaac Wells was born on March 11, 1756, and died on March 3, 1831, at age 74.  Agur was born on August 11, 1758, and died on June 24, 1845, at age 86.  Samuel died on November 12, 1772, in Connecticut at age 67, and Abigail died on February 21, 1794, in Connecticut at age 79.

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Ralph Shelton was born in 1685 in Middlesex County, Virginia.  He married Mary Jane Crispin in 1706 in Middlesex County, Virginia.  Mary was born in 1690 in Middlesex County, Virginia.  She died on August 29, 1771, in Spotsylvania County, Virginia at age 81.  Ralph and Mary had at least 11 children:  Thomas, Ralph, Elizabeth, Crispin Eliphas, Reuben, Mary, Catherine, John, Benjamin, James, and Daniel.  All but the first three children had their births recorded in Christ Church Parish, Middlesex County, Virginia.  Thomas was born on November 9, 1707, in Middlesex County, Virginia.  Ralph was born on October 23, 1709, in Middlesex County, Virginia.  Elizabeth was born in 1711 in Middlesex County, Virginia.  She married William Davis on October 29, 1728, in Christ Church Parish, Middlesex County, Virginia.  Elizabeth died in 1749 in Hanover County, Virginia at age 38.  Crispin Eliphas was born on April 1, 1713, in Middlesex County, Virginia.  Reuben was born on February 1, 1714, in Middlesex County, Virginia.  He died on July 18, 1715, in Amelia County, Virginia at age 1.  Mary was born on January 21, 1715, in Middlesex County, Virginia.  She died on July 18, 1719, in Middlesex County, Virginia at age 4.  Catherine was born on January 26, 1718, in Middlesex County, Virginia.  She married George Blakeley on December 31, 1743, in Middlesex County, Virginia.  John was born on July 19, 1722, in Middlesex County, Virginia.  He married Elizabeth about 1743 in Virginia.  They had at least 12 children:  Abraham, Jane, Frances, William, Joel, Claiborne, Martha, Charlotte, Lucy, Nancy, Lettice, and Mary.  All of their children were born in Virginia.  John died on June 18, 1804, in Mecklenburg County, Virginia at age 81.  Benjamin was born on June 18, 1724, in Middlesex County, Virginia.  He married Mary on November 6, 1780, in Amelia County, Virginia.  James was born on February 23, 1725, in Middlesex County, Virginia.  He married Jane in 1744 in Middlesex County, Virginia.  They had at least seven children:  Rachel, Henrietta, Benjamin, Caty, Stephen, David, and Thomas.  All their children were born in Virginia.  James married Philapenea about 1752 in Middlesex County, Virginia.  They had at least two children:  James and Nathan, both born in Virginia.  James Shelton was in Pittsylvania County, Virginia in 1768, on Leatherwood and Beaver Creeks.  This county became Henry County in 1777.  He later bought over 2,000 acres on North Mayo River on its Horse Pasture and Ironmonger Branches in Henry County.  He died on May 14, 1784, in Henry County, Virginia at age 59.  His will was proved on March 26, 1785, and named his second wife Philapenea and their children.  Daniel was born on May 17, 1729, in Middlesex County, Virginia.  Ralph spent his entire life in Middlesex County as a planter.  In his will, dated March 10, 1733, he mentioned his sons Ralph, Thomas, Crispin, his daughter Elizabeth Davis, and his wife Mary.  He stated that in case his son Thomas should die, he wished his sons Ralph and Crispin would take care of Thomas’ children.  Thomas died five years later.  Ralph died on March 17, 1733, in Middlesex County, Virginia at age 48.  After Ralph’s death, his widow married William Clark (Clock).  Mentioned in her will were sons Crispin Shelton, John Shelton, Benjamin Shelton, James Shelton, Ralph Shelton, Daniel Shelton, grandchildren Reuben Shelton, and Patience Catesby Blakey, and daughter Elizabeth Davis.

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Thomas Shelton was born on November 9, 1707, in Middlesex County, Virginia.  He married Mary Probert about 1729 in Middlesex County, Virginia.  They had at least five children:  Reuben, Josiah, Mary, Thomas, and Micajah.  Reuben was born on May 16, 1733, in Virginia.  Josiah was born in 1735 in Virginia.  Mary was born on February 21, 1837, in Virginia.  She died on August 5, 1742, in Virginia at age 5.  Thomas was born on May 2, 1740, in Virginia.  Micajah was born on June 20, 1741, in Virginia.  Thomas died on March 24, 1741, in Virginia at age 33.  Mary died in 1742.

Ralph Shelton was born on October 23, 1709, in Middlesex County, Virginia.  He married Mary Daniel, daughter of William Daniel and Mary Moseley, on June 10, 1731, in Christ Church Parish, Middlesex County, Virginia.  Mary was born on April 16, 1710, in Middlesex County, Virginia, and died in 1764 in Henry County, Virginia at age 54.  They had at least 15 children:  Roger, Sarah, Katherine, John, Palatiah, Eliphaz, James, Ralph, Hezekiah, Jeremiah, Derina, Elizabeth, Azariah, Susannah, and Mary.  Roger was born in Amelia County, Virginia.  Sarah was born about 1750 in Amelia County, Virginia.  She married _____ Robertson in Virginia.  Katherine was born about 1749 in Amelia County, Virginia.  She married _____ Rutherford and later married West Dandridge Hurt in Virginia.  John was born in 1732 in Amelia County, Virginia.  He married and had at least one son, Roderick.  Palatiah was born after 1732 in Essex County, Virginia.  Eliphaz was born in 1733 in Essex County, Virginia.  He died in August 1826 in Virginia at age 93.  James was born in 1734.  He married Jencia.  He died in 1794 in Virginia.  Ralph was born in 1735 in Essex County, Virginia.  Ralph married before 1811 in Tennessee.  Hezekiah was born in 1736 in Essex County, Virginia.  Jeremiah was born in 1740 in Virginia.  He married Nancy Asher in Virginia.  Derina (Rina) was born about 1752 in Amelia County, Virginia.  She married William McGehee in Virginia.  Elizabeth was born in 1760 in Amelia County, Virginia.  Azariah was born in 1747 in Amelia County, Virginia.  He married about 1770 in Virginia and died in Tennessee.  Susannah was born in 1756 in Amelia County, Virginia.  She married _____ Jones in Virginia.  She died in 1844 in Virginia at age 88.  Mary was born in 1757 in Amelia County, Virginia.  Ralph died in 1789 in Patrick County, Virginia at age 80.

Crispin Eliphas Shelton was born on April 1, 1713, in Middlesex County, Virginia, and was christened on May 17, 1713, in Christ Church Parish, Middlesex County, Virginia.  He married Letitia Buford in 1734 in Middlesex County, Virginia.  They had at least ten children:  Jane, Susannah, Lewis, Abraham, Elizabeth, Gabriel, Beverly, Spencer, Armistead, and Vincent.  Jane was born in Virginia.  She married William Todd on February 7, 1774, in Spotsylvania County, Virginia.  She was the great-grandmother of Abraham Lincoln’s wife, Mary Todd Lincoln.  Susannah was born in Virginia.  She married Griffith Dickinson on October 12, 1785, in Spotsylvania County, Virginia.  Lewis was born about 1734.  He was a Baptist Preacher.  Abraham was born in 1737 in Amelia County, Virginia.  He married Chloe Robertson on January 16, 1760, in Amelia County, Virginia.  He moved with his father to Pittsylvania County, Virginia in 1762.  His home was on Buck Branch, near Chalk Level.  Spotsylvania Bicentennial pageant gave a tribute to Major Abraham Shelton, commander of the military depot at Peytonburg during the Revolutionary War.  He served two terms in General Assembly.  Like his father, he was an early justice, vestryman, and sheriff.  He was a member of the Patriot Committee and escheator of county properties in 1777 and 1778.  After the war, he served as Colonel of the First Battalion of County Militia, until his death in 1789 in Pittsylvania County, Virginia at age 52.  He was one of three men from Spotsylvania who represented the county at a church conference in Richmond in 1785 that helped separate the Anglican or Established Church.  This set up the Episcopal Church, of which he became a vestryman.  Elizabeth was born about 1738 in Virginia.  She married _____ Hurt in Virginia.  Gabriel was born in 1740.  He married Elizabeth Shepard on March 24, 1762, in Amelia County, Virginia.  He secured grants in 1772 and 1773 for 400, 404, and 794 acres (probably on Whitethorn Creek).  He was a captain in the militia from Pittsylvania County, Virginia, during the Revolutionary War.  He was on the Committee of Safety in 1775 and a vestryman of the parish.  His will was made on June 20, 1803.  Beverly was born about 1743 in Virginia.  He married Rita Shelton, daughter of Armistead Shelton and Susannah Shelton, on October 31, 1803, in Virginia.  Rita was his niece.  Spencer was born in 1746 in Virginia.  He was a Lieutenant in the Pittsylvania County Militia.  Spencer married Clara Shelton, daughter of Daniel Shelton and Lettice Young, in Virginia.  Clara was born about 1746 in Virginia.  Armistead was born in 1753 in Virginia.  He moved with his father to Pittsylvania County, Virginia in 1762.  He was an Ensign in the Pittsylvania County Militia.  Armistead married Susannah Shelton, daughter of Daniel Shelton and Lettice Young, on September 1, 1774, in Spotsylvania County, Virginia.  Susannah was born in Virginia.  They had at least one daughter, Rita, who married her uncle, Beverly Shelton, brother to her father.  Vincent, the eighth son of Crispin Shelton and Letitia Buford, was born about 1754 in Amelia County, Virginia.  He was a Lieutenant and then Major in the Pittsylvania County Militia.  Vincent married Susannah Robertson, sister of his brother Abraham’s wife Chloe Robertson, on January 27, 1777, in Virginia.  Susannah and Chloe were daughters of John Robertson of Amelia County, Virginia.  In 1930 Josephine Robertson, of Cleveland, North Carolina, wrote:  “John Robertson of Amelia County, Virginia, was the grandson of the first William Robertson of Edinburgh, Scotland.  There were no finer people in eastern Virginia… a Governor of Virginia and also a Louisiana Congressman, judges, diplomats, etc.  My nephew saw the portrait of Governor Thomas Bolling Robertson in the (former) Capitol at New Orleans.”  Vincent was appointed 2^nd Lieutenant in the company of his brother, Captain Gabriel Shelton, in 1779.  They served from Pittsylvania County, Virginia, during the next few years of the Revolutionary War.  From 1790 to 1797 Vincent served as Justice of the Peace and in 1802 he was sheriff at Spotsylvania County.  He and his brother, Armistead, were members of the Commission of the Peace and held court for civil cases.  He was listed as Major Vincent Shelton in the 1810 Tax List in Virginia.  Vincent was willed all lands by his father, possibly because earlier Crispin sold his other son’s 400 acres of land at about $1 per acre, far below the price he had paid for it.  Crispin died on October 29, 1787, in Spotsylvania County, Virginia at age 74.

Daniel Shelton was born on May 17, 1729, in Middlesex County, Virginia.  He married Lettice Young in 1750 in Middlesex County, Virginia.  They had at least ten children:  Susannah, Clara, Milly, Polly, Young, Leroy, Daniel, Tunstall, Sarah, and Willis.  All their children were born in Virginia.  Susannah married Armistead Shelton, son of Crispin Eliphas Shelton and Letitia Buford, on September 1, 1774, in Spotsylvania County, Virginia.  Armistead was born in 1753 and died on June 16, 1844, at age 91.  They had at least one daughter, Rita.  Clara was born about 1754.  She married Spencer Shelton, son of Crispin Eliphas Shelton and Letitia Buford, in Virginia.  Spencer was born in 1746 in Virginia.  Daniel had land in Amelia County, Virginia until after 1789, when that portion became Nottoway County.  He was a militia Captain in Pittsylvania County, Virginia, promoted to Major in 1778.  He was also a member of the Committee of Safety.  Daniel died on September 18, 1809, in Pittsylvania County, Virginia at age 80.

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Roderick Shelton was born in 1754 in Amelia County, Virginia.  He married Sarah Ursula Briggs about 1773 in Virginia.  Sarah was born about 1755.  They had at least eight children:  Martin, Lewis, Armstrong, David, Sarah, John, James, and Roderick.  Martin was born in Virginia and died in North Carolina.  Lewis died in Missouri.  Armstrong died in Kentucky.  David was born in about 1776 in Virginia.  He married Elizabeth Shields about 1796 in Virginia.  David died in 1857 in North Carolina at about age 81.  Sarah was born about 1777 in Virginia and died in North Carolina.  John was born in 1778 in Virginia.  James was born on May 1, 1791, in Virginia and died on October 8, 1879, in Tennessee at age 88.  Roderick was born about 1798 in Virginia.  He had a relationship with Mary Franklin.  He died in 1870 in North Carolina at about age 72.  Roderick (father) died in 1816 in Shelton Laurel, Buncombe County, North Carolina, at age 62.

Elizabeth Shelton was born in 1760 in Amelia County, Virginia.  Elizabeth married William Arnold, son of Henry Arnold, in 1777 in Virginia.  William was born in 1759 in Virginia and died on March 7, 1825, in Washington County, Georgia at age 66.  They had at least four children:  James, William, Thomas, and Ambrose.  James was born about 1780.  He married Elizabeth Ann Arnett about 1803.  Elizabeth was born about 1785 and died about 1845 in Washington County, Georgia about age 60.  They had at least eight children:  Permelia A., Arnett, Harrell, Harriet, Julia Ann, James, Martha Anne, and Elizabeth Ann.  Permelia A. Arnold was born about 1805.  Arnett Arnold was born about 1805.  Harrell Arnold was born in February 1808.  Harriet Arnold was born in 1809.  Julia Ann Arnold was born in 1811.  James Arnold was born in 1812 in North Carolina.  Martha Anne Arnold was born on April 5, 1817.  Elizabeth Ann Arnold was born about 1822.  James Arnold died about 1827 in Washington County, Georgia about age 47.

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John Shelton was born in 1778 in Virginia.  He married Elizabeth Smith on March 19, 1800, in Tennessee.  Elizabeth was born about 1780 in Tennessee.  They had at least eight children:  William M., David, James, Levina, Mary Ann, Margaret, Canzada, and George Washington.  William Thomas was born on March 1, 1801, in Tennessee. David was born on March 1, 1804, in Tennessee and died in Missouri.  James was born in Tennessee.  Levina was born in Tennessee and married Wyatt Stubblefield.  Mary Ann was born in Tennessee and married Jonathan Hale.  Jonathan died in Missouri.  Margaret was born in Tennessee and married William J. Hale.  William died in Missouri.  Canzada was born in Tennessee and married William Henderson.  George Washington was born about 1815 in Tennessee.  John died on July 31, 1855, in Missouri at age 77.

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James Arnold was born in 1812 in North Carolina.  He married Martha Ann Givens on November 29, 1846, in Henry County, Alabama.  Martha was born in 1828 in South Carolina.  She died on April 21, 1888, in Henry County, Alabama at age 60.  She was buried in Alabama.  They had at least 11 children:  William M., Permelia Ann, James Jefferson, Elizabeth Winifred, Alicia Jeanette, Martha Juliann, Frances Harriet, John Abner, Henry Harrell, Mary Eliza, and Sarah Delilah.  All their children were born in Henry County, Alabama.  William M. was born on November 18, 1847.  Permelia Ann was born on July 12, 1849.  James Jefferson was born on June 13, 1851.  Elizabeth Winifred was born on July 12, 1853.  Alicia Jeanette was born on July 12, 1855.  Martha Juliann was born on August 12, 1857.  Frances Harriet was born on February 26, 1860.  John Abner was born on August 10, 1862.  Henry Harrell was born on April 19, 1864.  Mary Eliza was born on April 9, 1866.  Sarah Delilah was born on August 29, 1870.  James died on September 5, 1882, at age 70.

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William M. Shelton was born on March 1, 1810, in Tennessee.  He married Annie Wisdom Spearman, daughter of Thomas Spearman and Jane Stone Wright about 1820.  Annie was born on June 24, 1798, in South Carolina.  She died in January 1888 in Missouri at age 81 from typhoid fever.  She was buried in Crocker, Pulaski County, Missouri.  They had at least seven children:  Thomas Sterling, Edmund R., Martha, George R., William F., Margaret Adeline, and Anderson W.  Thomas Sterling was born on February 16, 1822, in Tennessee.  Edmund R. was born about 1825 in Tennessee.  Martha was born about 1827 in Tennessee.  George R. was born in 1829 in Tennessee.  William F. was born about 1832 in Tennessee.  Margaret Adeline was born about 1835 in Tennessee.  Anderson W. was born about 1837 in Tennessee.  William M. died on August 24, 1881, in Missouri at age 80 and was buried in Crocker, Pulaski County, Missouri.

George Washington Shelton, Sr. was born about 1815 in Tennessee.  He married Celia

Burks.  Celia was born on January 10, 1820, and died on January 25, 1898, in Missouri at about age 78.  They had at least eight children:  William, Mary, Willis, James, Nancy Emeline, Allen Taylor, George Washington, Jr., and Wiley Lee.  William was born about 1836.  He married Polly A. Lawson.  Polly was born about 1840.  Mary was born in 1837.  She married Jesse Wilson.  Jesse was born about 1836.  She later married James Hale and then she married Riley Messersmith.  Willis was born in 1840.  James was born in 1842.  He married Margaret Louisa Lawson.  Margaret was born about 1840.  Nancy Emeline was born about 1844.  She married George W. Wilson.  George was born about 1844.  Allen Taylor was born in 1846.  Allen married Rachel McKee.  She was born about 1845.  George Washington, Jr. was born on January 27, 1849, in Missouri.  Wiley Lee was born in 1851.  George Sr. later married _____ Roberds in Tennessee.  They had at least two children:  John and Edmund F.  John was born in 1832 in Tennessee.  John married Elizabeth Massey in Missouri.  Elizabeth was born in Missouri.  They had at least five children:  George Washington, born about 1855; Rose, born about 1857; Mary, born about 1859; Alfretta, born about 1860; and William, born about 1861.  Edmund F. was born in 1834 in Tennessee.  Edmund married Clarissa Jane Lawson on June 29, 1858, in Missouri.  She was born about 1835 in Missouri.  They had at least seven children:  James P., Azalia, Clara, Harvey, Celia Adeline, Mary, and Paralee.  James P., born about 1855; Azalia, born about 1857; Clara, born about 1859; Harvey, b. about 1861; Celia Adeline, born about 1861.  She married James Boyd on August 7, 1879, in Missouri.  James was born on June 20, 1859; Mary was born about 1865.  She married James A. Chrismon, born about 1860; Paralee was born about 1867.  She married Henry Singer, born about 1865.  George Sr. died on July 20, 1860, in Missouri about age 45.

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Sarah Delilah Arnold was born on August 29, 1870, in Henry County, Alabama.  She married Henry Washington Johnson, son of Henry Johnson and Talitha McKinnon, on November 10, 1889, in Henry County, Alabama.  Henry was born on October 5, 1861, in Randolph County, Georgia.  He died on April 18, 1942, in Webb, Houston County, Alabama at age 80.  He was buried in Bluff Springs Baptist Church Cemetery, Cowarts, Houston County, Alabama.  They had at least 12 children:  Lula Mae, Carrie Bell, James Henry,

Bera, Frances Eva, Donald Lee, Essie Vee, Mattie Arnold, Mary Elizabeth, Roosevelt, Edna Inez, and William Winford.  Lula Mae was born on August 17, 1890, in Henry County, Alabama.  She married John Jefferson Nowell on January 13, 1907, in Alabama.  Lula Mae died on August 17, 1936, in Alabama at age 46, and was buried in Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery, Headland, Henry County, Alabama.  Carrie Bell was born on February 1, 1892, in Henry County, Alabama.  James Henry was born on September 19, 1893, in Henry County, Alabama.  He married Ruby Fuller on December 6, 1914, in Henry County, Alabama.  Ruby was born on May 19, 1897.  James Henry died on December 30, 1983, in Houston County, Alabama at age 90.  Bera was born on December 14, 1895, in Henry County, Alabama.  Frances Eva was born on November 1, 1897, in Henry County, Alabama.  She married Luther Oscar Thomas on July 26, 1914, in Alabama.  Luther was born on February 28, 1895.  Frances Eva died on June 1, 1974, in Alabama at age 76, and was buried in Cottondale, Tuscaloosa County, Alabama.  Donald Lee was born on September 23, 1899, in Henry County, Alabama.  He married Bonnie Lou Brooks on November 5, 1924, in Alabama.  Bonnie was born on March 3, 1906, and died on October 12, 1940, at age 34.  Donald later married Ollie Howard in Alabama.  Donald died on December 22, 1973, in Houston County, Alabama at age 74 and was buried in Bluff Springs Baptist Church Cemetery, Cowarts, Houston County, Alabama.  Essie Vee was born on December 23, 1900, in Henry County, Alabama.  She married Joseph Homer Davis on November 25, 1922, in Ashford, Houston County, Alabama.  Joseph was born on January 26, 1894.  Essie died on April 5, 1980, in Houston County, Alabama at age 79.  She was buried in Bluff Springs Baptist Church Cemetery, Cowarts, Houston County, Alabama.  Mattie Arnold was born on December 22, 1902, in Henry County, Alabama.  She married Xavier Watson on November 24, 1927, in Alabama.  Xavier was born on September 11, 1905, in Alabama.  Mattie died on May 28, 1984, in Houston County, Alabama at age 81.  She was buried in Bluff Springs Baptist Church Cemetery, Cowarts, Houston County, Alabama.  Mary Elizabeth was born on April 8, 1905, in Houston County, Alabama.  She married James Burke Wiggins on April 13, 1924, in Ashford, Houston County, Alabama.  James was born on April 23, 1905, in Henry County, Alabama.  Mary Elizabeth died on October 7, 1980, in Houston County, Alabama at age 75.  She was buried in Bluff Springs Baptist Church Cemetery, Cowarts, Houston County, Alabama.  Roosevelt was born on November 1, 1906, in Houston County, Alabama.  He married Lemmie Mae Thompson on May 13, 1928.  Lemmie was born on November 22, 1907.  Roosevelt died on April 23, 1986, in Houston County, Alabama at age 79.  He was buried in Bluff Springs Baptist Church Cemetery, Cowarts, Houston County, Alabama.  Edna Inez was born on December 10, 1908, in Houston County, Alabama.  She married Andrew Cecil Brackin on November 3, 1928, in Orlando, Florida.  Andrew was born on August 26, 1907, in Alabama.  Edna died on April 28, 1975, in Brevard County, Florida.  William Winford was born on March 30, 1912, in Houston County, Alabama.  Sarah Delilah died on September 23, 1944, in Webb, Houston County, Alabama at age 74.  She was buried in Bluff Springs Baptist Church Cemetery, Cowarts, Houston County, Alabama.

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Thomas Sterling Shelton was born on February 16, 1822, in Tennessee.  He married Elizabeth Canzada Wright, daughter of Willis Wright and Tabitha Betsey Martin, on January 6, 1842, in Tennessee.  Elizabeth was born on November 15, 1827, in

Tennessee.  She died on September 6, 1919, in Missouri at age 91.  They had nine children:  Elvira Jane, Dorcas Cansada, Martha Ann, John Monrow, Josephine A., William Right, Lucy Emily, Charles Thomas, and Edmond Spearman.  Elvira Jane was born on November 5, 1842, in Tennessee and died on September 25, 1888, in Missouri at age 45.  Dorcas Cansada was born on June 11, 1844,

in Tennessee.  She died on January 18, 1920, in Missouri at age 75.  Martha Ann was born on December 11, 1845, in Tennessee.  She died on March 13, 1928, at age 82.  John Monrow was born on October 30, 1847, in Tennessee.  He died on March 11, 1928, in Missouri at age 80.  Josephine A. was born on July 7, 1849, in Missouri.  William Right Shelton was born on April 5, 1852, in Missouri.  Lucy Emily was born on June 11, 1856, in Missouri.  Charles Thomas was born on October 15, 1856, in Missouri.  He died on April 25, 1934, in Illinois at age 77.  Edmond Spearman was born on January 8, 1859, in Missouri.  Thomas died on January 8, 1859, in Missouri on the very day his youngest son, Edmond Spearman, was born.

George R. Shelton was born in 1829 in Tennessee.  He married Eliza E. Castleman, daughter of Abraham Castleman and Eliza Elizabeth Jones.  Eliza was born in 1838 in Missouri.  They had at least three children:  Eliza A., James W., and Martha Priscilla.  All their children were born in Missouri.  Eliza A. was born about 1855.  She married Elick N. Vicker in Missouri.  Elick was born about 1855.  Eliza died on November 13, 1924, in Missouri.  James W. was born in January 1859.  Martha “Mattie” Priscilla was born on April 14, 1861.  She died on March 17, 1945, in Missouri at age 83.  George died in 1865 in Missouri at age 36.

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George Washington Shelton, Jr. was born on January 27, 1849, in Missouri.  He married Mary Jane Brandon.  She was born on February 26, 1851, in Alabama and died on March 7, 1934, at age 83.  They had at least nine children:  Doward Belmont, Walton, William Herbert, Mary Ollie, Edmond L., Edith Lou, George Washington III, Sarah Eliza, and Allen T.  Doward Belmont was born on November 18, 1870, in Missouri.  Walton was born on February 6, 1871, and died on June 1, 1874, at age 3.  William Herbert was born in 1874 and died in 1921 at age 47.  Mary Ollie was born in 1876 and died in 1895 at age 19.  Edmond L. was born in 1878.  He married Flora Drake in 1902.  Flora was born about 1880.  Edith Lou was born in 1881.  George Washington III was born in 1883 and died in 1905 at age 22.  Sarah Eliza was born in 1886 and died in 1929 at age 43.  Allen T. was born on February 27, 1889.  Allen married Montie Humphrey in 1910.  Montie was born about 1890.  George, Jr. died on May 1, 1931, at age 82.

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Carrie Bell Johnson was born on February 1, 1892, in Henry County, Alabama.  She married Rufus Elbert Rabon, son of Elbert Rabon and Mary Coxwell, on September 10, 1911.  Rufus was born on August 8, 1890, in Alabama.  He died on June 11, 1973, in Chipley, Florida at age 82.  They had at least four children:  Mallie, Blanche Lucille, Carrie Mitchelle, and Willis Elbert.  Mallie was born on May 12, 1913.  He married Clara.  She was born on August 5, 1913, and died on July 29, 1992, in Chipley, Florida at age 78.  They had at least two children:  Myrtle and Brenda.  Myrtle married Jerry Driver on March 4, 1962, in New Prospect Baptist Church, Chipley, Florida.  Brenda married Doyle Cumbie in June 1962 in New Prospect Baptist Church, Chipley, Florida.  Doyle died in December 2001 in Alabama.  Mallie died on October 3, 1997, in Chipley, Florida at age 84.  Blanche Lucille was born on March 17, 1916, in Alabama.  She died on November 24, 1917, in Alabama at age 1.  She was buried in Poplar Springs Baptist Church Cemetery, Webb, Houston County, Alabama.  Carrie Michelle Rabon was born on June 18, 1926.  She had a relationship with _____ Cooper.  They had a daughter, Michelle Rabon.  Willis Elbert Rabon, Sr. was born on June 10, 1928.  He married and had at least one son Willis Elbert, Jr.  He died on July 19, 1992, in Chipley, Florida at age 64.  Carrie died on February 24, 1992, in Chipley, Florida at age 100.

Bera Johnson was born on December 14, 1895, in Alabama.  Bera married Wright Coxwell Rabon, Sr., son of Elbert Rabon and Mary Coxwell, on December 29, 1913, in Ashford, Houston County, Alabama.  Wright was born on January 23, 1892, in Alabama and died on October 23, 1969, in Ashford, Houston County, Alabama at age 77.  He was buried in Bluff Springs Baptist Church Cemetery, Cowarts, Houston County, Alabama.  They had at least nine children:  Mary Frances, Willis Otho, Elbert Otis, Mattie Monnell, Sarah Kathryn, Wright Coxwell, Jr., Billy Ray, Johnnie Gerald, and David Manuel.  Mary Frances was born on December 29, 1914, in Ashford, Houston County, Alabama.  She died on February 24, 1997, in Dothan, Alabama at age 82.  Willis Otho was born on February 8, 1917, in Alabama.  He married Evie Roberts on December 25, 1938.  Elbert Otis was born on January 16, 1919.  He married Willie Mae Adams on January 4, 1942, in Lamar County, Alabama.  Willie was born on February 22, 1921.  She died in November 1979 in Auburndale, Polk County, Florida at age 58.  They had at least one son, Elbert Stanley, born on December 29, 1952.  Elbert Otis died on January 11, 1994, in Auburndale, Polk County, Florida at age 74.  Mattie Monnell was born on April 10, 1921.  She married Paul Schaeffer.  He was born on September 4, 1920, and died in November 1985 in Wernersville, Berks County, Pennsylvania at age 65.  They had at least four children:  Richard Allen, born on November 14, 1947; Stevie Lee, born on June 11, 1949; Joann, born on February 25, 1951; and Paul Rabon, born July 16, 1954.  Sarah Kathryn was born on July 7, 1923, in Ashford, Houston County, Alabama.  She married James McCraney on May 24, 1941, in Alabama.  James was born on October 4, 1918, in Alabama.  He died on April 4, 1997, in Alabama at age 78.  They had two children:  Sarah Diane, born August 27, 1945, in Alabama; and Ronnie Frank, born on May 4, 1947, in Alabama.  Sarah Kathryn died on June 5, 1971, in Ashford, Houston County, Alabama at age 47.  Wright Coxwell, Jr. was born on April 24, 1926, in Ashford, Houston County, Alabama.  He married Florence on December 16, 1958.  They had at least one daughter, Margaret.  Wright died on July 11, 1981, in Key West, Monroe County, Florida at age 55.  Billy Ray was born on December 1, 1929, in Ashford, Houston County, Alabama.  Johnnie Gerald was born on May 10, 1932, in Ashford, Houston County, Alabama.  He died on July 10, 1934, in Ashford, Houston County, Alabama at age 2, and was buried in Ashford, Houston County, Alabama.  David Manuel was born on June 7, 1935, in Ashford, Houston County, Alabama.  David married Patsy Fowler on October 3, 1958, in Alabama.  They had at least two children:  Timothy David, born on July 11, 1959, in Dothan, Alabama; Gail, born on August 16, 1963, in Dothan, Alabama.  Bera Johnson died on December 31, 1975, in Ashford, Houston County, Alabama.

William Winford Johnson was born on March 30, 1912, in Houston County, Alabama.  He married Bertha Mae Helms, daughter of Andrew Helms and Bisha Douglas, on September 4, 1932, in Houston County, Alabama.  They had at least four children:  Blondell, Reuben Earl, Andrew Joseph, and Bennie Rex.  Blondell was born on January 30, 1933, in Ashford, Houston County, Alabama.  She married Francis George Bosze on June 18, 1955, in Washington, D.C.  Francis was born on June 8, 1928, in Rose, Wayne County, New York.  He died on March 7, 1997, in St. Francis Hospital, Milwaukee, Wisconsin at age 68.  He was buried on March 12, 1997, in Bluff’s Spring Baptist Church Cemetery, Cowarts, Houston County, Alabama.  They had at least one daughter, Karon Michelle.  Blondell died on July 10, 1990, in Arlington, Virginia at age 57, and was buried on July 14, 1990, in Bluff Springs Baptist Church Cemetery, Cowarts, Houston County, Alabama.  Reuben Earl was born on May 20, 1935.  William Winford died on January 2, 1992, in Houston County, Alabama at age 79, and was buried on January 5, 1992, in Bluff Springs Baptist Church Cemetery, Cowarts, Houston County, Alabama.

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William Right Shelton was born on April 5, 1852, in Missouri.  He first married Nancy Sanders.  Nancy was born about 1860 in Missouri.  They had three children:  Martha E., born in 1876 in Missouri; Edna A., born in 1877 in Missouri; and Cora, born in 1879 in Missouri.  They divorced about 1881 in Missouri.  William married Julia Ann Wall, daughter of Anderson Andrew Wall and Mary, on June 11, 1882, in Missouri.  Julia was born on

January 6, 1852, in Missouri.  She died on January 24, 1926, in Missouri at age 74.  They had eight children:  William Anderson, born on March 22, 1883, in Missouri and died on August 25, 1968, in Missouri at age 85; Robert Frederick, born on October 9, 1884, in Missouri; Charles Medford, born in April 1887 in Missouri; Mornia Adeline “Addie”, born in August 1888 in Missouri, died about 1907 in Missouri at about age 19; Albert Virgil, born in August 1889 in Missouri, and died in 1951 in Missouri at age 62; Mary Artisha was born in August 1891 in Missouri and died on October 21, 1963, in Missouri at age 72; George Evert Shelton, born on April 13, 1894, in Missouri, died on April 26, 1947, at age 53; Roy Raymond was born on April 2, 1900, in Missouri.  William Right died on July 18, 1925, in Texas County, Missouri at age 73.  He was buried July 19, 1925, in Houston, Texas County, Missouri.

Lucy Emily Shelton was born on June 11, 1856, in Missouri.  She married Joseph Harrison Davidson, son of Richard D. Davidson, Corporal, CSA, and Lucinda Burns, on June 8, 1877, in Missouri.  Joseph was born on February 1, 1858, in Missouri and died on December 8, 1940, in Texas at age 82.  They had at least 11 children:  John R., Elsie Ophelia, Minnie J., William Thomas G., Lucinda L. Elizabeth, Margaret “Maggie” Catherine, Ida Ann, Everett Harrison, James Edmond, Charles Otis, and Joseph Elmer.  John R. was born on October 26, 1877, in Missouri.  Elsie Ophelia was born on March 4, 1879, in Missouri.  She married James Robert Lane.  She died on January 25, 1932, in Oklahoma at age 52.  Minnie J. was born on December 19, 1880, in Missouri.  She died on February 13, 1882, in Missouri at age 1.  William Thomas G. was born on July 31, 1882, in Missouri and died on July 31, 1882, in Missouri.  Lucinda L. Elizabeth was born on June 15, 1883, in Missouri.  She married Preacher Crenshaw.  Margaret “Maggie” Catherine Davidson was born on September 9, 1885, in Missouri.  Margaret married Joe Lawson.  Ida Ann was born on September 29, 1887, in Missouri.  She married Ragnall Gilmore.  Everett Harrison was born on November 15, 1889, in Missouri and died on July 18, 1893, at age 3.  James Edmond was born on January 1, 1891, in Missouri.  James married Jessie Florence Broyles on March 21, 1912, in Texas.  He died on January 15, 1944, in Texas at age 53.  Charles Otis was born on September 16, 1894, in Texas.  He married Lulu Maude.  Charles died on February 7, 1970, in Texas at age 75.  Joseph Elmer was born on February 3, 1900, in Texas.  He married Myrtle Mae Brockett, daughter of Berlin Hugh Brockett and Bufa Olivia Lewis, on July 28, 1922, in Texas.  Myrtle was born on October 23, 1904, in Texas.  She died on December 31, 1942, in Texas at age 38.  They had at least one son, _____ Davidson.  Joseph Elmer died on December 3, 1969, in Texas at age 69.  Lucy Emily died on February 1, 1937, in Texas at age 80.

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Doward Belmont Shelton was born on November 18, 1870, in Missouri.  He married Martha Jane Pendleton on November 3, 1892.  Martha was born on March 27, 1874, in Missouri and died on August 1, 1958, in Illinois at age 34.  They had at least ten children:  William Owen, Edith M. Lawrence B., Otto Dewey, Ray, Mary O., Myrl A., Olen G., Truman P., and Lorene.  William Owen was born on November 5, 1893.  He married Edna Hansford.  She was born about 1895.  William died on August 5, 1975, in Missouri at age 80.  Edith M. was born in 1895 in Missouri.  She married James P. Wilson on December 24, 1916.  Edith died in 1983 in Missouri.  Lawrence B. was born in 1897.  He married Laura Alexander.  Laura was born about 1900.  Lawrence died in 1960 in Illinois at age 63.  Otto Dewey, Sr. was born on January 11, 1899, in Missouri.  He married Hester Prynne McKee on August 11, 1922.  Hester was born on September 4, 1899, in Missouri and died on January 7, 1986, at age 86.  They had at least two children:  Otto Dewey, Jr. and Patricia Ruth.  Otto, Jr. was born on April 2, 1924, in Illinois.  He married Marian Rose Hileman.  Otto, Jr. died on June 9, 1974, in Illinois at age 50.  Patricia Ruth was born on December 20, 1926, in Illinois.  She married William Harold Harvey.  She later married Marion William Kozak.  Otto Dewy, Sr. died on September 18, 1971, in Illinois at age 72.  Ray was born on December 11, 1901, in Missouri.  Ray married Ella Renfrow.  She was born about 1900.  Mary O. was born in 1904 in Missouri.  She married Joseph Lurton.  Mary O. died in 1797 in Illinois at age 75.  Myrl A. was born in 1905.  He married Enid Kinworthy.  Enid was born about 1905.  Myrl died on October 5, 1981, in Illinois at age 76.  Olen G. married Evelyn.  Truman P. was born on April 6, 1910, in Missouri.  He married Dolly Lee.  He died on October 23, 1986.  Doward died on August 6, 1951, in Illinois at age 80.

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Billy Ray was born on December 1, 1929, in Ashford, Houston County, Alabama.  Billy married Mary Ethel Bruner, daughter of Charlie Bruner and Nellie Shiver, on June 12, 1954, in Alabama.  Mary was born on May 20, 1936, in Pansey, Alabama.  They had four children, all four living.

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Charles Medford “Med” Shelton was born in April 1887 in Missouri.  He married Mamie O. Gilmore in 1910 in Missouri.  Mamie was born on April 8, 1885, in Missouri and died on September 15, 1966, in Missouri at age 81.  They had six children, all born in Missouri:  Mildred M., born in 1910; Elvin Charles “Smiley”, born in 1913; George C., born in 1917; Lorene Ada, born in 1919; James G., born on March 16, 1922, and died on December 2, 1999, in Missouri at age 77; and Bessie M., born in 1923.  Bessie married _____ Richardson.  They

had at least two children:  James Evert, and Robert.  James Richardson was born on October 3, 1946, in Houston, Texas County, Missouri.  Sgt.  James Evert Richardson died April 6, 1968, in Thua Thien, Viet Nam when the helicopter he was in was shot down.  He never got to see his daughter.  Robert Richardson was born in Missouri and died at Houston House Nursing Care Facility in Houston, Texas County, Missouri.  ”Med” Shelton died in September 1960 in Missouri at age 73.

Roy Raymond Shelton was born on April 2, 1900, in Upton, Texas County, Missouri.  He married Dortha “Dorothy” Maverine Coats, daughter of Wilson Lafayette Coats and Mary Alice Burch, on January 10, 1920, in Texas County, Missouri.  Dortha was born on November 5, 1903, in Texas County, Missouri.  She died on

November 23, 2004, at Colonial Park Manor, Licking, Texas County, Missouri at age 101.  She was buried on November 27, 2004, in Pine Lawn Cemetery, Houston, Texas County, Missouri.  They had three children:  Bertha Wiletta, Vancil Winford, and Bonnie Arlene.  Bertha was born on November 28, 1922, in Texas County, Missouri.  Vancil was born September 11, 1925, in Bado, Texas County, Missouri.  Bonnie was born in 1928 in Texas County, Missouri.  Roy died on June 18, 1970, at Texas County Memorial Hospital, Houston, Texas County, Missouri from a heart attack.  He was buried on June 21, 1970, at Pine Lawn Cemetery, Houston, Texas County, Missouri.

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Vancil Winford Shelton was born on September 11, 1925, in Bado, Texas County, Missouri.  He married Wanda “Maxine” Higginson, daughter of Charles Edward Higginson and Elsie Vivian Lowry, on September 11, 1945, at the Richland County Court House, Columbia, Richland County, South Carolina.  Maxine was born on December 22, 1927, in Mount Vernon, Jefferson County, Illinois.  They had five daughters, all still living.  Vancil Shelton died on March 3, 1995, at Harry S Truman Veterans Hospital, Columbia, Boone County, Missouri.  He was buried on March 7, 1995, at Pine Lawn Cemetery, Houston, Texas County, Missouri.