SHELTON FAMILIES IN EARLY UTAH: There was another SHELTON family in Myton about the time daddy was born. They came from Oklahoma & seem to have Native American ties. Got some info on them at the JSMB. I will check into this more. There were other Shelton Mormon pioneers also. Jane Shelton was married to Charles Price in 1841 in Nauvoo. There is a cabin in Ogden, Utah, which was owned by a Stephen Shelton in 1849. Family accounts mention the family settled in Provo; there is no mention of Ogden. The family does appear on the 1850 census in Provo. There was also a Robert Shelton, son of George Shelton, of England. He was born 5 Jan 1832 in England and came to Utah in October 1865. He married Margaret Slother on 20 May 1853 in England. Margaret was born on 19 May 1834. Their children are Margaret (md. William Heath); Isabella (md. Samuel Tucker); George (md. Caroline Britain) & Sarah (md. Henry F. Heath). The family settled in Salt Lake City. Robert was a shoemaker. He died 4 Dec 1906 in Salt Lake City.
SHELTON, David: David Shelton, son of Lewis, was born on 15 Sep 1812 in Buncombe County, North Carolina. Some think Lewis was the son of Crispin Shelton of Virginia. David (b. 1812) fought in the Black Hawk War of 1832 and the Mormon War of 1837. Of the Mormon War of 1837, Lewis Shelton history says, "When the Mormons finally surrendered at Far West, he (David, b. 1812) was present as he had been an active participant in helping to drive them out of the state." David married Frances Wilson of Kentucky in 1837. About 1847 David (b. 1812) moved his family, first to Oregon and then to Washington. The City of Shelton, Washington, was named after him. A note about Mason County place names says, "Shelton was named for David Shelton, who homesteaded the area in 1853. A former fur trapper, Indian fighter, and gold prospector, Shelton was a member of the first territorial legislature and succeeded in having his home area organized as Sawamish County. At a later session he sponsored a bill to change the county name to Mason." Lewis died in Missouri in 1846.
SHELTON, Elizabeth. Dau of Stephen (b. 1826) & Jane SHELTON. Relationship to my family is not known. See OTHER MORMON SHELTONS.
SHELTON, George (& Caroline BRITAIN). See Robert SHELTON of England in OTHER MORMON SHELTONS.
SHELTON, Isabella (& Samuel TUCKER). Isabella is the daughter of Robert of England. See OTHER MORMON SHELTONS.
SHELTON, James. Son of Stephen (b. 1826) & Jane SHELTON. Relationship to my family is not known. See OTHER MORMON SHELTONS.
(SHELTON), Jane (& Stephen SHELTON b 1826). Children are James SHELTON, Sarah SHELTON, Margaret SHELTON, Jane SHELTON & Elizabeth SHELTON. See OTHER MORMON SHELTONS.
SHELTON, Jane. Dau of Stephen (b. 1826) & Jane SHELTON. Relationship to my family is not known. See OTHER MORMON SHELTONS.
SHELTON, John (1839) P3-1.
John is the son of Stephen SHELTON (b. 1809) & Abigail HARRIS (b. 1818). He married Mary MORTON, daughter of John MORTON & Margaret CUNNINGHAM.
SHELTON, Mary Jane (& Rufus DAVIS). (Solved) Her father was an Indian chief. This would be the totem carver in Washington State. Probably a descendant of David Shelton, son of Lewis, from Missouri.
SHELTON, Mary Jane (& Charles PRICE). Relationship of Mary Jane is unknown. See OTHER MORMON SHELTONS.
SHELTON, Robert (& Margaret SLOTHER). Robert is the son of George of England. See OTHER MORMON SHELTONS.
SHELTON, Sarah. Dau of Stephen (b. 1826) & Jane SHELTON. Relationship to my family is not known. See OTHER MORMON SHELTONS.
SHELTON, Sarah (& Henry F. HEATH). Sarah is the daughter of Robert of England. See OTHER MORMON SHELTONS.
SHELTON, Sebert C. Relationship of Sebert is unknown. See OTHER MORMON SHELTONS. Records of Stephen's family get mixed up with that of Sebert (Seibert) Crutcher Shelton. Sebert was born on 29 Jun 1793 in Pittsylvania, Virginia, the son of Richard & Nancy Shelton. He applied for a Missouri land grant on 4 Jan 1819. He was married to Elizabeth Spears, Elizabeth Trains & Elizabeth Duncan. He married Elizabeth Spears on 25 Oct 1829 in Morgan City, Illinois. They had Emily C., born in Morgan City, Illinois in 1830 and Marion Jackson born on 30 Aug 1833. Elizabeth Spears Shelton died in Mar 1838. With Elizabeth Duncan he had Abraham in 1840 and Thomas in 1842. With Elizabeth Trains he had Mary Elizabeth in 1845 in Hancock, Illinois.
In 1845 Seibert is listed in Nauvoo Ward 5. Seibert was a member of the Mormon Battalion in Company D and was sent to Pueblo, Colorado with a sick detachment. He arrived in Salt Lake Valley 29 Jul 1847 with other battalion members under the command of Captain James Brown. He died 10 Aug 1857 according to DUP files. Seibert's father, Richard, may have been the son of Beverly Shelton. Sebert died on 10 Aug 1857.
SHELTON, Spencer Married Margaret PROCTOR, sister of Charles & Eliza Jane of the Cherokee Nation.
SHELTON, Stephen (b. abt 1760): This is the Stephen who served as a POW in the Revolutionary War. Later in life he went by Chilton. He had a brother George. He also had two sisters. One married George Gray.
SHELTON, Stephen (b. abt 1777): This Stephen was born in North Carolina. He died 22 Jan 1859 which is the same date as the death date on the TIB of my ancestor. If this is my man then family stories are mixed up for sure! He died in Sagamon County, Illinois. He married Lydia HEATH abt 1806 in North Carolina. They moved to Ohio, near the mouth of the Sciota river where two children were born. They moved across the river into Cabell County, West Virginia where seven more children were born. He was a soldier from Virginia in the War of 1812 and from there moved to Sagamon County, Illinois in May of 1826 to what is now Curran township where two more children were born. He second married Judith NEAL in April 1831. They had five more children in Sagamon County. Also SHELTON, Stephen (b.1775-1784) on 1800 Greenville SC census along with Gilla, Joel, Robert, William & William (George & John are on the 1820 for same place.)
SHELTON, Stephen (b. abt 1780). Stephen married Elizabeth. His son, Stephen (b. 1809) is my great great grandfather. He has ties to North Carolina where his wife had Stephen in March 1809. TIB Index Card to Salt Lake Temple Records No. 4075, Book 4D, Page 169, shows Stephen born "abt 1780 of North Carolina." It also shows a death date for him as 22 Jan 1859. Family tradition says he was a doctor & had two families. Wife, Elizabeth, did not know about the other family until Stephen (b. 1809) was about to marry his half sister. Circumstances forced Stephen (b. abt 1780) to tell his secret he had been keeping long enough to have an adolescent daughter by his other family. This is an important clue. It means the two families were close geographically at that time. This Stephen had many children. One account says he had 15 sons plus daughters. Some of the names of his children might be Stephen, Mary Jane, Charley & Joseph or Joel. Elizabeth Shelton (Hardy) from Rolla, Missouri, said she is the daughter of a Dr. Stephen Shelton. He wrote a book about medicine. There might have been relatives in Quincy, Illinois about the time the Mormons were heading west for Utah.
SHELTON, Stephen (b. abt 1785-1794) is on the Buncombe, North Carolina Census. He is listed with Isaac (1766-1784) & George (1785-1794). David on the same census further down is born before 1765.
SHELTON, Stephen (b. 12 Sep 1797) was born in Halifax County, North Carolina. He married Martha GRAVES (b. 9 Sep 1805 in Oglethorpe, Georgia) on 17 May 1822 in Autauga County, Alabama. Their children are Nancy, Burrell Willis, Sarah Virginia, Martha D., Stephen Francis, Louisa, William Graves, David, Josephine, Autauga, Augusta & Laura Georgia SHELTON. Wife, Martha GRAVES, died 15 Jul 1875 in Lowndesboro, Lowndes, Alabama. Martha is the daughter of William T. Graves & Sarah Smith. Their daughter Sarah Virginia married William WALKER, son of Hugh WALKER and Margaret CARROLL. Martha Graves' family moved to Georgia before 1805. M. A. SMITH of Tennessee is the daughter of Spencer SHELTON and Ophelia CUSHION, related to Bob TAYLOR. SMITH relative of Sarah SMITH who married M.A. SHELTON, daughter of Spencer. Stephen SHELTON & Martha GRAVES had Sarah Virginia SHELTON who married William WALKER (possible brother of John). William WALKER is the son of Hugh WALKER and Maggie Carroll. William WALKER & Sarah Virginia SHELTON had Martha Anne WALKER (1845) Autauga, Alabama who married Samuel ABNEY. There is much more. Maybe Native American ties from this SHELTON family.
SHELTON, Stephen "Dr. Stephen Shelton Jr. and wife, Matilda, of Virginia, moved the family to Arkansas from Mississippi in the year 1828, locating in what isnow St. Francis county. Later he removed to Mississippi, but again came to Arkansas locating at the mouth of Big Bay, near the site of Old Witsburg. After practicing medicine there for a time he moved fifty miles up the ridge, settling near where Harrisburg is now located. Twenty years later he removed to what is now the southern line of Craighead County, where he died after two years. He was a noted physician and patients were brought to him distances of 100 miles for surgical aid. After his death the mother resided in this county until 1863, when the privations of the Civil War caused her death. Stephen Shelton Jr. owned 197 acres of land five miles south of Jonesboro. While this was a part of Poinsett County he was deputy internal improvement commissioner, duputy sheriff and constable. He was also a preacher of the Christian Church. He married Mahalia McCracken, daughter of Aquilla and Nancy Lane McCracken, and the following children blessed this union: Matilda J. wife of L. T. McDaniel, Eliza wife of G. Edgar, Mary A. wife of Prof. Walter E. Dean, Thomas D., Nancy J., George, Louisa, Bell, Stephen Francis and William D." Source: The History of Craighead County, Arkansas, by Harry Lee Williams with index prepared by Mrs.Doris T. Thurman, Jonesboro, Arkansas. Book originally published in 1930, reprint made possible by the Craighead County Historical Society. Matilda Martin b. circa 1794 at VA. Md Stephen Sr before 1825. She died in 1863 at Craighead, AR.
Also SHELTON, Stephen (b. before 1795) in Virginia. His occupation is a physician. He 2nd? married Matilda MARTIN and in 1828 moved from Mississippi then back to Arkansas near Wittsburg. One year after than he moved again to Harrisburg, Arkansas. This Dr. Stephen had a son, Stephen Jr. Matilda MARTIN was born circa 1794 and died in 1863 in Craighead County, Arkansas. This Stephen Jr. was born 22 Sep 1826 in Jackson County, Mississippi. He married Mahala Mc CRACKEN, dau of Aquilla Mc CRACKEN and Nancy LANE before 1849. He was a doctor (surgeon) & a Christian preacher. He was buried after 1880 at Jonesboro, Craighead, Arkansas.
SHELTON, Stephen (1809) PP8 in North Carolina. He is my great great grandfather. He is the son of Stephen SHELTOn (b. abt 1780) & Elizabeth (b. abt 1791). Stephen first married Nancy BROWN (b. abt 1811) & then Abigail HARRIS (b. 1818). Several biographies show this Stephen's birthdate as 9 Mar 1809. Original Nauvoo Temple records of 10 Jan 1846 "prepared under the direction of the temple recorder, William CLAYTON," show "Stephen Shelton born March 1809." Interestingly, Stephen is the 11th of 12 men listed on the page but the only one without an exact day written. In a blessing given to him in Provo City, Utah, on 29 Mar 1855, Patriarch Emer HARRIS recorded, "Stephen Shelton, son of Stephen and Elizabeth Shelton, time of birth unknown, North Carolina, America." Another note shows that Stephen was age 35 in 1844. I have seen some family records with 1808 as the birth year. There is also a discrepancy about his name. TIB Index Card to Nauvoo Endowment Records indicate in Book 1, page 133, No 10a Stephen C. Shelton with my Stephen's birth date. This came from a typed transcription of the temple record. I do not know where the "C" came from or if it is correct. This is the only record that has that. Unfortunate in that folks now get him mixed up with Seibert Crutcher SHELTON when the initials only are shown. An example is in saying Stephen was in the Mormon Battallion. I am sure that Seibert was but don't think Stephen was. If our dates are close to being right, Stephen & Nancy were a very young couple. Our records show Stephen (b. 1809) & Nancy Brown Shelton (b. abt 1811) had the following children: William (b. abt. 1826); Jewel (b. abt 1827, died before 1830); Samuel (b. abt 1828); Andrew Jackson (b. abt 1830) & Mary Ann (called Polly) in 1831. It is believed all the children were born in Missouri. Polly was born on 24 Dec 1831, in Washington Township, Washington County, Missouri. Margaret SHELTON Hair said that Nancy (b. abt 1811) died when Polly was about two yrs old. Another early family record shows Nancy Brown Shelton died about 1833.
SHELTON, Stephen (& Jane) b. 1826. Children are James SHELTON, Sarah SHELTON, Margaret SHELTON, Jane SHELTON & Elizabeth SHELTON. See OTHER MORMON SHELTONS.
SHELTON, Stephen (b. 22 Sep 1826) This Stephen was born in Jackson County, Mississippi. He is the son of Dr. Stephen & Matilda MARTIN. This Stephen married Mahala Mc CRACKEN, daughter of Aquilla Mc CRACKEN & Nancy LANE. He was a surgeon and a Christian preacher. He was buried after 1880 in Jonesboro, Craighead, Arkansas.
SHELTON, Stephen (b. 1851) in Provo, Utah. He is the brother of my great grandfather, John SHELTON. Stephen married Margaret T. BONNER. His daughter, Margaret, married Jim HAIR. This Stephen's son, Stephen, became known as Stephen Bonner SHELTON.
SHELTON, Stephen Bonner (b. 18xx) in Utah. This Stephen was my grandpa Stephen Morton SHELTON's first cousin. Stephen Bonner SHELTON is the son of Stephen SHELTON (b. 1851) (brother of my great grandpa John SHELTON) and Margaret T. BONNER.
SHELTON, Stephen Morton (b. 1877) in Midway, Utah. He is my grandfather. He is the son of John SHELTON (b. 1839) and Mary MORTON. This Stephen married Fannie Adelia WARDLE. Stephen Morton SHELTON & Stephen Bonner SHELTON were first cousins.
William SHELTON is found in Mormon pioneer records. Minnie Margetts Membership Index shows him on an Immigrant Ship List 1840-1860. It also shows his LDS baptism as 14 Sep 1847 in Chesterfield, England, officiated by G. Rodger(s). Minnie also provides that he attended the Chesterfield, Sheffield, England conference. He is listed in the Nauvoo Social History Project. Also, the Utah Federal Census for 1860 shows his birthplace as England. The Membership Card Index provides his birthdate as abt 1816. Census records also place him at Beaver, Utah in 1860. He had a household of four, real wealth of $200 and personal wealth of $350.
SLOTHER, Margaret (& Robert SHELTON). Robert is the son of George of England. See OTHER MORMON SHELTONS.
