BIOGRAPHY OF LEMUEL W. SHELTON
L.W. Shelton- We meet, in the person of Mr. Shelton, a man whose life is co-existent with the development of the state and county. Born August 13, 1820, near Madison, Ky; but lived in his native state only six years, coming to Marion County, Indiana, November 4, 1826. The county was at that time, almost wholly a wilderness, so that the work of felling the forest and making the land tillable was tedious and laborious.
The trees taken from a small area were sufficient to build a dwelling and other necessary buildings. Thus, between farm labor and attending school, in a small log school house, he passed his boyhood, acquiring nothing more in the line of education than understanding the fundamental principles of reading, writing and arithmetic. But pioneer life teaches its lessons and trains the mind for greater efforts in after years.
In 1840, he married Catharine Severn, a native of Kentucky. She had come to Marion County with her parents at the same time the Shelton family came.
They began life on a rented farm, and two years later moved to Fulton County. Here they resumed rural life, and the will and zeal with which they entered upon the labor of life is better told by viewing the fine farm made from the wilds of 1842.
The family consisted of six children, five sons and one daughter... Melissa J., deceased in early childhood, David C., killed in the Battle of Chickamauga in his twenty first year; Thomas C., Henry and Martin L. died in their infancy.
William E., the only living child, now a man of the family; residing and superintending his father's farm.
His life has been spent as a agriculturist and he has always identified himself with the farming interests of his county, while his age and experience have enabled him to be a wise counselor in his community. In the affairs of the Fulton County Agricultural Society
he has been a most valuable servant, serving ten years as one of the directors of the Society and seven years as its president.
His frank, genial and courteous disposition has won for him a high name in the social circle and his honesty and strict adherence to true business principles in all of his affairs has marked him as one of our best citizens.
He says with pride that the first vote he cast was for Harrison for President and he has not neglected to perform his duty and privilege as an American citizen since and shall not while he lives.
On July 6, 1879, his wife died, thus leaving out of his family of eight persons, only two...himself and son. Finding that age had begun its work of tearing down his once powerful form, he concluded to leave active farm life and so became a resident of Rochester.
Two years after the death of his wife, he married Catharine Fear, who now presides over his quiet, peaceful home.
At the April election of 1882, he was elected Township Trustee and the people find him a faithful and efficient servant in the distribution of the public money.
In personal appearance, he is a tall powerfully built man, sixty-two years of age, slightly bowed with years and the effects of labor; a bright, open countenance, on which one may read a lesson of lasting energy and the whole man bespeaks a true type of well-developed manhood. Always an industrious and hard worker, ever ready to assist a fellow man in need, a constant leader, alive to the interests of his community and the state generally, he has won the name of a
"faithful Pioneer".
The Shelton family are noted for longevity of life. His parents, Thomas and Elizabeth Shelton are natives of Virginia, born the same year, 1795 and are still living in Butler County, Kansas at the age of eighty-seven years.
His father is quite supple; can walk six miles to church and back. Their family consisted of eleven children, of whom the subject of this sketch is third in rotation of age.
They have been residents of Virginia, Kentucky, Marion and Fulton Counties, Indiana and now Kansas.
The grandfather of L.W. was a native of Virginia; served in the Revolutionary War and died at the age of ninety-six;
[T.B. Helm, Fulton County Atlas, A.L. Kingman, 1883, p.26]
Lemuel's grandparents were Henry and Mary Shelton, Mercer Co., Ky., Lemuel's great grandparents were Revolutionary War Soldier, Peter Shelton and wife, Frances Nuckols Shelton of Louisa Co., Va.
L.W. Shelton- We meet, in the person of Mr. Shelton, a man whose life is co-existent with the development of the state and county. Born August 13, 1820, near Madison, Ky; but lived in his native state only six years, coming to Marion County, Indiana, November 4, 1826. The county was at that time, almost wholly a wilderness, so that the work of felling the forest and making the land tillable was tedious and laborious.
The trees taken from a small area were sufficient to build a dwelling and other necessary buildings. Thus, between farm labor and attending school, in a small log school house, he passed his boyhood, acquiring nothing more in the line of education than understanding the fundamental principles of reading, writing and arithmetic. But pioneer life teaches its lessons and trains the mind for greater efforts in after years.
In 1840, he married Catharine Severn, a native of Kentucky. She had come to Marion County with her parents at the same time the Shelton family came.
They began life on a rented farm, and two years later moved to Fulton County. Here they resumed rural life, and the will and zeal with which they entered upon the labor of life is better told by viewing the fine farm made from the wilds of 1842.
The family consisted of six children, five sons and one daughter... Melissa J., deceased in early childhood, David C., killed in the Battle of Chickamauga in his twenty first year; Thomas C., Henry and Martin L. died in their infancy.
William E., the only living child, now a man of the family; residing and superintending his father's farm.
His life has been spent as a agriculturist and he has always identified himself with the farming interests of his county, while his age and experience have enabled him to be a wise counselor in his community. In the affairs of the Fulton County Agricultural Society
he has been a most valuable servant, serving ten years as one of the directors of the Society and seven years as its president.
His frank, genial and courteous disposition has won for him a high name in the social circle and his honesty and strict adherence to true business principles in all of his affairs has marked him as one of our best citizens.
He says with pride that the first vote he cast was for Harrison for President and he has not neglected to perform his duty and privilege as an American citizen since and shall not while he lives.
On July 6, 1879, his wife died, thus leaving out of his family of eight persons, only two...himself and son. Finding that age had begun its work of tearing down his once powerful form, he concluded to leave active farm life and so became a resident of Rochester.
Two years after the death of his wife, he married Catharine Fear, who now presides over his quiet, peaceful home.
At the April election of 1882, he was elected Township Trustee and the people find him a faithful and efficient servant in the distribution of the public money.
In personal appearance, he is a tall powerfully built man, sixty-two years of age, slightly bowed with years and the effects of labor; a bright, open countenance, on which one may read a lesson of lasting energy and the whole man bespeaks a true type of well-developed manhood. Always an industrious and hard worker, ever ready to assist a fellow man in need, a constant leader, alive to the interests of his community and the state generally, he has won the name of a
"faithful Pioneer".
The Shelton family are noted for longevity of life. His parents, Thomas and Elizabeth Shelton are natives of Virginia, born the same year, 1795 and are still living in Butler County, Kansas at the age of eighty-seven years.
His father is quite supple; can walk six miles to church and back. Their family consisted of eleven children, of whom the subject of this sketch is third in rotation of age.
They have been residents of Virginia, Kentucky, Marion and Fulton Counties, Indiana and now Kansas.
The grandfather of L.W. was a native of Virginia; served in the Revolutionary War and died at the age of ninety-six;
[T.B. Helm, Fulton County Atlas, A.L. Kingman, 1883, p.26]
Lemuel's grandparents were Henry and Mary Shelton, Mercer Co., Ky., Lemuel's great grandparents were Revolutionary War Soldier, Peter Shelton and wife, Frances Nuckols Shelton of Louisa Co., Va.
BIOGRAPHY OF LEMUEL W. SHELTON
L.W. Shelton- We meet, in the person of Mr. Shelton, a man whose life is co-existent with the development of the state and county. Born August 13, 1820, near Madison, Ky; but lived in his native state only six years, coming to Marion County, Indiana, November 4, 1826. The county was at that time, almost wholly a wilderness, so that the work of felling the forest and making the land tillable was tedious and laborious.
The trees taken from a small area were sufficient to build a dwelling and other necessary buildings. Thus, between farm labor and attending school, in a small log school house, he passed his boyhood, acquiring nothing more in the line of education than understanding the fundamental principles of reading, writing and arithmetic. But pioneer life teaches its lessons and trains the mind for greater efforts in after years.
In 1840, he married Catharine Severn, a native of Kentucky. She had come to Marion County with her parents at the same time the Shelton family came.
They began life on a rented farm, and two years later moved to Fulton County. Here they resumed rural life, and the will and zeal with which they entered upon the labor of life is better told by viewing the fine farm made from the wilds of 1842.
The family consisted of six children, five sons and one daughter... Melissa J., deceased in early childhood, David C., killed in the Battle of Chickamauga in his twenty first year; Thomas C., Henry and Martin L. died in their infancy.
William E., the only living child, now a man of the family; residing and superintending his father's farm.
His life has been spent as a agriculturist and he has always identified himself with the farming interests of his county, while his age and experience have enabled him to be a wise counselor in his community. In the affairs of the Fulton County Agricultural Society
he has been a most valuable servant, serving ten years as one of the directors of the Society and seven years as its president.
His frank, genial and courteous disposition has won for him a high name in the social circle and his honesty and strict adherence to true business principles in all of his affairs has marked him as one of our best citizens.
He says with pride that the first vote he cast was for Harrison for President and he has not neglected to perform his duty and privilege as an American citizen since and shall not while he lives.
On July 6, 1879, his wife died, thus leaving out of his family of eight persons, only two...himself and son. Finding that age had begun its work of tearing down his once powerful form, he concluded to leave active farm life and so became a resident of Rochester.
Two years after the death of his wife, he married Catharine Fear, who now presides over his quiet, peaceful home.
At the April election of 1882, he was elected Township Trustee and the people find him a faithful and efficient servant in the distribution of the public money.
In personal appearance, he is a tall powerfully built man, sixty-two years of age, slightly bowed with years and the effects of labor; a bright, open countenance, on which one may read a lesson of lasting energy and the whole man bespeaks a true type of well-developed manhood. Always an industrious and hard worker, ever ready to assist a fellow man in need, a constant leader, alive to the interests of his community and the state generally, he has won the name of a
"faithful Pioneer".
The Shelton family are noted for longevity of life. His parents, Thomas and Elizabeth Shelton are natives of Virginia, born the same year, 1795 and are still living in Butler County, Kansas at the age of eighty-seven years.
His father is quite supple; can walk six miles to church and back. Their family consisted of eleven children, of whom the subject of this sketch is third in rotation of age.
They have been residents of Virginia, Kentucky, Marion and Fulton Counties, Indiana and now Kansas.
The grandfather of L.W. was a native of Virginia; served in the Revolutionary War and died at the age of ninety-six;
[T.B. Helm, Fulton County Atlas, A.L. Kingman, 1883, p.26]
Lemuel's grandparents were Henry and Mary Shelton, Mercer Co., Ky., Lemuel's great grandparents were Revolutionary War Soldier, Peter Shelton and wife, Frances Nuckols Shelton of Louisa Co., Va.
L.W. Shelton- We meet, in the person of Mr. Shelton, a man whose life is co-existent with the development of the state and county. Born August 13, 1820, near Madison, Ky; but lived in his native state only six years, coming to Marion County, Indiana, November 4, 1826. The county was at that time, almost wholly a wilderness, so that the work of felling the forest and making the land tillable was tedious and laborious.
The trees taken from a small area were sufficient to build a dwelling and other necessary buildings. Thus, between farm labor and attending school, in a small log school house, he passed his boyhood, acquiring nothing more in the line of education than understanding the fundamental principles of reading, writing and arithmetic. But pioneer life teaches its lessons and trains the mind for greater efforts in after years.
In 1840, he married Catharine Severn, a native of Kentucky. She had come to Marion County with her parents at the same time the Shelton family came.
They began life on a rented farm, and two years later moved to Fulton County. Here they resumed rural life, and the will and zeal with which they entered upon the labor of life is better told by viewing the fine farm made from the wilds of 1842.
The family consisted of six children, five sons and one daughter... Melissa J., deceased in early childhood, David C., killed in the Battle of Chickamauga in his twenty first year; Thomas C., Henry and Martin L. died in their infancy.
William E., the only living child, now a man of the family; residing and superintending his father's farm.
His life has been spent as a agriculturist and he has always identified himself with the farming interests of his county, while his age and experience have enabled him to be a wise counselor in his community. In the affairs of the Fulton County Agricultural Society
he has been a most valuable servant, serving ten years as one of the directors of the Society and seven years as its president.
His frank, genial and courteous disposition has won for him a high name in the social circle and his honesty and strict adherence to true business principles in all of his affairs has marked him as one of our best citizens.
He says with pride that the first vote he cast was for Harrison for President and he has not neglected to perform his duty and privilege as an American citizen since and shall not while he lives.
On July 6, 1879, his wife died, thus leaving out of his family of eight persons, only two...himself and son. Finding that age had begun its work of tearing down his once powerful form, he concluded to leave active farm life and so became a resident of Rochester.
Two years after the death of his wife, he married Catharine Fear, who now presides over his quiet, peaceful home.
At the April election of 1882, he was elected Township Trustee and the people find him a faithful and efficient servant in the distribution of the public money.
In personal appearance, he is a tall powerfully built man, sixty-two years of age, slightly bowed with years and the effects of labor; a bright, open countenance, on which one may read a lesson of lasting energy and the whole man bespeaks a true type of well-developed manhood. Always an industrious and hard worker, ever ready to assist a fellow man in need, a constant leader, alive to the interests of his community and the state generally, he has won the name of a
"faithful Pioneer".
The Shelton family are noted for longevity of life. His parents, Thomas and Elizabeth Shelton are natives of Virginia, born the same year, 1795 and are still living in Butler County, Kansas at the age of eighty-seven years.
His father is quite supple; can walk six miles to church and back. Their family consisted of eleven children, of whom the subject of this sketch is third in rotation of age.
They have been residents of Virginia, Kentucky, Marion and Fulton Counties, Indiana and now Kansas.
The grandfather of L.W. was a native of Virginia; served in the Revolutionary War and died at the age of ninety-six;
[T.B. Helm, Fulton County Atlas, A.L. Kingman, 1883, p.26]
Lemuel's grandparents were Henry and Mary Shelton, Mercer Co., Ky., Lemuel's great grandparents were Revolutionary War Soldier, Peter Shelton and wife, Frances Nuckols Shelton of Louisa Co., Va.
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