BIOS: John F. Shelton, Mason Co., KY

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File submitted by: Sandi Gorin (sgorin@glasgow-ky.com) Date: 2-23-98
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JOHN F. SHELTON - MASON CO

History of Posey County Indiana, The Goodspeed Publishing Co., Chicago, 1886.
Reprinted by Unigraphic, Inc., Evansville, IN 1967 [Mason Co]

JOHN F. SHELTON is a native of Mason County, Ky., born November 20, 1823. His father,
John Shelton, was of Dutch-French descent, born in Virginia, May 5, 1797, and when
fourteen years old went to Mason County, Ky., where he lived at the time of his
marriage. In 1824 he moved to Fort Branch, Ind., where he remained one year, and then
moved to Vanderburgh County, where he purchased 240 acres of land, and lived until his
death November 8, 1857. He was among the first settlers of southern Indiana, and was
of a very benevolent disposition. The mother was of English lineage, born August 11,
1798, in  Kentucky, and died March 11, 1847. Our subject received his education in the
log schoolhouse of primitive days nd was compelled to submit to many hardships.  He
attended school only about three months during the year, and owing to the scarcity of
the "almighty dollar," went barefooted until the snow fell. At the age of eighteen
years remuneration for his services. July 25, 1850, he married Sophronia B. Merritt,
born July 29, 1832, in Indiana. The have three children:  LeRoy C  (deceased),
Sophronia E. (deceased) and Wilmina. Mr. Shelton started in life with 80 acres of
land, but soon after traded it for 72 acres in Robb  Township, which he afterward
increased to 190 acres. His wife died September 3, 1858, and September 15, 1859, he
married Mary Cavett, born November 3, 1830.  The have three children: James A.,
Penelope A. and Ella Gertrude. Mr. Shelton is a Republican and a member of the
I.O.O.F., and has been a member of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church for forty years.