Biographical Sketch of Linn B. Shelby, Lafayette County, Missouri

>From "History of Lafayette County, Mo., carefully written and compiled
from the most authentic official and private sources" St. Louis, Mo.
Historical Company, 1881.
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Linn B. Shelby, P. O. Lexington, Mo.  The subject of this sketch is a
cousin of Gen. Joe Shelby, whose name so frequently occurs in the history
of the war, and was born on the old Thomas Shelby homestead, six miles
east of Lexington, on Dover road, April 13, 1859.  He is the son of 
Thomas and Nancy Shelby, his mother's maiden name being Gordon; her 
father having emigrated here at a very early day.  Mr. Shelby was raised
and educated in this county; and on the 17th day of October, 1879, was
married to Miss Lillie M. Kelley, daughter of James E. Kelly, also of
this county.  They have one child, a son, named Mark Hughes Shelby.  Both
he and his wife are members of the Christian church, membership at Lex-
ington.  He is now living on a farm three miles from Page City, and has a
bright future before him.

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