Sussex County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Shelton, David, 1949 

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DAVID SHELTON 

  David Shelton, 81, died at Cleek’s Nursing Home Sunday morning at nine 
o’clock.

  A native of Sussex County, he was born April 27, 1868, a son of the late 
Jesse H.* and Mary Louise Land Shelton.

  Surviving are two sons, W. Heber Shelton of Stuarts Draft and David J. 
Shelton, Nashville, Tenn.; grandson, David J. Jr., and a niece, Mrs. J.B. 
Patterson, both of Staunton; and a siser, Mrs. R.H. Stephenson of Littleton, 
Sussex County.

  Graveside services will be held at Wakefield Tuesday afternoon at two 
o’clock.  Mr. Shelton had requested that flowers be omitted.


David SHELTON, retired merchant, 
b. 27 Apr 1868, Sussex Co., d. 4 Dec 1949, Staunton, 
interred in Waverly Cemetery**, 6 Dec 1949, 
"The News Leader" (Staunton, VA), Dec. 5, 1949, p. 15 

**Wakefield list, an extension of 
   the Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/sussex/cemeteries/wakefd.txt 

*D.Cert. 27250 (Staunton #405) gives his father as Jesse Hanger SHELTON. 

His father (May 1826 - 14 Dec 1909) went by his middle name, Harper.  He 
   served in Co. A, 41st Va. Infantry, CSA.  He was buried in Montrose 
   Cemetery, near Littleton, Sussex Co.  His daughter applied for a military 
   headstone in 1932. 

Find a Grave calls it the Stephenson family cemetery.  David's sister, Maggie 
   Lee (SHELTON; Mrs. Robert H.) STEPHENSON (1861-1961) is listed by her 
   maiden name.  An article ("95-Year-Old Sussex Resident Is Peppery 
   Conversationalist") posted with Find a Grave Mem. #34279111 states that 
   their father owned Coppahaunk Springs, near Waverly. 

Harper's brother-in-law Albert Lewis LAND (1828-1873) also served in the 
   41st Va.  He wrote Harper 15 Nov 1862, from near Culpeper C.H.  The letter 
   is in the LVA Archives & Manuscripts Collection.  (Accession 44378) 


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