This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ZS.2ADE/286.1.1 Message Board Post: Michael, I don't know how the name came into the Shelby line, however his brother Smith Shelby, used it again in 1847 naming his son Winfied M. Shelby also. He married Sarah Vaughn of TN. Have you any information on Winfield M. born in Meck. Co., NC? I would like to know the names of his children, by either Melissa Alexander or Mary M. ? .