This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Shelley Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/jAB.2ACI/1814.1.1 Message Board Post: I am a little confused by your message. The information I have is that William Crane Shelley married Francis Chilton. And William Crane Shelley is the son of Daniel, not the other way around. Please clarify your statement so I may see how it fits with the 1860 and 1870 census records on this family. (see below what I have on this couple). I can easily see how the census entry for Francis J. may have really been an I in hard to read handwriting and am happy to learn that her middle name was Ione. Do you know when and where Francis died? Did William remarry a younger woman after Francis died? Or is there a mistake in the 1870 census? Do you have additional information on the children? Who they married? When and where they lived and died? Here is what I have gathered: William Crane SHELLEY. Born on 10 Apr 1825 in Clinton County, KY. William Crane died on 27 Feb 1872; he was 46. Listed in Clinton County, KY Census in 1860, with wife, Frances J. , and two daughters. In the 1870 census the wife is listed as Nancy J., age 32, born in KY, with five children. On 13 Aug 1855 when William Crane was 30, he married Francis (Fannie) J. CHILTON. Born in 1839 in Rockingham County, VA. They had the following children: 1. Mary H. SHELLEY. Born on 25 May 1856 in KY. 2. Martha Ellen SHELLEY. Born on 7 Oct 1858 in KY. 3. Lewis C. SHELLEY. Born in 1861. 4. William A. SHELLEY. Born in 1866. 5. John H. D. SHELLEY. Born in 1868. Initials for John are sometimes listed as R. D. or H. D., could be that the census interpretors are having trouble reading the old writing.