I am researching the Shelton line as it goes thru OWEN Co. This is my husband's Mother's line on her Mother's side. Mabel Knox m. John Raker Nannie Belle Shelton, b. 1884 m. Robert Bledsoe Knox 1902 ( I posted Knoxes last week) dau of Elzy Thomas Shelton, b. 1867 Owen Co, and Sarah Francis Lusby son of William Hayden Shelton, b. 1839 Owen Co, and Mary Ann Jacobs Wm. Hayden is son of Frederick, according to death certificate of Wm. H. There is a Frederick on the 1840 census Owen Co., with a female/wife, and a male, age u5. (This I assume is Wm. Hayden). Also a male age 5 & u 10. I WOULD SURELY LIKE TO KNOW THE NAME OF THIS MALE CHILD!!!!! Frederick is on the tax list for a few years then disappears.......... ............... The is a marriage for a Frederick to Deodora Gillock, 1842. Don't know is this is father to Wm. H..... Hayden, age 11, is on the 1850 census, listed with family of Samuel Hunt. Does this mean parents are gone -- died or away? He is on 1860 census with W. H. Hardin family. IS FREDERICK THE FATHER OF WILLIAM HAYDEN SHELTON, AND WHO MIGHT THE MOTHER BE. WHERE DID THEY COME FROM, AND OF COURSE, WHO WERE THEIR PARENTS? ?????? Phyllis -- in Cincy