This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/UeB.2ACI/1671.1845.1849.1.3.2 Message Board Post: Whoopsie, I think it should be Stokes, not Surry Co., NC. I'll have to look at my files again. The John SHELTON, son of the David line, was a sheriff. This was a much more affluent line. In 1850, uneducated William SHELTON and Lydia PARKER owned no slaves and had little money. They appear to be simple family farm owners--not exactly poor, but not affluent either.