Dear Debbie & All: Interesting about the church.  Do you know what denomination?  Pre-emigration, I only find info on Robert being in Georgia & North Carolina so far but that's all.  Troublesome how little I have found on this Young family.  The earliest record I found on Robert was the 1817 Emigration Census which has Spencer & Susannah (respectively) listed right under Robert.  With no wife given for Robert but one given for Spencer one could suppose Robert was still single then.    Spencer & Robert are both reported as living in Nautly, NC, on this list.  I think I have a copy of the original scripted document somewhere.  Right now I'm trying to piece together sort of a timeline of this family.  With so many of the same names repeated in different generations (ugh!) I'm hoping to better distinguish (by age) which Spencer did what, for example.  I will post my study.......  (I'm on my knees and reverently bowing down towards Norway right now.  Thank you again!  Sheila --- On Sat, 12/27/08, Deborah Shelton Wood <familytreees@aol.com> wrote: From: Deborah Shelton Wood <familytreees@aol.com> Subject: Re: [SHELTON] Who are Spencer & Robert? To: s2gibso@yahoo.com, shelton@rootsweb.com Date: Saturday, December 27, 2008, 3:02 PM Wonderful find, Shelia: There was a Rebecca Young and a Robert Shelton listed among the Charter Members of a Church in TN; was either DeKalb Co TN or Smith Co TN.  I am wondering if this record is them, before marriage. "Salem Baptist Church was constituted into an independent body August, 1809 with thirty one members." Although....there is a younger Robert or Robin Shelton on the Cherokee Rolls who was born circa 1809..perhaps the son..if Rebecca's baby survived the Trail...or if they had an infant with them..since the baby died.  (please send me anything you have on Rebecca and baby on the Trail.) Remember the Stephen Shelton on the Rolls as well. Would be grand to find out these ancestral roots. Debbie -----Original Message----- From: Sheila Gibson <s2gibso@yahoo.com> To: shelton@rootsweb.com Sent: Sat, 27 Dec 2008 8:29 am Subject: [SHELTON] Who are Spencer & Robert? Yesterday I posted a link to some photos of some of Spencer Shelton's Cherokee relatives along with some info identifying the relationships of the photos to Spencer.  Robert & Spencer both show up on early Cherokee records (before the Trail of Tears) and some of their descendants apparently stayed on because they show up later on in Oklahoma.    The big question, of course, is to which Shelton line do they belong?  My own opinion is based purely on speculation & circumstantial evidence.  How =0 D I would love to find one of the male Shelton descendants and request a dna sample.  Meanwhile, I put the question out to the forum to find out if anybody has yet uncovered any info telling us more.  I also wrote Cherokee Heritage thanking them for the photos.  They might know more since whomever shared the photos with them might also be Spencer's kin.   Sheila Shelton Gibson ------------------------------------------------