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/wNHBAIB/3000.1.2.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Cheri, please tell me what year Bennie James Shelton was born and the name of his wife and the names of his children. Also, if you have the names of any of brothers and sisters, also their years of birth, I would also like that information. Then I will see what I can find on Bennie James. Too, it would be helpful if you can give me the geographic locations in which you have found Bennie James Shelton. In the 1900 U. S. census for Lunenburg County, VA, I found a household as follows: Sunday Shelton, head of household, b. 1856 Virginia Shelton, wife, b. 1862 Cleveland Shelton, son, b. 1885 Carter Shelton, son, b. 1886 Orie Shelton, daughter, b. 1887 Bennie Shelton, son, b. 1892 Murry Shelton, son, b. 1895 Jack Shelton, son, b. 1896 Roy Shelton, son, b. 1897 In the 1880 Lunenburg County, Va., census I found the person who I believe to be the wife of Sunday Shelton, being one Virginia E. Royal, age 18, born in Virginia, and daughter of Tilman B. Royal, age 49, born in VA, and his wife, Jane F. Royal, age 47, born in Virignia. The children of Sunday Shelton in this 1900 Lunenburg County census which correspond to the ones whom you list for Sandy Shelton are: Cleveland Shelton, b. 1885 Carter Shelton, b. 1886 Orie Shelton, b. 1887 Bennie Shelton, b. 1892 Jack Shelton, b. 1896 Roy Shelton, b. 1897. I cannot find Sunday Shelton listed in any previous nor any following census. My own reading of this -- for which I have no proof -- is that both Sandy Shelton, b. 1856, of the 1880 Lunenburg County census and Sunday Shelton, b. 1856, of the 1900 Lunenburg County census are the same person, being the son of William T. Shelton and Ellen A. Shelton.