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/wNHBAIB/3000.1.2 Message Board Post: You seem versed in the Shelton family line in VA. I have hit a brick wall, I assume on the fact that the family i need used their nicknames in the Census. I am searching family in Lunenburg county, Pleasant Grove area from the 1850's thru 1900. Family has stated that their family is in TN. But unable to make the ties. I found Sandy Shelton b april 1856 in Lunenburg, with sister Mollie b abt 1868 Lunenburg with Mother Edna ( hard to read) b abt 1840 VA, Sandy Shelton married Virginia (?) in abt 1884 in VA and had the following Children, Reginald and Sterling were from another marriage or out of wedlock, Cleveland Shelton b March 1885 Virgina Carter Shleton b May 1886 va Onie Shelton f b October 1887 VA Ernest Wade Shelton b August 1890 VA Benny James Shelton b September 22, 1892 VA Murry Shelton b March 10, 1893 VA Jack Shelton b May 1896, VA Roy Shelton b November 30, 1897 VA Maud Shelton b 1902 VA Milton Shelton b 1903 VA Mark Shelton b 1907 va My line is Bennie James Shelton, unable to find any more about Sandy Shelton and family. Our line hit a brick wall with him. Thank you Cheri Shelton