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/2972.2.1.1.1.2.1.1 Message Board Post: WHAT YOU KNOW JOE, SOMEONE OTHER THAN ME WORKING ON TENNESSEE SHELTONS. I AM STUCK WITH MY G-GRANDFTHER SAMUEL SHELTON. IF YOU THINK THERE IS A LOT OF WILLIAMS YOU SHOULD TRY SAMUEL. HE WAS IN SUMNER CO CENSUS IN 1850, IN THE HOUSE WITH WASHINGTON PIERCE. LISTED AS HAVING BEEN BORN IN TN, HE MARIED JUDEA ANN WYATT IN 1850, HE WAS CAPTURED DURING THE CIVIL WARAND DIED EITHER IN PRISON OR ON THE WAY TO PRISON, IN 1864, FROM THERE I CAN FIND NOTHING,SAMUEL AND JUDEA HAD 8 OR 9 CHILDREN JAMES IRWIN WENT TO ILL WHILE ARDELIA ELIZABETH MARRIED JOHN WILLIAM RAINES AND WENT TO TEXAS. AFTER SAMUEL'S DEATH JUDEA ANN MARRIED JOHN TRUE AND WENT TO TEXAS, THE OTHER CHILDREM PRETTY MUCH STAYED IN TENNESSEE, DIFFERENT FAMILY MEMBERS BELIEVE THAT HIS DAD WAS A JOHN , JAMES. WILLIAM OR SAMUEL. HIS GRAND FATHER WAS SUPPOSINGLY TO HAVE COME FROM BA OR NC TO KY WHILE HIS FATHER IS SAID TO HAVE CAME FROM KY TO TN, THEN WENT BACK TO KY, WHERE HE DIED, I CANNOT VERIFY ANY OF THIS, DAVIDSON CO ,SUMNER CO , ROBERTSON CO AND MONTGOMERY CO ARE ALL CLUSTERED TOGETHER IN THE NORTHERN PART OF MIDDLE TN, AND ALL COUNTIES ARE FULL OF SHELTONS, DOES ANY OF THESE NAMES SOUND FORMILLIAR TO YOY? DOROTHY D