This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: SHELTON Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/wNHBAIB/2769.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Joseph Shelton & his wife Alice must have passed away in the 1870's. My G Grandfather, William appears to have gone on the orphan trains west to Missouri. I found him listed in the 1880 census there. He was listed as from orphan home or school. Are there any of those records available in the 1860's - 1870's ?