I noticed the interest in the name SHELTON. This is not a name I am personally researching but my mom's first cousin married into a SHELTON family that all live/d in the Muskogee(Oklahome) area. His name was William Shelton and he came from a large family that had Indian lines in it. He has died but his widow is still living and she is 91. I am not sure what she remembers. I do know the Shelton's moved into Oklahoma and spread roots-lots of them!! It must have been a wild place because before his death William would tell me stories of his family and growing up. Every Saturday they would hitch up the wagon and go into town for supplies and groceries The trip into town, getting the groceries and the return home took over 14 hours. All of the children would ride in the back of the open wagon and to keep them quite on the long journey home every Saturday they would buy a bag of hard candy and designate one of the children to hold the bag. He told me that was how they kept track of the children and made sure all of them got in the wagon to return home. William slept more soundly than any person I have ever known and one Saturday when it was his turn to hold the bag he fell asleep and bounced off the wagon. It was several miles down the road when one of the younger boys woke up looking for the candy. They realized William was not in the wagon and turned around to go find him. He was asleep in the middle of the dirt trail still holding the candy. He once slept through a storm that blew a tree into the bedroom about 3 feet from him and did not wake up. William was a career army officer and in charge of the MP's in Japan after W.W.II.