Posted on: Hill County Obituaries Reply Here: http://genconnect.rootsweb.com/gc/USA/Tx/HillObits/85 Surname: Shelley, Burns, Dyer, Sooter, Cherrie, Devine, Rogers ------------------------- Whitney Messenger Thursday, July 10, 1941 James Madison Shelley, for many years one of Whitney's highly respected citizens, passed away in the Providence hospital at Waco, Thursday morning, July 3, 1941 at 12:07 o'clock. Mr. Shelley was born in Atlanta, Georgia, June 19, 1853, and had reached the ripe old age of 88 years and 14 days. He was united in marriage to Miss Ino Burns on September 21, 1873, and she preceded him to the eternal home March 14, 1935. For twenty years they resided in Arkansas and three years in Oklahoma before coming to this vicinity where they continued to reside, forming a wide circle of friends and aquaintances whose presence at the funeral services bore testimony of the high esteem they had for a friend of such sterling character. When a young man of 16, he excepted Christ as his Savior, uniting with the Baptist Church and at the time of his home going was a member of the First Baptist Church. For a number of years he was associated with his son, Tom, in the produce business here. After the decease of his wife and the retiring from business here, he made his home in Waco with his daughter, Mrs. Jessie Dyer. He is survived by the following children: Mrs. Ada Sooter of Slanton, Mrs. Sallie Cherrie of Texarkana, Ark., Mrs. May Devine of Tarlton, Okla., Mrs. Jessie Dyer of Waco, Mrs. Gertrude Rogers of National City, Calif., Tom Shelley of Waco and Lit Shelley of Whitney. He is also survived by a sister: Mrs. Jane Wood of Rockport, and four brothers, Joe and Hanse of Whitney, Will of Lubbock and Barto Shelley of Siloam Springs, Ark.. Funeral services were held at the First Baptist Church Friday, July 4, at four p.m. conducted by Revs. E.E. Crawford and F.E. Weller. Wilkerson and Hatch of Waco wre in charge of arrangements and interment was at Degraffenried Cemetery. The Masonic fraternity, of which he had been a member for many years, had charge of the service at the cemetery.