When James Madison Shelton was born on 20 February 1842, in Robertson, Tennessee, United States, his father, Thomas Matthew Shelton Jr., was 37 and his mother, Lydia Bird Fuqua, was 24. He married Lettie Elizira Huddleston on 11 April 1860. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 6 daughters. He lived in Montgomery, Tennessee, United States in 1850 and Powder Mill, Hart, Kentucky, United States in 1880. He died on 30 October 1886, in Hart, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 44.
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In 1844 when Robert Lumpkin bought land in Virginia, this would be the spot of the Infamous Slave Jail (or Lumpkin’s Jail). The slaves would be brought here during the slave trade until they were sold. Lumpkin had purchased the land for his own slave business.
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Kentucky sided with the Union during the Civil War, even though it is a southern state.
English (Nottinghamshire): habitational name primarily from Shelton (Nottinghamshire), but also from Shelton (Bedfordshire, Norfolk, Shropshire, and Staffordshire). The placenames all derive from Old English scelf ‘rock, ledge, shelf’ + tūn ‘farmstead, estate’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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