When Sebert Murray Shelton was born on 5 February 1885, in Heber City, Wasatch, Utah, United States, his father, Marion Jackson Shelton, was 51 and his mother, Sarah Gold Montgomery, was 35. He married Marguerite Emelia Letoria on 27 October 1921, in Rossland, Kootenay Boundary, British Columbia, Canada. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada in 1911 and Mason, Washington, United States for about 1 years. He died on 28 May 1960, in Shelton, Mason, Washington, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in Shelton Memorial Park, Shelton, Mason, Washington, United States.
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After three prior attempts to become a state, the United States Congress accepted Utah into the Union on one condition. This condition was that the new state rewrite their constitution to say that all forms of polygamy were banned. The territory agreed, and Utah became a state on January 4, 1896.
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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’.
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