When Judith Ballow Shelton was born on 4 May 1828, in Montgomery, Tennessee, United States, her father, James Shelton, was 36 and her mother, Elizabeth Thompson, was 33. She married George Marshall Watts on 15 January 1846, in Montgomery, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Todd, Kentucky, United States in 1850 and Justice Precinct 1, Collin, Texas, United States for about 50 years. She died on 16 June 1919, in McKinney, Collin, Texas, United States, at the age of 91, and was buried in Pecan Grove Cemetery, McKinney, Collin, Texas, United States.
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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’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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