When Palatiah Shelton Jr. was born on 9 September 1795, in Jefferson, Tennessee, United States, his father, Palatiah Shelton, Sr., was 59 and his mother, Mary Harbour, was 69. He married Elizabeth Dunnington about 1818. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Knox, Tennessee, United States in 1850 and Morgan, Tennessee, United States in 1860. He died on 29 November 1866, in Deer Lodge, Morgan, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in Palestine Cemetery, Morgan, Tennessee, 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’.
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