When John Shelton was born on 10 December 1829, in Mount Airy, Surry, North Carolina, United States, his father, William Shelton, was 24 and his mother, Nancy Deatherage, was 16. He married Louisa Grey about 1845. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Hollow Springs, Surry, North Carolina, United States in 1850 and Mount Airy Township, Surry, North Carolina, United States in 1880. He died on 18 November 1895, in North Carolina, United States, at the age of 65, and was buried in North Carolina, United States.
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Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.
In the 1830's, President Jackson called for all the Native Americans to be forced off their own land. As the Cherokee were forced out of North Carolina many of them hid in the mountains of North Carolina.
The first state fair in North Carolina was held in Raleigh and was put on by the North Carolina State Agricultural Society in 1853. The fair has been continuous except for during the American Civil War and Reconstruction and WWII.
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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