When Edward Dewey Robert Sheldon was born in September 1899, in Modoc, California, United States, his father, Eddy Lamb Sheldon, was 33 and his mother, Erma Isabella Linton, was 18. He lived in Adin, Modoc, California, United States for about 20 years. He died about 1920, in California, United States, at the age of 22.
English: habitational name in most cases from Sheldon in Derbyshire, but sometimes from Sheldon in Warwickshire or Devon, or from Sheldon in Chippenham (Wiltshire). The Derbyshire place, recorded in Domesday Book as Scelhadun, probably takes its name from Old English scelf ‘rock, ledge, shelf’ + the placename Haddon, itself from Old English hǣth ‘heath’ + dūn ‘hill’. The Warwickshire and Wiltshire placenames probably derive from Old English scelf + dūn, while the Devon placename probably comes from Old English scelf + denu ‘valley’.
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