Brief Life History of Charles Edwin
When Charles Edwin Shelton was born on 28 August 1848, in Southampton, York, New Brunswick, Canada, his father, Charles Shelton, was 23 and his mother, Rebecca Ann Dow, was 20. He died in June 1854, in Little Blue Township, Washington, Kansas, United States, at the age of 5, and was buried in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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- Birth & Death - Charles Edwin Shelton 1848-1854
- Charles Edwin Shelton, "Find A Grave Index"
- Charles Edwin Shelton, "Utah Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel Database, 1847-1868"
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1850
Historical Boundaries: 1850: Mexican Cession, United States 1850: Utah Territory, United States 1851: Great Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States* 1896: Salt Lake, Utah, United States *Renamed Salt Lake in 1868
1854
Bleeding Kansas was a time period between the years 1854 and 1861 with a series of violent confrontations over whether slavery would be legal in Kansas Territory.
Name Meaning
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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