When David Durelle Jordon Shelton was born on 12 January 1890, in Lunenburg, Virginia, United States, his father, Silas Walter Shelton, was 29 and his mother, Sarah Shelton, was 28. He married Mary Allen Rutledge on 15 October 1913, in Lunenburg, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. He lived in Pleasant Grove, Lunenburg, Virginia, United States for about 10 years and Walton District, Charlotte, Virginia, United States in 1940. He died on 7 April 1961, in Lunenburg, Virginia, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in Cool Spring Cemetery, Fauquier, Virginia, United States.
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On May 30, 18944 the Confederate Soldiers and Sailors’ Monument was unveiled. It is 73 feet high and over looks Libby Hill Park. the statue represents the 13 Confederate States.
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
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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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