David T Shelton

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Brief Life History of David T

When David T Shelton was born in 1842, in Tennessee, United States, his father, Moses Robert Shelton, was 23 and his mother, Catherine Keisling, was 19. He lived in Anderson, Tennessee, United States in 1850.

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Family Time Line

Moses Robert Shelton
1819–1880
Catherine Keisling
1823–1889
David T Shelton
1842–
Henry Farmer Shelton
1844–1924
Margaret Frances Shelton
1847–1945

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  • David T Shelton in household of Frances Rushing, "United States Census, 1850"

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Siblings (3)

World Events (8)

1846

Age 4

U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.

1846

Age 4

Tennessee was known as the Volunteer State because during the Mexican War the government asked Tennessee for 3,000 volunteer soldiers and 30,000 joined.

1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii

Age 33

In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.

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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