1. Monty
Gayle Shelton
2. Edmond
Gayle Shelton – November 13, 1935
3. MacGrover/MacGruver
“Mac” Shelton April 17, 1891 – November
8, 1977
Kiowa Cemetery, Roger Mills County, Oklahoma
m. Elverda Jewel Yost
children: 1. Infant Daughter Shelton
2.
Winford W Shelton
3.
Goldie Pearl Shelton Spitzer Flynt
4.
Danellda Margene Shelton Morain
5.
Wanda Margene Shelton Linville Rowell
6.
Edmond Gayle Shelton
4. Amos
Mack Shelton April 28, 1850 – February
2, 1930
b. North Carolina
Cass Cemetery, Cass County, Texas
m. Sarah Blanton
m. N Ellen Calloway
children with Sarah Blanton: 1. Menard Maderson (Madison) Shelton
children with N Ellen Calloway: 1. Leila Shelton Abernathy
2.
Effie Shelton Cook
3.
Alpha J Shelton
4.
Walker Pendleton Shelton
5.
MacGrover/MacGruver “Mac” Shelton
5. Spencer
Shelton December 31, 1818 – February 1,
1902
b. North Carolina
Shelton Rankin Cemetery, Hughes
Springs, Cass County, Texas
m. Sarah Ann Morris
m. Catherine Morris
children with Sarah Ann Morris: 1. William Wesley Shelton
2.
Benjamin Franklin Shelton
Children with Catherine Morris: 1. Amos Mack Shelton
2.
James Henry Shelton
3.
Asbury Mood Shelton
4.
George Rademy Shelton
5.
Margaret Anna Shelton Womack
6.
Nelson Shelton
7.
Jefferson Davis Shelton
8.
Charles S Shelton
9.
Sarah Jane Shelton
10.
Beauford Berry Shelton
Menard Maderson (Madison)
Shelton March 3, 1874 - May 14, 1949
Kiowa Cemetery, Roger Mills County, Oklahoma
m. Pearl Blue
children: 1. Otis Vernon Shelton
2.
Sarah Anna Alice Aleeyne Shelton Kirksey
3.
Berton Menard Shelton
4.
Wesley McB Shelton
Menard Madison (or Maderson) Shelton was born March 3,
1874 in Cass County, Texas near Hughes Springs. He was the son of A. M.
and Sarah Blanton Shelton. Menard's mother died when he was 4 years old
and he lived with his grandparents until his father remarried a few years
later.
He came to what is now Oklahoma and filed on his farm
near Herring in Roger Mills County in 1900.
On December 11, 1903 he was married to Miss Pearl
Blue. They lived on their farm before moving to Elk City for two years,
after which they returned to the farm and lived there until 1944, when they
moved back to Elk City because of Mr. Shelton's failing health. He was
bedfast a great part from then until his death.
The following
account of how Pearl met Menard was written by their daughter, Aleeyne Kirksey:
While living on the
Yost homestead, Pearl had ridden a horse after buttermilk (they had moved
their cattle away from the house), got down to open a gate and the horse ran
off with a jug of buttermilk. (Jack Lacey on Nine-Mile.) Then she
went to Nemire after buttermilk - there in the cellar was Menard Shelton standing
in the corner of the dugout with gray pants and a dark red sweater. Pearl
went home and told her mother she had met the man she was going to marry.
Sunday at church (at
Sandstone), Menard was there. Grandma, Grandpa, Verdie, and Pearl were
all there. Grandpa forgot the chair Pearl rode in behind the spring seat
and sent her (back into church) after it. Menard carried it out and wrote
that he'd be over on Sunday to talk to her.
They courted about 3
years and married December 11, 1903. They courted by horseback.
Menard got a buggy about 6 months before they married. Grandma (Alice)
would give consent then back out, wait 2 or 3 months, etc.. Menard sent
Ira Morton in the buggy with a note, "Get in the buggy - let's go get
married." Pearl refused.
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