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Information Submitted to

FIRST FAMILIES OF BROWN COUNTY, OHIO

on behalf of my ancestor

James Shelton

[Member #59 - Approved 27 October 1992]

1. I, Linda Gail Schofield was born on
"private" at Manning, Alberta, Canada.(1) I
was married to Marc Gilbert Whitford on 18
November 1972 at Hay River, Northwest
Territories, Canada.(2)

2. I am the child of Allan James Schofield
born on "private" at Alliance, Alberta,
Canada(3) and Helen Ruth Lambert his wife;
born on "private" at North Star, Alberta,
Canada(4); married on October 21, 1953 at
Manning, Alberta, Canada(5)

3. The said Helen Ruth Lambert was the
daughter of John Dunlop "Jack" Lambert(6)
born on August 28, 1906 at Austin,
Manitoba, Canada(7) ; died on 4 September
1990 at Manning, Alberta, Canada(8); and
Addie Ruth Parker, his wife; born on 27
October 1912 at Highmore, Hyde County,
South Dakota(9); died on May 28, 1989 at
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada(10); married on
May 2, 1933 at Oyen, Alberta, Canada(11).

4. The said Addie Ruth Parker was the
daughter of Lush Duncan Parker(12) born
on July 8, 1882 at Wrightsville, Adams Co.
Ohio(13); died on 9 August 1957 at Manning,
Alberta, Canada(14); and Hazel Eve Taylor
his wife; born on December 24, 1892 at
Manchester, Adams Co. Ohio(15); died on
October 15, 1968 at Edmonton, Alberta,
Canada(16); Married on December 29, 1909
at West Union, Tiffin Twp. Adams Co.
Ohio(17).

5. The said Lush Duncan Parker was the
son of Zenas Leroy Parker(18); born on
November 10, 1853 at Adams County,
Ohio(19); died on October 21, 1919 at Pierre,
Hughes County, South Dakota(20); and
Elizabeth Frances Bradford his wife; born
on June 17, 1855(21) at Brown County,
Ohio; died on July 3, 1938 at Highmore,
Hyde Co. South Dakota(22); married on
August 2, 1877 at Vanceburg, Lewis County,
Kentucky(23).

6. The said Elizabeth Frances Bradford was
the daughter of Henry Bradford(24); born
on March 24, 1824 at Adams County,
Ohio(25); died on September 16, 1907 at
Manchester, Adams County, Ohio(26); and
Angeline Shelton his wife; born on
November 18, 1825 at Brown County,
Ohio(27); died on February 11, 1906 at
Manchester, Adams County, Ohio(28);
married on August 20, 1846 at Adams
County, Ohio(29).

7. The said Angeline Shelton was the
daughter of Alexander L. Shelton(30); born
on January 29, 1801 at Louisa County,
Virginia(31); died on April 7, 1891 at
Manchester, Adams County, Ohio(32); and
Sophia Shelton his wife; born on March 14,
1806 at Brown County, Ohio(33); died on
September 19, 1881 at Manchester, Adams
County, Ohio(34); married on February 24,
1825 at Brown County, Ohio(35).

8. The said Sophia Shelton was the
daughter of James Shelton(36) born on
April 6, 1777 at Stafford County, Virginia(37);
died on April 10, 1845 at Huntington Twp.
Brown County, Ohio(38); and Francis
_______, his wife; born on January 1,
1767(39) in Virginia; died on March 30, 1858
at Huntington, Twp. Brown County,
Ohio(40); married on [not known].

DOCUMENTATION

1. Document #1: Birth Registration - Linda
Gail Schofield. Issue by the Province of
Alberta, Vital Statistics Division.

2. Document #2: Marriage Certificate - Marc
Gilbert Whitford and Linda Gail Schofield.
Issued by Government of the N.W.T. and
Signed by Rev. Turq McCollum.

3. Document #3: Birth Registration - Allan
James Schofield; Issued by the Province of
Alberta, Vital Statistics Division.

4. Document #4: Birth Registration - Helen
Ruth Lambert; Issued by the Province of
Alberta, Vital Statistics Division.

5. Document #5: Marriage Registration -
Allan James Schofield and Helen Ruth
Lambert. Issued by the Province of Alberta,
Vital Statistics Division.

6. See #4 Re: Document #4 - Birth
Registration of Helen Ruth Lambert.

7. Document #6: Birth Registration - John
Dunlop Lambert. Issued by the Province of
Manitoba, Vital Statistics Division.

8. Death - John Dunlop Lambert: Personal
Knowledge of Linda G. Whitford.

9. Document #7: Birth Registration - Addie
Ruth Parker. Issued by South Dakota State
Board of Health. Filed Highmore, Hyde Co.
SD, December 11, 1912.

10. Death - Addie Ruth Parker-Lambert:
Personal knowledge - Linda G. Whitford.

11. Document #8: Marriage Certificate: John
D. Lambert and Addie Ruth Parker - 2 May
1933 by Rev. E.F. Kemp; United Church
Manse, Oyen, Alberta, Canada.

12. See #9 Re: Document #7 - Birth
Registration Addie Ruth Parker.

13. Document #9: Death Registration - Lush
D. Parker gives date and place of birth and
death. Issued by Province of Alberta,
Division of Vital Statistics.

14. See Item #13; Document #9: Death
Registration - Lush Duncan Parker. Issued
by Province of Alberta, Vital Statistics
Division. Cemetery Transcripts - North Star
Cemetery.

15. Document #10: Birth Certificate - Hazel
Eve Taylor. Issued by Adams County, Ohio.

16. Death: Personal Knowledge of Linda G.
Whitford, Cemetery Transcripts.

17. Item #9; Document #9: Birth Registration
of A. R. Parker gives parents as Lush D.
Parker and Hazel E. Taylor; Death
Registration of Lush Parker gives name of
wife as Hazel Eve Taylor.

18. See Item #13; Document #9; Death
Registration of Lush D. Parker, showing
name of parents.

19. Document #11; Death Registration -
Zenas L. Parker. Issued by South Dakota
Board of Health; gives date and place of
birth. Adams County Census Records for
1870 Green Twp. confirms placement in
family.

20. See Item #19; Re: Document #11; Death
Registration - Zenas Leroy Parker.

21. Document #12; Death Registration of
Elizabeth Frances Bradford. Issued by
South Dakota State Board of Health.
Pension files of Henry Bradford [Document
#13] and Adams County, Ohio Census
Records [Document #14].

22. Document #12; Death Registration of
Elizabeth Frances Bradford.

23. Document #15: Marriage Registration of
Zenas L. Parker and Elizabeth Frances
Bradford, gives age at last birthday, place of
birth of bride, groom and their parents.

24. See Item #21; Document #13 & 14:
Pension files of Henry Bradford, and Adams
County Ohio Census Records.

25. Document #16: Pension Files of Henry
Bradford.

26. Document #17: Pension Files of Henry
Bradford.

27. See Item #23; Document #15: Marriage
Registration of Elizabeth Frances Bradford
and Zenas Leroy Parker states that Mother
[Angeline Shelton] was born in Brown Co.
Ohio. Date is from Census Records.

28. Document #18: Burial Report - Angeline
Shelton-Bradford. From Pension file of
Henry Bradford.

29. Document #19: Pension file of Henry
Bradford, gives wife's maiden name and
date of marriage.

30. See Item # 21; Document #14: Census
Records 1870 Monroe Twp. Adams Co. OH;
Page 1, #1-1; shows Alexander L. Shelton
and Sophia Shelton living with daughter.

31. Document #20: Death Registration of
Alexander L. Shelton from Adams Co. Ohio
gives place of birth. Date was retrieved from
Census Records [Document #14] and
Cemetery Transcript, Slickaway Cemetery,
Huntington Twp. Brown Co. OH. [Document
#21].

32. See Item #31; Document #20: - Death
Registration - Alexander L. Shelton from
Adams County, Ohio.

33. See Item #31; Document #14:
Information on Date of Birth from Cemetery
Transcript, Slickaway Cemetery, Huntington
Twp. Brown Co. OH.

34. See Item #33: Cemetery Transcript,
Slickaway Cemetery, Huntington Twp.
Brown Co. Ohio.

35. Document #22: Marriage Registration of
Alexander L. Shelton and Sophia Shelton by
Thomas Shelton, JP.

36. Information obtained from Estate
Settlement Papers, James Shelton.

37. See Item #33: Information on Birth &
Death dates from Cemetery Transcript,
Slickaway Cemetery, Brown Co. OH.

38. See Item #37.

39. See item #33: Information from Cemetery
Transcript, Slickaway Cemetery, Huntington
Twp. Brown Co. OH.

40. See Item #39.

RESIDENCES: Stafford Co. VA; Huntington
Twp., Brown Co. OH

OCCUPATION: Farmer

CHURCH: Bethlehem Christian Church

James helped establish Bethlehem
Christian Church in 1837 at Slickaway.

James Birthplace: Shelton Bible
James Birthdate: Stone in Slickaway
Cemetery, Brown Co. OH
James Death: Stone in Slickaway Cemetery,
Brown Co. OH;
Legal Documents for dispensation of estate.

Francis Birthplace:
Francis Birthdate: Stone in Slickaway
Cemetery, Brown Co. OH
Francis Death: Stone in Slickaway
Cemetery, Brown Co. OH

James Shelton is believed to have been the
son of George Shelton as is the Thomas
Shelton who married Elizabeth Stark.

Notes for George Shelton: Age at Death -
100 Years - Notes of Reverend J. N. Shelton;
Believed to have been buried in the
cemetery at Slickaway, but the area is
flooded every spring and most of the stones
have been washed away or buried.

With James Shelton in 1820 [Male 45 &
Over] and 1830 [Male 90-100 years] Census,
Huntington Twp. Brown Co. OH. He is not
shown in the 1840 Census.

(this was taken from History of Brown County, OHIO, 1883 by W.
H. Beers & Co.)

Bethlehem Christian Church

This church was organized by Elder Matthew Gardner, who
commenced preaching in this vicinity about 1823. Elder
Gardner writes: "After giving up preaching at the old stone
meeting house on Lawrence Creek, In Kentucky, I began to
preach once a month on the Ohio side of the river,
Opposite Maysville, some twelve miles from my home. I
had occasionally preached there on my way to Lawrence
Creek Church.
The neighborhood was famed for wickedness.
Sabbath-breaking, by horse racing and gambling, cock
fights and whiskey drinking was common. I had a great
desire to carry the Gospel there. There was no preaching
on the Ohio side of the river within 10 miles of them. A
Methodist minister had sent an appointment, but when he
rose to speak, the congregation in concert, as previously
arranged, arose and left the house and empty benches to
preach to. They needed salvation. Could I reach them? I
would try.
I appointed meetings in their dwellings or log cabin
schoolhouses, but the congregation soon became so large
that, when the weather permitted, our meetings were in the
woods. A church was soon organized. The revival
continued. Many were added to the church, and, in a few
years, Bethlehem Church numbered over four hundred
members. We soon built a good brick chapel, and the
church prospered.
If ever the power of the Gospel manifest to all, it was in that
section of country."

The Bethlehem Church became the largest and most
important Christian Church in the conference to which it
belonged. Elder Gardner was it's pastor for forty-five years.
In 1829, the first brick house of worship was erected. This
was destroyed by a storm in 1860, and a new frame edifice
erected the same year, near the same site.
On the third Sabbath in May each year, this church held a
"big meeting," as it was termed. These annual meetings
were attended by vast congregations. Some came a
distance of twenty miles and as many as three thousand
persons were sometimes collected together. At some of
the meetings, more than one hundred joined the church.
The church now has a membership of over four hundred,
and sustains a large Sabbath school.
(At the time this book was written)

The Great Storm Of 1860

A great storm swept over the West on Monday, may 21,
1860, destroying houses and barns, and blowing down
forests. Elder Matthew Gardner gives a graphic description
of the destruction of Bethlehem Christian Church by this
storm: "The third Lord's Day in May, 1860, was our
communion meeting at Bethlehem Church. I was assisted
at that communion by Brother William Pangburn and
Brother Charles W. Garoutte, whose labors were blessed.

We continued the meeting on Monday at 10 a.m., and met
again at 3 p.m. The congregation was large. The house
was of brick. It was 35x50 feet in size, and was nearly full.

A few minutes before the hour for preaching, a heavy cloud
appeared in the west, of a dark green color, attended with
a roaring sound.
The ministers had ascended the pulpit, which was at the
side of the house, and I was sitting on a chair, leaning back
against the pulpit. The men occupied the west end of the
house.
As the cloud approached, the storm gathered strength, the
roaring becoming louder and louder. Trees were swept
down, limbs and brush were driven along, all accompanied
by deafening thunder. Great drops of rain began to fall.

The preachers waited, for almost utter darkness prevailed.
Suddenly a crash was heard; the cries and screams could
be heard above the roaring of the storm. Half of the roof,
commencing at the west end, had blown to a great
distance. The west gable had blown in, down to the square,
and came crashing through the ceiling upon the men,
closely seated below.
Then distinctly, above all the din of the storm, was heard the
cry, 'What shall I do to be saved? What shall I do to be
saved?' I did not at first leave my seat. Having my trust in
God, I felt safe there as anywhere else, and I knew not yet
the end of the calamity. I supposed that a shaft of lightning
had struck the house; as I saw the mass that had fallen
upon the men, I said to myself, 'There are six men killed.'
None were killed. The rubbish was quickly removed, and
the men were assisted out, bruised, but all living.

A young man who had run from the house got out in time to
be struck by a falling rafter, which broke his arm. His was
the most serious injury. All started back home with sad
hearts."