Shelton

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.