History - Shelton Allphin was a Baptist minister. In 1834 Shelton and Martha Allphin and family, except son Israel Dodge Allphin, traveled by ox wagon from Illinois to Texas to apply for a land grant from the Mexican government. Shelton's oldest son, Ransom, also applied and the two settled in Montgomery County on the far eastern border near the well-traveled Old San Antonio Road. The land is now in Madison County. Unfortunately, Shelton Allphin died about a year after arriving in Texas in 1835. The children divided up his land and most of them raised their families there. Martha remarried about 20 years later.
The Bible of Shelton Allphin was donated to the Sam Houston Memorial Museum in 1955. The Bible is now in the Huntsville Public Library. Copies of the pages of the Bible with the handwritten names of his children and their birth dates are found in the Library alongside other files of early settlers.
Written by RMcMurrough
The Bible of Shelton Allphin was donated to the Sam Houston Memorial Museum in 1955. The Bible is now in the Huntsville Public Library. Copies of the pages of the Bible with the handwritten names of his children and their birth dates are found in the Library alongside other files of early settlers.
Written by RMcMurrough
History - Shelton Allphin was a Baptist minister. In 1834 Shelton and Martha Allphin and family, except son Israel Dodge Allphin, traveled by ox wagon from Illinois to Texas to apply for a land grant from the Mexican government. Shelton's oldest son, Ransom, also applied and the two settled in Montgomery County on the far eastern border near the well-traveled Old San Antonio Road. The land is now in Madison County. Unfortunately, Shelton Allphin died about a year after arriving in Texas in 1835. The children divided up his land and most of them raised their families there. Martha remarried about 20 years later.
The Bible of Shelton Allphin was donated to the Sam Houston Memorial Museum in 1955. The Bible is now in the Huntsville Public Library. Copies of the pages of the Bible with the handwritten names of his children and their birth dates are found in the Library alongside other files of early settlers.
Written by RMcMurrough
The Bible of Shelton Allphin was donated to the Sam Houston Memorial Museum in 1955. The Bible is now in the Huntsville Public Library. Copies of the pages of the Bible with the handwritten names of his children and their birth dates are found in the Library alongside other files of early settlers.
Written by RMcMurrough
