Wednesday, March 20, 1935
Raleigh T. Shelton, 86, died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Maurice Sullivan, in Stafford County, this morning at 6:15 o'clock after a two week's illness.
Mr. Shelton is well known in Stafford County where he has lived his entire life. He married the former Miss Jane Limerick, of Fredericksburg, in 1871, she having preceded him to the grave in 1927.
He is survived by six daughters, Mrs. Linda Finn, Mrs. Christine Ellis, Mrs. Harry Bates, Mrs. Ascenith Frye, of Washington; Mrs. Florence Sullivan, Mrs. Thomas McCarty and two sons, Wesley L. Shelton and Clarence H. Shelton, all of Stafford, thirteen grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock from Bethel Baptist Church in Stafford county, conducted by the Rev. Guy S. Foster.
Interment will follow in the church cemetery.
Pallbearers will be his six sons-in-law: Harry C. Bates, Roy A. Frye, C. Finn, L. W. Ellis, Maurice Sullivan and Thomas McCarty.
Wednesday, March 20, 1935
Raleigh T. Shelton, 86, died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Maurice Sullivan, in Stafford County, this morning at 6:15 o'clock after a two week's illness.
Mr. Shelton is well known in Stafford County where he has lived his entire life. He married the former Miss Jane Limerick, of Fredericksburg, in 1871, she having preceded him to the grave in 1927.
He is survived by six daughters, Mrs. Linda Finn, Mrs. Christine Ellis, Mrs. Harry Bates, Mrs. Ascenith Frye, of Washington; Mrs. Florence Sullivan, Mrs. Thomas McCarty and two sons, Wesley L. Shelton and Clarence H. Shelton, all of Stafford, thirteen grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock from Bethel Baptist Church in Stafford county, conducted by the Rev. Guy S. Foster.
Interment will follow in the church cemetery.
Pallbearers will be his six sons-in-law: Harry C. Bates, Roy A. Frye, C. Finn, L. W. Ellis, Maurice Sullivan and Thomas McCarty.
Family Members
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Wesley Linwood Shelton
1872–1954
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Kelso "Kelsie" Shelton McCarty
1876–1956
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Admeada Florence Shelton Sullivan
1878–1960
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Christine Shelton Koop
1880–1967
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Belinda Clementine "Linda" Shelton Finn
1883–1957
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Dora Frances Shelton Bates
1886–1973
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Asenath Elizabeth Shelton Frye
1888–1967
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Clarence Holden Shelton
1892–1944
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