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Submitted: 10/11/22 • Approved: 10/11/22 • Last Updated: 10/14/22 • R1453067-G1453066-S3
Roy
January 4, 1916 - March 16, 1971
Herbert Shelton was born 1906 to Susie Greenhaw Shelton and Riley Abraham Shelton in Newton County, Arkansas. He was the second child of Riley 's second wife. He married Sally Jane Boyd daughter of Johnny William Boyd and Matilda Ann Stacy Boyd. He was first cousin to singer Willie Nelson's mother . Their shared grandparents were Daniel Gabriel Greenhaw and Lucy E. Standridge.
They had one child Theron Leon Shelton. He was separated from his wife most of Theron's life and got back together with Sally when Theron was a young teenager. In 1940 he was working for Buford S. Huskey in King Township, Wilderness, Oregon County, Missouri. Recorded on the 1940 Census and his 1940 Draft Registration. Census says his previous Residence was "Rural Oregon County Missouri". Not this same address. So possibly working on different farms before the war. This area is now a National Park. When discharged from Army he returned to the same area in Missouri. This is possibly the area that his father Riley Abraham Shelton was born and raised.
He was a great squirrel hunter! whenever I visited we would have fried squirrel almost every night. There was an amazingly huge fenced garden I wasn't allowed to enter. Up the road just past the house, There was acres of Peach Orchards with an old barn that once belonged to the Lee family before my great grandparents bought the property, the biggest sweetest Peaches I've ever tasted! Grandma made the best peach cobbler! They had many chickens, I loved when it was my turn to collect eggs in the morning! Grandpa had a huge mule, dairy cow, he would buy hogs and slaughter them. There was a Huge well ! we had to walk up a ramp to open the huge box, I was told it was more than 300 feet down. There was a smokehouse, wash house, outhouse, canning house, when grandma would ask me to get something out of the canning house I was reminded to wait at the door to make sure there were no moving snakes only snake skins on the ground, there was always a lot of those!
He bought the farm from Sally's parents.
His brother Allen "Allie"Shelton and Family lived very near by, both on Lee Mountain in Dover, Arkansas.
Previous Information written by Herbert's granddaughter.
Sally
April 15, 1900 - March 19, 1995
Sally Jane Boyd was born to Johnny William Boyd and Matilda Ann Stacy Boyd April 15, 1900 in Huff, Pope County, Arkansas, She had Five sisters. As a result of a very high fever as a girl she was slightly paralyzed on her right side. She was a very hard worker living the life of a homesteader. She made the Best Peach Cobbler! Her fried squirrel was pretty good too! She was known for her very Beautiful Quilts! She filled her canning house each year with produce from the very large garden. It was difficult but I stayed away from the large Concord grapes growing on the fence so she would have enough for her delicious purple grape jelly! I loved watching her peel the peaches with a pairing knife, holding the peach in her crippled hand, she ended up with one long curly piece of peel falling into her porcelain lined metal pan, Then throwing the scraps out the back door to the chickens waiting downstairs. She would hang her quilts in a frame from the ceiling to be quilted, she tried to teach her granddaughters how to quilt getting the stitches just the right distance apart and grabbing several stitches on the needles at a time but we were too young and active, we were sent outside to play while her and Mom spent hours filling that quilt with stitches! So much work all with a crippled right hand and foot She never complained about, just adapted. Grandma chewed tobacco She would not be happy when I would kick over her little coffee can running through the house! Grandma was Pentecostal as was her sister in law that lived nearby on Lee Mountain.
To wake up on the farm in Arkansas the first morning of our visit was a Peace that's hard to explain, even as a child I knew this was how people should live. So many Great Memories! I Loved Grandma and visiting her house! I have the hope of seeing my Grandma Sally in the Paradise Earth God has promised in the Bible with no more sickness and death. 2 Peter 3:13, Psalm 37:11,29,34.
Contributed on 10/11/22 by Billsully060
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