Regarding the reliability of the book by Mildred Campbell Whitaker entitled THE SHELTONS OF ENGLAND AND AMERICA, the following research done to verify her findings are submitted as an assessment of the accuracy of her data.

SHELTON ANCESTORS OF MILDRED CAMPBELL WHITAKER

[This document is a summary of the data contained in the book The Sheltons of England and America by Mildred Campbell Whitaker on her Shelton family. There is supplementary material inserted here which comes from the book by Mrs. Whitaker entitled Genealogy of Noble, Gorton, Shelton, Gilmour and Byrd Families and Numerous Other Families of Prominence with Whom They Intermarried . Her writing from The Sheltons in England and America is given below in Comic Sans Ms typeface while my comments are in Times New Roman italics—the typeface of this paragraph. Material quoted from the book entitled Genealogy of Noble, Gorton, etc. is inserted in Century Gothic typeface if there are such quotes. My summary of or paraphrasing of information from either book is in Times New Roman typeface, not using italitics.]

[My Note: The theory which Mrs. Whitaker presented in her book The Sheltons of England and America was that everyone with the surnames Shelton, Chilton and Skelton in the early years of Colonial Virginia were of the same family of Sheltons; that the different spellings arose because the people did not know how to spell “Shelton”. There has been established with Family Tree DNA Laboratories a genealogy DNA database for those with the surnames of Shelton, Chilton and Skelton. These tests have shown numerous different Shelton lines in addition to the fact that Chilton and Skelton tests have not matched any Shelton test nor have Chilton tests and Skelton tests matched each other. Therefore, this database completely disproves this contention of Mrs. Whitaker that all Sheltons are of the same line and that Chiltons and Skeltons are really Sheltons with the surname misspelled. The results of these tests are posted on the “ Shelton Mailing List” at Rootsweb as new tests are added to the database and can be view at the following address: http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/surname/s/shelton.html Use as search term “DNA Results”. Also, see appendix on DNA testing in this book for the May, 2006, test results.

“My grandfather, John Gilmour, was born in Lancaster County, Virginia, on March 1, 1802. He lived in Virginia until he was past thirty years of age; he was twenty-four when Thomas Jefferson, died. Grandfather knew Thomas Jefferson well, since both he and Patrick Henry had married Sheltons of my grandfather's family; he knew all of the Shelton traditions and history and we, his descendants, were brought up in the knowledge of the family connections.” (John Gilmour Shelton lived in Lancaster County, Fredericksburg and Lynchburg, Virginia, according to Mrs. Whitaker and neither Henry nor Jefferson lived in those localities which makes one think encounters among these three persons would likely have been rare to non-existent. )

“We were brought up on the knowledge that the mother and father of my grandfather, John Gilmour [he later used the 'Gilmore' spelling] Shelton, born in Lancaster Co., Virginia, March 1, 1802, according to his Bible had died in his infancy, and that his Aunt Cordelia Ball Gilmour was his legal guardian. As stated before, I have never been able to verify any of this in Lancaster Court House. The records simply could not be found. All published records I have found give "Cordelia Ball as "only child and heiress of Dr. William Ball of Millenbeck" so I had to assume that my great-grandmother was a Miss Gilmour, as grandfather had named his eldest daughter Mary Gilmour Shelton and one of his sons John Gilmour.”

“Lee Hall” adjoined “Mt. Pleasant” in Cople Parish, Westmoreland Co., Va. A commission was issued to “Col. Henry Lee of Lee Hall” in June 1737, as Lt. Col. of the Westmoreland Co. Militia. The widow of this Col. Henry Lee, Mary Bland Lee, died in 1764; her will was proved May 29 of that year. In it she leaves “to my beloved daughter, Lettice Ball, all wearing apparel, books, contents of my house, money owed me by my son Richard and the use of all of my slaves for life”. She also names a gr. daughter Mary Ball and two sons, Wm.Ball, of “Millenbeck” and Henry Lee Ball and a daughter Mary Ball, who had married a Graham; she makes no other mention of the son Richard; only that in reference to the money owed her by him, but names “grandson Wm. Ball, granddaughter’s Mary Bland Ball (probably the one named above) and Letty Bland Ball,” and “granddaughters Cordelia Ball and Florinda Ball, daughters of my deceased son Dr. William Ball and daughter-in-law, Catherine Ball, the will is dated Oct. 16, 1788 and proved Dec. 15, 1788.”

“The will of her son, Col. William Ball is dated 6/17/1785 and proved 7/22/1785, and was witnessed by William. Shelton. In it Col. Ball names “wife Catherine” and daughters Cordelia and Florinda. These wills are in the Archives Division of the Virginia State Library in Richmond; “Lancaster Wills”--Box 207--Folio--88; they are not indexed or classified in any way, so a search there is an herculean task.” (The following is on the Ball family in the book by William Meade entitled Old Churches, Ministers, and Families of Virginia, Volume II. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1857: Colonel William Ball came from England about 1650, settled in Lancaster County, Virginia and died in 1669, leaving two sons, William and Joseph and one daughter, Hannah. William had 8 sons but Joseph’s male issue became extinct. From Virginia Biographical Encyclopedia: William Ball of "Millenbeck," Lancaster county, was son of Capt. William Ball. He was burgess for Lancaster, 1757-58, and delegate, 1780. His second wife was Lettice Lee, who died in Lancaster County, Oct., 1788, daughter of Col. Henry Lee, of "Lee Hall”. From Some Prominent Virginia Families, Vol. 1-4. by Louise Pecquet du Bellet. Lynchburg, VA: J.P. Bell Company, 1907. William Ball, George Washington's Great-grandfather. b. 1615. d. 1680; William Ball, b. 1641. d. 1694; William Ball, b. 1676. d. 1744. Home known as “Millenbeck”.)

“William Ball whose 2nd wife was Lettice Lee, daughter of Col. Henry Lee of “Lee Hall” Westmoreland Co., Va. Col. William Ball, also called Dr. Ball in the county records, was the only surviving son of this union. This Col. Ball was the 6th. Ball in direct succession at “Millenbeck”, his wife was Catherine; I have not been able to find her surname; they had two daughters, Cordelia Ball, the elder, who married John Gilmour of “Belmont” Lancaster Co., Va., and Florinda Ball, who married Lt. Jesse Shelton, son of Lt. Col. Thos. Shelton of the Westmoreland Militia in the War of 1812, and grandson of Col. Thomas Shelton of the same Regiment in the Revolution and who died at his estate “Currioman” Westmoreland Co., Va. (then adjoining the Stratford estate) about 1791 or 92; his will has not been found, but an inventory and division of the estate “Currioman” was made in 1792; a plat of this estate may be seen facing pages 104-105.”


[ My note, being a summary account of “Currioman” as given by the legal records from the genealogy of the Chiltons by Dorman published in The Virginia Genealogist: (1) John Chilton came to Northampton County, Va., in Nov., 1666 to collect his share of his brother George's estate. On 7-14-1680 John Chilton was a member of a jury in Lancaster County, from Order Book 1680-1686, page 3. On 12-8, 1703 he sold to Robert Carter, Es., the plantation in Christ Church Parish on which he lived, recorded in Lancaster County Deeds and Wills Book 9, pages 74-76, and he is called John Chilton, Senr. His wife Joan Chilton relinquished her dower rights on 4-12-1704. He then moved to Westmoreland County, on the west side of Currioman Bay, where on 11-15-1706 hemade his will naming sons Thomas, John and William plus daughters and a grandson or two. (2) John, Jr., got “Currioman” and left it to (3) his younger son Thomas, upon which his older brother John sued Thomas on the grounds the law of entail applied and this estate could not be willed away from the eldest son, being John. They settled with Thomas paying John 45 pounds. Thomas lived at “Currioman” until his death. He was a Justice of the County of Westmoreland, a Sheriff of Westmoreland County, served as a church warden for Cople Parish and was a major of the Foot companies of Westmoreland County. [Citations: Westmoreland County Order Book 1731-1739, page 76a; Order Book 1739-1743, page 119a and pages 95a, 169a, 177; Order Book 1752-1755, page 119-- Executive Journals of the council of Colonial Virginia, volume 4, page 299, Executive Journals of the Council of colonial Virginia, Volume 5, page 70.] Thomas also owned land in Prince William County, Va., as recorded in Prince William County Minute Book 1752-1753, page 180. Thomas married Jemima Cooke, recorded in Descendants of Mordecai Cooke, page 177. He died in 1765 leaving a will proven on 9-24-1765. Will is recorded in Westmoreland County Deeds & wills Book 14, pages 347-349. His son (4)Thomas received all of the Westmoreland County property. In 1766 this Thomas Chilton signed the Westmoreland Resolution protesting the Stamp Act, cited in The Committee of Safety of Westmoreland and Fincastle, page 101, in Virginia State Library Publication , No. 1, Richmond, 1956, page 101 (in 2006 named The Library of Virginia). In 1776 he was captain of the Westmoreland County Militia and in 1778 he took the oath as lieutenant colonel, recorded in Westmorelnd County Order Book 1776-1786, page 62. On 8-28-1781 Isabella Chilton was granted administration of the estate of Col. Thomas Chilton, recorded in Westmoreland County Order Book 1776-1786, page 112. A division of the Currioman land was made between the widow Isabella Chilton
and Capt. Charles Chilton who was guardian of (5)Orrick Chilton, the heir-at-law, recorded Westmoreland County Records, Inventories &c 1776-1790, page 220-224. When Isabella remarried, Orrick bought her dower interest in the “Currioman” lands and slaves, Westmoreland County Deeds & Wills Book 19, pages 1867-189. Orrick Chilton was the nephew of Thomas Chilton, being the son of Thomas' brother, William. Under Virginia law at that time, if a man died without heirs, meaning children, then his heir at law was his eldest brother except that William had died so William’s son, Orrick became heir-at-law.] Below is Mrs. Whitaker’s mythology of this family.


“This Col. Thomas Shelton, called Chilton in many records, was the 2nd son of John Shelton of “Rural Plains” Hanover County, VA, and his wife Eleanor Parks, daughter of Wm. Parks, the first editor in Maryland and Virginia”. {Fact: John and Eleanor Parks Shelton had no son named Thomas; they had only John Shelton, III, and William Parks Shelton. Fact two: this “Col. Thomas Shelton” is thoroughly documented by legal records to be “Thomas Chilton” of the “Currioman” Chilton family.}


My note: If the assertion that Jesse Shelton was a Chilton of “Currioman,” familoy in Westmoreland County, is accurate, then Mrs. Whitaker was Chilton; she was not a Shelton! Also, note how, in total error, Mrs. Whitaker got herself on the “Rural Plains” tree.]

“Florinda Ball Shelton, wife of Jesse Shelton must have died at the birth of (or soon after) their only child, John Gilmour Shelton who was born in Lancaster Co., March 1st, 1802, according to his Bible.” (My note: Please be sure to note that Colonel Thomas Shelton had no children; his heir was his nephew who certainly was not named “Jesse”. There are only two Jesse Chiltons on the tree by Dorman from Chilton genealogy in “The Virginia Genealogist”. One of them was the son of Edwin Chilton who was son of Charles Chilton who was son of Stephen Chilton, one of the three brothers who came from England. The other Jesse Chilton was son of Jesse Chilton who was son of Benoni Chilton who was son of the same Stephen Chilton, one of the three brothers from England. So there was no Thomas on the Dorman Chilton genealogy who had a son named Jesse.)


“His (John Gilmour Shelton’s) aunt, Cordelia Ball Gilmour, was his legal guardian, and as he was a very wealthy orphan, the estates must have passed through the Courts, but no record of any kind has been found. They are evidently among the loose papers, books, etc., in the loft of the old Clerk’s office at Lancaster County, VA; the vermin and filth have made them inaccessible to the public; it is doubtful whether any thing of value will be left to preserve when Virginia gets around to cleaning out that loft. The author has urged it for years, and stressed the value of the old records, but to date, 1941, nothing has been done.” {One can imagine the reaction of the Clerk of the Court of Lancaster County, Virginia, to Mrs. Whitaker “urging” him to get the records out of this loft!-----but, for once, she was right.}


“John Gilmour Shelton lived with his aunt, Mrs. Gilmour, until her death in 1815, a year after her marriage to Rawleigh Downman of “Belle Isle” Lancaster Co., Va. After Cordelia’s Ball death, John was sent to his greataunt, Mary Ball Grayson, wife of Reginald Grayson, at Fredericksburg,
Vairginia, where he remained until 1726 [sic] (obviously should be 1826) when his inheritance came to him, and he went to Lynchburg, Va.; there he married Ann Maria Byrd, daughter of Wm. Byrd and Mary Fitz-Gerald of the “Leinster” family. In 1732 (obviously should be 1832) Wm. Byrd and all of his family moved to St. Louis, Missouri, where a year later Ann, wife of John Shelton died; she is buried beside him in Bellefontaine Cemetery, St. Louis, Missouri.”


(My note: In the 1820 Lancaster County, VA, Census there is a “R. W. Downman” household with multiple males and females resident therein. I could not find a “Reginald Grayson” in either the 1820 or 1830 VA censuses. I could not locate William Byrd or Bird in the Lynchburg, VA, area censuses however, there are two, spelled “Byrd” in the 1830 Missouri census. In her book, Mrs. Whitaker has spelled this surname as “Byrd” but, in parentheses ,she gave it as “Burd”. There is a William Burd in the 1820 and 1830 Lynchburg, Virginia, censuses who has a household of children, both sons and daughters. This same William Burd, spelled “Byrd” may be listed in Saint Louis, Missouri, in the 1840 census; he is not listed in Lynchburg, Campbell County, Viiginia in 1840.)

(In her book entitled Genealogy of Noble, Gorton, Shelton, Gilmour and Byrd Families and Numerous Other Families of Prominence with Whom They Intermarried, Mrs. Whitaker dedicated that book to her mother and to Harry Flood Byrd, then Governor of Virginia and Richard Evelyn Byrd, United States Navy -- to quote her --- “who have restored to their former prestige the Byrds of Virginia”. My note: The family Mrs. Whitaker refers to as “The Byrds of Virginia” never spelled the surname other than as “Byrd“.)

“John Shelton (of Hanover Co, VA) of Hanover County, Virginia, had a grant of 800 acres in St. George's Parish, Spottsylvania County, in the fork of the Rappahannock River, May 30, 1726. In 1826, this land was sold by the author's grandfather, John Gilmour Shelton after his estate had been turned over to him. This land was near, or adjoined the 1,000 acres of land granted to Ambrose Grayson, October 13, 1727.”

(My note: a man by the name of “John Shelton” had land grants dating from 1723 through 1787 plus a couple in the early 1800s, obviously not the same person, with the locations being New Kent, Hanover (2), Spotsylvania, Augusta (6), Louisa Counties, VA, and Fayette County, KY. Some of these grants, if not most of them, were to the John Shelton of “Rural Plains”, Hanover County, but obviously of different generations. For example, the John of 1723 died in 1726, then the 2d one died about 1768 and the 3rd one in 1798, based on various records.

{My note: According to the age and birthplace of William Aville Shelton, eldest child of John Gilmour Shelton in the 1850 census, John Gilmour Shelton lived in Virginia at least through 1828 as William Aville was born in that year in Virginia. According to the age of the next child, son Oscar who was 15 and born in Missouri, John Gilmour was in Missouri by at least 1835. In the 1830 Lynchburg, Campbell County, Virignia census there is a John G. Shelton who heads a household with five males ages 20-30 years, one male 15-20 years, two males 10-15 years, one male Under 5 years and one female age 15-20 years. This is a rather strangely constituted household and there is no way to determine if it is John Gilmour Shelton; however, he is the only John G. Shelton or John Shelton listed in the Lynchburg and Campbell Count censuses in 1830. So the Byrd-Shelton group must have left VA after 1830 census.}


“In 1835 John Gilmour Shelton married the sister of his first wife, Mary Walker Byrd who lived until May 8th, 1899, and is buried on the other side of her husband, who died at his residence in St. Louis on Feb. 5, 1869. Facing page 198 is a photo of the home of John Gilmore Shelton of St. Louis, from 1861 to 1866. This house is now (1941) being torn down, as it is in the district for one of the new housing projects.”

(My note: The 1850 census lists J. G. Shelton, age 49, born in Virginia, living in the 2d Ward, St. Louis, Missouri. His occupation was “merchant-tailor” and he owned real estate worth $35,000 [not equal to the $75,000 owned by Wm. Carr Lane, physician, or the $37,000 owned by George Hoyle, gentleman – from Ireland--, both listed on the same page with J. G. Shelton]. The oldest child in the 1850 census, William Aville, age 22 years, occupation being “clerk”, was born in Virginia but the other children were born in Missouri: Oscar, age 15; John age 14; Eugene, age 12; Genevieve age 6; J. G, age three months and female, who apparently did not live to reach maturity as Mrs. Whitaker referred to her mother as the only daughter of John Gilmour Shelton.)

“John Gilmore Shelton of St. Louis, Mo., was too old to serve in the War between the States, but all of his sons served except Frank Grayson Shelton who was only 6 years old. The elder sons were graduates of the University of Virginia, and fought in the Confederate Army, under General Sterling Price.

One son Dr. Charles Oscar Shelton was wounded at “Pea Ridge” and was taken to New Orleans, where he died at the home of a cousin, the wife of Major Tarleton, of the Confederate Army. After the war the body of Dr. Shelton was brought home to St. Louis and buried in the family lot in Bellefontaine Cemetery. Even on the Memorial Tablet of the Library of the University of Virginia, the initials of Dr. Shelton’s name are wrong. I have his records and his Autograph Album, made during his four years there, and the name is correct on all of them. (My observation: I don’t think the University of Virginia is infallible but I would trust its records before I would trust the work of Mrs. Whitaker.)

“The only daughter of John Shelton and Mary Walker Byrd was Maria Genevieve Shelton, who was born in St. Louis, Mo., Sept. 26, 1844, was educated at private schools in the East and on Oct. 29, 1869 was married to Rev. C. D. N. Campbell, at that time pastor of Centenary Church, St. Louis, Missouri. Dr. Campbell was a descendant of John Alden and Priscilla Alden (Mullens, Priscilla) through the Alden, Edson and Noble lines; his mother was Eunice Noble the entire line can be found in the “Genealogy” published by the author of this book, in 1927.” (My note: fact: Jefferson did not marry a Shelton.}

Quoting Mrs. Whitaker: “My membership in the Huguenot Society of South Carolina, is from John Alden and Priscilla Molyneux (Priscilla "Mullins" as our historians insist on calling her) through the Campbell Noble Edson etc., lines.” [My comment: are Historians are known for muddling facts????]

“The second daughter of Dr. Campbell and Genevieve Shelton was Mildred Genevieve Campbell, who married, in Washington, D. C., March 10th, 1904, Alexander Edward Whitaker of St. Louis, Mo. Mr. Whitaker died in St. Louis, Feb. 20, 1931. They had one child, a daughter, Dorothy Whitaker who married October 10, 1938, Arthur Raymond Holden of Milton, Mass. They have one child, Betty Jean Holden born Oct. 10th, 1930, in Kansas City, Mo. In 1941 they are living in Manchester, N. Hampshire, at 321 N. River Road. ”

In the 1910 census for St. Louis, Missouri, Alexander E. Whitaker is given as 44 years of age with wife, Mildred C. Whitaker, 33 years of age, living as “boarders”. At the top of the census page is listed “Buckingham Annex Hotel”. In the 1910, 1920 and 1930 censuses Alexander and Mildred Whitaker are listed as "boarder" so they apparently never owned a house.

In the 1910 census Alexander E. Whitaker is listed as born in Missouri and both his parents born in Germany. In 1920 census he is listed as born in Missouri with both his parents born in Missouri. What occurred to me about that listing is that World War I had ended just two years before this census and Germans were not popular in the United States at the time, so I wonder if either he or Mildred fibbed about where his parents were born. In the 1930 census he is again listed as born in Missouri with both his parents born in Germany. In the 1920 census Alexander is given as owner and employer of a business which I think is "Piano Company" but I am not sure about that reading; it is a "best case" reading. In 1930 his occupation is salesman and he was selling radios. So maybe the 1920 reading was "radio" too -- I am not sure one way or the other. {Another Shelton researcher, Sally Baugh, has since told me that she found Alexander Whitaker listed in an old St. Louis directory as having a piano sales company.}

The point is the parents of Alexander Whitaker were born in Germany, based on information he or Mrs. Whitaker provided to the census enumerator and were not English. So it appears to me that she "stretched" her husband's ancestry when she gave him as a descendant of the minister who baptized Pocahontas. It is not logical that the Alexander Whitaker who was a member of the 1611 Virginia Company was from Germany instead of England.

About her father, C. D. N. Campbell, Mrs. Whitaker makes several interesting comments in her book entitled Genealogy of Noble, Gorton,Shelton, Gilmour and Byrd Families and Numerous Other Families of Prominence with Whom They Intermarried. She said this was a second marriage, on October 14, 1869, for C. D. N. Campbell and gives the names of Jennevive's children as Mary, Mildred, Thomas, and twins Ethel and Ada. She also refers to her father as "Dr. C. D. N. Campbell". By using the information on the marriage and the children’s birthplaces as given in the various censuses, I was able to find the following data from the 1850, 1860, 1870 and 1880 censuses.

In the 1860 Madison County, Tennessee, census was listed Charles Campbell , age 32, born in New York, occupation being “M. E. Clergyman” (if you are not familiar with the terminology, that means he was a Methodist minister.). His wife’s given name was Julia, age 29 and she born in Virginia. There was one child, the oldest son named Benjamin, age 2 years and born in Tennessee. So the assumption can be made that Campbell had married the first time about 1856 or 1857, based on Benjamin’s age. In her book entitled Genealogy of Noble, Gorton, Shelton, Gilmour and Byrd Families and Numerous Other Families of Prominence with Whom They Intermarried, Mrs. Whitaker referred to her father as “Rev. C. D. N. Campbell, D. D.” which indicates he held the degree of Doctor of Divinity.

In the 1870 St. Louis, Missouri, census this man is listed as C. D. A. Campbell, age 42, born in New York and his occupation was given as “Minister - Gospel”. Living in the
household which he headed were wife Genevieve, age either 24, born Missouri. There were four children, obviously the offspring of the first wife of Campbell since he and Genevieve Shelton married the previous year, on October 14, 1869 according to Mrs. Whitaker in The Sheltons of England and America. The children were:
(1) son Benjamin, age 12, born in Tennessee
(2) daughter Alice, age 10 years born in Tennessee
(3) son Charles (a “Jr.”?), age 6, born in Mississippi
(4) daughter Emma, age 5, born in Mississippi.
Based on the age of Emma, one might surmise that Campbell had moved from Mississippi to St. Louis between the years 1865-1869. (In her books, Mrs. Whitaker refers to her father as C. D. N. Campbell so one has to assume the “C. D. A.” set of initials in the 1870 census are the error of a census enumerator.)

In the 1880 census I found Mrs. Whitaker’s father listed as C. D. N. Campbell, age 52, and her mother Jenevieve, age 34, living in Saint Louis, Missouri. The children still resident in the household were:
(1)Charles, age 16 years
(2)Guy, age 10 months
(3)Alice, age 20 years
(4)Fannie, age 18 years
(5)Emma, age 15 years
(6)Mary D., age 6 years
(7)Lula G., age 4 years
Mrs. Whitaker gave as the names of Jenevieve's children: (1)Mary, (2)Mildred, (3)Thomas, and twins (4)Ethel and (5)Ada. In this census the occupation of C. D. N. Campbell is given as “proof reader”. C. D. N. Campbell was given as born in New York and both his parents were born in Scotland.

Notice that Mildred Genevieve Campbell was not listed as a daughter in this 1880 household though she would have been four years of age since the census was taken in the month of June and her birth month was not until the following September -- maybe she was “Lula G., age 4 years” as her middle name was “Genevieve,“ so “Lula“ was likely a pet name? In 1910 census Mrs. Whitaker's age is given as 33 years, in the 1920 census as 40 years and in the 1930 Census her age was given as 45 years -- one keeps in mind that it is not unknown for ladies sometimes to be less than truthful about their age. So one has a choice of Mrs. Whitaker’s birth year as 1877 or 1880 or 1885. However, in the 1900 census when Mrs. Whitaker is still “Mildred Campbell” living in her mother Jennevieve Campbell’s household, her birth year was given as 1875. One suspects that is the correct year as it was likely provide in the 1900 census by her mother.

In her book The Sheltons of England and America, Mrs. Whitaker listed as the children of
C. D. N. Campbell and Genevieve Shelton Campbell:
1. daughter: Mary Shelton Campbell, who married Delmar McCleery
2. daughter: Mildred Genevieve Campbell, who married Alexander Edward Whitaker
3. son: Thomas Campbell, who never married
4. daughter: Ada Lee Campbell, who married Taylor D. Kelley
5. daughter: Ethel Claire Campbell, who married Henry Bernard Voges

Mrs. Whitaker stated her father, Dr. C. D. N. Campbell, D. D., born in Lebanon, Hamilton County, New York, in 1827, died in St. Louis, January 1, 1897.

The 1890 census for Missouri has been destroyed but in the 1900 St. Louis, Missouri, census the household is headed by Jenevieve Campbell, born in September, 1843, in Missouri. Resident in her household were:
1. daughter Mildred, born in September, 1875, whose occupation was “clerk in dry goods store”;
2. son Thomas, born in August, 1879, whose occupation was “clerk in dry goods store;
3.daughter Ethel, born in September, 1884, who was “at school”;
4. daughter Ada, born in September, 1884, who was “at school”;
5. John G. Shelton, born in 1837, whose occupation was “real estate agent”
6. Ida H. Shelton, born in 1867, no occupation given.

John G. Shelton was listed as the brother of Jenevieve Campbell and Ida H. Campbell was his wife. Obviously C. D. N. Campbell had died since the 1880 census but after the birth of Ethel and Ada in 1884.

In the 1910 St. Louis census Genevieve Campbell, age 65, heads a household in which are resident:
daughter Ethel Claire Campbell, age 25 whose occupation is “stenographer”
daughter Ada Lee Campbell whose occupation is “stenographer”.

Mrs. Whitaker gives in her book Genealogy of Noble, Gorton, Shelton, Gilmour and Byrd Families and Numerous Other Families of Prominence with Whom They Intermarried that Genevieve Shelton Campbell died on July 2, 1913, and is buried at Bellefontaine Cemetery, St. Louis. She stated her father, C. D. N. Campbell, is buried at Valhalla, St. Louis, beside his first wife, which indicates his first wife died after his move from Mississippi to St. Louis.

John G. Shelton, age 73 years with occupation being “real estate agent”, is listed in 1910 census as head of a household with the other residents being his sister Gallis S. Rieves





(not sure of spelling of her given name as written in this census but Mrs. Whitaker gives her as Mary Gilmore Shelton who married Dr. Thomas Rives). Also resident in the household of John G. Shelton in this census is his niece, Juanita Rives. Between 1900 and 1910 John’s wife had died. Mrs. Whitaker stated that John G. Shelton died in 1913 and Mary Rives died in 1911.


(My Note: It is advisable always to verify information given in genealogies and, because the theory which guided Mrs. Whitaker’s research has been proven wrong by DNA testing, it is especially advisable that information in the book entitled The Sheltons of England and America by Mildred Campbell Whitaker should not be used without verification in original sources, such as deeds, wills, family Bibles, etc.)