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Shelton Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0043

Scope and Contents

It contains marriage certificates for James W. Shelton and Sarah C. Smith (1884) and Sarah Shelton and John Armstrong (1898); birth dates for Sarah Shelton and John Armstrong and their children (Clara Belle, Albert, Lula May) and death date for an infant son; and an unsigned temperance pledge. Except for the 1898 marriage, all papers appear to have come from a family bible.

Folders 1-6 of Box 1 house MS 0042.

Dates

  • 1884-1898

Creator

Access

The collection is open under the rules and regulations of the University of Illinois-Springfield (UIS).

Copyrights

Copyrights to this collection are held by UIS.

Biography

The Shelton family lived in Illinois in the late 1800s.

Extent

.05 Linear Feet

Language of Materials

English

Provenance

Gifted to the archives in October 1979 by George Lukac, University Relations, after purchasing them at auction.

Property Rights

UIS owns the property rights to this collection.

Processing Information

This collection was reprocessed in August 2025.

Title
Finding Aid to the Shelton Family Papers
Description rules
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin

Repository Details

Part of the UIS Archives/Special Collections Repository

Contact:
Archives/Special Collections LIB 144
One University Plaza, MS BRK 140
Springfield IL 62703-5407 US
217-206-6520