Shelton Family Papers
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
- Shelton Family (Family)
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.
Creator
- Shelton Family (Family)
- 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
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