THOMAS W. SHELTON, M. D.
Peter Shelton of Louisa county, Virginia, was the father of Henry
Shelton of Orange county, Virginia, who was the father of Thomas L.
Shelton. Thomas L. Shelton was born in Orange county, Virginia,
served in the war of 1812 with rank of lieutenant, and died in 1859,
aged eighty years. He married Susan, daughter of James Ballard
of Albemarle county, Virginia, who survived him, dying in 1865, aged
eighty-one years. Their son Thomas W., subject of this sketch, was
born in Albemarle county, on February 15, 1820. After attendance at
a classical school in Waynesboro, he went to the University of Virginia,
where he was graduated in 1841, then to the Jefferson Medical College,
graduating there in 1842. In the same year he located in Waynesboro,
where he practiced for two years; removing then to Barterbrook,
he remained in practice there thirty-four years. Thence he removed to
Staunton, where he has been continuously in practice to the present
time (1889).
The first wife of Dr. Shelton was Mary R. Wilson, whom he married
on April 13, 1842, and who died in September, 1848. He married
secondly, on January 10, 1851, Mary VanLear, who died in August,
1856. In 1861, in Augusta county, he married Sarah F. Lipscomb,
who was born in Madison county, Virginia. Her father, William C.
Lipscomb, born in Stafford county, Virginia, died in 1860. Her
mother, who was Frances Booten, born in Madison county, died in
1887, aged seventy-seven years. Dr. and Mrs. Shelton are members of
the Baptist church at Staunton. Their children were born in the order
named: W. C., Annie C., Ella R., Fannie B., Thomas L., R. Withers,
Helena, youngest child, died on the 3d of February, 1889.
