Bancroft, Hubert Howe. "The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft. Volume XXXI: History of Washington, Idaho and Montana 1845-1889." San Francisco: The History Company, 1890. p. 200. DAVID SHELTON David Shelton, son of Lewis Shelton and Naney Gladdin, his wife, and grandson of Roderick Shelton and Usley Willard, his wife, of Va, was born in Buncombe co., Va, Sept. 15, 1812, migrating with his parents to Mo. territory in 1819. He married Frances Willson, born in Ky, May 30, 1837, and removed in 1838 to the Platte Purchase, settling near St Joseph, where he lived until 1847, when he emigrated to Oregon, taking up a claim on Sauvé Island, which he sold in 1848, and went to the California gold mines, returning to Portland in 1849, where he remained until 1852, when he removed to W. T. in company with L. B. Hastings, F. W. Pettigrove, Thomas Tallentine, and B. Ross on a small schooner, named the "Mary Taylor". Shelton and Ross remained in Olympia until 1853, in which year he settled on Skooknm bay, and was appointed one of the three judges of Thurston co., which at that time comprised the whole Puget Sound country. He was elected to first territorial legislature, and introduced the bill oiganizing Sawamish co. (the name being subsequently changed to Mason), of which he was the first settler. He served in the Indian war of 1855-6, as a lieutenant in Co. F., W. T. vols. Mrs Shelton died April 15, 1887, at the age of 70 years. Shelton was a man of strong convictions, and a power in the community where he lived. His children were Lewis D. W., born in Andrew co., Mo., in 1841; John S. W., born in Gentry co., Mo., in 1844; Levi T., born in Clackamas co., Or., in 1848; Mary E., born in Portland, Or., in 1850; Franklin P., born in Olympia, Or., in 1852; James В., born in Mason co., W. T., in 1855; Joicie A., born in Mason co., W. T., in 1857. Franklin P. died in 1875. Transcriber's Note: See also the biography of David Shelton's son, Lewis D. W. Shelton, at: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~jtenlen/ldwshelton.txt ******************* Submitted to the Washington Biographies Project in May 2010 by Jenny Tenlen. Submitter has no additional information about the person(s) or family mentioned above.