Shelton Cemetery 1
Richwood Township
Section 12, Township 38 North, Range 13 West
Miller County, MO.

Go out of Iberia, towards Crocker, 2 miles. Turn right onto Madden Ford Road and go 2 miles. There on the left are the homes of Randy and Janet Duncan and a little way past them the home of Randy Malmberg, who owns the property of the tombstones. You can see the corner section from the backyard of the Duncan home of the tiny cemetery. It sits on the Malmberg property and butts up against the Duncan property, right in the corner.
Inventoried by Dianna (Hale) Mattingly and Vera (Clark) Strutton, November 2024.

Shelton, Demsy T. (Infant)

s/o George Robertson Shelton & Eliza Ellen (Castleman) Shelton
1 Dec. 1857 – 6 Feb. 1858
Footstone D.T.S.
At one time there were more tombstones, but time and elements have destroyed the others.
Mr. Malmberg said there was another large stone, at one time, but it has fallen and is now covered with dirt.
I assumed the father George Robertson Shelton, listed below, is buried there for there is no listing for him that I can find.

Shelton, Eliza Ellen (Castleman)
d/o Abraham Castleman & Eliza (Jones) Castleman
1836/38 – Cooper, Missouri
23 Feb. 1908 – S. Dakota or Colorado (not sure where she is buried)
d/o Abraham Castleman & Eliza (Jones) Castleman
sister of Mary Ann (Castleman) Reed & Benjamin F. Castleman
w/o George Robertson Shelton – wed 10 Feb. 1853 Miller County, Mo.

Shelton, George Robertson
William M. Shelton & Ann Wisdom (Spearman) Shelton
s/o Abt. 1829 born in McMinn, Tennessee
Died – 1865 – Miller County, Missouri
According to his son: James Wesley Shelton, it is believed George was killed by Bushwhackers during the Civil War.
h/o Eliza Ellen (Castleman) - wed 10 Feb. 1953 – Miller County, Mo.

Below is information only:

Other known children:
Eliza A. (Shelton) Vickers - 1855 Mo.
James Wesley Shelton – 1859 Mo.
James Wesley Shelton was born in Missouri, son of George Roberson Shelton, born about 1829, McMinn. Co. Tennessee, and Eliza Ellen Castleman, married 02-19-1953 in Miller Co. Mo.
It is believed that George Robertson Shelton was killed by Bushwhackers during the Civil War.
James Wesley Shelton was a brother of Eliza (Shelton) Vicker and Martha Pricilla “Mattie” (Shelton) Burks.
About 1894, J. Wesley, a teacher in Kansas came to the Dakotas with a threshing crew. The Clark Co, South Dakota, and he married Elizabeth “Eliza” McMaster Armstrong, widow of William Armstrong.

James Wesley and Eliza McMaster-Armstrong-Shelton had 3 sons, George E. Shelton; Wyatt Erwin “Skelly” Shelton, and Alpha Milton Shelton.
James Wesley didn’t like farming so he took his sons, George and Wyatt back to Kansas, Son Alpha M., stayed in South Dakota with his mother Eliza Ellen (Castleman) Shelton.
James Wesley information: Born – 1859 – Died 1932 age 72-73
Died in Reno County, Kansas.
Burial Fairlawn Burial Park, Hutchinson, Reno Co., Kansas
Memorial ID. 71203886

Martha Pricilla “Mattie” Shelton – 1861 Mo.

Both Eliza and her husband George Shelton are named as parents in the death certificate of daughter Eliza A. (Shelton) Vickers, in November. 1924
Eliza A. (Shelton) Vickers
20 Oct. 1855 – 13 Nov. 1924
d/o George Robertson Shelton & Eliza Ellen (Castleman) Shelton
w/o Eli Alexander Vickers – 1854 – 1905
Children:
Fredrick Lewis Vickers – 1875 – 1929
William Albert “Will” Vickers – 1877 – 1943
Charles Elmer Vickers – 1881 – 1952
Leonard O. Vickers – 1892 – 1964
Alta O. Vickers – 1896 - 1980