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Descendants of James Shelley

Generation No. 3


4. ISAAC ROBERT4 SHELLEY (CALVIN3, JAMES2, JOSEPH1) was born October 1853 in Tennessee, and died December 28, 1924 in Pineville, McDonald County, Missouri. He married FANNIE E.. She was born 1862 in Missouri.

Notes for I
SAAC ROBERT SHELLEY:
Pineville Herald
February 28, 1925
OBITUARY: Mr. I. R. Shelley (died December 28, 1924)
Our community was shocked and saddened by the death of
one of our most prominent and highly respected citizens
Mr. I. R. Shelley on last Sunday morning the 28th (Dec 28, 1924). He
had spent his life which was 74 years, in and around this
place having been in the mercantile business here 41 years.
He leaves a wife and three daughters to mourn his
departure. Mrs. Wanda Carter of Stella, Mrs. Ada McDonald,
and Mrs. Blanche Lamberson, of Rock Comfort. He was
a faithful member of the Christian church, and also a
prominent member of the Masonic order. Funeral
services were conducted by Eld. W. T. Hines of Neosho,
assisted by a singer from Rogers, Ark. The Floral
offerings were beautiful. Interment was made in the
city cemetery Monday.

Isaac Robert Shelley
b abt 1850 TN
d 28 Dec 1924, Pineville, McDonald Co, MO
m Fannie



     
Children of I
SAAC SHELLEY and FANNIE are:
  i.   WANDA O.5 SHELLEY, b. February 1888, Missouri; m. CARTER.
  ii.   ADA C. SHELLEY, b. December 1890, Missouri; m. MCDONALD.
  iii.   BLANCHE M. SHELLEY, b. August 1894, Missouri; m. LAMBERSON.


5. JAMES CALVIN4 SHELLEY (THOMAS E3, JAMES2, JOSEPH1) was born October 30, 1859 in Rocky Comfort McDonald County, Missouri, and died September 17, 1942 in Oilton Creek, Oklahoma. He married MARY ISABEL JOHNSON, daughter of HENRY JOHNSON and MATILDA MARRS. She was born April 05, 1860 in Fayetteville, Arkansas, and died October 13, 1932 in Oilton, Creek County, Oklahoma.

More About J
AMES CALVIN SHELLEY:
Burial: 1942, Stllwater, Payne Co. Oklahoma
     
Children of J
AMES SHELLEY and MARY JOHNSON are:
  i.   ROSA5 SHELLEY, b. March 12, 1882, Fayetteville, Washington County, Arkansas; d. January 15, 1928, Shawnee Cemetery Oklahoma; m. (1) WALTER A. DOUGLASS; m. (2) CHARLIE TURNER; m. (3) FRANK SIMPSON.
  ii.   BESSIE ELLEN SHELLEY, b. January 01, 1885, Washington County Fayetteville, Arkansas; d. August 13, 1969, Bentenville, Arkansas; m. (1) CHARLIE JACKSON; m. (2) WILLIAM RILEY KING, March 04, 1899; d. 1928.
  iii.   JAMES SAMUEL SHELLEY, b. August 1877, Fayetteville, Wahshington County, Arkansas; d. May 11, 1921, Stillwater, Oklahoma; m. (1) ADA HATFIELD; m. (2) LILLIE JONES, March 25, 1905.
  More About JAMES SAMUEL SHELLEY:
Burial: 1921, Stillwater, Oklahoma Cemetery

  iv.   GROVER ALEXANDER SHELLEY, b. April 16, 1888, Fayetteville, Washington County, Arkansas; d. December 05, 1940, Ponca City, Oklahoma Hospital; m. (1) WILLIAMS; m. (2) NANCY JANE OBANION, 1908; b. 1879; d. 1955.
  More About GROVER ALEXANDER SHELLEY:
Burial: Oilton Cemetery-Oilton, Oklahoma

  v.   WILLIAM DORPHUS SHELLEY, b. June 03, 1890, Fayetteville, Washington County, Arkansas; d. February 03, 1973, Tecumseh, Oklahoma; m. GRACE B. STARK, August 06, 1911, Pottawatomie County , Tecumseh, Oklahoma; b. October 29, 1894, Iowa; d. February 21, 1966, Pottawatomie County , Tecumseh, Oklahoma.
  Notes for WILLIAM DORPHUS SHELLEY:
STORY WITH MENTION OF WILLIAM D. "HEAVY" SHELLEY AND HIS WIFE GRACE
STARK SHELLEY.
William D. "Heavy" Shelley was the son of James Calvin Shelley and Mary
Isetta Johnson Shelley.
James Calvin Shelley was the son of Thomas Shelley and Cordelia Isabelle
Shelley.
POTTAWATOMIE COUNTY OK HISTORY - Me and My Pott County by Francis
Stilley: When I first saw Tecumseh, I thought it to be a very large and
very exciting place. No wonder. I was only five years old, and nothing
in my life up to that time had prepared me for the exalting hurly-burly
of such a bit city. I was all eyes and ears, and doubtless agape. I had
been born in a teeny hamlet of Wardville was hardly more than a
crossroads. Its population was somewhere around 50. About the only
excitement there was on Saturdays in the summertime when a train brought
in a five-gallon shipment of ice cream for a little five-stool cafe. My
first view of the dazzling bigtown Tecumseh was on Sept 23, 1923. I
arrived with my parents, Mabel and William Stilley, in our trusty
road-eating Model T Ford Coupe. It had been a rather arduous all-day
drive over the dusty, bumpy dirt roads of those days. But that mattered
little. We all were too excited about the prospects of our new life in a
new place. It's odd how one often long remembers something of little or
no consequence. A thing about that trip which stuck in my mind was that
around our feet on the Model T floorboard was a batch of potatoes. They
kept rolling around throughout the journey. I'm still puzzled as to why
my folks brought along the potatoes. Dad had become the Rock Island
depot agent at Wardville, and now he was to become agent at Tecumseh. In
time he also was to become an important civic leader. There was a very
special reason why we moved to Tecumseh. It was me. My mother, in her
very forthright way, had made it explicitly clear that we were going to
move to some larger place where her little son could get a decent
education as well as to have the social benefits of growing up with
others my age. In Wardville, I had not had a single playmate because
the few other children lived at some distance. As a result I was shy and
knew not how to relate to others. Furthermore my mother as loving
mothers were given to doing, evidently held the unshakable conviction
that her son possessed extraordinary intelligence and quite possibly a
touch of ............................. Tecumseh, came open at the right
time.
Dad bid on the job and presto! We were on our happy way to Tecumseh,
potatoes and all. Ddad shipped our household goods by boxcar. We arrived
late in the day and our first stop was at the Rock Island depot. Dad
went in to perform the formalities of relieving the outgoing agent. IN
THE STATION ALSO WAS W. D. "HEAVY" SHELLEY, THE LOCAL DRAYMAN. MR.
SHELLEY AND HIS WIFE, GRACE, WERE TO BECOME LIFELONG, DEAR FRIENDS. For
a few nights we stayed in a boarding house in the northeastern part of
town near the business district, then rented a modest frame house a bit
farther away. All this was exciting to me. For one thing, I had never
lived in an ordinary house. At Wardville, the station had living
quarters for the agent on the upper floor. And I had a yard instead of a
station platform to play on. There was more excitement to come. A thing
many people did in those times was to stroll downtown at night. There
they could chat and socialize generally with others, as well as enjoy
the sights and sound of bustling activity. It was sort of like a free
carnival. Many blanket-clad Indians were amid it all. I had never seen
so much commotion in any place before. There were countless wagons and
cars rattling about and scores of people moving along the sidewalks.
Saturday nights were especially big times. Most impressive to me was the
business district itself. I thought it huge. It stretched for two blocks
on both sides of Broadway. There were so many stores. I couldn't count
them. I thought Tecumseh must be the biggest city that could
be...................................................................


MARRIAGE OF WILLIAM D. "HEAVY" SHELLEY AND GRACE STARK:
William D. "Heavy" Shelley was the son of James Calvin Shelley and Mary
Isetta Johnson Shelley.
James Calvin Shelley was the son of Thomas Shelley and Cordelia Isabelle
Shelley.
Certificate lists William Shelley as born in Arkansas and Grace Stark as
born in Iowa.
Married 6 Aug 1911 Pottawatomie, Tecumseh, OK.
Wm was age 21 and Grace was age 17. Both listed as "white."
Witness: Lamar Hatfield and Lena Shelley [his sister], both of
Tecumseh, OK. J. H. Hatfield was Justice of the Peace


OCCUPATION AND LOCATION OF WILLIAM D. "HEAVY" SHELLEY:
William D. "Heavy" Shelley was the son of James Calvin Shelley and Mary
Isetta Johnson Shelley.
James Calvin Shelley was the son of Thomas Shelley and Cordelia Isabelle
Shelley.
1916 - Tecumseh, Pottawatomie OK. [Grace B.] tmstr. r E Jefferson
(found in R. L. Polk & Co. Directory)


BURIAL OF WILLIAM D. "HEAVY"SHELLEY AND HIS WIFE GRACE STARK SHELLEY:
William D. "Heavy" Shelley was the son of James Calvin Shelley and Mary
Isetta Johnson Shelley.
James Calvin Shelley was the son of Thomas Shelley and Cordelia Isabelle
Shelley.
William D. "Heavy" Shelley:
3 Feb 1973 - Masonic emblem on tombstone
Row 10, Block 7, 2nd addition of Tecumseh, Pottawatomie, OK Mission
Cemetery, Vol IV.
Grace B. Stark Shelley:
21 Feb 1966 - O.E.S.
Row 10, Block 7, 2nd addition of Tecumseh, Pottawatomie, OK, Mission
Cemetery, Vol IV.



MARRIAGE OF ROY LEE SHELLEY AND LAURA COGBURN:
Roy Lee Shelley, son of James Calvin Shelley and Mary Isetta Johnson.
James Calvin Shelley, son of Thomas Shelley and Cordelia Isabell.
Roy Lee Shelley was age 21 & Laura was age18 when
they applied for their marriage license on
23 Dec 1918. (Application for marriage license bk 20, pg 67
- Tecumseh, Pottawatomie, OK)


  More About WILLIAM DORPHUS SHELLEY:
Burial: February 1973, Cemetery in Pottawatomie County

  More About GRACE B. STARK:
Burial: February 1966, Pottawatomie County , Tecumseh, Oklahoma

  vi.   OTIS ISSAC SHELLEY, b. December 02, 1891, Fayetteville, Washington County, Arkansas; d. November 13, 1960, Drumright, Creek County, Oklahoma; m. (1) ELSIE HOLMAN; m. (2) LYDIA ANN COGBURN; m. (3) FRANCES PARIS, June 1920.
  vii.   LENA METALENE SHELLEY, b. August 24, 1895, Fayetteville, Washington County, Arkansas; d. December 04, 1952, Stillwater, Oklahoma Cemetery; m. (1) ELMER ROY LEARN; d. July 1978; m. (2) OLLIE MORSE.
  viii.   ROY LEE SHELLEY, b. November 19, 1897, Fayetteville, Washington County, Arkansas; d. September 29, 1976, Oilton, Creek County, Oklahoma; m. LAURA MAE COGBURN, December 23, 1918, Tecumseh, Pottawatomie County, Oklahoma; b. February 20, 1904, McAlester, Oklahoma; d. March 22, 1997, Oilton, Creek County, Oklahoma.
  ix.   LONY SHELLEY, b. October 1898.


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