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