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Shelton married about 1903, to Marian B., who was born about 1871. The 1910 census listed six children: Carlo, Irene, Della, Eugene, Marian E., and Ella C. At that time, Shelton owned his own home. By 1920, the older three children had left the home and the couple had two more children: Wendell and Laurie Etta. In 1927 and 1929, he and his wife also owned and operated a radio sales and repair business. Shelton died in Pine Bluff on November 5, 1929. Sources: Judith Kilpatrick, “(EXTRA)Ordinary Men: African-American Lawyers and Civil Rights in Arkansas Before 1950,” 53 Ark. Law Rev. 299, 347 ns350-351, 373, 380 n626 (2000); 1910, 1920 U.S. Census for Arkansas; Papers of the NAACP, Part I, G13, Branch Files, Pine Bluff, 1924-28 (Membership Report dtd 1/14/1928); AR Supreme Court Admission Records;
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