G. W. N. Shelton, proprietor of a grocery store in Erin, was the oldest of ten children of J. W. and Martha (Lewis) Shelton, who were born in raised in Dickson County. The father was a merchant and stock dealer, and was successful till the war, when he became somewhat involved. He died in August, 1875, and the mother died in the same month, 1881. Our subject was raised in Dickson County, on a farm and in his father’s store. He remained with his parents to the age of twenty-nine, having, however, been engaged away from home three years at mercantile clerking. At the age of twenty-nine he married and engaged in farming. He has continued farming to the present time. He came to Erin and followed farming and butchering two years, and then engaged in his present business on a borrowed capital of $150, and has been successful. He was married October 2, 1873, to Miss E. A. Links, a native of Montgomery County. Five children have been born to them, viz.: Marshal M., Annie T., Landy H., Lillian M. and an infant. The wife is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church South. Politically Mr. Shelton is a firm Democrat.

Transcribed by Susan Knight Gore

Source: Goodspeed, Weston A, and John Wooldridge. History of Tennessee from the Earliest Time to the Present: Together with an Historical and a Biographical Sketch of Montgomery, Robertson, Humphreys, Stewart, Dickson, Cheatham and Houston Counties. Nashville: Goodspeed Pub. Co, 1886.