City: Graysville
SHELTON, Erasmus Archer, physician; born Tazewell Co., Va., May 9, 1846; English and Scotch descent; son of Samuel F. and Permelia C. (Gregory) SHELTON; father’s occupation farmer and minister; paternal grandparents Wesley and Emily (Hayden) SHELTON; maternal grandparents John and Mary E. (Pig) GREGORY; received common school education; married Lydia J. UMBARGER Jan 21, 1868; member Masons, Knights of Pythias and Red Men; served in Confederate Army, 3rd North Carolina Regiment, Gen. Joseph E. JOHNSTON’s command; was reared on a farm and was very young when entered the Confederate service; returned from the war in 1865 in poverty and took up medicine as a profession; worked in day time and read medicine at night by pine knot light; entered the regular practice and never stopped long enough to finish up his medical course; there were few medical schools in the country when he read medicine; regular Democrat.
