Individual Details
Alta Floe MORRISON
(15 Dec 1902 - 3 Jun 1994)
Events
| Birth | 15 Dec 1902 | Missouri, United States |  | ||
| Census | 1 Apr 1910 | Jackson, Camden, Missouri, United States | | ||
| Census | 31 Jan 1920 | McPherson, Nebraska, United States | | ||
| Marriage | 21 Aug 1921 | Norton, Norton, Kansas, United States - Estes L. SHELTON | | ||
| Residence | 1961 | Topeka, Shawnee, Kansas, United States | | ||
| Death | 3 Jun 1994 | A Topeka nursing home, Topeka, Shawnee, Kansas, United States |  | | |
| Burial | Aft 3 Jun 1994 | Prairie Home Cemetery, Topeka, Shawnee, Kansas, United States | | ||
| Biofile | 2004 | Morrison, Elijah and Priscilla Allafar (Allie) Swinney | |
Families
| Spouse | Estes L. SHELTON (1894 - 1977) |
| Father | Elijah William MORRISON (1845 - 1924) |
| Mother | Priscilla Allafar "Allie" SWINNEY (1860 - 1949) |
| Sibling | Elijah W. "Will" MORRISON (1879 - 1961) |
| Sibling | Lulu B. MORRISON (1881 - 1971) |
| Sibling | Francis Marion MORRISON Sr. (1885 - 1978) |
| Sibling | Eliza J. MORRISON (1888 - 1924) |
| Sibling | Ellen Nancy MORRISON (1891 - 1961) |
| Sibling | Mary Magdalene MORRISON (1894 - 1972) |
| Sibling | Virginia M. MORRISON (1897 - 1971) |
| Sibling | Wilmer E. MORRISON (1900 - ) |
Notes
Death
Topeka Capital-Journal, Tuesday, July 5, 1994, page 7A:Alta F. Shelton
Alta Floe Shelton, 91, Topeka, died Sunday, July 3, 1994, at a Topeka nursing home.
She was born Dec. 15, 1902, in Missouri, the daughter of Elijah William and Priscilla Allafar Swinney Morrison, and spent most of her life in Topeka. She had worked at the Seymour Packing Plant before she died.
She attended Sacred Heart Catholic Church.
She was married to Estes Lloyd Shelton on Aug. 21, 1921, in Norton. He died in June 1977. She also was preceded in death by a son, Walter Shelton, and a daughter, Elzora Miller.
Survivors include five daughters, Frances A. McGuire, Jean Radefeld, and Virginia McPeek, all in Topeka; Jessie L. Dreher, Wamego, and Patricia C. Reed, Centralia, Wash.; 22 grandchildren; many great-grandchildren; and several great-great-grandchildren.
Davison Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. Burial will be in Prairie Home Cemetery.
Endnotes
1. 1920 U.S. Federal Census (Population Schedule), jpeg image, (Online: The Generations Network, Inc., 2009) [Digital scan of original records in the National Archives, Washington, DC], subscription database,
2. Find-A-Grave.com, online [findagrave.com], Memorial #229229702, Alta Flow Morrison Shelton.
3. 1910 U.S. Federal Census (Population Schedule), jpeg image, (Online: The Generations Network, Inc., 2009) [Digital scan of original records in the National Archives, Washington, DC], subscription database,
4. 1920 U.S. Federal Census (Population Schedule), jpeg image, (Online: The Generations Network, Inc., 2009) [Digital scan of original records in the National Archives, Washington, DC], subscription database,
5. Douglas County News, Castle Rock, Colorado., Aug 1961.
6. Find-A-Grave.com, online [findagrave.com], Memorial #229229702, Alta Flow Morrison Shelton.
7. Douglas County News, Castle Rock, Colorado., Aug 1961.
8. Find-A-Grave.com, online [findagrave.com], Memorial #229229702, Alta Flow Morrison Shelton.
9. Find-A-Grave.com, online [findagrave.com], Memorial #229229702, Alta Flow Morrison Shelton.
10. "," (2004); folder: "Morrison, Elijah and Priscilla Allafar (Allie) Swinney," Biography Files; Douglas County History Research Center, Castle Rock, Colorado.