Individual Details
Lucy Harris
(12 Apr 1734 - Abt 1816)
SHELTON-L Archives
http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/SHELTON/2006-06/1150581345
William Shelton who was married to Lucy Harris (her parents being Robert Harris and Mourning Glenn Harris) is shown by a preponderance of evidence to have also had siblings Eleanor Shelton who married Charles Stratham; Peter Shelton who married Frances Nuckolls; Henry Shelton who married 1st Eleanor and 2nd Mary – and David Shelton who married 1st Elizabeth Matlock and 2nd Susannah Vaughn.
William Shelton made his will July 13, 1802. The will names his wife Lucy and sons Weatherston, William Harris and Thomas. He named daughters Sarah, Agnes, Lucy Brown and Mourning the wife of Archibald Woods. He also named granddaughters Lucy, Susannah and Elizabeth daughters of his son Thomas, deceased. The executors of his will were Joel Harris, John R. Kerr and son Weatherston Shelton. Witnesses to the will were John Gillum, William Fretwell, William C. Maupin, Austin Shelton and William Davenport. The will was probated in Albemarle County, VA December 1803. (Note: Austin Shelton was the son of William’s probable brother Henry. Austin’s will was written January of 1806 and probated Albemarle County, in April of the same year.)
Son of William, Thomas, moved to Madison County, KY (where his father had land on Drowning Creek) by September 25, 1787 when he and Archibald Woods were appointed guardians of Ann and William Woods Kavanaugh.
Philemon Kavanaugh married Elizabeth Woods, sister to Archibald Woods, and as you know, Archibald Woods married Mourning Shelton sister to Thomas Shelton. After Kavanaugh’s death, Thomas Shelton married the widow, Elizabeth Woods Kavanaugh.
Thomas was killed in 1793 or 1794. Two sources disagree on the year, but agree that Thomas Shelton and Nathaniel Haggard were killed by an ambush of Chief Doublehead on Little Richland Creek. They were Baptist ministers traveling to – or from Virginia.
Lucy’s will, was written in 1816. See: Albemarle County, WB 6, page 181.
Events
| Birth | 12 Apr 1734 |  | |||
| Death | Abt 1816 | Albemarle County, Virginia | |||
| Marriage | William Shelton | |
Families
| Spouse | William Shelton ( - 1803) |
| Father | Maj. Robert Harris (1696 - 1765) |
| Mother | Mourning Glenn (1702 - 1776) |
| Sibling | Anna Harris (1724 - 1781) |
| Sibling | Christopher Harris (1725 - 1794) |
| Sibling | Tyree Harris (1728 - 1786) |
| Sibling | Mary Harris (1729 - 1819) |
| Sibling | Mourning Glenn Harris (1732 - ) |
| Sibling | Sarah Harris (1736 - 1803) |
| Sibling | Robert Harris Jr. (1741 - 1809) |
| Sibling | Rachel Harris (1744 - ) |
| Sibling | Frances Harris (1746 - 1788) |
| Sibling | William Harris (1752 - 1776) |
Endnotes
1. Ancestry World Tree. Ancestry.com. GEDCOM File. Families of Haden, Harris, Jouett.
2. Rev. Edgar Woods, History of Albemarle County Virginia; A description of the founding and events of this Virginia county including narratives on its residence families from 1727-1890 (The Michie Company, Printers, 1901), HARRIS p.221 & 222.