Individual Details

Birth

Rita Lokey's James Hicks Family History contains an article on the Loretta Temple and her husband Louis Shellengerger, "Louis Shellenberger and The Shellenberger Family," by Nelle Mae Lehne, Menard County History, p. 574-575, published 1982.
This article shows that Loretta Temple Shellenberger died 6-3-1874 near Fort McKavett, Texas, at the age of 24 years.

Doralyn Hicks Short shows she was born 2-10-1850, in Franklin Co., MS. from a story by Loretta Carolyn Temple's great granddaughter, Belva Erskine Ballance.

Miscellaneous

Loretta Carolyn Temple had a short and tragic life:
1866 Ft. McKavett TX.
Loretta Caroline Temple was born February 10, 1850 in Franklin County, Miss. During the first fifteen years of her life, the family slowly moved westward into Junction, Texas.
Five weeks before Loretta was sixteen years of age,1-17-1866, she married Louis G. Shellenberger of Fort McKavett, Texas. Louis was thirty-two years of age and Loretta was his second wife.
Louis, having been captured in his early teens and taken down into the Lost San Saba Mine to stoke the furnaces, had a phobia about gold and spent his whole life trying to find it.
During the next eight years before her death, Loretta and Louis went through many trials, heartaches and sicknesses.
From her Bible given to her by her father, this story was pieced together by her Great-granddaughter, Belva Erskine Ballance.
Her first two children were born at Fort McKavett, Texas. When Elizabeth was one and one-half years old and Lucy was six months old, Loretta and Louis set out in a buckboard for Galveston, Texas, four hundred fifty miles away in the hot summer heat of June and July.
After arriving in Galveston, they boarded the schooner San Carlos for Tuspan, Mexico. Louis had visions of gold and rich farmland. Eleven days out in the Gulf of Mexico, little Lucy died and the next day, Elizabeth died. The Bible does not say why.
They arrived in Mexico and spent the next year and a half there. Their first son, John Shellenberger, was born in Tuspan, 10-10-1869. Soon after, they headed for home - 400 miles by boat and 450 miles over land. (I hope this wasn't the trip Louis was so disappointed in that he walked all the way home leading his horse. He made many trips into Mexico).
They arrived in the household of Elizabeth Shellenberger McDougal, Louis's Mother.
Louis Shellenberger, laborer, age 41, Caroline Shellinberger, age 20, and John Shellenberger, age 9 months. John died soon after in 1870.
Loretta Caroline was pregnant with her fourth child. On December 31, 1870, Susan was born, a tiny three pound infant. Loretta was unable to nurse her and Louis was trying to feed Susan gruel. Louis's sister, Aunt Betty Champie, heard about it, saddled up her horse and rushed over, bundled tiny Susan in blankets and took her home to nurse with her baby, Clara.
Aunt Betty's nursing and care was the best; with the foundation Susan received, she lived to be eighty-nine years of age.
On August 9, 1872, Milam was born. He lived to be eighty-two years old and was a bachelor all his life. He died in Patagonia, Arizona.
Loretta Caroline Temple Shellenberger died June 3, 1874, at the young age of twenty-four years and four months. Louis died April 16, 1878, by drowning.
Aunt Betty raised Susan and Milam.
Loretta's Bible is earmarked at St. Matthew, p. 3, Chapter 1 and 2.

Flake's Daily, Galveston Bulletin, Galveston, Texas, December 16, 1877, p. 5.:
Wrecked - Schooner San Carlos, from Tampico, with fruit and passengers, got ashore on the North Point of Galveston Island yesterday. Her passengers and crew were rescued by the steamers Eaterpe and Arisdne and sent to the city in the Pilot Boat.
Source: The story was written by Mrs. Belva Ballance, 2200 Jordanollo Street, Escalon, California 95320.

Marriage

Rita Lokey's James Hicks Family History contains an article on the Loretta Temple and her husband Louis Shellengerger, "Louis Shellenberger and The Shellenberger Family," by Nelle Mae Lehne, Menard County History, p. 574-575, published 1982.
This article shows the marriage of Louis Shellenberger and his second wife Loretta Caroline Temple on 1-17-1866.

Loretta Caroline Temple was the third wife of Louis Shellenberger.

Death

Rita Lokey's James Hicks Family History contains an article on the Loretta Temple and her husband Louis Shellengerger, "Louis Shellenberger and The Shellenberger Family," by Nelle Mae Lehne, Menard County History, p. 574-575, published 1982.
This article shows Loretta Shellenberger's death date as 6-3-1874, near Fort McKavett.