Sam L. and Fannie L. Shelby

Sam L. Shelby

1870 – 1948

  

Fannie L. Shelby

1872 – 1957

Samuel Lafette Shelby was born 9 November 1870 in Kentucky and was the son of Richard Shelby, born Kentucky, and Elvira Frazier, born Illinois. Sam L. Shelby died 19 April 1948 in Paducah, McCracken County, Kentucky. [1]  He married Mrs. Fannie Graves at Salem on 12 December 1903. [2]   Sam L. and Fannie Shelby first appear together on the 1910 Livingston County census. Appearing in their household were their two children, Richard S. and Elvira, plus children by Fannie’s first marriage.

Fannie Louise Campbell was born 23 November 1872 Kentucky and died 24 May 1957 in a rest home in Paducah, Kentucky. On her death certificate, her parents are listed as Tom Campbell and Virginia Ann Grover. The informant was Sam Shelby.[3] She  married (1) George E. Graves of Dycusburg, Crittenden County, Kentucky 5 June 1895 in Greene County, Missouri.[4] They had two children, Virginia and Marie, before George’s death 1 September 1900.[5]

Sam L. and Fannie L. Shelby are both buried in Salem Cemetery, Salem, Livingston County, Kentucky.

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[1] Kentucky Death Certificate #8434 (1948), Samuel Lafette Shelby, Informant: S.R. Shelby, Ancestry.com, accessed 21 June 2020.

[2] Kentucky County Marriage Records 1783-1965, S.L. Shelby and Mrs. Fannie Graves, Ancestry.com, accessed 21 June 2020.

[3] Kentucky Death Certificate #57-12784, Fannie Louise Shelby, Ancestry.com, accessed 21 June 2020.

[4] Missouri Marriage Records, 1805-2002, George E. Graves and Fannie L. Campbell, Ancestry.com, accessed 21 June 2020.

[5] “In Memoriam,” Crittenden Press, Thurs., 13 September 1900, p. 4, obituary of George E. Graves.

Published 10 September 2020, Western Kentucky Genealogy Blog,  http://wkygenealogy.blogspot.com/