Laud Cem # 501 T1S, R8W, Sec 23
Surveyed January 2008 by Keith Hunt & Robert Torbert
Location: From Lexington, go S on CR 51; Lt on CR 497; Rt on CR 499 and go to the end. Get permission and directions from the Paul Nafe family to go to the cemetery. There is one tombstone and its footstone; one footstone with the initials EMS, and a number of fieldstones. The date of birth listed in the “Cemeteries of East Lauderdale County, Alabama”, is wrong.
According to Morris Howard, Stephen’s wife, Millie and a daughter are buried here.) Could this be Martha Jane from the Winborn Cemetery at this same address? The 1850, 1860 & 1870 Census of Stephen’s family provided the following:
1850 1860 1870
Shelton, Stephen 37 yrs TN 47 yrs TN 55 yrs AL
Susan 37 yrs TN
Sarah 16 yrs AL
Nancy 13 yrs AL
Elizabeth 12 yrs AL
Rebecca 9 yrs AL 17 yrs AL
Thomas B. 6 yrs AL 16 yrs AL
Mary Jane 4 yrs AL 13 yrs AL 22 yrs AL
Susan 2/12 AL 12 yrs AL 20 yrs AL
Milly [2nd wife. m 27 Jan 1853] 43 yrs AL 50 yrs AL**
Stephen Lesell 6 yrs AL 16 yrs AL
Martha 2 yrs AL 12 yrs AL
Brown, Julia L. [step-daughter] 13 yrs AL
Brown, Emma E. [step-daughter] 12 yrs AL
** Wife's name given as Permelia in 1870.