| Bates and Surrounding Communities - People, Places, Events The Rev. Gene Shelton and related families |
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| Rev. Gene Shelton with his daughters Shirley and Priscilla in about 1945 or 1946. They played their instruments for church services in the Pentecostal Church in Bates. This was another photograph taken by Mr. Moss. | |||||||||
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| Rev. Gene Shelton with his wife Lena, Randy Shelton in his arm, and the youngest daughter Martha. The photo was taken in the late 50's on the old Brown place west of Kennyville not far from the Stamps place. | Waiting on the school bus one early morning is Dona Shelton, Ruth Shelton, Minnie Bea Shelton, Bob Shelton and the baby Randy Shelton (no he is not going to school). The photo is from about 1958 at the former Stamps place at Kennyville. | Rebecca Shelton in 1957. Rebecca was the third oldest of the Shelton girls. | |||||||
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| A Sunday School Class in 1946 or 47 at Bates Pentecostal Church. The two teachers were Ester Latta on the left and on the right is Irene Harper. Shirley Shelton is the little girl standing in the second row holding the Bible. Priscilla Shelton is the girl sitting behind the girl in about the center of the front row with pigtails. Others in the picture are from several families - Cope's, Page's, Miller's, Pepper's, Ritter's, Pottridge's, and Cagles's. Joe Brazil is the boy in the back row with overalls on. Joe Brazil was Ester (Brazil) Latta's nephew. The Laura and Clyde Brazil family lived across the road from the Pentecostal Church on what is now Bates Lane. | |||||||||
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| This is a group of members in the Pentecostal Church when it was held in an old house in Bates in about 1946 or 47. The girl standing toward the front and to your right of center in a white blouse is Priscilla Shelton with Ella Latta standing behind her also in a white blouse. On the back row to your left of a man in a white shirt is Frank Latta. The little boy in the very front is Bob Shelton. | |||||||||
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| Rev. Gene Shelton with his youngest daughter Martha sitting on the porch of the old Ed and Roxie Stamps house in Kennyville. | Newton Webb (Sheltons Son-in-law), Shirley Shelton Webb, Bev Shelton and Billygene Shelton with Rev. Gene Shelton. Taken in about 1955 on the old Stamps place on the curve in the road at Kennyville. The photo was taken from the west porch looking toward the barn.
(NOTE BY JIM COOK: If this is where I think it is, when I was a small kid (about 4 or 5) my family was visiting with Uncle Ed and Aunt Roxie Stamps and I decided to explore the barn. There was a big work horse in the barn and upon a board in the stall I found a nest with an egg in it. I got the egg and went to the house to show my discovery of the "horses egg". Boy did I get a surprise, that egg was covered with lice and so was I by then. Aunt Roxie got out the galvanized metal bath tub, told me to get my clothes off and I got a good scrub down out on the porch. Of course I found out that it was just a chicken egg. |
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