of Adams County, Ohio · documented from the public record
The family in the record
Margaret Shelledy 1827 – 1897
parentsG. B. Shelledy
Margaret Shelledy⚭ John C. Means
childrenThomas E. Means
Their story
What the record says
History of Boone County, Iowa.
Married name Means.
Presbyterian.
Died March 1897 at about seventy years of age.
Her father G. B. Shelledy was a pioneer lawyer and contemporary of Abraham Lincoln (a Lincoln letter to him is held at the Iowa state capitol).
He died about 1846.
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