| 3. | Tabitha Jerichia Shelton was born on 21 Oct 1815 in Kentucky (daughter of Joel Larkin (or Jesse) Shelton, (son of who?) and Mary Elizabeth Webster); died on 8 Aug 1904 in Pauls Valley, Garvin Co, Oklahoma. Notes:
Tabitha had 4 husands; James Mayberry Randolph, James Barnett Shannon, Abram Myers, and W.C. Shannon. Her first three husbands were all shot by individuals. She had 5 Randolph children, 6 Shannon step-children, 1 Shannon child and 2 Myers children.
The Randolph children all but one born in Crawford County, AR where he was the sheriff in 1838-39. The last child was born in Sherman, Texas who was names Holland Coffee Randolph. This was supposedly the first white child born in Grayson County Texas at that time was Indian Territory. .
This is oral history given by W.C. Parkey in 2011. W.C. was 80 years of age at the time. .
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James Mayberry Randolph was killed, in another county, and less than a year later, his wife married James Barnett Shannon. Then James Barnett Shannon was shot and died. However, they had one child, Jessie O. Shannon. In the 1850 census, Tabitha Jerusha Shelton Randolph Shannon, the wife of J. M. Randolph and of James B. Shannon is listed with five Randolph brothers and sisters, six Shannon children, and Jessie O. Shannon. There were also four boarders and 10 slaves.
One of the boarders who was in the 1850 census, named AbramMyers, married Tabitha Shelton after the death of J. M. Randolph and J. B. Shannon. She had two more children by him. One of them died around the age of nineteen or twenty while he was in a boarding school in Shermon , TX . The other Myers son was Joseph F. Myers, who married Eula Colbert, the daughter of HolmesColbert and Elizabeth Love Colbert (Aunt Betsy, who, along with her daughter Eula helped to raise our grandmother, Granny Elizabeth Williams, after her mother, Elizabeth Humphreys, died at Granny?s birth.
Grandmother Tabitha Jerusha Shelton, Randolph, Shannon, Myers, married one more time, in Sherman, TX to a man who was named W. W. Thomas. She was 59 at that time. He had children; I don?t know how many but at least two, and there probably were more. When they moved to I. T. I cannot find anything that saysthat W. W. Thomas came with them. Since Tabitha?s other three husbands were shot, I hope this one had a peaceful death. She lived a long life and is buried in the old Paul?sValley cemetery.
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Children:
- Catherine Barbary Randolph was born on 12 Oct 1838 in Van Buren, Crawford Co, Arkansas; died on 13 Oct 1906 in Pauls Valley, Garvin Co, Oklahoma.
- Sarah Elizabeth Randolph was born on 25 Jan 1840 in Van Buren, Crawford Co, Arkansas; died on 18 May 1905 in Denison, Grayson Co, Texas.
- 1. William Colville "Bud" Randolph was born on 19 Oct 1842 in Van Buren, Crawford Co, Arkansas; died on 29 Jul 1915 in Pauls Valley, Garvin Co, Oklahoma.
- George Wirt Randolph, Sr. was born on 5 Sep 1843 in Van Buren, Crawford Co, Arkansas; died in 1932 in Maysville, Garvin Co, Oklahoma.
- Holland Coffee Randolph was born on 10 Sep 1845 in Sherman, Grayson Co, Texas; died on 6 Jun 1921 in Pontotoc Co, Oklahoma.
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1842 - 1915 (72 years)