Lincoln Co Genealogy Trails

Republican Compiler (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania September 20, 1826
We have been favored with the perusal of a letter from a gentleman in Kentucky to his friend in this place, from which we are permitted to extract the following interesting particulars relative to the closing scene of the life of the late Gov. Shelby. – Nat. Banner.
“On the 18th of July, Col. Shelby breathed his last, whilst sitting in his chair, without pain and without any complaint of previous indisposition. On the morning before his death, he rode over to his son Isaac’s and returned before dinner with as good an appetite as usual and walked up to the gate in front of his house, returned and took his seat with Mrs. Shelby and commenced conversation cheerfully with her; the conversation closed for a moment and she heard him draw a long breath; when she went up to his chair, she found his head leaning back and the breath entirely gone. Not a muscle of his face appeared to be changed or the least distorted. The old man had frequently expressed a wish that when he died no person should be present but his wife. In this singular wish he was gratified. No person was present but her and she sustained herself in the trying moment with becoming fortitude. His remains were interred on the spot where he pitched his first tent on the farm where he resided about fifty years ago and for fear his sons would not know where to find the exact spot, he had before his death, marked it out himself.” [Submitted by Nancy Piper; June 2010]