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Isabelle Solinger Groves Shelton Fox Welch |
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Isabelle Solinger Groves Shelton Fox Welch was born in Hardensville, Illinois on August 15, 1853 according to her obituary, but she was probably born in Ohio. Her parents were William Solinger and Rachel Tumbling (Tumbland). At the time of the 1860 census, her family was living in Crawford, Illinois.
She married Ridraldo T. Groves on August 14, 1870 in Crawford County, Illinois. They had a son named Edward Groves. Ridraldo died before the 1880 census. She married her second husband, John W. Shelton, about 1878. John was born about 1850 in Indiana. Their oldest child was Clyde D. Sheldon who was born in 1879 in Iowa. He died before the 1880 census. Union County, Iowa records indicate that the child of John Shelton died on March 29, 1880 of brain fever. In 1880 the J. W. Shelton (Shelden) family was living in Afton, Union County, Iowa. The household consisted of J.W. Shelton age 30, Isabel Shelton age 26, Clyde C. Shelton age 1, E. Groves age 7 and J.C. Henderson age 27 who was Irish and the hired help. John could not read or write and worked in a restaurant. She and her husband, John, appeared in the 1885 census in Chariton living with their children Leonard Shelton, Maud Shelton, and Thomas Shelton. As Richard Fox related it, after
She married John Fox on April 9, 1893. Their son and life together is described in detail in the section on John and Isabelle Fox. |
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In 1914 when John died, she inherited all his property both personal and real, of whatever kind that he owned at the time of his death, in addition to what she may be entitled to by law, to have and to hold for her own use during the term of her natural life. On her death the property went to her son Earl. |
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Isabelle married William P. Welch in 1920. Richard Fox wrote
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Richard Fox wrote "Grandma Isabelle was the kind of Grandma every small boy dreams of. She was full of love and kindness. She always had a piece of apple pie ready for me." Isabelle died on January 23, 1935 at the age of 81 years. She was buried with her third husband and son, Earl, at Salem Cemetery.
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