of Boone County, Iowa · documented from the public record
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Margaret Shelledy 1827 – 1897
parentsG. B. Shelledy
Margaret Shelledy⚭ John C. Means
childrenThomas E. Means
Source: History of Boone County, Iowa
Their story
What the record says
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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