SHELTON SMITH GAFFORD
SURNAMES: GAFFORD, SMITH, BRYAN, BINNICKER.
Shelton
Smith Gafford, b November 12, 1907 in Dublin, Texas, d August 17, 1964 near
Reagan in Falls County - a son of Reverend Charles Newton and Ada Pearl (Smith)
Gafford, who moved to Marlin, Falls County, Texas in 1910.
Shelton
grew up in Marlin, where his father was a grocer-merchant and an ordained
minister. He was a graduate of Marlin High School, and received his higher
education at North Texas State College in Denton, and at Southwestern University
in Georgetown. Shelton taught school in Hog Island and Reagan before becoming a
full-time farmer and rancher from 1941 to 1964. He was administrator of the
National Youth Association in Falls County from 1941 to 1943, A.S.C.S. Director,
and a Director and Financier of First National Bank in Marlin.
On
September 11, 1935, Shelton Smith Gafford married Mina Ruth Bryan, b July 1,
1910 - a daughter of Peyton James and Ella Victoria (Binnicker) Bryan. Mina Ruth
was a 1929 graduate of Marlin High School.
Shelton
and Mina Ruth Gafford had one son: Daniel Shelton Gafford, b February 20, 1938
in Marlin, who resides in Petersburg, Virginia in 1986
Copyright Permission granted to Theresa Carhart for
printing the biographies of these Falls County Families to this Web page.
"Families of Falls County", Compiled and Edited by the Falls County Historical
Commission, page 167 column 1and 2.
Member of Falls County Historical Commission.