Seated - Jesse Ransom Shelton and wife, Martha Jane Eaton Shelton. Their son Samuel "Forrest" Shelton is standing. He was probably 12 or 13 years old. Samuel Forrest Shelton was born November 15, 1878, near Beech Grove, Tennessee. Forrest Shelton is the father of eight children - Paschal, Ross, Janie, Aurora, Rex, Lon, Bertha and Sue.

Jesse Ransom Shelton was born January 16, 1844, in Warren County and died May 14, 1940. (His father was John W. Shelton, and his mother was Sarah "Emaline Hamby).
Martha Jane Eaton was born September 30, 1842, in Rutherford County and died December 3, 1906. She married Jessie Ransom Shelton on November 24, 188, and they had three children: John Wesley Shelton born September 4, 1869, Sarah Parthenia Shelton born December 27, 1870, and Samuel Forrest Shelton born November 15, 1878.