Thomas
Hart
Shelby
Born in Travelers Rest, Lincoln, Virginia, (now Kentucky)
Ancestors 
Son of Isaac Shelby
and Susannah (Hart) Shelby
Brother of
James Shelby, Sarah Hart (Shelby) McDowell, Evan Shelby, Susan Hart (Shelby) Fishback, Nancy Shelby, Isaac Shelby, John Shelby, Letitia (Shelby) Todd, Katherine Shelby and Alfred Shelby
Husband of
Mary (McDowell) Shelby
— married
1812 [location unknown]
Husband of
Mary Ann (Bullock) Shelby
— married
1 Mar 1821 [location unknown]
Descendants 
Father of
Sarah (Shelby) Higgins, Susan Shelby, Isaac Prather Shelby, Elizabeth Fontaine Shelby, Mary Cosby (Shelby) Shanklin, Thomas Hart Shelby, William Bullock Shelby and Edmund Pendleton Shelby
Died
at age 79
in Fayette, Kentucky, United States
Profile last modified
| Created 5 May 2011
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Biography
Major Thomas Hart Shelby was the son of Isaac Shelby and Susannah (Hart) Shelby.
He married first, in 1812 to Mary McDowell, daughter of Major John McDowell. They had two children.
He married second in 1821 to Mary Ann Bullock, daughter of Edmund and Elizabeth Fontaine Bullock. They had six children.
He built his home "Grassland" in 1823.
Sources
- June Lee Mefford Kinkead, Our Kentucky Pioneer Ancestry, A History of the Kinkead and McDowell Families of Kentucky, Baltimore: Gateway Press, 1992, page 87.
Created through the import of LaBach Family TreeApril28_2011.ged on 05 May 2011.
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