SHELTON, Joseph C. - 1956 - Fountain County INGenWeb Project

COVINGTON – Joseph C. Shelton, 76, veteran of service with the United States Cavalry during the Philippine Insurrection, died Saturday night at the Veterans’ Hospital in Danville, Ill. Funeral services will be held Tuesday at 2 p.m. in the Bodine and Shelby Funeral Home with burial in Mount Hope Cemetery. Mr. Shelton served with the First U. S. Cavalry from 1901 to 1904 and during World War I he was an army baker overseas. Mr. Shelton was a member of the Crawfordsville chapter of Royal Arch Masons. He was a charter member of the Fountain County’s Old Guard Veterans of the Foreign Wars post in Covington. He held memberships also in the First Church of Christ at Veedersburg; the Veedersburg Masonic Lodge; Danville Valley Scottish Rite Masonry; Troy Chapter of the Order of Eastern Star, and Wallace Low 12 Club. The widow, one son and two daughters survive together with a brother, eight grandchildren and three great grandchildren.   -– jlr