Biography – E. B. Shelton, Author

Elderly Sisters Run Farm; Need No Men

By E. B. Shelton November 3, 2025Biography, Hear the Dirt Sing, Newspaper Sources

Photo by Beth Shelton This article originally appeared in “The Best of Times” section in GRIT magazine. Shelton, Beth. “How a 1956 GRIT Article Preserves Family History,” GRIT, Sept/Oct 2024, pp. 6–8 Thumbing gently through…

Letter from a Confederate Prisoner of War, Captain David Ferguson Buckner

By E. B. Shelton July 6, 2025Biography, Buckner History, Civil War History

Confederate Prisoners at Fort Lookout, Maryland. From the internet Archive, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=23203964 Wounded in the battles of Malvern Hill, Fredericksburg, and Chancellorsville, Captain David Ferguson Buckner never intended to remain…

A Forgotten Poet: Alice Lorraine Young

By E. B. Shelton July 6, 2024Biography

My Life is like the sea,Sometimes it is rough –And sometimes calm,Like the sand, I am lost in the tide. From “The Sea and Me” by Alice Young I met…

Biography of an Honorable Man: Edward Aylette Buckner, Sr.

By E. B. Shelton November 14, 2021Biography, Buckner History, Edward Aylette Buckner, Sr

I guess a man's job is to make the world a better place to live in, so far as he is able – always remembering the results will be infinitesimal…