Pulaski County Democrat
Thursday, 24 March 1904
Death of an Aged Pioneer
The death of Mrs. Caroline Shelhart occurred last Friday morning at her home down the river, at the ripe old age of eighty-two years, four months and fourteen days. She was born in Pennsylvania in 1821, but was raised in New York. Later her parents moved to Ohio, and there she was married to John Shelhart. They came to this county in 1850, and five years later he died. She was married to William Wolfe in about 1860, but they were divorced some fourteen years later, she retaining the name of Shelhart.
She had been ailing for five years from catarrh of the stomach and dropsy, but walked about the house the day before she died. For several years she had lived with her son George Shelhart and his wife. She leaves six children living- four by her first husband and two by the last- and they are respectively Mrs. Mary Young , Mrs. Richard Hanuah, Mrs. G.W. Galbreath, George Shelhart, Mrs. Lew Markley and Mrs. John Wilson. She leaves also three aged brothers living in Ohio, thirty-two grand children and thirty-two great grand children.
The funeral was Sunday, from the Pulaski Presbyterian church, services by Rev. G.W. Simon being followed by interment there beside her first husband.
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