Finding Aid to the Lillie Todd Mason Papers

JONES MEMORIAL LIBRARY
2311 MEMORIAL AVENUE
LYNCHBURG, VIRGINIA 24501
(434) 846-0501
LILLIE TODD (SHELTON) MASON (ca.1883-aft.1937) PAPERS
The collection includes family photographs, some letters and other documents, pairs
of glasses, a vanity case, and a sewing basket, owned by Lillie Todd (SHELTON)
MASON.
BOX 1

1-1
1-2
1-3
1-4
1-5

BOX 2

Vanity Case (Address book; silver napkin ring
"C.W.M."; silver compact "L.S.M."; perfume bottles; glasses; hair
collector; wallet; jewelry box; tobacco box; baby's bracelet "L.T.S.")

BOX 3

Sewing basket (Button hooks; darning egg; assorted beads)

Correspondence, miscellaneous cards, receipts, research notes
Photographs - Soldiers, Ninth Street and Depot
Photographs - Miscellaneous unlabeled
Photographs - Miscellaneous labeled
Albert Dabney SHELTON - Photograph, miscellaneous newspaper
clippings

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JONES MEMORIAL LIBRARY
2311 MEMORIAL AVENUE
LYNCHBURG, VIRGINIA 24501
(434) 846-0501
LILLIE TODD (SHELTON) MASON (ca.1883-aft.1937)
Lillie Todd SHELTON, daughter of E. Archer and Annie M. SHELTON, was born in
Lynchburg, Virginia, ca. 1883. In 1902, she was a teacher in Lynchburg. By 1904, she
had become a cashier for D. MOSES and Company, a dry goods and millinery concern.
After moving up to assistant bookkeeper at D. MOSES, she became a bookkeeper for
CRAIGHILL and JONES, druggists.
Lillie Todd SHELTON married Charles William MASON on 5 June 1912. Born in
Abingdon, Virginia, he was the son of C. W. and H. F. MASON. In Lynchburg, he was a
druggist for CRAIGHILL and JONES. He died ca. 1918, presumably in Lynchburg.
Following the death of her husband, Lillie S. MASON lived in several places,
including Lynchburg (ca.1921, ca.1933, ca.1937), Norfolk (ca.1921), Roanoke (ca.19281933, ca.1936-1937), and Chatham (ca.1937), in Virginia, and in Macon, Georgia
(ca.1923). Nothing further is known at present.
[Walsh's Directory of the City of Lynchburg for 1902 (Lynchburg: J. P. Bell, 1902), p. 411; Marriage
Register, Lynchburg, VA, Book 5, p. 77; Walsh's Directory of the City of Lynchburg for 1904-05
(Charleston, SC: Walsh Directory, 1904), p. 375; Walsh's Directory of the City of Lynchburg for 1907
(Charleston, SC: Walsh Directory, 1907), p. 318; Walsh's Directory of the City of Lynchburg for 1908
(Charleston, SC: Walsh Directory, 1908), p. 306; "Wedding of Charles W. Mason and Lillie Todd
Shelton," Lynchburg News, 6 June 1912, p. 12 col. 3; Lillie Todd (Shelton) Mason Papers, Mss., MS1359,
Jones Memorial Library, Lynchburg, VA.]

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