Shelton was said to have spent his last days with his son William Franklin Partin & China A. Turner Partin.Shelton was the husband of Elizabeth Evans Partin and a son of Elam Partin Sr. and Malinda A.
Clayton Partin.∼Shelton Partin
Name of Regiment: 49th Kentucky Infantry - Side: Union - Company: A - Soldier's Rank In: private - Soldier's Rank Out: private.

UNION KENTUCKY VOLUNTEERS
49th Regiment, Kentucky Infantry

Organized at Camp Nelson, Ky., September 19, 1863. Attached to District of Somerset, Ky., 1st Division, 23rd Army Corps, Dept. of Ohio, to January, 1864. District of Southwest Kentucky, 1st Division, 23rd Army Corps, to April, 1864. 4th Brigade, 1st Division, District of Kentucky, 5th Division, 23rd Army Corps, Dept. of Ohio, to July, 1864. Camp Nelson, District of Kentucky, to December, 1864.

SERVICE.-Moved to Somerset, Ky., October 28, 1863, and duty in that vicinity till January, 1864. Moved to Camp Burnside, Ky., January 3-4, and duty there till August, 1864. At Lexington August and at Camp Nelson till October. Ordered to Tennessee October 1 and railroad guard duty near Murfreesboro and between Wartrace and Mill Creek till November. At Lexington, Ky., till December. Mustered out December 26, 1864.

Regiment lost during service 1 Enlisted man killed and 1 Officer and 74 Enlisted men by disease. Total 76.
CIVIL WAR SOLDIERS AND SAILORS SYSTEM, National Park Service, Washington, D.C., researched Richard Parker, February 2011.

Burial Source:

KENTUCKY CEMETERY RECORDS VOLUME I, compiled by the Kentucky Records Research Committee, Kentucky Society, Daughters Of the American Revolution, 1960, page: 30:

"Shelt Partin (1822-1902) and Wesley Powers (1823-1905); both in the Civil War and both buried, Partins and Clear Creek Cemetery, Middleboro."

Researcher: Richard Parker