A Shelby Family Tree

Isaac Shelby married a daughter from the Hart family, who were co-purchasers of 20,000,000 acres in Kentucky and Tennessee on the eve of the Revolution. Shelby became the first (and fifth) governor of Kentucky. He and his son signed US-Indian treaties, and his grandson married the sister of John Blair Smith Todd, a first cousin of Mary Todd Lincoln. Todd was a fur trader and land speculator who engineer the Yankton treaty of 1858 in large part to secure his title to the site of Sioux Falls, South Dakota.