Anthony B. Shelby

Anthony Bledsoe Shelby (January 15, 1789 – August 14, 1851) was a justice of the Supreme Court of the Republic of Texas from 1839 to 1841.

[2] He read law to gain admission to the bar,[3][4] and in the 1820s, he succeeded his father clerk of the Sumner Circuit Court.

[5][6] He later moved to Texas, where he "assisted in gaining independence for that state", and served as a justice of the Supreme Court of the Republic.

When citizens of Houston and Galveston became enraged, Judge Thomas Johnson stepped in and remanded the sentences.

[8] Another son, Winchester B. Shelby, born in June 1827, also in Gallatin, was a colonel in Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.