CSA 11c (AD), 10¢ bluish green tied AUGUSTA Ga. DEC 20 CDS on adversity cover fashioned from printed ledger sheet to Shelton Oliver Esq Crawford P.O. Oglethorpe Co. Ga., slightly reduced at left, Ex David Burton. $130.

Shelton Oliver (1801-1870) was a planter and slave owner. In 1844, he purchased "Woodlawn," located in Oglethorpe County, Georgia, the former 1,200-acre estate of William H. Crawford (1772 - 1834), who launched an unsuccessful bid for the Presidency in 1824, losing to John Quincy Adams. Shelton and his wife Martha [Williams] had at least three daughters. The family papers are at Emory University Libraries.