BIBLE: George Gipson Shackelford
Submitted by: Charles Rice
<chas@r.com>
Date: 24 Nov 1997


George Gipson Shackelford's Bible

   This bible is not all that old. It is "The Self-Pronouncing S. S.
Teacher's Combination Bible," printed by the National Bible Press in
Philadelphia. There is no date, but the two copyrights are in 1895 and
1902. However, it is a replacement bible. My grandmother told me that
her mother was very upset over the original being lost before the 1st
World War during a move to St. Louis, along with all the family
pictures. (Ouch!) 
   The owner was my great grandfather, George Gipson Shackelford. A
native of Marganfield, Union Co., KY, he was a son of Luther Prentis
Shackelford (b. 1836) and Mary Jane (Carr) Bishop Shackelford (b. 1839).
Mary Jane Shackelford was the widow of Fielding Bishop when she married
L. P. Shackelford about 1862. 
   George G. Shackelford loved being a policeman. He was working in
Henderson, KY in the early 1890s when he heard there was an opening in
Princeton. He promptly moved there, becoming a member of the city's
three-man police force. Unfortunately, this was before civil service
type job security, and whenever a Republican mayor got elected all the
Democrats were fired. George Shackelford would then go work for the IC
railway until the next election, when the Democrats would come back in.
I believe he was police chief at one time. About the third time he got
booted out of work by political changes, he got disgusted and moved to
St. Louis. He began as foreman on the Terminal RR -- and ended up as
superintendent.
   George G. Shackelford and his wife were both natives of Union
County.  Their first two children were born in Sturgis, KY. The next two
were born in Henderson, while the last was born in Princeton. Here are
the entries as written:

			Parents' Names.

Husband,    George G. Shackelford.
    Born,   July 15, 1866.

Wife,       Mary A[lice]. Hollowell.
    Born,   May 20, 1867.

Married,    March 21, 1888.

			Childrens' Names.

Ernest Marshall Shackelford.  Born Feb. 27, 1889
Edna Earl Shackelford.  Born Oct. 20, 1891
Mary Estelle Shackelford.  Born Nov. 12, 1893
Luther Prentis Shackelford.  Born Dec. 23, 1896
Wilson Lorenzo Shackelford.  Born Jan. 24, 1901

			Marriages.

Ernest Marshall Shackelford  married Hallie E. Faulkner  [no date]
Mary Estelle Shackelford  married Tom. H. Rice  [no date]
Luther Prentis Shackelford  married Irene Revelle  [no date]

Geo. G. Shackelford married Mrs. Rena Crowe  [no date]
Geo. G. Shackelford married Mrs. Edith Winkler, July 1, 1933.
    Rena Crowe Shackelford. Born March 6, 1871.   
    Edith Winkler Shackelford. Born March 6, 1871.  [They were twins.]

    			Deaths.

Edna Earl Shackelford.   June 1892
Wilson L. Shackelford.   Oct. 7, 1920    [RR accident]
Mary Alice Shackelford.  Aug. 1st, 1925
Rena Crowe Shackelford.  Feby. 12th, 1932 8.30 PM
Hallie Shackelford.      Oct. 5, 1941
Ernest M. Shackelford.   Feb. 6, 1945
Thomas H. Rice.          May 21, 1945

   I hope this is a help to some of my cousins.
		Charles Rice