Christian County KyArchives Biographies.....Shackleford, Charles November 7 - unknown ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ky/kyfiles.html ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Sandi Gorin http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00002.html#0000404 January 4, 2005, 9:35 am Author: County of Christian, Kentucky, Historical and Biographical, edited by William Perrin DR. CHARLES SHACKLEFORD was born November 23, 1817, in the town of Hopkinsville, where he spent his entire life, with the exception of one year. He is the son of Judge Benjamin and Frances P. (Dallam) Shackelford, who were among the earliest and most respected settlers from Virginia and Maryland. The subject of this sketch was educated in his native village, at the old Christian Academy, under the faithful and efficient instruction of James D. Rumsey. In early life he studied law under his father, but, becoming dissatisfied, forsook the profession and entered a dry goods store as clerk. From 1840 to 1847 he engaged in the business for himself, and while so engaged diligently prosecuted his studies as a physician. Abandoning in 1847 the mercantile business, he devoted himself exclusively to the study of medicine under Dr. David Glass for two years, in the meantime superintending the management of his farm near the town. Beginning the practice of medicine in the year 1851, he was actively engaged therein for a period of over ten years. At the breaking out of the war between the sections, he was appointed the First Provost Marshall (C.S.A.) of Christian County. He was afterward appointed Assistant Commissary under Maj. Dallam, with whom he served until the army left for Fort Donelson in 1862. Upon the advent of the Federals into Hopkinsville, he was arrested and sent off to prison, where he was held a few weeks and then permitted to return to his family. In early life he was a Whig, but later became a Democrat of the most pronounced type. In 1843 he was married to Jane C., daughter of Edward and Eliza G. (Madison) Worthington. She was born in Mercer County, Ky., September 7, 1821, and died in Hopkinsville 1854, leaving three children named respectively Lucy, Edward W. and Eliza M. In May, 1855 Dr. Shackleford married his second wife, Laura J. Cook, daughter of William Cook of Virginia. She was born in Bedford County, Va., in 1829, and died in Hopkinsville, April, 1861, leaving two children, Laura Otey and Benjamin. The former became the wife of James Rives, Jr., and died at the residence of her husband in 1882, and the latter died in infancy. In 1872, January 2, he married Henrietta, widow of Col. John Cogburn, and daughter of Rev. Dr. Phillip P. Neely, a noted minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mrs. Shackelford was born July 13, 1845, in Columbia, Tenn., and is a member of the Roman Catholic Church. The Doctor is a member of the Episcopal Church. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ky/christian/bios/gbs141shacklef.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/kyfiles/