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Charles Shackleford November 7 - unknown
Christian County KyArchives Biography

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.


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