John W. Shakelford

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Husband John W. Shakelford ¹

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         Father: [Unk] Shakelford (      -      ) 1
         Mother: Melissa Walker (      -      ) 1

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General Notes: Husband - John W. Shakelford

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He was a Union officer, and was offered a Brig. Generalship by President Lincoln but refused. He was a warm friend of Abraham Lincoln when he (Lincoln) was a school teacher.

1 Lewis R. Culbertson, M.D., Genealogy of the Culbertson and Culberson Families (Zanesville, OH: The Courier Co., 1923), Pg 114.