When Charles Arthur Shackelford was born on 4 March 1879, in Mississippi, United States, his father, James Elliott Shackelford, was 24 and his mother, Mary Josephine Ryan, was 21. He married Mary Alice Brunson on 25 December 1899, in Tallahatchie, Mississippi, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 4 daughters. He lived in Beat 3, Tallahatchie, Mississippi, United States in 1910 and Cascilla, Tallahatchie, Mississippi, United States in 1950. He died in March 1966, at the age of 87, and was buried in Cascilla, Tallahatchie, Mississippi, United States.
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Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.
A law that funded many irrigation and agricultural projects in the western states.
English: habitational name from Shackleford in Godalming or Shackleford in Woking (both Surrey). The placename may derive from Old English sceacol ‘shackle’ or an element related to dialect shackle ‘loose’ (derived from sceacan ‘to shake’) + ford ‘ford’. This surname is now rare in Britain.
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