When Elizabeth Sullivan Williams Shackelford was born in 1837, in Coosa, Alabama, United States, her father, David Martin Williams, was 25 and her mother, Elizabeth Sullivan, was 24. She married James W Shackleford on 23 December 1860, in Coosa, Alabama, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. She died in 1905, in Elmore, Alabama, United States, at the age of 68.
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U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Historical Boundaries: 1866: Elmore, Alabama, United 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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