Nancy (Wright) Shackelford (abt. 1784 - aft. 1860)

Born about 1784 in Surry Co, North Carolina

Ancestors

Wife of William Shackelford — married about 1810 in Alabama

Descendants

Died after 1860 after about age 76 in Hinds County, Mississippi

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Biography

Nancy is listed as being one of Capt Daniel Wright's children in Alabama, Revolutionary War Residents, 1776-1783 which I found on Ancestry the record list 5 children and who they married. Nancy is listed as married to ________ Shackelford.^[1]

Nancy is also listed in her father Daniel's will as one of the children and at the end where he names his executors as his beloved sun John Wright and daughter Nancy Shackelford^[2]

Nancy Shackelford widow of William Shackelford was living with her widowed daughter Elizabeth P. Shackelford Patrick on the 1850^[3] and 1860 Fed Census in Hinds Co., Mississippi^[4]

Notes

Her birth State is a guestimate: On the 1850 Fed Census Nancy is listed as being born in Virginia. On the 1860 Fed Census she is listed as being born in South Carolina.

Sources

1. ↑ Source Information: Title: Alabama, Revolutionary War Residents, 1776-1783 Author: Ancestry.com Publisher Ancestry.com Operations, Inc. Publisher Date: 2015 Publisher Location Provo, UT, USA
2. ↑ Title: Alabama, Wills and Probate Records, 1753-1999 Author: Ancestry.com
3. ↑ "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HY-6DS7-J22?cc=1401638&wc=95RN-161%3A1031309501%2C1031702001%2C1031722701 : 9 April 2016), Mississippi > Hinds > Hinds county, part of > image 198 of 211; citing NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
4. ↑ "United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M6GC-5M3 : 11 November 2020), N Shackeford in entry for E Patrick, 1860.