Jane Monroe Shackelford ? - 1846

DIED

Columbia Statesman, January 1, 1847, page 3 col 3

On the 27th ult. [of last month], MRS. JANE, wife of Morgan Shackelford, of this county.

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Jane Monroe Shackelford was the wife of Morgan Shackelford, with whom she and her children moved from Virginia to Boone County, Missouri, in approximately, 1841. According to a biography of her son Cumberland that was printed in 1884, "His mother was Miss Jane Monroe, a scion of the old Monroe family whence sprung the president of that name, to whom Mrs. Shackelford’s grandfather was first cousin."

Her birth date is said to be 1800 by other genealogists, but I have not found that date in any records. 

Ruth Galloway Shackelford Obituary

Columbia Statesman, Columbia, MO / May 20, 1870 / page 3 col 3 

DIED

At Roscoe, Mo., May 5th, 1870, RUTH SHACKELFORD, aged 37, wife of W.F. Shackelford. Mrs. Shackelford was born in Boone county, Missouri, July 31st, 1833, the daughter of Samuel and Rebecca Galloway, early settlers of Boone county. In the year 1852 she made profession of religion and became a member of the O.S. Presbyterian Church. She was married to W.F. Shackelford, October 24, 1854, and in the year 1857 she united with the Baptist Church, of which she lived a consistent member until the day of her death, which occurred on the 5th of May, 1870.

Ruth Galloway Shackelford is best known by her descendents for her journal of her family's arduous covered wagon trip from Clark County, Missouri to San Bernadino, California in 1865, as well as the return trip from San Bernadino, California to Missouri, although the journal ended in Texas.