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.
