Ancestry of
James Shankle
Founder of freedom colony Shankleville TX
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- 1st Generation
- Ahnentafel No:
- 1
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- Mother:
- Birth Date:
- 15 Aug 1811
- Birth Location:
- Kentucky
- Christening Date:
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- Death Date:
- 13 Jun 1888
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- Burial Date:
- Burial Location:
- Jim Shankle Cemetery, Shankleville, Newton, Texas
- Notes:
Founder of the freedmen's community of Shankleville, Newton County, Texas.
In 1867, James and his wife Winnie Shankle became the first freed slaves to buy land in Newton County, Texas.
James Shankle
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Marriages for James Shankle
- Spouse:
- Winnie Brush
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Sources for James Shankle
- 1 Federal Census, TX, Newton County, 1880, Precinct 2, E.D. 55, p. 25, Image 6 of 11.
- 2 Federal Census, TX Newton County, 1870, Newton, p. 19, Image 19 of 55.
- 3 Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 08/07/2021).
- 4 Shankleville Historical Society, (accessed 08/07/2021).
- 5 Gates, Henry Louis, Jr. and Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, African American National Biography, New York: Oxford University Press (2008), Vol. 7, p. 159.
- 6 Snodgrass, Mary Ellen, The Civil War Era and Reconstruction: An Encyclopedia of Social, Political, Cultural, and Economic History, London and New York: Routledge (2015), 89, 91.