Ancestry of
Henry Shankle

(c1855–)

James Shankle

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• • Father of Henry Shankle — 2nd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 2 
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  • Birth Date:
  • 15 Aug 1811 
  • Birth Location:
  • Kentucky 
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  • Death Date:
  • 13 Jun 1888 
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  • Burial Location:
  • Jim Shankle Cemetery, Shankleville, Newton, Texas 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Winnie Brush
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  Henry Shankle (Ahnentafel No:1 )

  Sam Houston Shankle

  • 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.

• 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.