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Gene Willie Strahan

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Gene Willie Strahan

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    James Shankle

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    • 2nd Great-grandfather of Gene Willie Strahan — 5th Generation
    • Ahnentafel No:
    • 20 
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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 
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      • Henry Shankle (Ahnentafel No:10 )

      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.

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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.
    • 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.