RICHARD PETER SHACKLETT
        b 7-15-1858 d 11-9-1930
                m 3-13-1887 Viola Boone Williams b 3-31-1863 d 7-26-1907

Richard Peter Shacklett (Dick) was educated at Georgetown College, Georgetown, Ky.  At the time of his marriage to his neighbor and cousin, Viola Williams, he was running a school in Garrett, a small town near their farm homes.  Viola was educated at LaPoge Teachers College near Indianapolis.  Between babies she helped her husband teach in Hardinsburg, Sturgis and Madisonville, Ky.  They returned to Brandenburg to live when she developed breast cancer and they felt the need to be near others.  You may read more about their lives in "Mother's Letters" in a separate folder.

Their children were:

        Mary b 12-26-1887 d 10-4-1970
                m 6-15-1911 Lemuel R. Ray b 12-2-1873 d 3-24-1933
                        William Shacklett b 12-2-1917 d 10-11-1964
                        Elizabeth Ann b 12-8-1926

        Irby b 5-28-1889 d 7-20-1965
                m 3-23-1911 Guy Aud Hardin b 10-11-1885 d 11-12-1966
                        John Richard b 3-17-1914 d 5-21-1982
                        Rachel b 8-16-1922

        Frances b 9-9-1891 d 3-15-1968
                m 8-29-1911 Byron Meredith Fast b 1-1-1893 d 8-20-1974
                        Barbara Allen b 8-23-1912 d 11-11-1936
                        Charles Edward b 1-4-1915
                        Harriet Anne b 3-15-1925

        Adalisa Hardaway b 11-12-1893 d 6-7-1981
                m 9-20-1924 Thomas Harrison Green b 9-20-1887 d 9-4-1972
                        Thomas Harrison Green II b 5-15-1927

       Lois Hunt b 2-19-1896 d 7-8-1982
                m 10-2-1920 Ashbury Evans Groves d 10-23-1956
                        Ashbury Evans Groves, Jr. b 6-12-1931 d 3-17-1982

       Julia b 3-9-1898 d 3-11-1898
       Richard Herbert b 3-9-1898 d 4-1-1898

       Hayward Hamilton b 3-18-1899 d 1977
              m 7-4-1924 Madelynn Cramer b 12-29-1906 d 6-20-1972
                     Paul Howard b 2-3-1926
                     Adelia Jane b 6-13-1932

       Rachelle b 9-17-1901 d 2-2-1982
              m 10-27-1928 George Frederick Hinchcliffe d 5-17-1970
                     Priscilla Devitt b 2-12-1930
                     Nancy Shacklett b 6-10-1933

       Mildred Williams b 12-29-1903 d 12- -1978
              m 9-20-1931 Thomas Eldreth Finley, Jr. b 10-16-1904

For next two generations see Mother's Letters supplement.

(next page) Family of Richard Peter Shacklette and Viola Boone Williams - continued

Mary m Lemuel Ransom Ray

       William Shacklette b 7-2-1917 d 10-11-1964

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