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John Shackleford, Sr. (Maysville, KY, physician & Kentucky Univ curator)

b. 1801-03-08 d. 1885-01-04

Maysville, Mason County, Kentucky, physician and university curator. Mason County native. Married to Ann Coburn Shackleford in December 1833. Father of John Shackleford, James Shackleford, Charles Shackleford, William Shackleford, and Sprigg Shackleford. Physician in Maysville in 1850. Owned four enslaved persons in Maysville in 1850. Physician in Maysville in 1860. Owned two enslaved persons in Maysville in 1860. Member of the board of curators of Kentucky University in 1865.

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Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mason County, Maysville, p. 47B.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Mason County, Maysville, p. 691, p. 3 of microfilm.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mason County, Maysville, p. 324.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Mason County, Maysville, p. 4B, p. 2 of microfilm.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mason County, Maysville, Ward 3, p. 425A.

Marriage Records: Kentucky Marriages, (Richmond, KY: Madison County Courthouse), film no. 000281842, p. 351.

Find A Grave, "Dr John Shackleford (1801-1885)," Memorial #22985342, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/22985342 (accessed December 15, 2018).

KYR-0001-009-0038.

Citation

Shackleford, John, Sr.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32213595 (November 12, 2026).

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