Notes for James P. Shackelford
James P. Shackelford, son of Richard and Mary A. Roberts-Shackelford, born in Virginia Nov 5, 1780, and died in Henderson Co, Tenn., about 1850. He married first Mary Ann Roberts, his cousin, and they had the following children: Calvin, Elizabeth, James Madison, Louisa, Eliza, William D., Martha S., and Mary Ann Caroline.
513His second wife was Polly Seaton. They were married in 1820. Since Polly was a common nickname for Mary, it is assumed that this is the Mary Strickland listed in the 1850 census in the home of Hiram D. Shackleford.