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Facts and Events
| Name[1] |
Gen. Blancet Shacklett |
| Alt Name[1] |
Blancette Shacklett |
| Alt Name[1] |
Blancit Shacklett |
| Alt Name[1] |
Blansit Shacklett |
| Gender |
Male |
| Birth[1][3][10] |
18 Mar 1787 |
Fayette County, Pennsylvania |
| Marriage |
6 Jun 1807 |
Hardin County, Kentuckyto Rachel Ashcraft |
| Census[5] |
1810 |
Elizabethtown, Hardin County, Kentucky |
| Census[6] |
1820 |
Little York, Hardin County, Kentucky |
| Census[7] |
1830 |
Brandenburg, Meade County, Kentucky |
| Census[8] |
1840 |
Meade County, Kentucky |
| Census[9] |
1850 |
Meade County, Kentucky |
| Death[1][2][3][10] |
5 Dec 1859 |
near Brandenburg, Meade County, Kentucky(of typhoid, according to 1860 Mortality Schedule) |
| Burial[3][10] |
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Highland of Hill Grove Cemetery, Meade, Kentucky, United States |
Hardin County, Kentucky, 1810 census:[5]
- Shacklet, Blancet
- Males
- under 10 = 1
- 16-25 = 1
- Females
- under 10 = 1
- 16-25 = 1
Hardin County, Kentucky, 1820 census:[6]
- Shackelet, Blancet (agriculture = 2)
- Males
- under 10 = 2
- 10-15 = 1
- 26-44 = 1
- Females
- under 10 = 1
- 10-15 = 1
- 26-44 = 1
Meade County, Kentucky, 1830 census:[7]
- Shacklett, Blancit
- Males
- under 5 = 2
- 10-14 = 2
- 20-29 = 1
- 40-49 = 1
- Females
- under 5 = 3
- 5-9 =1
- 10-14 = 1
- 20-29 = 1
- 40-49 = 1
Meade County, Kentucky, 1840 census:[8]
- Shacklett, Blanset (agriculture = 5)
- Males
- 10-14 = 2
- 50-59 = 1
- Females
- 10-14 = 2
- 15-19 = 5
- 50-59 = 1
- Slaves
- Males = 4
- Females = 1
Meade County, Kentucky, 1850 census:[9]
- Shacklett, Blancet 63 yrs Farmer (real estate=$1,600) b. Pennsylvania
- Rachel 60 yrs b. Pennsylvania
- Malinda 23 yrs b. Kentucky
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Neal, Martha Ashcraft. The Ashcraft Family: Descendants of Daniel Ashcraft. (Baltimore, Maryland: Gateway Press, 1994)
p. 506. - ↑ Meade County, Kentucky. 1860 U.S. Census Population Schedule
Mortality Schedule, p. 2, line 6.
Died of typhoid, age 72 years, born Pennsylvania.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Grave marker, Highland of Hill Grove Cemetery, Meade, Kentucky, United States.
- Ridenour, George L. Early times in Meade County, Kentucky. (Louisville, Ky.: Western Recorder, 1929)
p. 11.
General Benjamin Shacklett, an early settler in the Hill Grove, leaves the following account of the great numbers of deer.
"As to deer we thought no more of going out to kill one, when wanting one, than we did of going out to wring the neck off a chicken."
Hoard Withers was fond of telling about the abundance of game, especially of deer. He said, "No one planted more than three acres of ground because we didn't need any more."
The settlers had to guard their corn while in roasting ear to keep the deer from destroying the ears. General Shacklett often told of seeing deer tracks in patches of corn in the Hill Grove as thick as ever he had seen the tracks of hogs in a hog lot. In certain weather the deer would assemble in the Hill Grove in numbers that now seem incredible. Early settlers did not hunt them because powder and lead were too expensive. In the falls when there were heavy beech masts wild turkeys would get so fat that if they fell a great distance after being shot their breasts would burst upon striking the ground.
General Blancet Shacklett was a great bear hunter. His wife, Rachel Ashcraft Shacklett, was fond of telling about their finding a bear and her two cubs in a cave. General Shacklett persuaded his wife to hold a torch for him while he shot the bears. He assured her that she was in no danger as bears would always shun the light and squeeze themselves into the smallest places -- "Without," she said, "they were wounded. And I depended on the old man to kill them and not let them kill me."
In later years the old general's fondness for bear was the cause of a painful accident to his little daughter, Sophia. He had captured a cub, which he kept chained to a post in the yard. After the bear was full-grown it broke loose one day and raided the springhouse. After causing much damage the bear returned to the yard. Sophia was playing about the house. The bear attacked the little girl. Nearly all the skin was torn from her head and she received other painful injuries before her father killed the bran. The child suffered for many weeks but she finally recovered. In later life she and her husband, William Saunders, lived near Brandenburg.
In speaking of General Benjamin Shacklett the Honorable William G. Beall says:
"I remember seeing him but once, and stayed all night with him in 1832, and questioned him about the state of the country when he first settled it; especially about the abounding of game in the county. Seeing I had hunting on the brain, never having bagged anything larger than a squirrel, being then fresh from the city, .he took pleasure in, gratifying roe with a full detail. The number of deer and quantity of game in the county would almost seem incredible to persons of the present day. Indeed, Hill Grove and vicinity must have been a very paradise of hunters."
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Hardin, Kentucky, United States. 1810 U.S. Census Population Schedule
p. 296.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Hardin, Kentucky, United States. 1820 U.S. Census Population Schedule
p. 30.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Meade, Kentucky, United States. 1830 U.S. Census Population Schedule
p. 277.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Meade, Kentucky, United States. 1840 U.S. Census Population Schedule
p. 116.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Meade, Kentucky, United States. 1850 U.S. Census Population Schedule
p. 198, dwelling/family 379/380.
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 Find A Grave.
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