Person:Permelia Shankland (1)

Her name is shown in an IGI record as 'Petronelia Franics'.

  In the 1860 census for Steuben, Warren Co., Indiana, Jesse Shankland is 43, farmer from Kentucky with $3,000 real estate and $600 personal.  His wife Elizabeth is 40 from Kentucky.  Their children are Margaret, 20; Emery L., 18; George, 16; Theresa, 6; and Emeranda, 2 -- all born in Indiana [Ia on census].  There are two other children: Permelia, 12, born Kentucky; and Cyara or Zara, 11, born Indiana - daughters of his brother William Jonas Shankland.  {p.169}
 According to 'Descendants of William Shankland', she married Amaziah Ratcliff.
 "In 1867 in Dawson he wedded Permelia Shankland, who died in 1875, leaving three children: Ida, the wife of Edward Pierce, a business man of Buffalo, Illinois; Effie, the wife of Samuel Huckleberry of Springfield; and Anna, the wife of Edward Crane, of Dawson... After his first marriage Mr. Ratcliff located on a farm near Dawson and carried on agricultural pursuits for a number of years." {'Past and Present of the City of Springfield and Sangamon County Illinois', 1904, <http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilsangam/1904/ratcliff.htm>}
 In the 1870 census for Mechanicsburg, Sangamon Co., Illinois, Ameziah Ratcliff is 23, born Ohio.  His wife Amelia is 23, born Indiana, and their daughters are Ida May, 3; and Effie B., 4/12ths -- both born Illinois. {p.238}
  She is listed in the Mechanicsburg Cemetery as 'Parmelia Ratcliff, w/o Amaziah'. {Sangamon Co. ILGenWeb, <http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ilmaga/sangamon/cemetery/mcburg/index_r.html>, 4 Mar 2009}