Person:Earl Shankland (1)

According to 'Descendants of William Shankland', he married Bertha Simmons in 1910.

 In the 1910 census for Lee, Sterling Co., Illinois, Earl Shankland is 28 born IL (father KY, mother IL), farmer, married within the year; with wife Bertha 25 IL (father IL, mother OH), no children; and grandmother Louisa Hedrick 80 born Ohio (father KY, mother Virginia), widowed, with 2 of 5 children living.
 In the WWI draft registration, Earl Monroe Shankland is listed in Brown Co., Illinois. {WWI Draft Registration Index, <www.ancestry.com>}
 Earl and Bertha are listed in Lee in 1920, no children.
 "Fred C. Shankland, one of Brown County's most respected citizens, departed this life at 12:30 a.m. of November 11, 1965, at the Whited Nursing Home where he had been a patient for several weeks... Mr. Shankland was born January 19, 1876, and had he lived until January of 1966 would have reached the age of 90 years.  His parents were David Worth Shankland, who died March 19, 1935, having come to Illinois in 1853 from Nicholas County, Kentucky and settled in Lee Township, and Kate (Means) Shankland, who died in 1884, leaving two young sons, Fred and Earl, and a baby boy, John, who died September 11, 1884...Surviving are: Earl Shankland of Mt. Sterling and Richard Shankland, of Quincy, his brothers..." {'Descendants of William Shankland', by John N. Shankland, <www.shankland.name>, 1 Sept 2004, no sources cited}