Person:Susanna Dowell (2)

Susanna Jane Dowell Shacklett

"Susan J. Shacklett / July 15, 1830 - Oct. 14, 1920 / Age 90 Yrs."

Gainesville, Texas.

I Susan J. Dowell, was born July 12, 1830 in Brandenburg, Kentucky, Meade County. My parents were Colonel James Board Dowell and Barbara Shacklett. I spent a happy childhood and was the eleventh child having five brothers and five sisters older than myself and one brother younger. When I was fifteen years old, I attended a camp meeting on Ruff Creek Kentucky and while I was there that God for Christ sake forgave my sins. I have been trying ever since to serve to serve the Lord to the best of my ability.

I married Burniss B. Shacklett on March 1, 1849. He had just returned from the Mexican War where he served two years under General Scott.

We lived a happy life in Kentucky for ten years. Had four children born to us B. C. Shacklett, Barbara Shacklett, J. T. Shacklett and Nancy Helen Shacklett, she was two years old when we left Ky for Texas. We left our native land in April 1860, taking boat Mongomery and the captain by the same name. Went down the river from Rochester. Had a storm near Paducah, laid over there until they could repair the boat. We went on to New Orleans and stopped there two days and nights. Then we crossed the river and took the train for the bay. There we boarded the ship for Port Lavaca. We were on the ship two days and nights. We landed at Galveston for a while.

Mrs. Susan Shacklett, Age Ninety Years, Died at Home this Morning.

Mrs. Susan J. Shacklett, one of the pioneer citizens of Gainesville, died at 12;30 o'clock this morning at the home of her son, B. C. Shacklett, on East Broadway. Mrs. Shacklett, born in Brandenburg, Ky., July 12, 1830, was past ninety years of age and during that long and useful life she had seen the country grow from a wilderness to its present modern accomplishments. For many years past she had kept a daily diary of her life and the important happenings of the community, which is said to be a most interesting record. Excerpts from this book will be published in this newspaper at an early date.

Deceased was a devout Christian woman and had done much in her career that was of usefulness to mankind and ____ Master. She reared a large family, most most of the children being alive today. Accompanied by her husband, E. (B.) B. Shacklett, and three children, she moved to Texas in 1859. Forty years ago they moved to Gainsville, where she has since resided, the declining years of her life being spent at the home of her son, Cad.

Surviving are the following children all of whom is expected to be present at the funeral: Mrs. Barbary Dudley, Dundee, Texas; Mrs. Nannie Brown of Missouri; Mrs. Sallie McGlathery and Mrs. E. C. Darnell of Dallas; Mrs. Mattie Hicks of Durant, Okla., and Cad Shacklett of Gainsville.

The funeral will start from the late residence on East Broadway tomorrow afternoon about 2 o'clock, after which the remains will be taken to Redmon Cemetery, three miles southeast of Gainsville for interment. Rev. Wesson of the Grand Avenue Baptist church will officiate, with services at the grave. Undertaker Gibson will have charge of the arrangements.

REMAINS OF PIONEER WOMAN ARE BURIED THIS AFTERNOON

The remains of Mrs. Susan B. Shacklett, who died early yesterday morning at the home of her son, Cad Shacklett, on East Broadway, were taken this afternoon to Redmon graveyard several miles southeast of Gainsville, for interment. The services were conducted by Rev. E. A. Wesson of the Grand Avenue Baptist church. A number of relatives and friends accompanied the remains to their last resting place and the following acted as pall-bearers:

John Maupin, Bud Midkiff, J. J. Sawyers, J. F. Paul, F. M. Savage, H. O. McCain.