Other spellings of her maiden name include Mulinax, Mullinex, and Mullenix. Her son John Steward Shackelford’s death certifcate spells it the latter way, and reports her birthplace as Nashville, Tenn.

There is a descendants report on the Caswell County (North Carolina) Historical Society site at http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nccha/ for the Descendants of John Shackelford and Nancy Keen (Benjamin’s parents) that contains a more complete description of this family.

http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ncccha/pdf/shackleford/shacklefordkeendescendants.pdf