This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Shackelford, Patterson, Motley, and Mims Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/pR.2ADE/854 Message Board Post: I'm researching my husband's family and know that his grandparents were Henry Shackleford and Henrietta Patterson Shackleford. I believe Henrietta's parents were William Patterson and Amelia "Mealy" Motley. Mealy's mother's maiden name may have been Mims. We've been told the story that William Patterson's father was "Old Man" Patterson and that one of his sons gambled away his plantation.