This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: SHACKELFORD/RIDGE Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/XKB.2ACE/296.1 Message Board Post: HI THERE, PLEASE EXCUSE THE ALL CAPS. I HAD AN OPERATION ON MY RIGHT WRIST. I DON'T KNOW IF I CAN HELP OR IF I HAVE INFO YOU CAN USE, HOWEVER, MY ANCESTORS WERE FROM MISSOURI. JACK SHACKELFORD WAS BORN A SLAVE IN MISSOURI IN 1832. HE MOVED TO CENTRAL TEXAS AFTER 1865. FRANCES JANE RIDGE WAS BORN IN JEFFERSON CITY, MO IN 1843.HER FATHER WAS JEFFERSON RIDGE, A CHEROKEE. FRANCES WAS SOLD INTO SLAVERY. SHE WORKED IN MISSOURI AND FOR A FAMILY NAMED HORST IN AUSTIN, TEXAS.