This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Shackles Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/FMB.2ACE/2370 Message Board Post: Sedalia Daily Democrat, Tuesday, October 27, 1874, p. 4 Mrs. Shackles, the mother of the little newsboy who had his arm crushed by the cars, about two months since, died about noon yesterday, of pneumonia. The family are extremely poor, and we are told that she died in the most abject filth and poverty. Her husband is a cripple, and the little boy has been the main support of the family. She will be buried at the expense of the county.