Transcribed without making changes to spelling and grammar. Transcribed by Joyce Robinson The Portsmouth Times Dated: September 4, 1880 SHACKLEFORD -- At the residence of her mother, in Des Moines, Iowa, Saturday, August 28th, Mary E. Shackleford, formerly of Portsmouth, aged forty-one years. The many friends of Miss Mary E. Shackleford will hear of her death, which occurred at Des Moines, Iowa, last Saturday, with sadness. She was born in this city, and passed the greater portion of her life among our people. By her old associates her quiet, womanly ways, her pure life, and her constant devotion to those she loved, will be treasured as precious recollections. She removed West with her father's family about ten years ago, but has occasionally revisited her old home and friends. She died after a week's illness of gastric fever.