Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource VPI Class of 1920 Person An individual. Last Name Schackelford First and Middle Name Macfarland VPI Graduating Class In what VPI class did this individual graduate or what class should they have graduated from? 1920 Rank What military rank did this individual hold? Second Lieutenant Service Branch What branch of the military did this individual serve in? Reserve Officers Unit What unit or ship did this individual serve in or on? Coast Artillery Biographical Text One of the VPI graduating class of 1920, Macfarland Shackelford was sent over to Europe to fight in WWI. He survived the war, was married and had one child before dying in 1990. H was from South Carolina. Nicknames or Other Names Gun Hometown Charleston Ward 2 County and/or State Charleston, South Carolina Birth Date 2.4.1899 Birthplace South Carolina Death Date 3.6.1990 Parents Father: W. W. Shackelford - born 4.27.1858, died 10.10.1941 Mother: Susan M. Shackelford - born 8.30.1867, died 8.81948 Siblings Brother: Randolph Shackelford - born 6.6.1890, death unknown Brother: Willis W. Shackelford - born 4.19.1893, died 8.1984 Brother: Stephen F. Shackelfod - born 1.12.1896, died 8.28.1962 Spouse(s) Mary Adelaide Shackelford - born 8.24.1902, died 2.18.1925 Children Macfarland Shackelford Jr. - born 1929, died 1993 Postwar Life What did this individual do after the war? He returned to Virginia Tech, as he appears in the 1919 Bugle Additional Notes When the death record for Mary Adelaide was discovered she was listed as Macfarla Shackelford, wife to Macfarland Shackelford Contributing Researchers Liv Wisnewski Bibliography Virginia Tech 1919 Bugle 1910 United States Census United States World War I Draft Registration Card South Carolina Death Record Social Security Claims and Index Find a Grave Index Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Schackelford, Macfarland