REV. M. E. SHADDOCK
The subject of this sketch was born near Upper Zion in
Caroline county on November 23, 1840. He married Miss Sallie
Jennings, of Lynchburg, on August 12, 1871 and removed to
Tennessee where he taught and preached for eight years. In 1879 he
located in Avoyelles parish in Louisiana where he lived a number of
years, during which time he was Baptist State Sunday school
organizer. He removed to Lake Charles in 1890 and was principal
of Lake Charles College for some time. He was a member of
Company B., Ninth Virginia Cavalry and served throughout the
Civil War being wounded at Gettysburg. He died at Lake
Charles on December 27, 1920 and was survived by the following
sons and daughters: E. J. Shaddock, W. B. Shaddock and Mrs.
R. P. Howell, of Lake Charles; Mrs. F. W. Wilcox, Beaumont;
Mrs. Isaac Derouen, Bell City; Mrs. H. W..Evans, Alexandria;
Mrs. Archie Cameron, Lake Charles; C. B. Shaddock, Beaumont;
R. M. Shaddock, of Eola and a number of grand children and
great grandchildren. A more detailed biographical sketch of
Mr. Shaddock may be seen in the Lake Charles American Press
of December 27; 1920.
