Bonus: Everett Ezra Shanklin and Sara Obeira Breeden (grandchildren 9, 10, 11, 12)

[Mom's paternal grandparents]

We had already introduced them couple a bit here when we discussed Everett's parents, so this post will just kind of add a few details.  The documentation on Obeira's parents and their families (the Breedens) found here.  For those who know oldhickorywaffles, there's a post there, too with some of mom's recollections, written down a few years ago.

Everett Ezra Shanklin
Birth: 13 JAN 1896, Dresden, Weakley, Tennessee
Death: 01 Jan 1974, Weakley, Tennessee

Sarah Obeira Breeden
Birth: 25 December 1898, Ruthville, Weakley, Tennessee
Death: 07 Sep 1971, Weakley, Tennessee

Everett Ezra and Sarah Obeira Breeden Shanklin.  Married 5 May 1923

Everett Ezra Shanklin

Everett was born to George Harrison Shanklin (1870-1941) and Susan Ida Maxey (1872-1917) in Dresden, TN in 1896.  He was the second of two boys.

Siblings
1. Zelodius Roscoe (1894-1963) m 1915 Charity Jones (1894-1984)
2. Everett Ezra (1896-1974) m 1923 Sarah Obeira Breeden (1898-1971)

As a boy, Everett periodically had health troubles.  His mother worried about him quite a bit, and his sister-in-law later said "he was a little 'sickly'" compared to Roscoe.  Aunt Charity (Roscoe's wife) said Everett's mom and Roscoe both really loved Everett.  Susan (his mother) would sit at the end of the hearth and churn butter and read her Bible or some story to her boys.  Later, she took measles from Everett.  Ultimately, she died March 5, 1917, when Everett  was 21 and Roscoe was 23.

Sarah Obeira Breeden

Sarah was the oldest child born to James Priestly Breeden (1875-1926) and Ida Eugenia Reed (1877-1953), born in Ruthville, TN in 1898.  Her family was a farming family.  At the time of her birth, James and Ida lived next door to her grandparents Joseph W. Reed and Matilda, and were taking care of her widowed grandfather Jesse Breeden.

Siblings of Sarah
1. Sarah Obeira (1898-1971) m 1923 Everett Ezra Shanklin (1896-1923)
2. Lena  (1899-1919) m 1916 Frank Carter Milam (1896-1960)
3. Gertrude  (1902-1903)
4. Joseph Linzie  (1904-1972) m. 1926 Ruby Rhodes (1905-1972)
5. Ralph Edward (1911-1978) m 1930 Helen Mearie Killebrew (1915-2006)
6. Mattie Elizabeth (1917-2005) m Claude "Shorty" Owen (??-??)

Life Together
Everett was home from the war in June 1919, age 23 and 4 years later married Sarah Obeira Breeden May 5, 1923 when he was 27 and Obeira was 25.

They had three children:
1. Ida Faye (1926-2012) m William Robert Call (1923-2015)
2. Joe Harold (1929-1996) m 1953 Beverly Dale Thompson (1930-1994)
3. Dan Priestley (1938-living) m Mildred Lee Hearn (1940-2012)

At that point, there was 250 acres in the 4th district available for farming, and and Roscoe, Everett, George bought in for an equal partnership. ( Neighbors were Sam Brundige, Elvie Carney, Louis Price, Millard Buckley).

New Hope Methodist, Ruthville, Weakley.  There are two other New Hopes in Weakley Co. One is located at the New Hope Cumberland Presbyterian Church and the other New Hope Baptist of the Latham/Palmersville Road near the Shanklin Farm.

 Everett was a member of American Post 94 at Dresden.  Obeira and Everett both went to New Hope Methodist in Ruthville.  Pa was baptized Methodist, then later to New Hope Baptist, perhaps out of close proximity to their house.

Obeira's sister, Mattie Elizabeth was 5 years old when Obeira and Everett (Shanklin) got married.  Mattie said the day they got married Obeira dressed her up in her best clothes, and then after the wedding they came back to the house and had a big meal.  She said Casie Pentecost might have been there because she and Ma were best friends.   Mattie said that Obeira taught school for awhile even though she didn't have a high school education.  She taught at Bennet's school house in Hickman Co, KY and stayed at Sonsie and Seldon Reed's.  Obeira was the oldest and was sweet, like a mother, to Mattie.  Obeira called her Sissie.  

We called Mattie Auntie ( pronounced AINT-Y...and her husband Claude Owens we called Shorty!)  I, Linda Shanklin Jackson remember staying at their house when Ma (Obeira) died.  I was working on my art project of a brown burlap portfolio with a folk art pattern of birds and flowers and vines from felt.  I was working on it on the floor in the living room. 

My dad Joe Shanklin asked Aunt Mag Hall if Ma (Obeira) didn't make them do alot more than other kids.  She laughed and said she believed so ...that she wanted to keep them busy.  Besides pulling weeds, bringing in stovewood, and picking up sticks out of the yard,  Joe said they had to "sweep the chicken yard back clean back to the outhouse."  I can kind of understand that because Ma didn't want them tracking in chicken poo!   They didn't have indoor plumbing at Ma and Pa's until I was in high school!

Everett was known as a hard worker, as his forefathers all were. Around 1931 Everett had 12 family members in a Beef Club. When it was cool enough he would kill a calf at midnight, have it skinned and dressed by daylight. Typical storage methods would be to take it home and can it or put it in salt brine or salt cure it.

Now for an observation about the running water situation at Ma and Pa's house:

As Obeira aged, they were finally convinced to get an indoor bathroom! I think their adult children made this happen for them.  She died of cancer Sept. 7, 1971, at the beginning of my Junior Year, when I was almost almost 16.  Through the years Everett  had acquired up to about 150 acres, some of which was not in the original plot.  It was said he was a good money manager, even more generous than his dad.  He also had cancer and was staying at our house at the time I graduated high school in Columbia in May 1973, and then moved into the nursing home down the street.  He died January of my freshman year of college. 

Here's an excerpt from Mom's blog:

 I know Pa grew tobacco, but I never heard Daddy talk about working it.  Dan told us about how they had 12 acres of tobacco and on Monday they would start on one end pulling out the 'suckers' - the little plants that were growing around the stalk, and small leaves in each stalk that needed to be removed for best growth.  Each day they would keep that up till the last day of the week it was done.  They wore the same clothes each day,  till Pa's overalls would just about stand up by themselves in the washroom.  They had to wear long sleeve cotton shirts as it was such a messy messy job, and a hot one at that.  Hardest work Dan ever did.  So definitely my Dad worked the tobacco.  Dan and Daddy both had their cows and pigs too.  Dan said he slept with his pig at the fair, on 2 bales of hay...you just didn't go off and leave your pig alone at night at the fair!

Ma kept a rose garden!