Shadden Family
The Shaddens were a pioneer family that came out west in 1842 from Arkansas. Some of the topics in this website go into much more detail. The two family members I became most interesed in were:
- Thomas Jefferson Shadden, because he is my great great great great grandfather, who I never heard about it when growing up, who appears in the photo I have of him to look a lot like me.
- Drucilla Shadden, Thomas' oldest child, born in Arkansas, and married John Hames, the founder of Soquel, California, and is buried in Soquel just a few hundred yards from my house.