Stamper Family Project
 A Brief History of the Acker--Halbert Family : composed of biographical sketches and descent diagrams
Compiled and edited by E D Acker, A B, LL B, Lincoln, ALA ---- September 1, 1928
 
 History of Acker-Halbert Family page 150
SHROPSHIRE, ALMA BURTON, daughter of Gideon Taylor Burton and Bellzora A. Acker, grand-daughter of
Silas Burton and Narcissas Dial and of Albert Sutherland Acker and Elizabeth O'Rear, great-grand-daughter
of Amos Acker and Ruth Halbert and of Major William O'Rear and Dorothy Reed, great-great-grand-daughter
of Joel Halbert and Mary Lindsay and of Peter Acker, Sr., a German immigrant and a Revolutionary soldier
under the elder Wade Hampton of South Carolina, and his wife, Jane Sutherland, great-great-great-grand-daughter
of William Halbert of Welsh descent and a Revolutionary soldier from Virginia and his wife, Elizabeth Hill,
great-great-great-great-grand-daughter of Joel Halbert and Elizabeth Jones and of William Hill and Susannah Smithers
(William Hill was a member of the Provincial Congress which met at Hillsboro North Carolina, August 20, 
 
 
History of Acker-Halbert Family page 151 
 

1775, being a member from Surry County), was born at Lincoln, in Talladega County, Alabama, on August 10, 1883. She
joined the Lincoln Baptist church while yet a girl and became an active worker in the Sabbath school and church. After
completing the course in the public schools of Lincoln, she entered Shorter College of Rome, Georgia, and completed a
course in English along with her commercial course in June, 1905, and was immediately employed as stenographer and
bookkeeper by the Railway and Light Company where she continued to work till her marriage with Frank Caloway
Shropshire of Rome, Georgia, a cotton merchant of that city. To this union the following children have been born:

Janie Shropshire, born in Rome, Georgia, July 12,1911, and now a member of the senior class in the city high school.

Frank C. Shropshire, Jr., born in Rome, Georgia, February 9, 1913, and now a member of the junior class in city high school.

Beulah Shropshire, born in Rome, Georgia, June 23, 1915, and now in the 7th grade of the city schools.

Present address: P. 0. Box 275, Rome, Ga.

 

SHROPSHIRE, FRANK CALOWAY, son of Augustus Wright Shropshire and Clara White, grand-son of Frank C. Shropshire
and Mary Wright and of Milton White and Susan Myra Stamper, was born in Rome, Georgia, October 28,1885;
completed the high school course in the city schools of Rome; and then took a commercial course. After completing
his commercial course, he engaged in thebusiness of cotton merchant in his home city and is still engaged in that
business. For many long years, Rome has been noted as a cotton market and his selection of his home city as a
location for that business has evidently proved satisfactory to him. On April 2, 1908, he married Alma Burton of Lincoln,
Alabama, and they have the following children: (note of Golden Ferguson ... Janie, Frank C and Beulah). 
 
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