On 28 November 1934, N. P. Shackleford married Lily Temple Croxton in Lynchburg, Amherst County, Virginia (license issued on 27 November 1934). He was 29, born in Essex County, Virginia, living in Tappahannock, Essex County, Virginia, son of Alonzo Shackelford and Rosa Allen Shafer, occupation clerk. She was 29, single, born in Essex County, Virginia, living in Center Cross, Essex County, Virginia, daughter of D. C. Croxton and Columbia Stevens. Ceremony by J. O. Babcock, Methodist minister. [Essex County, Virginia, Marriage Register 2, page 531.]