Henderson | Shackelford Funeral Directors

January of 1991 found the Shackelfords entering into an agreement with Fentress Casey, his wife Martha, and his mother Mary, to purchase what was then Casey Funeral Home, a funeral service business dating back to 1891 when it was a part of Jap Hardeman’s Furniture and Hardware. Eventually Robert Casey purchased the business which had become a full-service funeral home located in what is now the Home Economics building of Freed-Hardeman University. It was Robert who moved the firm to the A. G. Freed residence in 1943, a historic home built and occupied by a co-founder of Freed-Hardeman, and it was Robert’s son Fentress who entrusted the care of Chester County’s families to the Shackelfords.

Huey A. Morgan and L. I. Rowsey opened a combination funeral home and furniture store on the Main Street of Henderson, Tennessee in 1913—a partnership that continued until Morgan purchased Rowsey’s interest in 1940. Fast forward 40 years to 1980 at which time Leon Johnson, a partner since 1955, bought the Morgan family’s share of the business and changed the name to Leon Johnson and Son Funeral Home. A decade later, with retirement approaching, Leon chose to sell his business to the Shackelford family. The name was changed to Shackelford Funeral Directors of Henderson – Johnson Chapel in 2007 and, in 2018, the business was merged with their one-time competitors, Casey Chapel.