Robert Bob Shanks

Robert was born with the name of John Milton Shanks. Sometime in the 1900's he began to go by Bob or Robert. In the 1900 census for Washington Co., AR, he is shown living with his parents and listed as John M. In 1910 he is shown living in two households, his father's where he is listed as John M and with a brother where he is listed as Bob. At his marriage to Mattie Hanna in 1912, he used the name Bob, but in his WWI draft record he used John Milton Shanks. Starting with the 1920 census, he used only Robert or Bob for the rest of his life.