Early Life
William Shade Jr. was born February 1898 in Tennessee to William Shade and Mary Shade (née Hardy). Mary was fourteen years old when she had William. After her husband's death from a gunshot wound in 1903, Mary married a member of the Banks family, but by 1920 she was living as a widow once again. Shade had two half brothers, Henry Banks and Robert Banks. He credited his mother with teaching him how to play harmonica, his first instrument. The genealogy of Shade is being conducted by genealogist Dennis Richmond Jr from Yonkers, New York. Dennis has traced the family histories of Sylvia Woods, Peg Leg Sam, and Cab Calloway.
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