NOTE: I have no connection, no further information and am not seeking additional information. 11226 BOYLE CO – WILLIAM HENRY SHEARS – Shears, McFarlan, Shindlebower, Gibbons, Umbersaugh, Cure, Bomb, Harris, Myers, Hays, LInney 11226 Kentucky Genealogy and Biography, Volume V, Battle – Perrin – Kniffin, 4th ed. Boyle Co. WILLIAM HENRY SHEARS was born November 15, 1830, at Lexington, Ky.; in 1859 he located on the Lexington Turnpike, near Danville, Boyle County, where he has since resided. His father, William Shears, Sr., was born in Fredericksburg, Va., in 1798; removed with his uncle, William McFarlan, to Fayette County, Ky., when six years of age; was by trade a carpenter and builder, and died in 1880. He was the son of Robert Shears. William, Sr., married Miss Barbara, daughter of George Shindlebower, of Lexington (died in 1872, at the age of seventy-two years), and from their union sprang Robert, Georgia A. (Gibbons), Margaret (Umbersaugh), William Henry, Barbara (Cure), Thomas J., Samuel S. (deceased) and Andrew J. August 1, 1850, William Henry Shears was united in marriage with Miss Edward A., daughter of Edward W. and Elizabeth (Bomb) Harris, of Fayette County, Ky. (born October 14, 1829), and to them have been born Mary J. (Myers), Willam F., Nannie (Hays), Elizabeth, Georgia (Linney), Robert, Virgil and Claude (deceased). In youth Mr. Shears learned the cabinet-maker’s trade, which he followed until 1860. He is now a farmer and stock raiser, owning 100 acres of productive land. For the past twenty-five years he has, in addition to his farming, been engaged in butchering, and in winter slaughtering and packing pork, at which he has been successful. He is a member of the K. of P., and an Ancient Odd Fellow. He was and is an uncompromising Union man, a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church and a Republican. SCKY Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=south-central-kentucky Barren Co Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=kybarren Sandi's Website: http://ggpublishing.tripod.com/ Sandi's Puzzlers: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~gensoup/gorin/puz.html