This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: SHAW Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hBB.2ACE/843 Message Board Post: For a very long time, I have been searching for the parents, grandparents, siblings of my great, great, great grandfather, ZACHARIAH SHAW without much success.. Zacharish was born in VA about 1806 (the date extrapolated from the 1850 US Census for Trigg Co.). In the census report he is shown living with wife Sarah, b. in TN, and a number of children born in KY, IL, TN. The oldest child, NANCY C. SHAW was born in KY about 1832 and his last child shown in 1855. Zachariah's occupation is shown as SB Pilot (SB meaning SteamBoat???). Family data - which has proven inaccurate in the past - is that he died of yellow fever in New Orleans -- perhaps on a job related run to New Orleans. Zachariah never appears again in a any census reports I have been able to locate. Sarah, his wife, and a number of their children are listed in the Livingston Co., KY Censuses for 1860 and 1870. Sarah, a widow, and three adult children are living in Louisville in 1880. In 1890, Sarah is shown as living with a son, William, also a pilot, in Paducah, McCracken, KY. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you.