This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/AKB.2ACI/1219 Message Board Post: Need help on this family. Stephen and Mary married 11-21-1869 in Lafayette Co. They were there in 1870 and in Yalobusha Co. in 1880. They have two sons living in Lafayette Co in 1920 and 1930. They are Charles James Shearer and Wife Sallie F. and John William Shearer and wife Annie P.(Irwin)? I don't have anything on their families. Or what happened to their parents. They also had a sister Hettie born around 1879. If anyone can help with this family it would be greatly appreciated. I can fill in Stephen's parents and brothers and sisters. But little detail. Kim

Kim, Cemetery records of Lafayette Co. give a little information that may help you with this family group. Specifically, The Abbeville Cemetery listing records these burials: John W. Shearer, b. 1871, d. 1939 Annie P. Shearer, b. 1876, d. 1943 (above on a double headstone) Charles J. Shearer, b. 29 August 1876, buried in Friendship, Tenn Sallie Frances Shearer, b. 12 August 1867, d. 2 October 1935, 1st wife (above on a double headstone) Next in the Palestine Cemetery are: Lee Shearer, husband of Beulah, b. 29 September 1886, d. 20 January 1929 and M. E. Shearer, wife of S. A., b. 10 August 1849, d. 12 December 1891. Could this be Mary E. Smith Shearer, wife of Stephen A. Shearer? Could Lee be another child of Stephen and Mary? By the way, the Palestine Cemetery was in Lafayette County until 1872 when a portion of the SE corner of the county was ceded to Yalobusha County so that all of the Mississippi Central Railroad yards at Water Valley would be in the same county/tax district. Hence, you will find the family in both counties, though they never moved. I checked the Will abstracts for Yalobusha county and found one will that might be of interest to you, as follows: Will of Joseph SHEARER, page 40, Will Book 1, Second District (Water Valley court house): Sons- Joseph N. Shearer, George W. Shearer, William A. J. Shearer; Grandson- Wm. Frederick Shearer; Bequeaths to - Dicy Ann Adams, Stephen ?___?; Witnesses - John Young, Margaret Shearer, T. B. Abbey, H. A. Crofford. Probated July 1884. Marriage bond book K, page 128, Lafayette County, MS J. W. Shearer & Annie Shipp, 26 September 1894 R. A. Burroughers, Minister of the Gospel, officiated. Marriage bond book B, page 170, Yalobusha County, MS; Water Valley court house William J. Shearers (sic) & Manervia Jane Lewis, 22 Dec 1896 E. D. Williams, Elder, officiated. Next are a few obituaries in the N. MS area which may or may not relate to this family: ===================================================== Obituary, The Clarion-Ledger: February 20, 2004 Phyllis Annette Shearer Gulfport, Mississippi Phyllis Annette Shearer, 57, died Thursday, February 12, 2004, at her home. Visitation is 12 noon until 2 p.m. today at Wright & Ferguson Funeral Home in Jackson. Services are 2 p.m. Friday at the funeral home with burial in Lakewood Memorial Park. Phyllis was born in Jackson on November 6, 1946, and graduated from Central High School in 1964. She attended Mississippi State University and graduated from the University of Southern Mississippi. Phyllis was a long-time Government Service employee. She worked for the Social Security Administration in Jackson and New York City. She also worked for the Internal Revenue Service in Jackson, Tupelo and Gulfport for approximately 30 years. Phyllis was of the Baptist faith. She will be deeply missed by her family and friends. She was preceded in death by her parents, Doug Shearer and Corene Shearer Hales, one sister, Peggy Shearer Rhodes and three brothers, Douglas Shearer and Hugh Shearer of Jackson and Tony Shearer of Chalmette, Louisiana. She is survived by one sister, Eleanor Shearer Dearman of Brandon and 20 nieces and nephews. \======================================================================\ Name of Deceased: Della Irene Hopkins Age at Death: 89 Birth Date: 7/22/1914 Death Date: 10/22/2003 Newspaper Title: Times Post, The Newspaper Location: Houston, MS, US Obituary Publication Date: 12/18/2003 Locations Mentioned in Obituary: Ridgecrest, LA; Mendenhall; Waterproof, LA; Vidalia; FERRIDAY, LA; Enterprise, AL; St. Joseph, LA; Quitman, LA; New Hebron Other Persons Mentioned in Obituary: Gary Shearer; Buddy Raley; Harvey Hopkins; Lilla Victoria Darnell; Nelda Rabb; Karen Owens; J. E. Hopkins; Pam Norwood; James Henry; Sheryl Abernathy; Brian Smith; Patsy Shearer; Laney Hopkins; George Owens; Phillip Hopkins; JoAn Raley; Blane Hopkins; LaDean McDaniel ====================================== Name of Deceased: Pearleane Johnson Posley Age at Death: 68 Birth Date: 3/15/1935 Death Date: 12/29/2003 Newspaper Title: Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal Newspaper Location: Tupelo, MS, US Obituary Publication Date: 1/6/2004 Locations Mentioned in Obituary: Water Valley; West Point; Las Cruces, NM; Houston; Panacea; MANTEE; Independence; Woodland Other Persons Mentioned in Obituary: Ronda Bluitt; John Thomas Shearer; Bobby Suratt; Raymond Aven; Edward Bradley Shearer; Lynroy Posley; Minister Ronda Bluitt; Terry Kilgore; Dolly Ruth Dalton; Enothy Wilson; Stan Crow; Viola Ford; Ronald Wilson; Betty Kilgore Shearer; Elizabeth Deans; Paul Milton Shearer; Celeste E. Shearer; Bobbie Atkinson; Al Davis; Bo "Hugh" Kilgore; Rance Kilgore; Jimmy Dale; Shirley McKinney; Norva Wofford; James E. Shearer; Bill Cole ============================================= I hope some of this proves new and useful to your family research. Best of luck filling in the blanks. Bill Ward, Potttsboro, TX