The following was recently posted on Shaw rootsweb (SHAW-L@rootsweb.com) Subject: [SHAW-L] Re: Robert Shaw Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 14:33:38 EDT From: SS6433@aol.com To: SHAW-L@rootsweb.com The following is from a book entitled "History of Adair, Sullivan, Putnam and Schuyler Counties, Missouri"; The Goodspeed Publishing Co. 1888. Personal, Business and Pofessional with nemerous Family Records and sketches. Robert Shaw, farmer and stock raiser, was born in Licking County, Ohio in 1812, and moved to Fulton County Ill., in 1836; and in March, 1869 began to farm in Schuyler County, where he has since resided. He began life for himself when twenty-one years of age, and from a poor man has become the owner of 663 acers of choice land in Schuyler County, and 160 acers in Scotland, County, Mo., and also 350 acers in Fulton County, Ill., which is good evidence of his business ability and good management. In 1833 he was united in marriage to Miss Catherine Boadner, a native of Pennsylvania and by her thirteen children have been born: Alexander, Minerva (deceased), Sarah, Peter (deceased) Emaline, Mary Ann, Isaac, Henry, Jasper, Newton, Rebecca, John W., Amanda E., and James M. Mr Shaw is a Democrat, and when in Illinois served two years as tax-collector. He is the seventh of a family of thirteen children of Alexander and Mary (Bartley) Shaw, native of Virginia, who moved to Licking County, Ohio, at an early day, at which place they lived and died. The faher was a soldier in the War of 1812, and the son of Charles Shaw. Copied by Guy Bordner ______________________________ OHLICKIN-D-request@rootsweb.com wrote: > Subject: > > OHLICKIN-D Digest Volume 98 : Issue 55 > > Today's Topics: > #1 Cemeteries and obits.. [Jacroing67@aol.com] > > Administrivia: > To unsubscribe from OHLICKIN-D, send a message to > > OHLICKIN-D-request@rootsweb.com > > that contains in the body of the message the command > > unsubscribe > > and no other text. No subject line is necessary, but if your software > requires one, just use unsubscribe in the subject, too. > > ______________________________ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Subject: Cemeteries and obits.. > Date: Sat, 17 Oct 1998 12:13:55 EDT > From: Jacroing67@aol.com > To: OHLICKIN-L@rootsweb.com > > I am looking for the deaths and burials of Alexander and Mary SHAW...my > information from Oregon is that they died and were buried in Licking County, > Oh...does anyone have info on this couple? Or where I would search for them? > > Jacqueline