At 09:28 AM 3/24/99 -0700, you wrote: >Hi, > I am new to the list and this is the family that I am researching. Is >anyone else doing this same family? >John SHAVER, b. 1745/46 Germany. He married Elizabeth PENCE on July >19, 1784 in Shenandoah County, Virginia. He died before May 1, 1851 in >Boone County, Kentucky. He lived to be 105 yrs. old. >Their children were; >1.) Betsy (Elizabeth), m. Abraham ANDERSON on Nov. 10, 1814, Boone Co. >Ky. >2.)Sarah (Sally), m. John HELM on Oct.15, 1818, Boone Co., Ky. >3.) Mary Louise(Polly), b. December 19. 1789 in Madison Co., Virginia, >m. Silas >CRISLER, Sept. 29, 1808 in Boone Co., Ky. d. Dec. 2, 1851 in Illinois. >4.) Catherine(Kitty),b. 1790, m. Joseph WAYLAND on June 21,1812, d. >before 1831 >5.) George Washington SHAVER, m. Elizabeth DIAL on August 17, 1808, d. >March 18, 1869 in >New London Ralls, Co. Missouri. >6.) Jennetta, b.November 10, 1806 in Boone Co.,Ky., m.Elias STRICKLER >COFFMAN on Dec. 31, >1829 in Boone Co.Ky, d. November 12, 1885 in Beloit Kansas >7.) Maria, b. 1807 in Boone Co.Ky., m. Robert GANT in 1818, d. August >22, 1845 in >Randolph Co.Illinois >8. Alfred SHAVER who died at the age of 21. > >Catherine and Joseph WAYLAND'S children were, Richard, John, Lucy, >George Washington, Finks, and Malinda who >married Thomas Underhill on August 3, 1843 in Boone County, Ky. Be careful about an ancestor being 105 years old.....you might have a father and son with the same name, or an uncle and a nephew. If you have found him in the 1850 Boone Co Kentucky census and the age checks.....then you are okay. I only caution you because I have seen people with an ancestor 120 years old......really a father and a son. I have one that was around 100 years old when he died, so some of those ole birds did live a long time. We were lucky to find him in 1840 census in the 90-100 age bracket and he died before the 1850 census, so he might have seen his 100th birthday. I have tried to check newspaper accounts for that time - thinking something would have been written about a man who reached his 100th birthday, but no luck yet. As I said, if you have checked the census and his age checks, then congrats on a 105 year old ancestor. Mary [email protected]