I think most of the traffic on this site should be sent e-mail. Most of us are not interested in your Aunt Tillie SHANNON and the thousands of pages about her.

Lucy, Since I began my quest, I have discovered that my George M Shannon born Aug 15, 1832 married maybe twice...a Mary from KY, and Sarah C. Adams from IN. I found copies of their marriage license and burial sites for them and David Armstrong and Nancy Alexander his parents. Also have a copy of a will of David Armstrong. That's as far as I've gotten. Also found in same family cemetery, Charles Shannon1869-1922 (could this be another son of George M) and a Virgil R. Shannon 1906 - 1928. But tell me about Shannondale, which Shannon was it named for. Is it our group. What did they do for a living? I can't find anything about my Grandfather Earl. Thanks, Linda ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, November 01, 1999 10:08 AM Subject: Re: [SHANNON-L] Shannondale, IN > > In a message dated 10/31/1999 3:23:43 PM Eastern Standard Time, > [email protected] writes: > > << While doing my research for my Greatgrand father George M. Shannon, I have > run across a JJ Shannon of Shannondale. Where is it and what connection do > these Shannons have with the ones I've been reading about here for so long? > >> > Is the father of your George M. Shannon, David Shannon? And was George born > abt 1833 in KY? If so, George is probably the brother of my husband's > great-grandfather, Ignatius Shannon and JJ Shannon's full name is Joseph > Jordan Shannon, also a brother. I have some info on the family and would be > interested in what you have. Much of what I have I got from Karen Zach > ([email protected]) and Beth Shannon ([email protected]). > > Lucy Folger >

Amen, thank you Joyce. I'm in it for Genealogy and the historical information that goes with it. Names and numbers are much more interesting if you know what life was like at that time. More often than not you cannot find that information for your own family but can draw a parallel with those letters to find what how ancesters may have lived. Keep the histry comming. Carey Jordan

I wish to correct an assumption.........most on this list are interested in family facts/traditions and are perfectly free to post such. If anyone feels the postings are not to your liking, perhaps you should either subscribe to the digest form (which will arrive with several posts lumped together every few days), or unsubscribe. This list is for any SHANNON family, any time, any place. And since I get a copy of each post, I have not seen any that appear overly long. And there's always the delete button. Joyce, list manager

Rita, Perhaps Tommie Taylor could help you more on Samuel & Thomas Jefferson who were quakker/shakers. If I'm correct on this, Thomas J. is in her line. As to Samuel, I know I saw him somewhere, but don't remember where. It's been some time since I was active in the genealogy. I will keep looking, and let you know when I find something. Mike

In a message dated 10/31/1999 3:23:43 PM Eastern Standard Time, [email protected] writes: << While doing my research for my Greatgrand father George M. Shannon, I have run across a JJ Shannon of Shannondale. Where is it and what connection do these Shannons have with the ones I've been reading about here for so long? >> Is the father of your George M. Shannon, David Shannon? And was George born abt 1833 in KY? If so, George is probably the brother of my husband's great-grandfather, Ignatius Shannon and JJ Shannon's full name is Joseph Jordan Shannon, also a brother. I have some info on the family and would be interested in what you have. Much of what I have I got from Karen Zach ([email protected]) and Beth Shannon ([email protected]). Lucy Folger

from free Ancestry 10 day database: Boasting a population of about 13,000 people in 1890, Smyth County is located in western Virginia, near the Tennessee border. This database is a collection of birth records from the county between 1885 and 1896. Taken from existing county documents held by the state, it provides valuable information regarding nearly 4000 children. Researchers will find the child's name, race, sex, birth date, and parents' names. Page numbers refer to the original county document from which these records were taken Info included: Surname, Given Name, Month, Day, Year, Race, Sex, Father's Name, Mother's Name, Notes, & Page # SHANNON CHARLES NOV 29 1891 W M CHARLES M.E. 287 SHANNON LUCILE MAR 7 1894 W F WILLIAM MARY 323 SHANNON NO NAME 1895 W F W.H. MARY 333 SHANNON WALTER APR 1891 W M W.H. M.E. 287 SHANNON GEORGE APR 27 1885 W M CHARLES MARY 229 SHANNON JOHN DEC 1889 W M WILLIAM MARY 267 SHANNON LULA LEE AUG 20 1889 W F CHARLES MATTIE 267 SHANNON MAGGIE NOV 1887 W F WILLIAM MARY 251 SHANNON RACHEL APR 25 1886 W F WILLIAM MARY 233 SHANNON ROBERT APR 23 1887 W M CHARLES M.E. 251

----- Original Message ----- From: James and Carolyn <[email protected]> > Jim, all I know about Andrew is what I have been told that he was born > about 1785 in Anderson Co. TN to William and Katherine Shannon. > William was born 05 Oct 1756 in Chester Co. PA and applied for Rev. War > Pension while living in Grainger Co., TN on 06 Apr 1833.and place on > pension 16 Jul 1834 at 77 yrs of age{source abstracts of Rev War Pension > files, 3081} I am told that Andrew Shannon born about 1785 in Anderson > Co. TN. and married Elizabeth --unknown__(abt 1790}. Andrew and > Elizabeth's children are Jane: Sarilda: James born 1810 TN died 20 > Nov 1850 Morgan Co. TN; Wesley born abt 1814 married Susan Davis on 31 > Jan 1836; Mahalia born abt 1815;; Rebecca abt born about abt1818; > Preston W. born abt1823. and Wright born abt 1826. I got this > information from JAMES SHANNON { 1810-1850} researcher. Preston W. > Shannon { 1823- 1888.} was the father to David Milford Shannon { 1850- > 1895}. I have found both Preston W. Shannon and David Milford Shannon > graves in Scarbrough Cem in the Oak Ridge area of Anderson Co. TN. > Preston only date on tombstone l is March 1 1888. which was his date of > death. David Milford {DM} is listed on his tomb stone as born 05 Jun > 1850 died Oct 11, 1895. I have heard from Larry Keith at Keith > [email protected] that David Milford Shannon was his gg father as his > daughter was a Lura Shannon who married Oscar Mason Keith. Lura Shannon > is buried in Harriman Cem. He tells me that Preston had a brother named > Pleasant who is buried at Oak Ridge. But that seem to be all he knows > about the family. Joyce English tells me that the lineage is John 1; > John 2; Robert 3; Robert 4; John 5; William 6: Andrew 7: Preston W. 8: > and David Milford 9. She also tells me that Preston went by "BRESTON" > and that he married Elizabeth Wiatte{born 1824} he married Sadeline > Wiatte{b. 1820. He married Susan E. Oliver october 14, 1867 in Anderson > Co. TN. His son David Milford Shannon married Sarah J. Oliver on 08 > Jun 1874 and my husband grandmother is their daughter. This is all I > know except Minnie Shannon husband and information. > Can you help me fill in the blanks in the older generation of Shannons? > Carolyn > > Jimmy Kerr 8227 North Lamar Austin, Texas 78753 [email protected] Ector County, Texas, Web Page http://www.rootsweb.com/~txector/ector.htm My Genealogy (I think my ancestors must have been in the witness protection program) http://www.mccserv.com/genealogy/kerr1/html/surnames.htm

----- Original Message ----- From: James and Carolyn <[email protected]> > Jim, all I know about Andrew is what I have been told that he was born > about 1785 in Anderson Co. TN to William and Katherine Shannon. > William was born 05 Oct 1756 in Chester Co. PA and applied for Rev. War > Pension while living in Grainger Co., TN on 06 Apr 1833.and place on > pension 16 Jul 1834 at 77 yrs of age{source abstracts of Rev War Pension > files, 3081} I am told that Andrew Shannon born about 1785 in Anderson > Co. TN. and married Elizabeth --unknown__(abt 1790}. Andrew and > Elizabeth's children are Jane: Sarilda: James born 1810 TN died 20 > Nov 1850 Morgan Co. TN; Wesley born abt 1814 married Susan Davis on 31 > Jan 1836; Mahalia born abt 1815;; Rebecca abt born about abt1818; > Preston W. born abt1823. and Wright born abt 1826. I got this > information from JAMES SHANNON { 1810-1850} researcher. Preston W. > Shannon { 1823- 1888.} was the father to David Milford Shannon { 1850- > 1895}. I have found both Preston W. Shannon and David Milford Shannon > graves in Scarbrough Cem in the Oak Ridge area of Anderson Co. TN. > Preston only date on tombstone l is March 1 1888. which was his date of > death. David Milford {DM} is listed on his tomb stone as born 05 Jun > 1850 died Oct 11, 1895. I have heard from Larry Keith at Keith > [email protected] that David Milford Shannon was his gg father as his > daughter was a Lura Shannon who married Oscar Mason Keith. Lura Shannon > is buried in Harriman Cem. He tells me that Preston had a brother named > Pleasant who is buried at Oak Ridge. But that seem to be all he knows > about the family. Joyce English tells me that the lineage is John 1; > John 2; Robert 3; Robert 4; John 5; William 6: Andrew 7: Preston W. 8: > and David Milford 9. She also tells me that Preston went by "BRESTON" > and that he married Elizabeth Wiatte{born 1824} he married Sadeline > Wiatte{b. 1820. He married Susan E. Oliver october 14, 1867 in Anderson > Co. TN. His son David Milford Shannon married Sarah J. Oliver on 08 > Jun 1874 and my husband grandmother is their daughter. This is all I > know except Minnie Shannon husband and information. > Can you help me fill in the blanks in the older generation of Shannons? > Carolyn > >

Russ, Yes, I thought that was where you found my charts. I left them copies of what I had, and made copies of what they had on Thomas J. Shannon. He had an interesting diary of his trip down the Missippi, selling what the Shakers had produced and what he procured for them. He was a Shaker, as was one of the Samuel Shannons, don't know which Saml. will dig that up tomorrow for Pookie if I can. Mike

Hi, Just a note on Esther, on the chart, L.A. Busby showed her Married to James R. Ralston. She was born1776, died 1837. Beyond this he did not develop this line. Mike

Since the Lincoln Co. MO GenWeb site is a little slow right now, I have reproduced the letter below. The spelling and lack of punctuation is faithful to the original letter. Russ Reid - -------------------------------------------------------------- -------- File contributed for use on USGenWeb/MOGenWeb Lincoln Co. page by Russell M. Reid, Dept. of Anthropology, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY 40292. [email protected] , 1998. - -------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------- LETTER FROM JOHN S. SHANNON TO HIS COUSINS IN LINCOLN COUNTY, MISSOURI WRITTEN ON A WAGON TRAIN TO CALIFORNIA IN MAY OF 1863 - -------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------- The following is a transcript of a letter written in May of 1863 by John S. Shannon to his cousins in Lincoln County, Missouri, while he was traveling to California on a wagon train. The transcript preserves the spelling and punctuation (or lack of) of the original. John S. Shannon was born to James Shannon and Elizabeth Alexander on April 15, 1832 and died in California on February 4, 1864. The letter was preserved by his cousin, Elizabeth Shannon Reid and is now in the possession of her great grandson, Russell M. Reid of Louisville, Ky. - -------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------- North Platt May the 19 / 63 Dear cousin I seat myself to write you a few lines I am well now but havent been so all the time the morning we crossed Loupe River I got parted from the train and did not overtake it until noon and the mind blew from the north west with a misting rain and I got verry cold and chilly and I took a severe cold from it and had a spell of bleeding in twenty four hours but did not bleed much at a time yet it all most prostrated me for a while I rode in the wagon almost two hundred miles I havent bled any since that was before we got to Gurney my sistem has been in alter fit since I have been on the plains than it has been for a long time I havent taken any physic since I left I have traveled about twelve hundred miles since I left you and have not rested but one day The country we traveled over is a level plain with but little variation where we first struck Platt the bottom was verry wide often so wide that we could see no bluff at all the River is about one mile wide below the mouth of South Platt and so shallow that a person can wade half across with out getting over his boots we have killed one Buffalow there was a large hird of them crossed the road before us and the boys run up on one and killed him with their revolvers I was standing on the front of the wagon if I had of been alle you may beleve I would have been in the chase I thought it was as good steak as ever I eat it is getting dark and I will have to quit until another day So good Knight Larima may the 21 We are camped four miles from Larima Some of the men are gone over to the fort and I am in hopes I will get a letter as I havent hird from none since I left we have the mumps and sore eyes both in the train the health of the train is tolerable good John Lowell is well and harty the peaks of the rockey mountains are rearing their heads up in front of us we will get in to the black hills tomorrow we havent lost any stock yet we havent had any stampedes yet the mules stand it fine the horses have gone down a good deal we trail from twenty five to thirty five miles a day I must close excuse bad writing as I am writing on my knee give my, love to your father mother and sisters and receive a due portion your self give my respects to all my friends who may ask for me John S Shannon - -------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------- File contributed for use on USGenWeb/MOGenWeb Lincoln Co. page by Russell M. Reid, Dept. of Anthropology, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY 40292. [email protected] , 1998. USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free genealogical information on the Internet, data may be freely used for personal research and by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for profit or any form of presentation, must obtain the written consent of the file submitter, or their legal representative, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent.

Does anyone know anything about Shannondale, Indiana? While doing my research for my Greatgrand father George M. Shannon, I have run across a JJ Shannon of Shannondale. Where is it and what connection do these Shannons have with the ones I've been reading about here for so long? Thanks, Linda Shannon Widau of Kansas City, MO

Friends, Samuel Shannon was a prolific writer of interesting (and surviving letters) or the sort that Michael Shannon has been sharing with the list. We was not the last of his line to leave interesting letters. The web link that follows is a letter written by his great grandson, John S. Shannon while on a wagon train West in 1863 to his cousins in Lincoln Co. Missouri. The original was preserved an passed down from his cousin Elizabeth Shannon Reid (my great grandmother) and is now in my collection of family materials. I have posted other Shannon materials at the same Lincoln Co. MO GenWeb site. P.S. Thanks Mike for sharing the Samuel Shannon Letters. Russ Reid http://www.rootsweb.com/~molincol/letters/ltr-shannonJS.htm

Russ, It was a pleasant surprise to find another Shannon letter out there. I hope everyone shares these. I have six or seven. Some of these I got from Lewis King when I visited him years ago at Poplar Hill. He said ther were several more at one time, but someone took them and no one knows what happened to them. I think I got some from Louise Dedman(George Shannon's descendant) and some from Tommie Taylor.Thanks for the copy of the John Shannon letter. Do you have more? In 1994, I had surgery on my back . I was laid up for two months & told myself,"Okay there's no excuse now". So I transcribed all my Shannon letters. I had 300 pages. These were almost all letters from Joseph's son Granville, my Gr-Gr Grandfather. If I can EVER get these email addresses down I will really be glad! I keep losing messages through my own darn ignorance. Mike

Davidson Co., North Carolina April 10,1786 Dear Son and Daughter: I have this opportunity by Mr. McDaniel to let you know the state of health that we are in at present, Most of the family have been in a poor state of health, having a bad cold and a great pain in the breast and side, and affected them very much like pleurisy. The family has had a hard turn of it, only David and myself, but they have all got middling well over it, only Jamey, and I exoect that he is on the way to recovery. Thanks be to God for all his mercies to us. Hope these few lines will find you and your family enjoying health and happiness. I received a letter from you that gave an account of your intention to come by water this spring, but I doubt if it will be safe to come down the Tennessee River, for in all probability the indians intend to break out for war, as they are very much against the settling of the bend of Tennessee. The Indians have been making some attempts as if they intend to trouble Cumberland this year. They killed a man about a month ago that was out hunting between Cumberland and the Tennessee, and about the same time they came upon some men that were up Cumberland River surveying, about forty miles from here, and wounded four of them badly, but I think they will get over it, and last Monday night they came on a little station on Big Barren river and broke it up, some of them were killed, but as yet, no certain account how many; they have also taken three parcels of horses this spring, two from about Bledsow's Lick and one parcel from the south side of the river, and three or four days ago two Chickeymogey Indians came to our town, and they say they are Creek Indians that do us the damage, and they say that they are friendly and want to be so, but it is doubted that they are not. There have been some Chickasaw and Choctaw Indians here that declare to be in our favor and offer their assistance against the Creeks. You wrote me to know whether horses would purchase land; they do deal for horses, but good saddle horses will sell best and are in most demand. Your mare can never be found since we came here, and I fear that some accident has come to her. We found your young horse and he is with our creatures. Your cattle thrive very well since we came here. minister is come and settled, and we have the meeting house about four miles from us, and it will be but three miles from your land, and wish that you and your family were here, if there would not be too much danger on the road, but you will have a further account after awhile. I have purchased 228 acres acres of land adjoining your land and my own, and intended to have been on Harper's river soon, but it is not safe. I have been speaking with Colonel Robertson there, and he offers me the first rate land there at half a dollar per acre, and if I like the land, I will purchase one thousand acres of him. We have a very comfortable neighborhood of people as ever we lived in, and I think the best, and it is thick settled here. We have had all our children that are at home at school this winter. As the bearer is just waiting, I shall conclude, with our best respects to you and your family, we remain your loving father and mother whilst--- Samuel and Jean Shannon April 10,1786 n.b. Remember our kind love to Brother and Sister Crowe and all the family. To Mr. Thomas Shannon Living in Montgomery County, Walker's Creek Forwarded by John White

Hi Natalie, My cost to copy & mail the chart is total of $2. Yours is in the mail. You can handle it as you like. Mike

Russ, Where can I find copies of John Shannon letter/ Any others? Do others know about Dexel's two books, the white one & the green one? Mike

Hello Phil, You can email me at [email protected] The charts start with Thomas & Eigness, and work forward to the present generations. L.A.Busby was trying to get them FULLY worked up when he died, so there isn't the 150 pages of data & 150 pages of charts, but what is there is good. My cost to copy $1, & to mail is another $1. Mike

In a message dated 10/31/1999 3:59:31 AM Pacific Standard Time, [email protected] writes: << >> What is the address for the channon charts?? I would like to get them. Phil Sheridan