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Thompson – Uhshaltin – Wilson

Shaw origins

My branch of the Shaw family moved from Maryland to Nicholas County, Kentucky, but Shaw was originally a Scottish name. Here is the Shaw family coat of arms, or clan crest, complete with the family tartan in the background:

The James Shaw Family of Prince George’s County, Maryland

The William Thompson Family of Prince George’s County, Maryland

1 – James Shaw – b-abt 1695

d-1718, Prince George’s County, MD

s – Margaret Thompson

2 – William Shaw – b-before 1718

d-abt 1760, Maryland

s – Henrietta Scott

3 – Josiah Shaw – b-abt 1745

d-after 1779

s – Mary Wilson

4 – William Shaw – b-September 8, 1767, Piscataway Parish, Prince George’s Co., MD

d-before 1820, Maryland

s – Priscilla (surname not known)

(SEE CHILDREN IN THE WILLIAM SHAW FAMILY SECTION BELOW)

4 – James Shaw – b-December 22, 1769, Piscataway Parish, Prince George’s Co, MD

4 – Elizabeth Shaw – b-September 19, 1771, Piscataway Parish, Prince George’s Co., MD

3 – William Shaw

3 – Zachariah Shaw

3 – Rebecca Shaw

3 – Henrietta Shaw

2 – Christopher Shaw – b-before 1718

2 – James Shaw – b-before 1718

The Thompson Connection

1 – William Thompson – b-before 1685

d-1730, Prince George’s County, MD

2 – Margaret Thompson

s – William Shaw – b-before 1718

d-abt 1760, Maryland

2 – John Thompson

Notes on James Shaw’s family:

Sadly, James Shaw died at just 25 years of age, leaving a wife and three young sons. In his will, he designated that his two older sons be raised by his “loving uncle, Christopher Thompson,” until they were 21, and that his youngest son be raised by his wife, Margaret. Each son was bequeathed five pounds sterling, one cow, one sow, two barrows, and three young “hoggs”. The rest of his goods and possessions were left to Margaret. The will, written on April 13, 1718, indicates that James was “very sick and weake in body, but of sound and perfect sense and memory.”

On March 29, 1779, Josiah Shaw leased for eleven years to James Wilson of St. Mary’s County, Maryland, part of “White Lackington”, his dwelling plantation. Later that year, he purchased land from Josiah Beall and took out a mortgage from Peter Carns on several pieces of land, including part of White Lackington.

Notes on William Thompson’s family:

William had a brother named Christopher. Both received tracts of land in Prince George’s County in 1685, referred to Scotland and Whitelaintine, respectively. In 1699, Christopher gave 100 acres of what he called “White Lackington” to William, which was left to William’s son, John, then later passed from John to his nephew, William Shaw. William inherited another 100 acres of “White Lackington” from his great uncle Christopher, who had raised him following his father’s death.

The William Shaw Family of Charles County, Maryland

1 – William Shaw – b-September 8, 1767, Piscataway Parish, Prince George’s County, MD

d-before 1820, Maryland

s – Pricilla (surname unknown)

2 – Joseph Shaw – b-June 2, 1786, Prince George’s County, MD

d-January 31, 1865, Ripley County, IN

s – Rebecca Owen – b-July 9, 1787, Maryland

d-June 4, 1867, Ripley County, IN

2 – Sarah Shaw – b-June 2, 1786, Prince George’s County, MD

s – Francis Greenwell

2 – William S. Shaw – b-abt 1793, Maryland

s – Milly (surname unknown)

2nd s – Innocent B (surname unknown)

2 – Luke Lewis Shaw – b-August 2, 1796, Prince George’s County, MD

m-July 1, 1817, Adams County, Ohio

d-May 2, 1878, Nicholas County, KY

s – Lucinda Elizabeth Tinney – b-1803, Virginia

d-1880, Nicholas County, KY

(SEE CHILDREN IN THE LUKE LEWIS SHAW &JAMES MELVIN SHAW FAMILY SECTION BELOW)

2 – Ann Shaw – b-Charles County, MD

d-abt 1874, Nicholas County, KY

s – Joseph Smith

2 – Matilda Shaw – b-Charles County, MD

d-Nicholas County, KY

s – William Smith

2 – John Anderson Shaw – b-abt 1806, Charles County, MD

m-November 15, 1826, Nicholas County, KY

d-abt 1881, White County, AR

s – Martha Young – b-abt 1810, Kentucky

d-abt 1867, Fleming County, KY

3 – William Young Shaw

3 – Frank Landrum Shaw

3 – Mary Shaw

s – Cal Harney

3 – Harvey Parish Shaw

3 – Elizabeth Shaw

s – Robert Butler

3 – Lorenzo Dow Shaw – b-1843, Kentucky

m-February 2, 1866

d-1893, Uvalde, TX

s – Julia A. Barnett – b-August 1849, Kentucky

d-aft 1900

4 – Luella Shaw – b-abt 1870

4 – William Benton Shaw – b-September 29, 1871, Carlisle, KY

d-June 28, 1950, Paris, KY

s – Johanna Overman

4 – Martha E. Shaw – b-December 1874

4 – Nancy B. Shaw – b-February 1876

s – Arthur Martin

5 – Marvin B. Martin – died young

4 – Marvin Bernard Shaw – b-March 13, 1884, Millersburg, Bourbon County, KY

d-September 28, 1954, Paris, KY

mother of child – Elizabeth Joshiphine Gebhardt – b-November 23, 1899

d-June 1989

5 – Marvin Shaw Walters (illegitmate) – b-March 29, 1932, Detroit, MI

s – Bertha Mae Norton – b-November 20, 1933, Newport, Campbell County, KY

d-January 13, 2003

6 – Marvin William Walters – b-November 9, 1953, Covington, Kenton County, KY

s – Cheryl Lynn Bracken – b-November 29, 1956, Bellevue, Campbell County, KY

7 – Elizabeth Laverne Walters – b-November 18, 1975

8 – Brandon James Herrold Claybern– b-November 20, 1991

s – Shawn Claybern

8 – Courtney Nicole Claybern – b-June 15, 1998

7 – Michael Paul Walters – b-June 17, 1979

7 – Stephanie Lynn Walters – b-October 19, 1980

s – Kevin Jay Short

8 – Kevin Austin Short – b-August 22, 2002

7 – Marc Anthony Walters – b-November 26, 1981

8 – Marc Elisa Walters – b-March 28, 2002

7 – Eric William Walters – b-August 6, 1986

6 – John E. Walters – b-January 13, 1957

6 – Charles Albert Walters – b-July 13, 1960

s – Maude Booth

3 – Flavius Josephus Shaw – b-Fleming County, KY

3 – Catherine Shaw

s – Rice Ruark

3 – Samuel Gooding Shaw – b-Fleming County, KY

3 – Margaret Shaw

s- Granville Hogue

2 – James Shaw – b-1811

s – Hester Taylor

2 – Samuel Shaw

Notes on William Shaw’s family:

Around 1817/18 Luke Lewis Shaw came to Kentucky from Charles County, Maryland, marrying along the way in Ohio. Luke’s mother, Pricilla, and her children, Ann, Matilda, James, and John Anderson followed around 1822.

It would appear by the birth dates that Joseph Shaw and Sarah Shaw were twins.

Joseph Shaw and wife Rebecca may or may not have come to Kentucky with his mother and other siblings. He ended up in Indiana, as did some other Shaws who passed through Kentucky, but his name is not listed in records mentioning their migration to Kentucky. Joseph was baptized in Piscataway Parish in 1787 and buried in Cliff Hill Cemetery in Versailles, Ripley County, Indiana, along with Rebecca.

Sarah, too was baptized in 1787 in Piscataway Parish, and it is supposed that she and her husband did not come to Kentucky, as there is no mention of them there. There is also no mention of William or Samuel.

John Anderson Shaw was a cabinetmaker and Methodist minister. He relocated his family to White County, Arkansas in 1866/67, presumably after his wife’s death. He died in Arkansas, but his body was brought back to Fleming County, Kentucky in a wagon, to be buried next to Martha.

John Anderson’s children:

~William Young Shaw was a preacher, a carpenter, and a farmer with descendants believed to be in Kansas and Nebraska.

~Frank Landrum Shaw was a doctor who practiced in Pangburn, Arkansas, was also a preacher and cabinetmaker.

~Harvey Parish Shaw, also in Arkansas, became a preacher and carpenter, and also studied medicine but never practiced.

~Lorenzo Dow Shaw returned to Kentucky after a couple of years in Arkansas. He became a Methodist minister and died of tuberculosis in Uvalde, Texas.

~Flavius Josephus Shaw lived for a time in Covington, Kentucky before going to Arkansas. He became a Methodist preacher, died at Humphrey, Arkansas, and is buried in Lonoke, Arkansas.

~Samuel Gooding Shaw became an Arkansas minister, practiced medicine in Center Point, Texas, and died at Ft. Sam Houston, San Antonio, Texas.

It bears mentioning that there are some discrepancies in info about William’s children family which come from two respected, reliable sources. I have chosen to examine the facts I possess and make educated guesses about what is the closest to being correct. Also worth noting is that Piscataway Parish, originally part of Prince George’s County, later became part of Charles County, so it’s likely that William and Priscilla didn’t move, but that the County boundaries were changed during the time of their residency.

The John Tinney Family of Pennsylvania & Kentucky

1 – John Tinney – b-1747, Hartford County, MD

d-1834, Nicholas County, KY

s – Jane Evans – b-1758, Westmoreland County, PA

d-July 8, 1853, Nicholas County, KY

2 – John Tinney, Jr. – b-1785, Pennsylvania

m-August 31, 1818

s – Sally Jones

2 – Josiah F. Tinney – b-April 16, 1786

m-October 19, 1841

s – Martha Simpson

2 – Dougherty Tinney

2 – Lea Tinney

2 – James Tinney – m-June 18, 1823, Nicholas County, KY

s – Sarah Sanders

2 – Lucinda Elizabeth Tinney – b-1803, Virginia

m-July 1, 1817, Aberdeen, Adams County, Ohio

d-1880, Nicholas County, KY

s – Luke Lewis Shaw – b-abt 1795, Charles County, MD

d-May 2, 1878, Nicholas County, KY

(SEE CHILDREN IN THE LUKE LEWIS SHAW AND JAMES MELVIN SHAW FAMILY SECTION BELOW)

2 – Cynthiane Tinney – m-July 17, 1826, Nicholas County, KY

s – William Richey

2 – Emily Tinney – m-September 3, 1821, Nicholas County, KY

s – George Nickson

2nd s – Benjamin Gaunce

2 – Absolon Tinney – m-September 19, 1833, Harrison County, KY

s – Susan Marshall

2 – Jane Tinney – m-March 24, 1835, Nicholas County, KY

s – Nelson Fuller

Notes on the John Tinney family:

John’s wife, Jane, was a widow when she married John.

John enlisted in the Revolutionary War in 1777 in Pennsylvania and served until June 1783 as a private and blacksmith. He did not marry until after the war.

There is a discrepancy in the year of Lucinda Tinney’s birth – I’ve found records that say, 1801, 1802, and 1803.

The Luke Lewis Shaw Family of Nicholas County, Kentucky

The James Melvin Shaw Family of Nicholas County, Kentucky

1 – Luke Lewis Shaw – b-August 2, 1796, Charles County, MD

m-July 1, 1817, Aberdeen, Adams County, OH

d-May 2, 1878, Nicholas County, KY

s – Lucinda Elizabeth Tinney – b-1803, Virginia

d-1880, Nicholas County, KY

2 – Sally Shaw – b-1818, Pendleton County, KY

2 – Nancy Shaw – b-1819, Nicholas County, KY

m-April 20, 1836

d-1843, Nicholas County, KY

s – Willis Snapp – b-1816

2 – John Shaw – b-1822, Nicholas County, KY

m-June 26, 1943, 2nd November 24, 1853

s – Fanny Mann – b-1826

3 – Benjamin F. Shaw – b-1844

3 – Mary A. Shaw – b-1846

3 – Nancy E. Shaw – b-1848

2nd s – Elisabeth Mastin

2 – Elizabeth Shaw – b-October 12, 1925, Nicholas County, KY

m-June 9, 1845, 2nd September 8, 1869, 3rd November 13, 1873

d-August 8, 1896, Nicholas County, KY

s – Zachriah Green

2nd s – Jesse Earlywine

3rd s – Peter Snapp

2 – Mary Shaw – b-February 12, 1827, Nicholas County, KY

m-November 14, 1845, 2nd September 24, 1885

d-September 27, 1899, Nicholas County, KY

s – John Morris

2nd S – Leonidas M. Ritchie

2 – Emily Shaw – b-March 14, 1828, Nicholas County, KY

m-August 13, 1846

d-December 11, 1896, Nicholas County, KY

s – Willis Snapp – b-1816

2 – William Shaw – b-1829, Nicholas County, KY

m-November 18, 1849

s – Hannah Richardson

2 – Thomas Shaw – b-1832, Nicholas County, KY

m-April 5, 1854

s – Elizabeth Ritchie

2 – Susan Shaw – b-1834

2 – Luke Lewis Shaw, Jr. – b-February 1, 1836, Nicholas County, KY

m-November 29, 1866, 2nd September 29, 1870

d-December 4, 1897, Nicholas County, KY

s – Drucilla Gaunce – b-1846

3 – Hickson Shaw – b-1868

d-March 20, 1913

2nd s – Mary Jane Kenton

3 – William Bruce Shaw – b-August 31, 1871, Nicholas County, KY

d-June 14, 1950, Nicholas County, KY

3 – John A. Shaw – b-November 7, 1772, Nicholas County, KY

m-April 30, 1899

d-March 1, 1948, Nicholas County, KY

s – Mary Elizabeth Kennedy

3 – Mary Tom Shaw – b-November 6, 1975, Nicholas County, KY

3 – Pickett Maze Shaw(daughter) – b-October 1, 1877, Nicholas County, KY

m-April 26, 1896

d-March 11, 1901, Nicholas County, KY

s – Butler Ritchie

3 – Corbon Holt Shaw – b-February 23, 1880, Nicholas County, KY

m-October 11, 1906

d-April 27, 1950, Nicholas County, KY

s – Jemima Caswell

3 – Alma Thompson Shaw – b-August 1, 1882, Nicholas County, KY

d-July 9, 1904, Nicholas County, KY

s – Luther Feeback

3 – unnamed son – b-July 12, 1886, Nicholas County, KY

d-July 12, 1886, Nicholas County, KY

3 – Zula May Shaw – b-September 11, 1887, Nicholas County, KY

m-July 19, 1905

s – Ira Oren Green

2 – Angeline Shaw – b-1837, Nicholas County, KY

m-September 30, 1856, 2nd unknown

s – Daniel Snapp – b-1837

2nd s – John Snapp – b-1830

2 – James Melvin Shaw – b-November 11, 1841, Nicholas County, KY

m-February 21, 1861

d-April 16, 1881, Nicholas County, KY

s – Sarah E. Gaunce – b-August 2, 1841, Nicholas County, KY

d-April 4, 1937, Anderson, IN

3 – J. Hue Delossin Shaw – b-February 3, 1863

d-January 24, 1865

3 – Marion Douglas “Doug” Shaw – b-November 11, 1864, Nicholas County, KY

d-May 8, 1935

s – Julia Fogle – b-1872, Pendleton County, KY

d-October 23, 1943, Covington, KY

(SEE CHILDREN IN THE MARION DOUGLAS SHAW FAMILY SECTION BELOW)

3 – Garrett Edward Shaw – b-1867

s – Stella Green – b-1870

d-1930

4 – Calvert Shaw – b-1894

d-1962

s – Nellie Cassity – b-1892

d-1964

5 – Hedy Wright Shaw (daughter)

4 – Marion Douglas Shaw – b-1889

d-1962

s – Maud Small

5 – Agnes Shaw

s – Ralph McBee

5 – Laura Shaw

s – Norman Maybrier

5 – Louise Shaw

s – Elbert Hart

5 – Betty Shaw

s – Chester Collins

5 – Robert Shaw

s – Irene Jenkins

5 – Lovell Shaw

s – Nancy Frederick

3 – Zedekiah Martin Shaw – b-1870

d-July 9, 1919

s – Lelia May Thompson

4 – Ted Shaw – b-1902

m-November 8, 1926

s – Gladys (surname unknown) – b-1903

5 – Duane Robert Shaw – b-1928

5 – Marion Cletus Shaw – b-1929

5 – Myrle Edward – b-1931

5 – Larry Ralph – b-1938

3 – Harlen Shaw – b-1872

d-June 19, 1951

4 - Elizabeth Shaw

s – (first name unknown) Vertz

5 – Sandra Vertz

s – (first name unknown) Dunn

2 – Joseph Shaw – b-1843, Nicholas County, KY

m-January 21, 1862

s – Sarah Fuller

Notes on Luke Lewis Shaw’s family:

Luke Lewis Shaw served in the War of 1812, from October 24, 1814 to March 24, 1815, in Washington D.C, protecting British prisoners and public property. Luke Lewis’s family were Methodists and he was a farmer. He generally went by the name Lewis.

Census records indicate that the John Tinney, Luke Lewis Shaw, and Isaac Ritchie families all lived nearby one another.

Luke’s daughter, Sally, never married.

After Nancy Shaw Snapp died in 1843, her husband Willis married her younger sister, Emily, in 1846.

Luke’s daughter, Susan, was killed by lightning in her youth.

Daniel and John Snapp, consecutive husbands of Angeline, were brothers.

In the 1850 census, John Shaw was listed as a farmer.

Luke Lewis’s granddaughter by Luke Lewis, Jr., Mary Tom, died at age three or four.

Luke Lewis, Jr.’s wife, Drucilla Gaunce, died after the birth of her child. His second wife, Mary Jane Kenton, is the daughter of William Kenton, Jr. and Cassandra Mastin.

Luke Lewis, Jr. enlisted in the Civil War on October 17, 1864 and was discharged September 15, 1865. He contracted some illness or disease during his service.

Notes on James Melvin Shaw’s family:

James Melvin Shaw served in the Civil War for the Union Army. During the war, he was hospitalized with measles, but was accidentally thought to have gone AWOL. He returned from the war a sick man, and the family story is that Sarah met him in Lexington, Kentucky and together they walked, carrying his trunk, to Carlisle, Kentucky. That trunk was passed down to Ruby Shaw Green, and a trunk belonging to Sarah was passed to Hedy Shaw Muntz. James died sixteen years after returning home from the war.

James’s wife Sarah died at 902 Chestnut Street, Anderson, Indiana, in a Shaw family house still in the family today. She is buried in Maplewood Cemetery between two of her sons, Marion Douglas and Harlen. She was a very religious woman, very strong-willed, and a fine seamstress.

James and Sarah’s son J. Hue Delossin, died at age two from blood poisoning caused when a doctor split his gums because he was unable to cut teeth.

According to family letters, James and Sarah’s son, Martin, was crippled and he was her favorite. He was her only child to receive much education and he attended college.

Sarah gave away her youngest son, Harlen, at the age of nine to a farmer who took him to Kansas. He later returned to Nicholas County and worked for the railroad.

Around 1909, Sarah and her sons Doug (Marion Douglas), Martin, and Harlen , moved to Anderson, Indiana. Garrett remained in Nicholas County, later relocating to Bourbon County, near Millersburg, Kentucky.

Doug Shaw was the first rural mail carrier to the community of Helena, not far from Millersburg, Kentucky. He delivered the mail on a mare named Nellie.

James’s grandson, Calvert, had six daughters. Only Hedy Wright Shaw Muntz’s name is known. However, the other daughters married men with the last names of Anderson, Cooke, Cooke, Green, and Ensminer.

The Gaunce/Taylor/Ritchie Family Connections

1 – (first name unknown) McPhearson

2 – Betty Compton

s – Esau Ritchie

3 – Isaac Ritchie

s – Rebecca Powers

4 - Elizabeth Ritchie

s – George Taylor

5 – Rebecca Taylor – b-1824, Pennsylvania or Kentucky

m-September 21, 1840

s – Zekakiah Gaunce – b-1815, Nicholas County, KY

6 – Sarah E. Gaunce – b-August 2, 1841, Nicholas County, KY

m-February 21, 1861