David Shaver

H. W. Beckwith, History of Vermilion County (Chicago: H. H. Hill, 1879)

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David Shaver, Catlin, section 18, farmer, was born in Muhlenburg county, Kentucky, on the 8th of October, 1824. His father was a native of Virginia, and was born in 1790. He came to Kentucky in 1814, and was in the war of 1812. His mother, Nancy Peters, was born in Rockingham county, Virginia, in 1799, and died in Kentucky in 1878. Mr. Shaver married, on the 14th of February, 1847, Mildred A. Taylor, daughter of John A. Taylor. She was a native of Ohio county, Kentucky, and was born on the 17th of October, 1828. Her father was born in the fort near Hartford, Kentucky, in 1767, and was the second child born in that town -- Hartford. He was one of the pioneers of Greene River county. He made various business trips from Frederick county to Virginia, in which he passed through wildernesses, being entrusted with agencies for land speculations. He superintended the locations of their claims amidst danger. Mr. Shaver removed to Vermilion county in 1864, where he has become one of the industrious

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and respected-citizens of the county. He has raised a family of seven children: Leander, Elizabeth A., wife of C. T. Dye, Sarah M., wife of A. Richards, Nancy D., Peter L., Bertha, William, W. C. One child, John A., died.