Kentucky:  A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 3rd ed., 
1886. Allen County.

JAMES M. SHIVE, a son of Joseph Shive, a native Kentuckian, was born in 
Cumberland County, and married in 1837 to Sallie Hunt, of Barren County.  
She died December 29, 1883, aged sixty-three years.  She left ten 
children - seven sons and three daughters.  Joseph Shive is now a 
resident of Warren County, Ky., he has during his life been engaged in 
farming with excellent success.  He is now sixty-seven years of age, and 
was born in 1818.  He is a son of George and Nancy Shive, who removed 
from Virginia to Kentucky at an early day, and located in Cumberland 
County, where he was one of the first settlers.  James M. Shive was a 
farmer boy; during his early life received but little schooling, though 
with the privilege of a few weeks spent in study in the winter months, 
in the rude log schoolhouses of the period, he made fair progress in the 
English branches.  He was born April 3, 1839, and at the age of twenty-
two he purchased the home farm of 400 acres, and continued farming, 
which with him proved a success.  His farms are well improved, with good 
fences, two-story frame dwelling, barns and orchards; his land is in a 
fine state of cultivation, and as productive as any in the county. In 
connection with his farming interests he has given some attention to 
trading, and to operating different kinds of machinery.  Politically, he 
is a Democrat, and as sheriff of Allen County he has given satisfaction, 
and is very popular with his constituents.  He and wife are life long 
members of the Baptist Church, in which Mr. Shive has for twenty held 
the office of clerk.  He is a member of Loving Lodge, No. 323, of the 
Masonic fraternity, and is a Master Mason. August 5, 1867, he married 
Mary Hollis, a daughter of Dr. W. L. Hollis, of Allen County, Ky.  Their 
union is blessed by the birth of one daughter, Myrtie M. M., born March 
22, 1872.

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