History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky, ed.
by William Henry Perrin,  O. L. Baskin & Co., Chicago, 1882.  p. 492.
[Bourbon County]  [Paris City and Precinct]

MAJOR JOHN SHAWHAN, deceased.  The subject of this sketch was born Oct.
2, 1811, in Harrison County, Ky.; was a son of Joseph Shawhan and Miss
Ewalt: Joseph being a son of Daniel Shawhan.  The Shawhans came here from
Maryland about the year 1795, and settled near the Harrison and Bourbon
County line.  To Daniel Shawhan were born eight children.  Joseph and
John settled in this county and were large landholders; Joseph served in
the war of 1812; he died in 1872, in his ninety-third year; he was a
farmer and breeder of thoroughbred horses; his children are as follows:
Betsey, Henry, Daniel, John, Margaret, Rebecca and William.  Betsey,
now Mrs. Lail, of Harrison County, Margaret, Mrs. Pugh Miller, also of
Harrison County.  Rebecca married Wesley Hoggins, of Bourbon County, Ky.
All his sons settled in this State; Henry, in Cynthiana, Harrison County;
Daniel, in Bourbon County; John, in Harrison County; was a farmer, and
served as Captain of Company D, in the Mexican war; was sheriff of this
county, and represented both houses in the Legislature, ran a distillery
near Cynthiana; during the late war, in September, 1861, he raised a
company of men and was promoted to Major of 1st Ky. Battalion; remained
until Oct. 2, 1862; was killed by by bushwhackers, in Morgan County, Ky.;
his wife, Talitha, daughter of George and Sallie (Anderson) Ruch,
Tennessee.  To John Shawhan and wife were eight children who arrived at
maturity; Sarah, Joseph, Maggie, George H., Helena, John, Daniel,
Anna R; and Joseph, deceased.  Sarah and George H. reside in this county.
George H. married Maggie Redmon, daughter of John T. and Nancy (Speakes)
Redmon; is also a resident of Bourbon County.

Shawhan Ewalt Lail Miller Hoggins Anderson Ruch Redmon Speakes
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Harrison-KY

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