Taken from old clippings dealing with Kentucky family history, newspaper unknown. These clippings are about 100 years old (1997). Reprinted in Kentucky Explorer, Volume 11, Number 9 - March, 1997. pp. 80-81. Madison County. Shirley Family. My grandmother daily gives me our family history, but being ninety-seven years of age, her once fine memory is somewhat impaired. I write the following hoping some member of the family may confirm its accuracy. The name Shirley was spelled by our ancestors "Shawnee." My great-great-grandfather as a native of Spain and his wife, Katie Franz or Frants or France, was a native of Paris, France. They saw each other whilst he was marching; fell in love and were married at Washington City, when it was a fort. He was a lieutenant in the Continental army. He had been sent for supplies at the time of Gen. Wayne's defeat or possibly would have been captured with the rest of that army. He was killed by the Indians at Station Camp, Kentucky. They lived at Boonesboro [sic]. Michael Shirley's children were: Mary McGuire, Katie Bullock, Lizzie McGuire, Susie Proctor, Nancy Travis, Sallie Phelps, and George Shirley. My great-grandfather, Charles Shirley (1771), and his wife, Rebecca Collier (1778), were married November 17, 1796. Their children were: Nancy Shirley, 1797; Polly Shirley, 1798; Lucy Shirley, 1800; Rebecca Shirley, 1801; George, 1804; Lydia, 1805; Silas, 1806; Jenny, 1808; Felix, 1811, and Charles, 1813. My great-grandfather, Charles Shirley, spent his best days in fighting the Indians. Shirley Shawnee Franz Frants France Wayne McGuire Bullock Proctor Travis Phelps Collier = Spain France http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/kybiog/madison/shirley.txt