DESCENDANTS OF SAMUEL SHAW

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                               Don Norman

 

1.SAMUEL SHAW

 

    Samuel Shaw was born about 1800. He married Mary Green.

 

Known child of Samuel and Mary (Green) Shaw.

 

  2.  (1). John                    b.c.     1822

       m. Bythena (Tatterson) Vincent

 

2.JOHN SHAW    1.SAMUEL SHAW

 

    John Shaw, a son of Samuel and Mary (Green) Shaw, was born in VA

about 1822. He married Bythenaa (Tatterson) Vincent.

    The family reportedly built a home is Upshur County in 1869 and

moved there. However, they don't appear in the 1870 Upshur County WV

census.

 

Children of John and Bythena (Tatterson) [Vincent] Shaw.

 

  3.  (1). Palmyra                 b.       1846   d.       1921

       m. Stanberry Lang

 

  4.  (2). Elgina                  b.       1848   d.       1920

       m. Anderson Shingleton

 

  5.  (3). Thomas Joshua           b.Jan  1 1850   d.Aug    1933

       m. Minerva Jane Fisher May 27 1875

       m. Anna Jane Butcher

 

  6.  (4). Clemmeth Haleman        b.       1852   d.       1934

       m. Mary Elizabeth Crites

 

  7.  (5). Margaret Jane           b.       1858   d.       1944

 

  8.  (6). Henry Jefferson         b.       1862   d.       1946

 

  9.  (7). Virginia Adeline        b.       1866   d.       1952

 

5.THOMAS JOSHUA SHAW   2.JOHN SHAW    1.SAMUEL SHAW

 

        Thomas Joshua Shaw, a son of John and Bythena (Tatterson)

[Vincent] Shaw, was born in Taylor County VA Janaury 1, 1850 and died in

Randolph County WV in August 1933. He married Minerva Jane Fisher May

27, 1875. Minerva, daughter of David and Lydia Fisher, was born in VA

about 1840 and died in 1892.

        Thomas worked as a millwright and carpenter on the construction

of the Weston State Hospital for the State of VA before the Civil War

and for the State of WV afterward. He was a law officer in Weston, WV

when the town had thirty saloons.

        Minerva ran a milliner shop in Weston. She sold hats, gloves,

scarves, and other notions in her shop.

        After Minerva died, Thomas married Anna Jane Butcher.

 

Child of Thomas Joshua and Minerva Jane (Fisher) Shaw.

 

 10.  (1). William Newton          b.Dec 11 1877   d.       1975

           m. Myrtle Dale Butcher

 

10.WILLIAM NEWTON SHAW   5.THOMAS JOSHUA SHAW   2.JOHN SHAW    1.SAMUEL

SHAW

 

        William Newton Shaw, a son of Thomas Joshua and Minerva Jane

(Fisher) Shaw, was born in Upshur County WV December 11, 1877 and died

in NC in 1975. He married Myrtle Dale Butcher, a  daughter of George N.

and Mary Jane (Walker) Butcher.

 

Children of William Newton and Myrtle Dale (Butcher) Shaw.

 

11. (1). Mary

         m. George Dessent

 

12. (2). Gertrude

         m. George Grant, Jr.

 

BIBLIOGRAPHY:

 

"Lewis County WV, Her People and Places", 2000, pp. 177, 178