History of Daviess County, Kentucky, Inter-State Publishing Co., Chicago, 1883. Reprinted by McDowell Publications, Utica, KY, 1980. p. 703. WILLIAM W. SHOEMAKER was born in Henrico County, Va., June 6, 1822. His father was Thomas M. Shoemaker, born in August, 1796, in Chesterfield County, Va. Three of his brothers were in the war of 1812. He married Miss Elizabeth Patmon at the hermitage in Richmond, Va. After his marriage he settled in Henrico County, Va., where two children were born--Louisa, who married James Lacklin. They had six children. Mr. Lacklin died and she married B. A. Vaughan. They are both dead. They had four children. Mr. William W. Shoemaker was the oldest child and only son of his parents, and when sixteen months old (in the fall of 1823) came with his parents to Shelby County, Ky.; settled on a farm south of Shelbyville, where they remained until the fall of 1829, when William came on a visit with his parents to his father's brother, Price Shoemaker, in Daviess County, Ky. He was living near where the Bethabara church now stands, in Masonville Precinct. They remained here some weeks, when they returned to Shelby County, and October, 1832, his parents and five other families came to Daviess County. Obadiah Gordon, unmarried, settled in Masonville Precinct, in the forks of Panther Creek, near Bethabara church. William W. Shoemaker settled with his father on the same farm he now lives, in 1833. His father died here April 23, 1863. He was a member of the Baptist church and was one to help build the log church, in 1833, a little north of where the Bethabara church now stands. His wife (mother of William W. Shoemaker) died in 1838. She was a member of the Baptist church. William W. Shoemaker married Mrs. Mary J. Dawson, widow of James S. Dawson, a Baptist minister, April 14, 1859. She was born in Henry County, Ky., March 26, 1823, and was a daughter of Maples and Mariam (Bright) Moore, natives of Clark and Shelby counties, Ky. Mrs. Shoemaker had eleven children by her first husband, two living--William H. and Joseph T. Dawson (twins), born July 22, 1857. Mr. and Mrs. Shoemaker have had two daughters--Gertrude, born Sept. 14, 1860, died Jan. 3, 1869; Luly, born Feb. 28, 1864, died the same date. Mr. Shoemaker has been a member of the Baptist church since the fall of 1843, and Mrs. Shoemaker since August, 1838. He owns a fine farm of 500 acres, 350 under cultivation. He is one of the few old pioneers of Daviess County that are now living. Mr. Shoemaker and wife are earnest Christians and representative members of the Baptist church. Mr. Shoemaker is a noble representative of the hospitable whole-souled Virginian, and has the confidence and respect of all who know him. His great-grandfather was a Virginian. His grandfather, Thomas Shoemaker, was in the Revolutionary war, and his father also. Mr. Shoemaker's uncle, Price Shoemaker, owned a slave, who lived to be ninety odd years old and was a servant of General Washington during the Revolutionary war, when he was a boy. This negro belonged to Mr. Shoemaker's grandfather, Thomas Shoemaker, and after the Revolutionary war he returned to his master. William H. Dawson, stepson of Mr. Shoemaker, married Katy J. Tyler, Jan. 30, 1877. She died March 2, 1878. He and brother, Joseph T. Dawson, reside on the old homestead farm with their mother and stepfather. Shoemaker Patmon Lacklin Vaughan Gordon Dawson Bright Moore Tyler = Henrico-VA Chesterfield-VA Shelby-KY Henry-KY Clark-KY http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/kybiog/daviess/shoemaker.ww.txt