James Floyd Shively, Cortland, OH shared the following information. George Washington Shively, Sr. was born 8-Nov-1798 n Cumberland County, PA and died on 28-May-1883 in Mahoning County, OH. He was married 1st to Elizabeth Opp and 2nd to Maria Grove. She was born on 6-Feb-1806 and died 11-Nov-1859 in Mahoning County, OH. Both are buried in Old North Cemetery, Canfield, Mahoning County, OH. George Washington Shively, Sr. descends from the line of Peter Scheibly/Shively who was born 10-Apr-1742 in Switzerland and died 1823 in Perry County, PA.
Listed on the 1850 Austintown, Mahoning County, PA census is the family of George Shively age 52, wife Maria age 46, daughter Elizabeth age 13, son Daniel age 12, son Abraham age 10, son George age 9, daughter Caroline age 6 and son John age 4. Located on the 1860 Austintown, Mahoning County, OH census is George Shively age 62, son David age 21, son Abraham age 20, son George W. age 18, daughter Caroline age 15, son John age 14 and Catharine Whetsler age 67. On the 1870 Austintown, Mahoning County, census are George Shively age 71, Sarah age 44, son George W. age 28, son John age 24, domestic servant Susan Swank age 45 and Caroline Kistler age 26. Listed on the 1880 Austintown, Mahoning County, OH census are George Shively age 81, daughter Sarah age 53, daughter Caroline Kistler age 35, grandson John Kistler age 11, niece Lottie Shively, and boarder John C. Bookhart age 57.
James Shively shares the following information on George Shibely(Shively) which was located in the Youngstown Register & Tribune, Feb. 19, 1880, Page 4:
PIONEER BIOGRAPHY
An interesting sketch of the life of George Shively, of Austintown
By John M. Edwards
Editors Register & Tribune:
At the last pioneer reunion the subject of collecting biographies of the pioneers and early settlers was frequently spoken of, but no definate plan adopted to obtain them. This is very desirable, and if some one or more in each township, hand with the pen, would visit the veterans and the children & neighbors of those who have passed away, and take notes of the histories they could relate, a very valuable amount of historical & biographical information can be collected. Will our friends in the Valley do this, and report to me, or any other officer of the Mahoning Valley Historical Society, the result of their labors, for publication & preservation among our records. We have already some valuable biographies & desire all that we can obtain.
Enjoying an interview with a venerable & highly respected pioneer of a neighboring township, a few days since, I noted down some facts on his life as he related them & herewith present them:
Biography of George Shibely
George Shibely, of Austintown, was born in Tyrone township, Cumberland County (now Perry County) Pennsylvania, November 8, 1798. He came with his parents to Austintown, Trumbull County (now Mahoning County) Ohio in May, 1812, passing through Youngstown, which then consisted of only a few log cabins on each side of the main street, and grass was growing in the streets. The family came in a big wagon drawn by a four-horse team.
His father’s name was Frederick Shibely, after whom Frederick S. Whitsler, of Youngstown, a son of one of his daughters in named. He died at the age of 56 years. George’s mother died at the age of 63 years. Frederick Shibely bought a tract of land on the “Racoon Road”, as it is called, in the east part of Austintown, on which George now lives, and to which he has made some additions. The land at that time was all woods, and the father & son immediately went to work & cleared up a farm. Frederick and wife had eleven children - six sons & five daughters - who all lived to adult age. Four have died; the rest are living.
George married Elizabeth Opp in Austintown, by whom he had two children. She only lived a few years after the marriage. He married for his second wife Maria Grove, of Austintown, daughter of Wendall Grove, a revolutionary soldier; & sister of John & Andrew Grove. By her he had six children. The 8th - 4 sons & 4 daughters - are all grown up & married. He recollects the events of his early life and the conditions of the country and manners of the people then.
He says the early settlers were very accommodating and always ready to help one another. They always went to log cabin & other raisings, on which occasions whiskey was plenty as water; and was considered indispensable. He speaks of one instance in which the man who had united his neighbors to help him raise, refused to furnish whiskey and found it difficult to get his cabin up. He was well acquainted with Judge Tod, Colonel Hillman, James Mackey, Colonel Rayen and the old citizens of Youngstown. He saw Colonel Rayen in his uniform in command of his regiment, when he had them ready to march to the frontier in the fall of 1812, and says the Colonel was a fine looking man.
This old pioneer, now in his 82nd year, was never sick but once, which was about 40 years ago. Packard attended him. Mr. Shibely was afraid he would not get well. Dr. Packard assured him that he would recover & that he might perhaps live twenty years longer. “And now”, he says, “I have lived forty years longer, and nothing ails me but old age”.
The old gentleman has frequently visited Youngstown this winter on business.
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