Children Of Seraphin Shively And Wife Frances Cunningham Who Lived In Stark County, Ohio

Information on Seraphin Shively and wife, Frances Cunningham, can be found in the Shively blog written on 13-January-2012.  The children of Seraphin and Frances Shively lived in the Stark County, OH area.  Nora C. Shively died 22-June-1940 with burial in Westlawn Cemetery, Canton, OH; Caroline E. Shively died 4-May-1952 with burial in Westlawn Cemetery; Fred M. Shively died 25-March-1921 with burial in Westlawn Cemetery and Thomas C. Shively died 24-June-1947 with burial in Westlawn Cemetery.

Located in the Repository, Canton, Ohio, Sunday, June 23, 1940, Page 14, Column 7:

Sunday School Class Named After Founder, Teacher

Miss Nora C. Shively a school teacher here for almost 40 years and an active worker in First Baptist church, died Saturday at 3:15 p.m. in her home, 1315 Oxford ave NW. She had been ill health for several years. Cause of death was a heart attack.

Miss Shively organized the senior Philathea Bible class which now bears her name at First Baptist church, and was teacher of the class for many years.

Surviving are: one sister, Miss Caroline E. Shively of the home and Thomas C. Shively of 212 Dartmouth ave SW.

Funeral services will be conducted on Tuesday at 2 p.m. in the Arnold parlors with Rev. J. H. Satterfield officiating.  Burial will be in Westlawn cemetery. Friends may call at the parlors today after 4 p.m.

Extracted from the Repository, Canton, Ohio, Monday, May 5, 1952, Page 4, Column 1:

Caroline Shively

Miss Caroline Shively, a Canton school teacher for 39 years, died Sunday morning in the Ilg Convalescent Home after an illness of five months.  She had spent most of her teaching years at Market School.

Born in Navarre 80 years ago, she came to Canton as a child. She resided with her sister-in-law, Mrs. Emily J. Shively of 212 Darmouth Ave. SW.

Miss Shively was a member of First Baptist Church and the Nora Shively Philathea Class.  She is survived by a nephew and two nieces.  Rev. J. H. Satterfield will conduct services Tuesday at 2 p.m. (EST) in the Formet & Clevenger funeral home at 1022 Tuscarawas St. W. Burial will be in Westlawn Cemetery. Calling hours are today 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m.

The following information was found in the Repository, Canton, Ohio, Friday, March 25, 1921, Page 16, Columns 3-4:

F. M. Shively Dies

Fred M. Shively, 45, died at his home, 212 Dartmouth ave SW, Friday morning.  He is survived by two sisters, Nora C. Shively and Carrie E. Shively, of the home, and one brother, Thomas C. Shively, of Akron.  He was a member of the First Baptist church and the Loyal Order of Moose.  Funeral services will be held Monday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock at the home. Rev. W. E. Bridge will officiate. Burial will be made in Westlawn cemetery.

The following newspaper obituary was found in the Repository, Canton, Ohio, Wednesday, June 25, 1947, Page 14, Column 2:

Thomas C. Shively

Thomas C. Shively, a mechanical engineer at Grissom-Russell Co. in Massillon, died Tuesday at 9:15 p.m. in his residence at 212 Darmouth ave SW from pneumonia.

A life resident of Canton, Mr. Shively was 65 years of age.  He was a member of First Baptist Church and was a graduate of old Central High School.  He attended Valparaiso University in Valparaiso, Ind., and the Lewis Institute of Engineering in Chicago.

He leaves his widow, Mrs. Emily Shively, two daughters, Mrs. William L. Miller of the home and Mrs. Herbert Zagray; one son, Eugene C. Shively; on sister, Miss Carrie Shively, all of Canton, and five grandchildren.

Funeral services conducted by Rev. J. H. Satterfield will be Friday at 1:30 p.m. in the Arnold funeral home.  Burial will be in Westlawn Cemetery. Friends may call after 7 tonight.

Shively's In Eagle Prairie Or Rio Del Or Rio Dell, Humboldt County, California

The Shively blog written on July 23, 2011 featured William Beaser Shively And Wife, Caroline Gould, In Humboldt County, California. The following newspaper article extracted from The Humboldt Times, Thursday, February 11, 1965, Page 15, Column 1 mentions the Shively families in the history.

RFD

By Andrew Genzoli

RIO DELL HAS A HISTORY -- On February 16, voters of Rio Dell will make history, when they decide for or against incorporation.  A large, busy community, Rio Dell is outgrowing a "hand-to-mouth" existence, and now looks to a dignified permanency.

Rio Dell has a good historical background.  Our correspondent, Evelyn McCormick proves this, as she becomes today's "guest columnist".

Rio Dell's Settlers

By Evelyn McCormick

Many changes have taken place in Eagle Prairie since the first which man walked through the gateway in the redwoods in 1850.  Prior to that date Indians had walked over its vast meadows and wooded sidehills.  After 115 years, its residents have asked for the privilege of voting on incorporation for the proposed city of Rio Dell.

Eagle Prairie came to be known as Rio Del (one "l"). Bordering the Scotia-Rio Dell Bridge, the Italian community was known as Wildwood.  Another community of residents between the Blue Slide area and Rio Del was the Bellevue District. During the 1940's all the communities were united, and officially adopted the name of Rio Dell (two "lls").

The first while travelers knew the flat acreage circled by the Eel River as Eagle Prairie. Reddick McKee of the United States Indian Agency came through in 1850. He wrote in his Washington, D. C., Journal that no one resided on Eagle Prairie at that time.  McKee was the first to try to open an overland trail from Santa Rosa to the north.

This fertile prairie was described to be an area of humid atmosphere bounded by the Eel River on the north, south and east and only by Indian trails to the west. Explorers to this area came via Grizzly Bluff to Blue Slide.

On July 16, 1853, W. B. Shively of Chico, and his brother, James, claimed 160 acres of land in Eagle Prairie.  The claim was made at "eight and one-half o'clock" in the Humboldt County Recorder's office.  Lewis K. Wood was recorder. Witnesses to the claim were John L. Young and Thomas Bell.  It is recorded in Book A, Page 331.

Shively immediately built a log cabin behind what was later to become Rio Dell House, the site of the old Moore Hotel.  The hotel was built in the 1870's.

The new land owner cultivated and sowed the land with oats, barley and potatoes, the latter being the favorite crop of farmers in the Eel River Valley.

The late Mrs. Pearl Corning Croco of Bellview was the granddaughter of W. B. Shively.  Shively's wife was Carrie Gould Winemiller (a widow with two sons).  She was the daughter of John Bean Gould, an early settler.

In 1856 a man named Kelsey arrived on the prairie.  He proposed exploring and marking a wagon road to the Russian River.  His companion was Seth Kinman, a well-known Humboldt historical character.

They left Eagle Prairie following the southwest side of the river until passing Colonel Washington Monument on Monument Peak in the Bear River Mountains, southwest of Mount Pierce.  Virgin timber and other obstacles in their path compelled them to give up their plans.

W. J. Sweasey and his party arrived in Eagle Prairie in 1856.  They reported the prairie settlement was the first white settlement they had encountered since leaving Healdsburg. They had used an overland rail to the present site of Fort Seward.

At Fort Seward they built a raft of redwood logs and ferried down the river, fording shallow places several times until arriving at Eagle Prairie.  The wagons carried on the raft were the first ones to come to Humboldt County on the south.

In 1860 Indians caused some trouble to the settlers. They were moved to Hoopa that same year.  Shively, who helped to round up the Indians, adopted two of their children and raised them to adulthood.  The Wiyot (Weott) Tribe's territory terminated on the southern border of the prairie.  Local mountains separated these Indians from the less-cultured Indians to the south.

Between 1862 and 1864, the Indians drifted back to this area.  According to Ferndale Enterprise of September 17, 1864, the Shively family was burned out by Indians who set fire to their grain fields.

W. B. Shively's daughter, Abbie, was reported to be the first white child born on the prairie.  A son, Dan, was born to the couple in 1867.  In 1868 the Shively family moved to Bluff Prairie (now Shively, named in the early settler's honor).

A deed dated November 5, 1864, shows that James A. Harris settled in Eagle Prairie.  His wife was Abbie Gould, a sister of Mrs. W. B. Shively.

By 1865 the Indian situation had improved and a wagon road welcomed settlers to the area. A William Duckett from Michigan was an Eagle Prairie farmer at this time.

During the 1860's and 1870's the area began to grow.  By 1873, Azel A. Fuller of Massachusetts owned 320 acres on the prairie.  An Oregon settler, Archibald Crisman, also owned 320 acres here.  A Humboldt Times, dated January 22, 1876, told of Crisman's developing a vein of coal in the bluffs opposite the lower part of Eagle Prairie.  The vein was reported as of long quantity and questionable quality.  Max Crisman (a grandson of Crisman) resides in Belleview today.

Hiram W. Dean filed for 160 acres of government land on the south end of Eagle Prairie, later called the Wildwood Tract.  Rio Dell's Dean Creek was named for him.  His original house (two story) later called the Old Brown House and more recently called the Storybook House, still stand on Orchard Road.

The era of Lorenzo D. Painter began in 1879 when he began building the city of "Rio Del", later changed to "Rio Dell".

Whether or not Rio Dell steps into a new era, that of an incorporated city, will be decided by the voters at next Tuesday's election, it still has a good chapter of Humboldt history.

Caroline "Carrie" Shively Richardson, Who Lived In Taylor County, Kentucky To Weld County, Colorado

Caroline Shively Richardson

The family of Caroline "Carrie" Shively Richardson would like help in locating her death date and place of death. She had an interesting life and the family would like to know where she died and where she is buried.  A few of the facts on the life of Caroline Shively were extracted from Hunting For Our Roots which was researched by Suzy Bracey and Beverly Colvin Smith.

Caroline "Carrie" Shively was the daughter of Perry Sylvester Shively and Susan Margaret Melton. She was born in 1878 in Mannsville, Taylor County, KY.The last known place of residence was in Greeley, Weld County, CO at 315 Fifth Avenue about 1951.  Caroline was married to George W. Richardson and they lived in New Mexico and Colorado.  George W. Richardson died on 23-February-1943 in Greeley, CO.

"Caroline left the Spurlington/Campbellsville, KY area around 1914 and followed her older sister, Gertrude, to Louisville and began working as a nanny/housekeeper."  The two sisters were located in the 1914, 1915 and 1917 Louisville City directories.

"In September of 1917, Caroline and Gertrude Shively bought the 132 1/2 acre farm that would end up being the home place for their other sister, Cordelia "Cordie" White, their father Perry Sylvester Shively and Cordie's son, Charles S. White". 

By 1920 Caroline has married George W. Richardson and they are living in Colorado.   In the household is Alberta V. Richardson, age 7. George and Caroline are listed on the 1930 New Mexico, Dona Ana County census.  The newspaper obituary for George W. Richardson was located in The Greeley Daily Tribune, Wednesday, February 24,1943, Page 2, Col 3:

            G. Richardson Dies Tuesday

George W. Richardson,  68,   of 1443 Fifth  street  died at   

Caroline Shively Richardson

Presbyterian hospital, Denver, Tuesday night following an operation, which he underwent there a week ago.   His death came as a shock to his family, for his condition was regarded as very satisfactory earlier in the day.

Mr. Richardson was born Dec. 25, 1876 in Cambridge, Ia.  For 15 years he was associated with the U.S. Indian service in New Mexico, and inter farmed.  He had lived in Greeley the past three years, and had been in poor health all that time.

Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Caroline Richardson of Greeley, a daughter, Mrs. Alberta Wood of Hatch, N.M., four grandchildren, and a sister, Miss Etta Richardson, long a teacher in the Greeley high school.

Macys will announce funeral arrangements.

George W. Richardson was buried in the Linn Grove Cemetery in Weld County, Colorado.  

"In 1950-1951, at the age of 72-73, Caroline made her final trip to Campbellsville, KY.  It is told that Charles and Audrey White were sitting on the front porch at the farm in Spurlington, one HOT summer day when they saw someone walking down the road carrying a big bundle.  They wondered 'WHO IN THE WORLD?' and 'WHAT ARE THEY CARRYING'???  It was Caroline, coming home to visit the family she had not seen in about 30 years.  She brought a few clothes with her and the bundle..?..her full length fur coat! While she was there, which was for several months, Aunt Carrie lived with her sister, Cordie Shively White, Charles, Audrey and their son, Mike, who was about 5 years old.  She visited her other sisters Gertrude and Sallie and other family members while she was there."