Michael Shively In What Is Now Monongalia County, West Virginia

A Shively researcher working on Michael Shively who lived in what is now Monongalia County, WVA is asking for additional help.  It is known that Michael Shively made a claim in 1774 for 302 acres on Scotts Mill Run which is now Monongalia County, WVA.  This land adjoined Abraham Harding.  A survey of this land was done bearing date of 17-Aug-1786 and  on 8-Jul-1788 conveyed to John Shively heir at law of Michael Shively, deceased.  On 15-Mar-1792 John Shively of Nelson County and State of Virginia (now Kentucky) sold the 302 acres to Abraham Harden (Harding) of Monongalia County, Virginia (now West Virginia).  

It is a theory not yet proven with fact that this Michael Shively may have been killed by Native American Indians in KY.  Also unproven with fact but believed is that John Shively, Michael Shively and Jacob Shively who are listed in the cabin of Richard Dean on the 2-Aug-1791 Nelson County, KY Tithable List are the sons of this Michael Shively.  Further not proven is the wife of Michael Shively was Hannah Harding.

On 24-Aug-1832 in Green County, KY Michael Shively testified that "that during the Revolutionary War he resided in Pennsylvania near the Monongahela River and that then and there he was acquainted with Thomas Harding who now resides in Green County, KY and that from what he then heard and knew during the Revolutionary War, he believed that the said Thomas Harding was employed most of his time for several years in the service of his country as a soldier and that he knows that the said Thomas Harding was absent from his place of residence most of the time for several years, and that he understood that the said Thomas Harding was engaged in the service as a soldier during his absence from the neighborhood in which he resided"....

There is much information connecting the Shively, Harden and Harding families in an account written by Jack Hardin, Jr. entitled History Of The Hardin Family in the Early Settling of Kentucky which was published by Baptist World Publishing Company, Louisville, KY in 1915.  The account tells the story of the move of fifteen families composed entirely of kindred by blood or marriage to Kentucky on two flat boats starting in March-1780. They bade farewell to their old homes and floated down the Monongahela, many of them never to see the proposed new homes. All went well until the 20-March-1780 when near the mouth of the Limestone they were furiously attacked by a large force of Indians. Having lost a number of their warriors, killed and wounded, they were infuriated to the highest degree. They killed the wife and little child of Jacob Shively." Others were also killed by for this article am focused on the Shively's.

From additional information Shively was "only related by marriage. His wife was a Harding, a cousin to my Grandmother Hardin and my mother's father, Thomas Harding". 

In May-1781 this Jacob Shively was burned at stake be the Native American Indians after he was captured during an attempt by the survivors of the 1780 attack on the flat boats to find their loved ones that had been captured.

It believed that the Jacob Shively mentioned was actually the Michael Shively who had lived in Monongalia County, WVA on Scotts Mill Run.  

Another document which connects the Green County-Taylor County, KY Michael and Jacob Shively back to a Michael Shively is found in Green County, KY Deed Book 4, Page 43 which says "Michael Shively and Jacob Shively heirs of Michael Shively deceased both of Green County, KY  do appoint William Kelso of Breckenridge County, KY to sell a certain tract of land in Fayette County, PA."  This was dated 10-Aug-1803.   No additional information could be found in Fayette County.

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William Thomas Shively And Wife Teresia E. Hayden Who Lived In Pottawattomie County, Iowa

William Thomas Shively, who is living in honorable retirement in Council Bluffs, Iowa, was born in Taylor county, Kentucky, March 8, 1830.  He joined the Union army as a private and won promotion of the rank of captain. When the war was ended Mr. Shively bought a farm in Taylor county, Kentucky, which he sold after a year and then gave his attention to the milling business until he came to Pottawattamie county, Iowa, in the summer of 1866.  For several months he worked in the steam sawmills at Lewins Grove near Avoca, and in the spring of 1867 he began farming, in which he continued until the following winter, when he entered the employ of the Rock Island Railroad Company. He worked at grading until the road was completed to Council Bluffs in the same year.  Subsequently he entered the car repairing department of the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad and so continued until 1869.  In that year he removed to Lemars, Iowa, where he homesteaded one hundred and ebixty acres of land and turned his attention to farming, cultivating and developing that place until the spring of 1882, when he went to O'Neill, Nebraska.  He there pre-empted one hundred and sixty acres of land, which he brought under cultivation, and upon that farm lived for sixteen years, his labors converting it into a rich and productive property.  Removing to the city of O'Neill, he there lived for six years, and in 1904 he came to Council Bluffs, where he has since lived retired, enjoying well earned ease.  His life has been one of untiring activity and enterprise and thus he acquired a handsome competence, enabling him now to live in honorable retirement. On the 4th of October 1853, Mr. Shively was married to Miss Terresa Hayden, a daughter of James and Elenor (Hayden) Hayden, who though of the same name were not related.  The marriage was celebrated at St. Mary's Church in Calvary, Marion county, Kentucky. (This information was taken from "History Of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, From The Earliest Historic Times to 1907" by S. J. Clarke Publishing Co., Chicago, copywrite date 1907, pages 743-746, a book found in the Council Bluffs, Iowa Library, and retyped by Richard Dale Shively, of Ralston, Nebraska, great grandson of William Thomas Shively.)

Several articles were located in the Council Bluffs, Iowa newspapers.  Extracted from the Council Bluffs Nonpareil, Wednesday Evening, February 9, 1921, Page 12, Column 2:

Capt. W. T. Shively of 811 South Twenty-second street, Omaha, is suffering from a stroke of paralysis, following a hemorrhage of the brain.  This happened the past week and he is now recovering slowly.  He was a former well known resident of this city and has many relatives residing here.

The following was extracted from The Sunday Morning Nonpareil, Sunday, March 11, 1911, Page 6, Column 3:

Capt. W. T. Shively entertained at a 1 o'clock dinner Sunday at his home, 8328 Avenue A.  Places were arranged for Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Gallagher, Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Shively and family, Mr. and Mrs. Sam E. Anderson and family, J. H. Shively and family, all of Omaha, and Mr. and Mrs. Fred Loper and family, Mrs. S. E. Anderson and Mr. Will Anderson, of this city.

This newspaper obituary was found in The Evening Nonpareil, Friday, April 26, 1907, Page 2, Column 3:

Mrs. Teresia E. Shively

Mrs. Teresia E. Shively wife of Capt. W. T. Shively, 3256 Avenue A, died at 6:10 o'clock this morning of the infirmities of old age, after a decline of four years.  She was 68 years of age.

Mrs. Shively was born in Lebanon, Marion county, Ky., in 1838, and was married to Capt. Shively, April 4, 1853, at Calvary, Ky.   She had been a resident of this city about three years, having removed to Council Bluffs from O'Neill, Nebraska.  She was a member of St. Francis Xavier's church.

Surviving her are three daughters, five sons, a brother and a sister:  Mrs. F. G. Loper, 1217 Sixth avenue; Mrs. S. E. Andrews, at home; Mrs. E. T. Gallagher, 3329 Avenue B; W. T. Shively, Norfolk, Neb.; J. H. Shively, Omaha; R. C. Shively, 2743 Avenue D, this city; G. Shively at home; F. J. Shively, Windon, Minn.  The brother and sister are W. and Sarah E. Hayden of Lebanon, Ky.

The funeral announcement will be made later.

The following was found in the Omaha World-Herald, Omaha, Nebraska, Sunday, December 24, 1922, Page 3, Column 2:

Capt. Wm. T. Shiveley Dies Here At 92 Years

Civil War Veteran, Former Resident Of O'Neill, Had Been Nebraska Resident Of 41 Years

Captain William T. Shively, civil war veteran, died Saturday morning at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Stella Rose, 2114 South Thirty fourth street, at the age of 92 years.  He had been a resident of Nebraska for forty-one years, and came to Omaha ten years ago from his former home at O'Neill.

Captain Shively was born in Green county, Kentucky.  He enlisted in the union army in 1861, and was made a captain less than a year later of Company H. Tenth Kentucky volunteer infantry.  He was mustered out December 4, 1864.  

Surviving him are a brother, Sylvester Shively, Lebanon, Ky.; five sons, William T., O'Neill, Neb.; George, Ralston, Neb.; Richard, Council Bluffs, and Frank and James of Omaha, and three daughters, Mrs. Sarah Anderson and Mrs. Stella Rose, Omaha, and Mrs. Fred Loper of Council Bluffs.  There are twenty-three grandchildren and eighteen great grandchildren.

Funeral services will be held at 8:30 o'clock Tuesday from the home of Mrs. Rose, to Lady of the Lourves church, Thirty-second avenue and Francis street, at 9 o'clock.  Burial will be in St. Joseph cemetery, Council Bluffs.

Dilcy Ann Bailey And Aaron Shively Who Lived In Taylor And Green County, Kentucky

Marriage Of  Dilcy Bailey & Aaron Shively

The Civil War Widow's Pension File for Dilcy Bailey Cox Shively is a valuable file for the genealogist in that it contains approximately 250 pages of information.  The African Americans mentioned in these files lived in Taylor and Green County in Kentucky.  Dilcy Ann Bailey was first married to George Cox in Taylor County, Kentucky on 15-November-1857.  George Cox  served as a private in the 108 Regiment, Company D, US Colored Infantry.  George Cox died on the 20-May-1866 in Green County, KY from Camp Diarrhea he contacted at Vicksburg, Mississippi.  Dilcy married second to Aaron Shively in Green County, KY on 29-December-1870.  Aaron Shively served as a private in Company F of the 125th US Colored Infantry.

Some of the history of Dilcy Bailey and Aaron Shively are best told in their own words:

Case of Aaron Shively--On the 6th day of October, 1897 at National Military Home, County of Grant, State of Indiana, before me, Chas. E. Paul, a special examiner of the pension file, personally appeared Aaron Shively, who being by me first duly sworn to answer truly all interrogatories propounded to him during this special examination of aforesaid pension claim, eposes and says:  I am 50 years of age; occupation, common laborer.  I am at present an inmate of the National Military Home, Grant County, Ind.  I was born a slave near Roachville, Green County, Kentucky.  I first was owned by Price Roach; after his death I became the possession of John Wesley Shively and was with him for a least ten years before my enlistment.  Ben Wakefield, Caesar Cox, Natkins Motley and Hanover Williams knew me long before service and were raised in the vicinity of Roachville, Green County, Kentucky.  They also knew me after my service until about 1873 as we all went back near Roachville and farmed for six years after the war.  I enlisted in April, 1865 in Co F, 125th US Colored Vol. Inf., served as Private, and was discharged about Dec 23, 1867.  I had no other service. I am pensioned for chronic diarrhea and piles under the new law at $12 per month.  I am pensioned un the old law for the same disabilities.  I now claim additional pension under the old law for sore mouth, loss of teeth, affliction of eyes and hearing.  My left ear and left eye are most affected. I claim no other disabilities and had no other disabilities in service but the diarrhea and piles.  I think upon recollection that I also had a pain in my left side from a strain while lifting a wagon in service. That happened in 1866 while we took provisions across the plains from Leavenworth, Kansas to the Rio Grande river in New Mexico (Fort Selden).  There is a pinch in my side and I have worn a truss or belt for it ever since the war.  Before the war I had no sickness that I recall but chills and fever.  I worked on the plantation of John Wesley Shively before the war and also worked for him about three years after the time I was discharged.  At my examination at enlistment I was stripped and my sight and hearing were tested.  There were several doctors and I was rolled around and measured and also had my teeth examined.    The first disease I had in service was diarrhea shortly after my enlistment and while we were at Louisville, Ky.  I had this off and on during the rest of my service.  Also had piles.  I next contracted small pox at Cairo, Ill. about New Year 1866.  Some said I had varioloid.  I was placed in Hospital No. One at Cairo, Ill......

Case of Dilcy A. Shively--On this 8 day of May, 1907, at Greensburg, Count of Green, State of Ky., before me, H. B. Swearingen, a special examiner of the Bureau of Pensions, personally appeared Dilcey A. Shively, who being by me first duly sworn to answer truly all interrogatories propounded to her during this special examination of aforesaid claim for pension, deposes and says:  I am 66 years of age, my post-office address is Greensburg, Green Co., Ky.  I do not do anything any more.  I have paralysis and have to depend on my friends for my living.  I was a slave belonged to Grief Bailey.  He lived in Taylor Co. between here and Campbellsville.  I was married to George Cox.  We had the consent of our owners to marry and were married in my mother's cabin.  My master and mistress gave us a wedding supper and my young mistress Mary Ellen Bailey set the table.  My husband belonged to Mr. Fred Cox who lived about 4 miles from us and after our marriage he would come to our place Saturday night and go back Monday morning.  I had two children before the war but they are both dead.  I was 15 years old when I married and it was 5 years before the war.  George Cox went to the Army and was gone a year and a half.  He came home the first of April and died the third Sunday in May following.  I stayed at Mr. Baileys while he was gone but when he came home from the Army he took me to Mr. Cox's place and died there.  He was sick with Camp diarrhea when he came home and died of that disease.  He belonged to Co. D, 108 USC Inft.  After Cox died I went to Tinsley Webster's and was there till I remarried.  Webster lived on Winston Anderson's place and while I was there I worked in the field.  One of my children died before the war but the other one Jimmie lived until 3 years ago.  He drew pension after my remarriage till he was 16 years old.  Aaron Shively had belonged to John Shively prior to the war and was a soldier in the War.  He was in the 125 Regt but I do not know what Company.  Five years after George Cox died I married Aaron Shively.  He passed for a young man but I had known him only a year when we married so I knew only by what I heard that he had not been married before.  I lived with Aaron a little better than 3 years.  He lived at Mr. Shively's place one year and there went to John M. Robinson's place. We made 2 crops there and then Aaron left me.  He went off with my sister Mary Catherine Bailey.  I do not know where they went but I heard they went across the Ohio River.  He sold all our things.  We had three horses and 6 hogs and he sold them all.  My sister was staying with me then they went away together.  My sister came back within two years.  She wrote to ____ for money to come back on.  She had a child about a year old when she came back.  She afterwards married Archie Ward and died at Lebanon.  I have never seen Aaron since he ran off that time.  I got a divorce from him about a year ago.  I never tried to get a divorce till I heard that I could get my pension back.  I never married after Aaron left me and never lived with any man as his wife.  I had two children by Aaron Shively, but one of these is dead.  I have only one child living, Bertha J., wife of Jerry White.  No, Sir, I never tried to get a divorce till last year.  He never tried to get a divorce from me that I know of.  I have never heard from him in any way, shape, nor form.  No, I did not know my attorney found him when he got my divorce.  After Aaron left me I had to make my living the best way I could.  I worked in the field and washed and ironed and cooked.  I have lived right within neighborhood all the time except one year that I lived near Lebanon.  I was paralyzed 6 years ago and since then have not been able to do anything.  I lived for a while with my son in law Jerry White in Taylor Co. and he put me on the County and got pay for keeping me but within County my friends here kept me for nothing.  I have heard this read, have understood your questions and my answers are correctly recorded.

Who Is Michael Shively That Might Be The Father of John, Jacob and Michael Shively

     Early Kentucky records for the counties of Washington, Hardin, Green and Marion provide the names of three known Shively men.  From years of research and the Shively family DNA project it is known these men were related.  It is further believed that they were brothers.  The DNA of their descendants has matched the Shively’s who were in the Louisville, Kentucky area and Monongalia County which is now West Virginia.

     The names of these three are John Shively, Jacob Shively, and Michael Shively.   Who was their father?    Unfortunately these Shively descendants haven’t found a family Bible to provide the answers but there are many other clues that can be found that indicate their father may have been Michael Shively. Research has been and is being done by very talented Shively family genealogists on this lineage.  

     What are some of the clues that might indicate the father of John, Jacob and Michael Shively was Michael Shively?  Probably the most important clues come from land records.  From the Monongalia County, WVA deeds and land grants it is recorded that John Shively heir at law of Michael Shively, deceased is granted a certain tract of lands containing 302 acres by survey. This transaction is dated the 8^th of July 1788. John Shively sells this 302 acres to Abraham Harden recorded in Monongalia County, WVA Deed Book 125, Page 178.  This deed is dated 15^th day of March 1792. There is a document that also connects Jacob Shively and Michael Shively to a Michael Shively.  In the Green County, Kentucky Deed Book 4, Page 43 is the following power of attorney:  “Know all men by these presents that we Michael Shively and Jacob Shively heirs of Michael Shively deceased both of Green County and state of Kentucky do make, constitute and appoint William Kelso of Breckenridge County and state aforesaid our True and Lawful Attorney for us and in our name to sell, assign and transfer, all our Right and tittle to a certain tract of land lying and being in Fayette County and State of Pennsylvany on the waters of Georges Creek…In witness thereof we hereunto set our hands and seals this 10^th day of August 1803”.  An important fact from the land records is that the death of Michael Shively has occurred by 1788 per the above Monongalia County information.

    Some Shively researchers suggest that the father of John Shively, Jacob Shively, and Michael Shively is Michael Scheiffle (Shively), the immigrant who arrived in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on October 27, 1738 on the ship, the St. Andrew.   The known children of Michael Scheiffle (Shively) were: Eva Dorothea,

born 9-March-1740, baptized 10-August-1740, John Christian Schauffle, born 25-October-1746; John Schaufele, born 14-April-1749; John Jacob Scheiffle, born 9-July-1751; and Joh. Heinrich Scheifele, born 27-January-1759.  From other sources is listed a son, John Phillip Shively, born 1753.

     Of these known children of Michael Scheiffle (Shively) there are established lineages.  John Christian Scheiffle and John Jacob Scheiffle are found in the records of Jefferson County, Kentucky.  John Heinrich Shively is found in the records of Shelby County, Kentucky and then later Orange County, Indiana. John Phillip Shively remained in Monongalia County, WVA.    The descendants of Eva Dorothea and John Schaufele are not known.  

     Years of birth for the three Kentucky Shively men (John, Jacob and Michael) are estimated.  The 1850 Taylor County, KY census lists Jacob Shively at age 78, which would estimate his date of birth as 1772.   From the 1792 Nelson County Tithable List it is recorded that John Shively and Michael Shively are 21 years of age but Jacob Shively is under 20 (this info matches the birth date of 1772 for Jacob Shively as he would be age 20 in 1792).  This would estimate dates of birth for John Shively and Michael Shively as prior to 1771.

     With these recorded clues then who do you think is the father of John Shively, Jacob Shively and Michael Shively in Kentucky?   Is their father Michael Scheiffle (Shively) who was the immigrant said to be born about 1718 in Germany?   Is the Michael Shively possibly a son of Michael Scheiffle (Shively)?