Oscar Shively And Wife, Vera Worl, Who Lived In Miami County, Indiana

The Shively families who descend from ancestors who lived in the Miami County, IN area are fortunate to have genealogy records readily available. The following newspaper article was extracted from The Kokomo Tribune, Kokomo, Indiana, Thursday, June  14, 1951, Page 7, Columns 4-6:

Combined Ages Of Five In Family Total 382 Years

Two sisters and three brothers whose combined ages total 382 years joined in honoring on of the sisters, Mrs. Nancy Worl, on the occasion of her 70th birthday anniversary last Sunday.

The celebration was held at the home of Mrs. Worl east of Miami.  Richard and Lucille Worl assisted in arrangements for the occasion.

Mrs. Worl's sister, Mrs. Laura Glassburn of Kokomo, who is 79, and their brothers, Frank Sutton of Bunker Hill route 1, who is 85 years old, John Sutton of Bunker Hill route 1, who is 72, and William Sutton of Wabash, who is 76, were present.

Other guests were Mrs. John Sutton, Mrs. William Sutton and Arthur Glasburn, all of Kokomo;  Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Shively and Milford Shively, Kokomo route 3; Mr. and Mrs. Philip Hahn, and daughters Marlene and Vera Margaret of McGrawsville; Mary Clemens, Kokomo route 3; and Mrs. Charles Stuber and Mrs. Pearl Dawalt, Peru route 5.

Afternoon callers were Mrs. Ina Prather, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Thompson, Peru, Mrs. Alta Baker, Cassville and Mrs. Leota Bowman and daughters Drenda Jo and Treena Janay of Kokomo.

The following newspaper obituary mentions the wife of Oscar Shively was Vera Worl.  Located in The Kokomo Tribune, Tuesday, January 2, 1968, Page 2, Column 4:

Oscar Shively

Oscar Shively, 65, Phoenix, Ariz., formerly of Bunker Hill R. R. 1, died at a hospital there at 8:45 p.m. Friday following an extended illness.  Mr. Shively moved to Phoenix two years ago.

He formerly operated grocery stores at Santa Fe and McGrawsville and also was manager of the Farm Bureau Elevator at Bennetts Switch for a number of years.

Born in Miami County, July 31, 1902, he was the son of William and Alice (Jenkins) Shively. He was married Nov. 28, 1928 to Vera Worl, who survives.

Other survivors are one son, Milford Shively, Phoenix; two grandsons; three sisters, Mrs. Alvin Powell, Bunker Hill R.R. 1; Mrs. Harry Christner, North Grove, and Mrs. Nelson Glassburn, McGrawsville, and a brother, Raymond Shively, Bunker Hill R. R. 1.

He was a member of the Bennetts Switch Methodist Church.

Funeral services were in Phoenix, Tuesday.  Burial was there.

If interested in additional information on the family of William Shively and Alice Jenkins Shively please see the Shively blog for July 13, 2012.  William and Alice Shively were the subjects of the blog on that date.

The following was found in The Logansport Press, Logansport, Indiana, Thursday, October 13, 1960, Page 6, Column 2:

Mrs. Nancy Worl, 79, Dies;  Rites Friday

PERU---Mrs. Nancy Worl, 79, route 1, Bunker Hill, died Tuesday evening after a two week's illness.  A life resident of Miami county, she had resided most of her life in Clay township.

Survivors are three daughters and a son:  Mrs. Phillip Hahn, route 1, Amboy; Mrs. Oscar Shively, Bennets Switch; Mrs. William Campbell, Peru; Richard, route 1, Bunker Hill; four grandchildren; four great-grandchildren; a brother, William, Amboy.

Friends may call after three o'clock this afternoon at the Laird funeral home and rites there will be at two o'clock (CST) Friday.  The Reverend Claude Studebaker and the Reverend Vern Stuber will officiate and burial will be in Rankin cemetery.

Samuel S. Shively And Wife Lydia Ullery Who Lived In Miami County, Indiana

Samuel S. Shively/Lydia Ullery Marriage

Samuel S. Shively was born 31-Mar-1818 and died 12-Jan-1881 and buried in Sharpee Cemetery in Miami County, IN.  Samuel was married on 30-Apr-1840 in Montgomery County, OH to Lydia Ullery.  Lydia was born 14-Jan-1824 and died 1-Jan-1873.   Samuel S. Shively was the son of Christian Shively (1770-1836) and Susannah Gripe (1776-1859).

Samuel S. Shively is listed on the 1860 Miami County, IN, Pipe Creek Township census:  Samuel S. Shively age 42 farmer, wife Lydia age 36, son Samuel age 18, son Solomon age 14, son Christian age 6, and daughter Mary E age 2.  On the 1870 Miami County, IN, Pipe Creek Township census is listed Samuel Shively age 52, wife Lydia age 46, son Christopher age 14, daughter Mary age 13 and daughter Anna.  On the 1880 Miami County, IN, Pipe Creek Township census in the household of George Bowman age 30 is the boarder Samuel Shively age 62 and his son Christopher Shively age 23.

The tragic death of Samuel S. Shively was recorded in at least three different newspapers. The tragedy of Samuel’s death is not the reason for this article rather the different telling of the tragedy in each newspaper. 

Extracted from the Logansport Weekly Journal, Logansport, IN, Saturday, January 22, 1881, Page 8, Column 3:

Wednesday evening Samuel Shively and another man, both farmers, started home in a wood wagon, after first absorbing a good supply of whisky.  They had only driven about one mile and a half from Peru when Shively fell out of the wagon; his head was caught behind the spokes of the hind wheel, breaking his neck instantly.

Recorded in the Rochester Republican, Rochester, IN, Thursday, January 20, 1881, Page 2, Column 2:

Samuel Shively, a farmer living near Peru, fell of his wagon while drunk, and met his death.  His head caught between the spokes of one of the wheels, breaking his neck instantly.

Located in the Peru Miami County Sentinel, Peru, IN, Thursday, January 13, 1881, Page 3, Column 4:

Shocking Accident

Yesterday evening about 6 o’clock, Samuel S. Shively, an old and well known resident of Pipe Creek township, was going home with William Bowman, and when they were near the railroad bridge one wheel of the wagon dropped into a deep rut and Mr. Shively, who was sitting on the seat directly above the wheel, was pitched out, his head catching in the spokes and breaking his neck, causing instantaneous death.  Help was procured at Wallick’s mill and the body brought to Peru and taken to the residence of his son-in-law, Mr. Jackson, to be prepared for the rites of interment.  Immediately after the accident deputy coroner Scott was notified, who decided it would only be a useless expense to the county to hold an inquest.  Mr. Shively was near seventy years of age, was the owner of considerable property, and was respected by all who knew him.  He leaves quite a large family, all of whom are grown and in comfortable circumstances.

David R. Shively From Montgomery County, Ohio To Miami County, Indiana

There are times when I discover a new Shively biography that is so full of genealogy information that no further explanation is needed.   Following is an example found this week:

Biographical and Genealogical History of Cass, Miami, Howard and Tipton Counties, Indiana, Vol. II, The Lewis Publishing Company, 1898, Pages 967-970.

DAVID R. SHIVELY, one of the most venerable citizens of Bunker Hill, Indiana, and a respected pioneer of Miami county and of Pipe Creek township, is of the sturdy Pennsylvania Dutch stock.  His first American ancestors were from Switzerland, being two brothers.  The name then spelled Shiveley.  They were among German Baptists who emigrated to the Keystone state between 1708 and 1729, on the establishment of the Pennsylvania government, to escape religious persecution.

John Shively, the grandfather of David R., was a native of Pennsylvania, in which state he married Miss Susanna Cripe, and their children were David, Christian, John, Jacob, Susanna and Elizabeth.  John Shively was a pioneer farmer in Huntingdon county, Pennsylvania, and was a resident there during the Indian troubles, when he was obliged to leave his home for three years and take shelter in a safe place.  In religion he was a German Baptist.  Later he emigrated to Montgomery county, Ohio, where it is believed he settled as early as 1806, entered land and cleared and cultivated a portion of it, making a good tillable  farm.  He was one of the earliest pioneers of that county and a highly respected citizen.  He was an elder in the German Baptist church.  He could have bought the land where the court-house in Dayton now stands for ten pounds of butter.  His son, David  Shively, the father of our subject, was born in Huntingdon county, Pennsylvania, in 1787, and was taken to Montgomery county, Ohio, by his parents when a boy.  They came down the Ohio on a flat-boat from Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. After he grew up he was married, in Montgomery county, to Hannah Cripe, also a native of the Keystone state and a daughter of Jacob Cripe. His children were Jacob, Daniel, Barbara, Hannah, Esther and Elizabeth.  Elder Cripe was a pioneer of Montgomery county, Ohio, where he cleared a tract of land and reduced it to cultivation and was a prosperous farmer.  David Shively settled on land which his father had entered six miles west of Dayton, between Liberty and Wolf creek, and about two and a half miles from the present Soldiers’ Home.  Here he cleared land a developed a farm of about one hundred and ten acres, to which he added by later purchase until he had one hundred and sixty acres, all of which was fine farm land.  He gave eighty acres to each of his children—Elizabeth, Samuel and David R.  He emigrated to Pipe Creek township, Miami county, Indiana, in 1853, buying eighty acres of land and clearing it, and here he died, about the age of eighty years, a sincere member of the German Baptist church.

David R. Shively, whose name heads this sketch, was born in Montgomery county, Ohio, December 13, 1820, received a limited common-school education and was married in his native county in October, 1843, to Annie Haines, who was born in 1826, in Pennsylvania, the daughter of Jesse and Elizabeth (Myers) Haines.  Her father was of sturdy Pennsylvania Dutch stock, and also German Baptist, a man of strict principles and consistent conduct.  By his first wife his children were:  Isaac, George and Samuel.  The mother of these children died and subsequently Mr. Haines was united in marriage with Elizabeth Myers, and the children by this union were:  Annie, Michael, Catharine, Samuel, Stephen, Rudy and Jesse.

After marriage Mr. Shively located first in Montgomery county, Ohio, on a tract of eighty acres of land which his father had given him and lived there four years, when he moved to Germantown Pike and was a resident there also for four years.  Here he had a fine farm of one hundred and twenty-eight acres a half mile from the Soldiers’ Home, which he ultimately sold in 1854, for five thousand five hundred dollars.  Moving to Pipe Creek township, Miami county, Indiana, he purchased two hundred and twenty acres of land, mostly in timber, and cleared it, bringing out a good farm.  For ten years he also owned and ran a gristmill on Big Pipe creek.  By his never failing industry and concentration of energies and active judgment, he at length had for himself a splendid home, was prosperous in all his business and an influential citizen.  By his first wife his children were John and Elizabeth.

Mrs. Shively died October 9, 1864, having always enjoyed a reputation for industry and the accomplishments of a good house-wife, and she was a devoted member of the German Baptist church.  By his second marriage, February 3, 1867, at Arcadia, Hamilton county, Indiana, Mr. Shively was united with Mrs. Fanny S. Murray, whose maiden name was Correll and who was born January 14, 1828, in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, a daughter of John and Elizabeth (Stouffer) Correll.  Her father was of French and German ancestry and a son of David and Susan (Hess) Correll.  John Correll also was a native of Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, was a distiller by trade and a farmer.  His children were Christopher, Fannie, Elizabeth, John, Susanna, Annie, Catharine, Mary, Sarah, Barbara, Joseph, Jacob and Andrew.  Mr. John Correll moved to Indiana in 1838, locating in Wayne county, and after a residence there of five years removed to Hamilton county, also in this state, settling upon one hundred and forty acres of land, where he made a farm in the forest and established a good home for his children.  His days were ended in Hamilton county, where he died, December 4, 1885, at the venerable age of eighty-five years, having been born June 29, 1800.  He was a member of the Mennonite church and was much respected.  He brought up his children in good habits and was himself a very exemplary citizen.  Mrs. Shively was about ten years of age when she came in 1838 and joined her parents in Hamilton county, and at the age of seventeen was married to John Murray, who was born November 13, 1818, in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, and was a farmer by occupation.  Their children were Elizabeth, Barbara, Mary, Christopher, Catharine, Annie, Daniel and John.  Mr. and Mrs. Murray located in Hamilton county, this state, where he finally died, at the age of forty-one years.  He was of Pennsylvania Dutch stock and an industrious, straightforward man.

After marriage Mr. and Mrs. Shively settled upon the Shively homestead in Pipe Creek township, and in 1876 removed to Bunker Hill, where they have a pleasant residence, with about twenty acres in a high state of cultivation.  On this plat they have planted all kinds of fine fruit trees that can be successfully cultivated in this latitude, besides many ornamental trees; this very comfortable home they richly deserve in return for their many long years of ardous labor.

They are members of the German Baptist church, and politically Mr. Shively votes with the Democratic party.  Concerning all the subjects of the foregoing sketch in general we can quote with hearty indorsement the language of Daniel Webster: “Real goodness does not attach itself merely to this life; it points to another world.  Political and professional reputation cannot last forever; but a conscience void of offence before God and man is an inheritance for eternity.”