Edgar Roderus Shively And 1st Wife Charlotte Guyer, 2nd Wife Edna Hamor Who Lived In Allegheny Co., PA

Charlotte Guyer Shively 1916

Edgar Roderus Shively was born 1-May-1877 in Pavonia, Richland County, OH.  He was the son of Samuel Shively (1834-1896) and Letitia Bender (1835-1914).  He died 16-April-1941 in Oakmont, Allegheny County, PA. Edgar Shively was married 20-January-1916 to Charlotte Guyer, daughter of James Guyer and Alice Parker. Charlotte was born 17-April-1874 in Lock Haven, Clinton County, PA and died 19-December-1925 in Oakmont, Allegheny County, PA. Per the Pennsylvania Death Certificate she died of central pneumonia. She had been married first to Mr. George. Edgar Shively married 2nd Edna Hamor on 16-May-1928.  She had been married before to Alfred McClung Lee. Edna Hamor Lee Shively died 8-June-1965 in Summit, Union County, NJ. 

Extracted from The Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh, PA, Sunday, January 16, 1916, Page 52, Column 2:  Mrs. Charlotte Guyer George and Edgar R. Shively will be married Thursday evening at the bride's home, Tioga st.  The service will be read at 8 o'clock by Rev. Dr. Carl A. Voss, pastor of the Smithfield st. Evangelical Protestant church.  Miss Leda Harrison of Springdale, will be the bridesmaid and Arthur M. Shively, brother of the bridegroom, will be best man.  Both Mrs. George and Mr. Shively are prominent in Pittsburg musical circles.  For several seasons Mrs. George was engaged on the operatic stage and at present is contralto in the choir at Christ Methodist Episcopal church. Mr. Shively is tenor in the Smithfield Street Evangelical church.

The above photo of Charlotte Guyer Shively was found in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Tuesday, April 11, 1916, Page 16, Columns 3-4.  The announcement states that Mrs. Shively will sing at the "Shiloh Day" meeting at the Pittsburgh Chapter, United Daughters of the Confederacy, to held Friday afternoon in the home of  Mrs. Joan Pryor Cowan in Summerica street.

Charlotte Guyer Shively 1919

The second photo of Charlotte Guyer Shively was found in a newspaper article in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Sunday, April 27, 1919, Page 48, Columns 4-5.  The announcement was "President of Wilkinsburg Club". Mrs. Edgar R. Shively, whose home is in Baum boulevard, is president of the Comet Club of Wilkinsburg, and executive secretary of the Congress of Womens Clubs. She took an active part in the congress benefit last week.  

This newspaper obituary was extracted from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Monday, December 21, 1925, Page 13, Column 5:

Mrs. Charlotte Guyer Shively, wife of Edgar R. Shively, died at her home, 728 Washington avenue, Oakmont, Saturday.  She was a daughter of the late James Guyer of Lock Haven, Pa.  Mrs. Shively was a member of the St. Thomas Memorial Episcopal Church of Oakmont, the Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh, the Southern Club of Pittsburgh and the Comet Club of Wilkinsburg.  She leaves her husband and two children, Mrs. Sidney Furst of New York City and Henry George of Wilkinsburg.

The second marriage of Edgar R. Shively was found in The Pittsburgh Press, Thursday, May 17, 1928, Page 14, Column 1:   Mr. and Mrs. George D. Hamor of Washington ave., Oakmont, announce the marriage of their daughter, Mrs. Edna Hamor Lee, to Edgar R. Shively of Oakmont.  The marriage was solemnized last evening in St. Thomas' Episcopal church, Oakmont.  After a northern trip, Mr. Shively and his bride will live in Oakmont.

The death of Edgar R. Shively was found in the News-Journal, Mansfield, Ohio, Thursday, April 17, 1941, Page 19, Column 6:

Death Claims E. R. Shively

Former Mansfield Resident Dies At Oakmont, Pa.

A former resident of Mansfield,  Edgar R. Shively, 64, of Oakmont, Pa., died yesterday at his home following a lingering illness. Mr. Shively was born in Pavonia, May 1, 1876.  He had lived in Oakmont, a suburb of Pittsburgh for a number of years.

Survivors are his widow and three sisters, Mrs. Jack Elliot, Mrs. S. G. Shite and Mrs. Hugh J. Clark, all of Mansfield.  Funeral services will be held in Oakmont, Friday at 3:30 p.m.