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| Henry B. Shively/Cora Crockett Marriage |
Henry Bacon Shively was born on 5-May-1849 and died 31-Oct-1935 in Ponoka, Red Deer Census Division, Alberta, Canada. He was the son of Adam (born ca. 1815) and Sarah (born ca. 1818) Shively. Henry B. Shively married Cora C. Crockett in Henry County, OH on 8-May-1869. Cora was born on 17-Apr-1849 in Henry County, OH and died 21-Sep-1931 in Morningside, Red Deer Census Division, Alberta, Canada. She was the daughter of Jonathan Crockett (1806-1880) and Jane Cassety (1817-1858). Henry and Cora Shively are buried in Forest Home Cemetery, Ponoka, Red Deer Census Division, Alberta, Canada.
Located on the 1850 Fermanaugh Township, Juniata County, PA census is the family of Adam Shively age 35, wife Sarah age 32, daughter Phoebe age 10, daughter Jane age 8, son Elias age 6, daughter Cath age 4, daughter P. age 2 and son Henry age 1. On the 1870 Harrison Township, Henry County, OH census are Henry Shively age 21 and Cora age 21. On the 1885 Read Precinct, Butler County, NE state census is the household of H. B. Shively age 36, wife Cora C. age 36, daughter Bertha age 13, daughter Emma age 11, daughter Lillie age 10 and daughter Josie M. age 4. On the 1906 District Strathcona, Province of Alberta, Canada census are Henry B. Shively age 57 and wife Cora C. age 57. The next entry to Henry and Cora on the 1906 record is their daughter and son-in-law Emma Shively Sweet and George H. Sweet.
In reviewing the Butler County, NE newspapers there is more information about Henry and Cora Shively. The following is noted: 30-Dec-1898 H. B. Shively has moved back to Nebraska from Illinois. His household effects arrived Wednesday morning; 20-Dec-1900 George Sweet is sick and shoemaker Shively has closed his shop for the present to wait on his sick son-in-law; 6-Aug-1902 H. B. Shively returned from Iowa Tuesday. He did not find that work in his line was any more plentiful there than here so he returned; 23-Sep-1903 Col. Shively left here Tuesday for Canada. Col. thinks Canada is all right and we hope he will not be disappointed with the country; 9-Dec-1903 Mrs. Shively left Tuesday where she will join her husband. Mrs. Shively's friends regret to see her leave; 1-Jan-1925 Mrs. Roy Sweet arrived from Alberta, Canada, December 23, to spend the winter with relatives. Her father, H. B. Shively, recently killed a big moose in Canada and she brought some of it with her. B. G. Chapman and family had some of it for their Christmas dinner.
Extracted from The Banner-Press, David City, Nebraska, Thursday, November 14, 1935, Page 2, Column 5:
Word was received here Monday of the death of Henry B. Shively, which occurred Thursday, October 31, at his home in Ponoka, Alberta, Canda, at the age of 86 years. Mr. Shively who was a former resident here and homesteaded in this vicinity in 1872 was the father of Mrs. Josie Chapman a former resident here and will by older residents here. Mrs. Chapman has been in Canada for several months visiting her father and other relatives.
Located in The Banner-Press, David City, Nebraska, Thursday, October 2, 1930, Page 12, Column 4:
Death of Mrs. Cora Shively
Mrs. Cora Shively died at the home of her daughter, Mrs Bertha Sweet, in Morningside, Alberta, Canada, Sept. 21, 1930, from paralysis. Mrs. Shively came to Butler county in the seventies with her father, Jonathan Crockett, and five sisters. She was married in the seventies to Henry B. Shively and lived here many years. There was born to this union one boy and four girls, the boy dying in infancy. They moved to Canada about 25 or 30 years ago. She leaves her husband, H. B. Shively; three daughters, Mrs. Bertha Sweet and Mrs. Emma Sweet, of Morningside, Alberta, Canada, and Mrs. Josie Chapman, of Holstein, Nebr. The other daughter, Mrs. Lillie Baker, preceded her mother in death about a month ago. Mrs. Shively had been a great sufferer for about a year. She had reached the age of 81 years, 5 months and 4 days.
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