Spencer M. Shively And Margaret M. Rush Who Lived In Bucks County, Pennsylvania

Spencer M. Shively was born on 31-Jul-1874 and died on 17-Mar-1928 in Doylestown, Bucks County, PA.  He was the son of Sylvester (1847-1882)and Maggie Shively. Sylvester Shively was the son of Ernst F. Shively (1825-1885) and Amanda Malvina Strouse (1826-1904). Ernst F. Shively was the son of Ernst F. Schaible (1796-1873) and Eve Finkbeiner (1804-1867).  

Spencer Shively Death Certificate

Spencer M. Shively was married to Margaret M. Rush. Margaret was born on 3-Jul-1886 and died on 13-Feb-1925 in Doylestown Bucks County, PA. She was the daughter of Henry Rush and Susan Reynolds.  

Listed on the 1880 Nockamixon Township, Bucks County, PA census is the family of Silvester Shively age 32, wife Maggie age 30, son Oaker age 8, son Spencer age 6, daughter Effie age 5, daughter Bertha age 2 and son John age 4 months. On the 1910 Plumstead Township, Bucks County, PA census is the household of Spencer Shively age 37, married 9 years, occupation painter, wife Maggie age 24, daughter Gladys age 4 and daughter Helen age 8. On the 1920 Doylestown Borough, Bucks County, PA census is Spencer Shively age 48 a trimmer for auto's, wife Margaret age 35 and daughter Gladys age 14.

 

The following newspaper article was extracted from the Harrisburg Daily Independent, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Thursday, December 30, 1909, Page 8:

In Business Sixty Years

Gives Old-Time Employes A Guinea Potpie Feast

Doylestown, Dec. 30.--Aaron Kratz, the veteran carriage and wagon builder of Plumsteadville, tendered his employes their annual guinea potpie feast Tuesday evening. Mr. Kratz has been in business at the old stand sixty years, and is 78 years old.

Among those present were a number of his old-time employes, as follows: Philip Jenkins, wheelwright, 46 y; William L. Brooks, blacksmith, 45 years; John Townsend, painter, 43 years; Frank H. Trumbone, wheelwright, 34 years; Edward White, harnessmaker, 29 years; William Clouser, blacksmith, 29 years; David Crouther, painter, 28 years; William Zeigenfuss, wheelwright, 23 years; Jacob Gilbert, blacksmith, 29 years; Spencer Shively, painter, 17 years.

The following was located in The Bristol Daily Courier, Bristol, Pennsylvania, Wednesday, May 5, 1919, Page 1, Column 5:

Receive Pike Perch For Tohickon Creek

400,000 Fry Placed in Randt's Dam At Piperville

The Bucks County Fish, Game and Forestry Association on Monday received five cans of pike perch from the State Fish hatchery at Torresdale, which were planted in Tohickon Creek. The fish arrived here on the 1:39 p.m. train over the Reading Railway and were met at the station by Secretary George MacReynolds and Assemblyman Daniel G. Fretz.

The five cans, supposed to contain 400,000 fry, were conveyed by George McLaughlin in his auto truck to the Tohickon Creek, where they were deposited in the stream by Dr. G. M. Brewer and Spencer Shively, members of the Association. The fish arrived in first class condition, apparently not a single one of the minute specimens, scarcely visible to the naked eye, having died on the journey. The places selected for depositing the fish were portions of Randt's Dam, near Pipersville, where there is considerable aquatic vegetable growth.

This is the second consignment of pike perch received from the State hatcheries within a year the first, reaching here last fall, having been deposited in the Neshaminy Creek. The planting of pike perch in these streams in an experiment, none of this species having ever been put in the waters of the county within the recollection of the present generation of sportsmen. If successful, the association will follow it up with other plantings.