George Washington Shively Who Lived In Mahoning County, Ohio

James Floyd Shively, Cortland, OH shared the following information. George Washington Shively, Sr. was born 8-Nov-1798 n Cumberland County, PA and died on 28-May-1883 in Mahoning County, OH. He was married 1st to Elizabeth Opp and 2nd to Maria Grove. She was born on 6-Feb-1806 and died 11-Nov-1859 in Mahoning County, OH. Both are buried in Old North Cemetery, Canfield, Mahoning County, OH. George Washington Shively, Sr. descends from the line of Peter Scheibly/Shively who was born 10-Apr-1742 in Switzerland and died 1823 in Perry County, PA.

Listed on the 1850 Austintown, Mahoning County, PA census is the family of George Shively age 52, wife Maria age 46, daughter Elizabeth age 13, son Daniel age 12, son Abraham age 10, son George age 9, daughter Caroline age 6 and son John age 4. Located on the 1860 Austintown, Mahoning County, OH census is George Shively age 62, son David age 21, son Abraham age 20, son George W. age 18, daughter Caroline age 15, son John age 14 and Catharine Whetsler age 67. On the 1870 Austintown, Mahoning County, census are George Shively age 71, Sarah age 44, son George W. age 28, son John age 24, domestic servant Susan Swank age 45 and Caroline Kistler age 26. Listed on the 1880 Austintown, Mahoning County, OH census are George Shively age 81, daughter Sarah age 53, daughter Caroline Kistler age 35, grandson John Kistler age 11, niece Lottie Shively, and boarder John C. Bookhart age 57.

James Shively shares the following information on George Shibely(Shively) which was located in the Youngstown Register & Tribune, Feb. 19, 1880, Page 4:

PIONEER BIOGRAPHY

An interesting sketch of the life of George Shively, of Austintown

By John M. Edwards

Editors Register & Tribune:

At the last pioneer reunion the subject of collecting biographies of the pioneers and early settlers was frequently spoken of, but no definate plan adopted to obtain them. This is very desirable, and if some one or more in each township, hand with the pen, would visit the veterans and the children & neighbors of those who have passed away, and take notes of the histories they could relate, a very valuable amount of historical & biographical information can be collected. Will our friends in the Valley do this, and report to me, or any other officer of the Mahoning Valley Historical Society, the result of their labors, for publication & preservation among our records. We have already some valuable biographies & desire all that we can obtain.

Enjoying an interview with a venerable & highly respected pioneer of a neighboring township, a few days since, I noted down some facts on his life as he related them & herewith present them:

Biography of George Shibely

George Shibely, of Austintown, was born in Tyrone township, Cumberland County (now Perry County) Pennsylvania, November 8, 1798. He came with his parents to Austintown, Trumbull County (now Mahoning County) Ohio in May, 1812, passing through Youngstown, which then consisted of only a few log cabins on each side of the main street, and grass was growing in the streets. The family came in a big wagon drawn by a four-horse team.

       His father’s name was Frederick Shibely, after whom Frederick S. Whitsler, of Youngstown, a son of one of his daughters in named. He died at the age of 56 years. George’s mother died at the age of 63 years. Frederick Shibely bought a tract of land on the “Racoon Road”, as it is called, in the east part of Austintown, on which George now lives, and to which he has made some additions. The land at that time was all woods, and the father & son immediately went to work & cleared up a farm. Frederick and wife had eleven children - six sons & five daughters - who all lived to adult age. Four have died; the rest are living.

George married Elizabeth Opp in Austintown, by whom he had two children. She only lived a few years after the marriage. He married for his second wife Maria Grove, of Austintown, daughter of Wendall Grove, a revolutionary soldier; & sister of John & Andrew Grove. By her he had six children. The 8th - 4 sons & 4 daughters - are all grown up & married. He recollects the events of his early life and the conditions of the country and manners of the people then.

He says the early settlers were very accommodating and always ready to help one another. They always went to log cabin & other raisings, on which occasions whiskey was plenty as water; and was considered indispensable. He speaks of one instance in which the man who had united his neighbors to help him raise, refused to furnish whiskey and found it difficult to get his cabin up. He was well acquainted with Judge Tod, Colonel Hillman, James Mackey, Colonel Rayen and the old citizens of Youngstown. He saw Colonel Rayen in his uniform in command of his regiment, when he had them ready to march to the frontier in the fall of 1812, and says the Colonel was a fine looking man.

This old pioneer, now in his 82nd year, was never sick but once, which was about 40 years ago. Packard attended him. Mr. Shibely was afraid he would not get well. Dr. Packard assured him that he would recover & that he might perhaps live twenty years longer. “And now”, he says, “I have lived forty years longer, and nothing ails me but old age”.

The old gentleman has frequently visited Youngstown this winter on business.

Linus Alford Shively And Flora Belle Weber In Michigan, Oklahoma And Missouri

 Linus Alford Shively was born on 21-Aug-1876 in Lansing, Ingham County, MI and died on 4-Dec-1901 in Ishpeming, Marquette County, MI. He was killed in an explosion at his place of employment. Linus was the son of Joseph Franklin Shively and Alice A. King. (For more information and Joseph and Alice see the Shively blog article written on 12-January-2014). Linus was married on 2-Mar-1898 in Ogemaw County, MI to Flora Belle Weber. Belle was born on 17-Feb-1878 and died on 27-Feb-1937 in Springfield, Greene County, MO. She was the daughter of Isaac Jerome Weber, Jr and Helen G. McBain. Belle married a second time to John H. Hughes. John H. Hughes who died in Nov-1962.

 

Located on the 1880 Jackson County, MI census is the family of Frank Shively age 31 a farmer, wife Alice Shively age 26 and son Linus age 4. On the 1900 Presque Isle County, MI census is the family of "James" F. Shively born Jul-1848 age 51 a carpenter, wife Alice born Jun-1854 age 45, son Linus born Aug-1878 age 23 married 2 years and daughter Pearl born Mar-1881 age 19. Linus is also listed on the 1900 Ishpeming, Marquette County, MI census in the household of his father-in-law, Isaac Weber, as follows: Linus Shively born Aug-1876 age 23 married 2 years, wife Bell born Feb-1878 age 22 and son Carlton Shively born Dec-1898 age 1. On the 1910 Garfield County, OK census is the household of Joseph F. Shively age 61, wife Alice A. age 55, daughter-in-law Bell W. Shively age 32 and grandson Carlton W. age 11.  Found on the 1930 Springfield City, Greene County, MO census are John H. Hughes age 41 and wife Belle W. age 41.

The following newspaper article was found by Michael Shively who is a descendant of this family. The article was located in The Daily Mining Journal, Thursday Morning, December 5, 1901, Page 6, Column 2:

Powder Works Go Up

Packing House Of Anthony Powder Co. Wrecked And Two Men Killed

The people of Ishpeming and Negaunee were startled yesterday at 4 o'clock by the noise of an explosion, when the packing house at the Anthony Powder company's works, located between the two cities, was blown up. Many windows were shattered in the business portion of Ishpeming as well as at other places. Within a minute or so after the explosion hundreds of persons were on the run toward the works. Teams were driven down in haste and the wildest kind of excitement prevailed for a time.

Two of the workmen were killed their bodies being torn to atoms. The victims are John Nelson and Linus Shively. The head of one of the men was picked up about two hundred feet from the building.

The structure burned to the ground. Some of the buildings near the packing house were badly twisted by the force of the explosion. The engine house was almost completely wrecked. Reuben Smith, a lad almost seventeen years of age, was in the engine house when the explosion occurred. He escaped with but a slight scalp wound. Two other boys, Nelson Wallenstine and Victor Nelson, both the same age as Smith also got away unhurt.

No one can tell just what caused the disaster, but it is supposed that the glycerine got a jar of some sort as the men were engaged in filling the caps. There was about a ton and a half of giant powder in the building and it all went off.

No attempt was made to put out the fire as it was not any too safe to go near it, owing to explosives being stored in the buildings near by.

The home of Charles Ruska, night patrolman at the works, was badly wrecked. None of the inmates sustained an injury, but it didn't take them long to get away from the placed after the packing house went up.

Manager D. McVichie of the Anthony Powder company was on his way home from Palmer when the mishap occurred. He saw the smoke rise and knew at once what had happened. Mr. McVichie was about the first to arrive at the scene and he at once put men at work tearing down the structures near the wrecked packing house to keep the fire from reaching them.

Richard Moody and the driver of the delivery teams were at one of the ware houses near the tracks, nearly half a mile distance from the scene of the explosion, unloading goods and they escaped unhurt. They were at the packing house a short time before.

A new packing house will be built at once and the damaged buildings will be repaired.

Both victims of the explosion were married. Nelson leaves a widow and five children. He was about forty five years of age and had worked for the company about three years. Shively was employed as a teamster at the works. He was about twenty four years of age and leaves a widow and one child. He had been a resident of this city about a year.

The last previous explosion at the works occurred nine years ago. It was not attended by an fatalities. Some twenty years ago, before the concern came under the management of the present owners, an explosion took place in which four men were killed.

The following newspaper obituary was found in the Springfield Leader And Press, Springfield, Missouri, Sunday, February 28, 1937, Page 6, Column 4: (Note: per birth date she was actually 59 when she passed away)

Mrs. Belle Hughes

Mrs. Belle Hughes, 49, 1058 East Belmont, died at 8 o'clock last night in a Springfield hospital after a lingering illness. She had been an employee of Netter Dry Goods company for 15 years in charge of the second floor. Surviving are her husband, Jack Hughes; one son, Carlton Schively of Texas and her mother.  Funeral arrangements,  under the direction of Alma Lohmeyer, are incomplete.

The following was extracted from the Springfield Leader And Press, Springfield, Missouri, Saturday, November 10, 1962, Page 7, Column 5:

John H. Hughes

John H. Hughes, 74, Wichita, a former resident of Springfield, died Friday in a Wichita hospital after a long illness.

He was a retired display advertising representative, a veteran of World War I, and a member of the Baptist Church.

The body will be returned here to the Herman Lohmeyer funeral home for services and burial.

Louis Franklin Shivley And Minnie Elizabeth Flaugher Who Lived In Illinois, Indiana And Missouri

Louis Shivley Death Certificate

 A Shivley researcher is seeking information on the parents of Louis Franklin Shivley. From the Missouri Death Certificate he is listed as being born on 6-Jul-1865 in Quincy, Adams County, IL. He is listed twice on the 1900 census records with one date of birth of Apr-1870 and the second Jul-1866.  Louis Shivley died in St. Charles County, MO on 29-Mar-1936. He was married to Minnie Elizabeth Flaugher ca. 1890. She was born on 20-Apr-1870 in Fayette County, IL and died 23-Mar-1937 in St. Charles County, MO.

The death certificate for Louis Shivley lists his father as Keel Shively who was born in Germany. On the Schedule II list of subjects to do military duty in the Fourth Congressional District consisting of Adams County, IL is the name of Killiard Shively who has the occupation of mason and living in Payson, Adams County, IL. No further information could be found on Keel or Killiard Shively. Louis Shivley was listed on the census records as having an occupation of a plasterer.  

Louis Shivley is listed twice on the 1900 census records. On the June 9, 1900 Eugene Townshp, Vermillion County, IN census is the family of Lewis Shively born Apr-1870 age 30 born in IL, father born in Germany, mother born in KY, occupation of plasterer, wife Minnie born Feb-1872 age 28, married 10 years having borne 6 children of whom 5 are living, son Willie born May-1891 age 10, daughter Emma born Oct-1893 age 6, son Lewis born Jun-1895 age 4, son Earl born Dec-1897 age 2 and son Arthur born Mar-1900 age 3 months. Listed on the June 23-26, 1900 Dry Grove Township, McLean County, IL census is the family of Louis Shively born Jul-1866 age 33 occupation of laborer-plasterer, wife Minnie born Apr-1870 age 30 married 10 years having borne 6 children of whom 5 are living, son Willie born May-1890 age 10, daughter Emma born Oct-1894 age 6, son Louis born Jun-1895 age 4, son Earl born Dec-1899 age 1 and son Arthur born Jan 1900 age 5 months. Listed in the 1908 Quincy, Adams County, IL city directory are Louis and Minnie Schivley who are living at 117 1/2 S. 10 Street, occupation plasterer. On the 1910 Belleville City, St. Clair County, IL census is the household of Louis Shively age 43, wife Minnie age 39, daughter Emma age 17, son Louis age 14, son Earl age 12, son Arthur age 10, daughter Esther age 7 and son Joseph age 3. On the 1920 Galena Township, Jasper County, MO census are Louis Shivley age 54 occupation plasterer, wife Minnie age 49, son Earl age 22, daughter in law Anna age 19, son Arthur age 19, daughter in law age 16, son Joe age 14 and son Cecil age 7. On the 1930 St. Charles city, St. Charles County, MO is the household of Louis F. Shivley age 63, wife Minnie L. age 59, son Cecil R. age 17, granddaughter Mildred E. age 10, son Ben L. age 35, his wife Beulah  age 30, and their children Ruth M. age 12, Roy L. age 11 and Dorothy L. age 8.