Frederick Shively And Elizabeth Ream From Stark County, Ohio

The early newspapers in Stark County, Ohio have many articles relating to the surname Shively.  Frederick Shively was born about 1798  and died in Stark County on 29-Oct-1883.  He was married to Elizabeth Ream on 3-Sep-1828.  Frederick was the son of Conrad Shively and Mary Moyer.  The parents of Conrad Shively were John Shively (born 24-Jul-1748, later carried away by Indians) and Eve Shively.

The death of Frederick Shively was recorded in The Canton Daily Repository, Canton, Ohio, Monday evening, 29-Oct-1883, Page 1, Column 6:

Suddenly Called

Mr. Frederick Schively Died After A Few Minutes Sickness

About noon to-day the startling news that Mr. Frederick Shively, of No. 294 South Market street, had dropped dead was current on the street.  A Repository reporter repaired to Mr. Joseph Shively (his son’s) residence, No. 66 East Tuscarawas street, to learn the truth of the rumor, and there, lying cold in death, was the corpse of the well  and favorably known citizen.  He had been up town this morning, and while walking on Seventh street suddenly fell to the pavement.  A passer-by helped the old gentleman up and with difficulty he walked to his son’s residence, and was met by Mrs. Joseph Shively and helped up stairs, this being about 11:15 o’clock.  He sat in a chair for a few moments and then laid down on a bed, saying he was not feeling well.

Dr. Johnson was sent for, but before he arrived he died.  The doctor attributed the sudden demise to paralysis of the heart.

Mr. Shively has been a resident of this city for a great many years and is known by nearly every one, and stood high in the estimation of all who knew him.  He leaves five children to mourn his loss.  The children all well advanced in years.  Mr. Shively was nearly eighty years of age.

Frederick is listed on the 1850 Stark County, Ohio, Nimishillen Township census .  In the household are Fred Shively age 42 a shoemaker, wife Elizabeth age 38, son Seraphin age 13, son Josiah (also listed as Joseph in the records) age 10, son Ed age 5, and daughter Ellenora age 2. 

The obituary for Seraphin Shively was found in The Evening Repository, Monday, August 8, 1892, Page 4, Column 2:

An Aged Citizen Dead

Seraphine Shively Dies At His Home On Jackson Street This Morning – His

Family In Goshen, Ind. And The Time Of The Funeral Not Decided Upon

Mr. Seraphin Shively, aged about 60, an old resident of Canton, died at his home, No. 8 Jackson street, at 10:30 o’clock this morning from neuralgia of the stomach.  Mr. Shively is well known in this city and his many friends will learn with regret of his demise.  His family, excepting his daughter Carrie, are in Goshen, Ind., and until their arrival the time of holding the funeral cannot be decided upon.  He was a man of generous heart and had gained for himself hosts of friends.  To them and his family this will be a sad blow.

The obituary for Josiah Shively was found in The Repository, Wednesday, December 6, 1911, Page 16, Column 4:

Josiah Shively Is Dead At 71 Years

Josiah Shively, 71, died Tuesday night at his home, 219 Hazlette avenue. Bronchial asthma caused his death.  Mr. Shively had lived in Canton since early youth, coming here from Louisville.

He is survived by his wife and two daughters, Mrs. George Sweatt, 721 Fulton street, and Mrs. Ed T. Johnson, 1025 West Fourth street, and three grandchildren.

Funeral services, which will be private, will be held at the residence Friday afternoon at 2 o’clock.  Burial will be in Westlawn cemetery.

Seraphin Shively was married to Francis F. Cunningham.  Her obituary is recorded in The Evening Repository, Wednesday, February 11, 1908, Page 1, Column 6:

Death Of Mrs. Shively From Paralysis – Former Teacher In Public Schools

Mrs. Francis F. Shively, relict of Seraphim Shively died at 5 o’clock, Wednesday morning at her home, 532 South McKinley avenue from paralysis, her father, Thomas Cunningham, was one of the principal builders and contractors many years ago.  Her mother, Mrs. Cunningham, died at Mrs. Shively’s home a few years ago, the oldest person in Canton then.  Mrs. Shively for more than 12 years, was a teacher in the public schools and was popular and efficient, in that capacity.  In 1865 she was married to Seraphim Shively who died in 1892.  Mrs. Shively had four children, Nora C., Caroline E., Fred and Thomas C. Shively, who are living with their mother, the two daughters being school teachers in the city.  When Mrs. Shively was 15 years old she joined the First Baptist church and had at all times been active in Christian work.  One sister, C. B. Campbell, of this city, and Oliver and Henry Cunningham of Indiana, survive.

The children of Seraphin and Frances Shively remained in the Stark County, Ohio area.  The dates of their deaths are recorded as:  Nora C. Shively died 22-June-1940 with burial in Westlawn Cemetery, Canton, Ohio; Caroline E. Shively died 4-May-1952 with burial in Westlawn Cemetery; Fred M Shively died 25-March-1921 with burial in Westlawn Cemetery; and Thomas C. Shively died 24-June-1947 with burial in Westlawn Cemetery.

Anna C. Rhodes Baker Shively Shaw, Wife of David W. Shively, Located Linn County, Kansas In 1900

Anna C. Shively

This 1912 post card was postmarked in Springfield, Missouri.  From the Lawton Constitution-Democrat, Lawton, OK, Thursday, October 8, 1908, Page 11, Column 3:      Woman Preacher Doing Good Work

(article includes picture of Anna C. Shively)

Rev. Anna C. Shively

The Holy Ghost Evangelist

The above is the likeness of the woman evangelist now at the Methodist Protestant Church holding revival meetings.  Mrs. Anna C. Shively is a woman of wide experience in bringing souls to Christ.

She was born in Southeastern Ohio and came to Kansas in 1889 and was licensed to preach in 1897 and ordained in 1904.  She is now a member of the North Illinois conference of the Methodist Protestant Church and was appointed by that body as "Evangelist at large".  About half of her work as a minister began in the evangelistic field and she is by no means a beginner in the work.  She has also served some of the strongest churches of her denomination in Kansas and Illinois.

She was pastor of a very aristocratic church in Chapia, Illinois and it was there a long protest that she persuaded her people that it was best for her to go into the evangelistic field.

Extracted from the Iola Daily Register, Wednesday, September 6, 1905, Page 7, Columns 1-2:

Preachers Met

The Methodist Protestant Conference Opened at LaHarpe Last Night

Hundred Ministers Expected

.....The Ottawa Republic has the following to say of Rev. Anna C. Shively, who is attending the convention:

Rev. Anna C. Shively, pastor of the Methodist Protestant church for four years, left today for the conference at LaHarpe, where it is expected that she will be assigned to a more important field.

In her honor all of the North Ottawa churches united in a union service at her church Sunday evening.  Over 400 persons were present.  Mrs. Shively preached from "The Divine Call", and in  the course of her remarks, by special request told of the manner in which she was called to ministry.

Mrs. Shively's ministerial work here has been one of record-breaking results.  When she came here four years ago the church had a membership of seven; it now affords over 100.  In all its affairs, temporal as well as spiritual, conditions are now very satisfactory.  Under Mrs. Shively's efforts a large debt has been paid off and in addition the church buildings and the parsonage have been extensively repaired.

Mrs. Shively has not confined her efforts for humanity exclusively to her denominational charge; she has been an active co-worker with all who are engaged in reform and charitable effort.   She has been especially of great help to the W.C.T.U.  She has many warm friends throughout the city.

Anna C. Shively is found on the 1900 Linn County, Kansas, Sheridan Township, Prescott City census.  Listed in the household are David W. Shively born July 1859, wife Anna C. born April 1856, stepdaughter Myrtle Baker born April 1882 and William L. Baker born April 1887.  

Rev. Ann Shively is listed on the 1905 Franklin County, Kansas state census.  Listed in her household is William Baker.  

By 1910 Anna C. Shively has moved to Illinois.  On the 1910 census she is listed as a widow and occupation of Pastor of a church.  She is listed on the 1910 Hancock County, Illinois, Rock Creek Township, Ferris Village census.  

David W. Shively is located on the 1880 Daviess County, IN, VanBuren Township, census.  He is enumerated in the household of Andrew J Smiley and is listed as a farm laborer.

David W. Shively is located in the household of his parents on the 1870 Daviess County, IN, VanBuren Township census.  Listed are Henry S Shively age 23(but should be 33), wife Mary age 23 (but should be 33), David W age 11, Willet age 9, Mary age 8, Jane age 4 and Henry B age 74.

On the 1860 Daviess County, IN census David W age 1 is listed with his parents Henry age 23 and Mary age 22.

The father and grandfather of David W. Shively are found on the 1850 Daviess County, IN census.  In this household are Henry Shively age 51(grandfather of David), Mary age 49, Susan age 27, John age 21, William age 17 and Henry age 14(father of David). From documented research it is known that Henry S. Shively, son of the Reverend Henry B. and Mary Hunter Shively, was born 4 September 1836 in Orange County, IN.  He married Mary Herron on 29 August 1858 in Daviess County, IN.   Henry B. Shively was the son of Henry Shively and Mary Banta and was born 1 January 1799 in Shelby County, KY

The death certificate for Anna C Rhodes Baker Shively Shaw was located in the Missouri records.  She died in Greene County, Missouri on 16 October 1937.  She was born 25 April 1857.  Her parents are W. W. Rhodes born in the District of Columbia and Cynthia Morris born in Ohio.  The informant for the death certificate was Mrs. Myrtle Parkhurst (Myrtle Baker).  

It has been suggested but not verified that Anna C Rhodes married 1st Gameliel Baker in 1875 in Noble County, Ohio.  It is has not be located where Anna C. married 2nd David W. Shively. Her 3rd marriage to a Mr. Shaw has not been located.  

Anna C. Shaw is located on the 1930 Greene County, Missouri, city of Springfield, census.  She is listed as being 73, a widow, married at age 19.  This age of marriage agrees with the marriage date in Noble County, Ohio.  

Civil War Widow Pension Of Harriett Woods Shively, Wife Of Louis (Lewis) Byram Shively

Captain Louis (Lewis) Byram Shively was killed in action during the Civil War near Atlanta, Georgia on 22-July-1864.  His widow, Harriett Woods Shively, filed for a Civil War pension.  She did not receive any payments because she died before date of certificate.  The children of  Louis and Harriett Shively did receive the pension payments.  Their living children who received benefits were Samuel Woods Shively, Hardin B. Shively, and Anna Helen Shively.

  

With some of the war pension applications there can be some very useful genealogy information.  In this application there was some good information.  Jacob B. Shively, father of Louis Shively, filed the following:

State of Indiana)

Dubois County)

Jacob B Shively of Dubois County and State of Indiana being duly sworn on his oath declares

That he has at this time in his possession the Family Bible formally owned by Capt Louis B Shively late of the 53rd Reg Ind Vol and now deceased and Harriet Shively his wife, and that in Said Family Bible in the blank leaf normally devoted to that purpose appears an Entry of which the following is a literal and Exact copy twit

Samuel W Shively Son of Capt Louis B. Shively and Harriet Shively his wife was born April 15th, 1855.

Hardin B Shively Son of Capt Louis B. Shively and Harriet Shively his wife was born September 11th, 1857

Anna H Shively daughter of Capt Louis B. Shively and Harriet Shively his wife was born December 9th, 1859

Affrant further declares declares that he was the father of said Capt Louis B Shively now deceased but late of the 53rd Reg Ind Vol. and is the Grand Father of Said Samuel W., Hardin B. and Anna H. Shively, that he lived near his Said Son and Harriet his wife during their married life and knew that the Entry above given is a correct Record of the Births of Said Children                                                      Jacob B Shively

Subscribed and Sworn to before me this the 11th day of December 1865

                                                                      A H Miller, Justice   (Seal)

Also in the pension application is a copy of the marriage of Louis B Shively and Harriet Woods. The marriage took place in Dubois County, Indiana on 19-June 1853.  

In the application is the "Guardians Declaration for Minor Children's Army Pension".  John T. Karr (Carr) was the guardian of the children of Louis and Harriett Shively.  Included in the information "these being the only children of deceased, under sixteen years of age, whose father was a Captain in Company F, Commanded by himself, in the 53rd Regiment of Indiana Volunteers in the war of 1861; who died on the 22nd day of July in the year 1864 at Atlanta in the State of Georgia.

That the mother of the children aforesaid Harriet Shively departed this life on the 12th day of December 1864....Samuel W. and Anna H.  live with said guardian in Spencer Co. and Hardin B. lives with his grandfather in Dubois Co. Ind."

Lewis Shively and Harietta Shively are listed on the 1860 Dubois County, Indiana, Patoka Township census record. In the household are Lewis age 34, Harietta age 30,  Samuel age 6, Harden age 3, Anna  and 3 others.    The family of John T Carr is listed on the 1870 Spencer County, Indiana, Luce Township record.  In the household are Samuel W Shivly age 15 and Annie Shivly age 10.  

Louis (Lewis) B. Shively was the son of Jacob B Shively and Anna Mavity.  Jacob B Shively was the son of Henry Shively and Mary Banta.  

The pension papers for Harriett Shively can be seen on the Internet on the Fold3 website.

Harry R. Shively And Wife, Jennie Fertig, Of Jefferson County, Kentucky

The following newspaper article was located in the Fort Worth Star Telegram, Friday, June 17, 1910, Page 7, Column 6:

Signature On Will Reveals Secret Of Girl's Elopement

By Associated Press. Louisville. June 17.--Fate conspired against pretty Jennie Fertig and willed that the secret of her elopement two days before last Christmas should be wrung from her yesterday afternoon.  Miss Fertig is a stenographer in the office of an attorney here and she was called on to sign a will as a witness.   Fearing that she might invalidate the will by signing her maiden name she resolutely laid aside her pen and declared that she could not sign it.

  Her employer did not ask any questions but comprehending that the situation looked a bit mystifying, she took the pen again and singed "Mrs. Jennie Fertig Shively".

  Then she admitted that she eloped with Harry R. Shively, an electrical worker, last Christmas. She is the daughter of Martin L. Fertig, assistant traffic manager of the Louisville & Portland canal.

Harry R. Shively was born on 14-Sep-1886 in Jefferson County, KY and died on 15-May-1958 in Jefferson County, KY.  Jennie Fertig was born about 1883 and died in Jefferson County, KY on 19-March-1960.   The information on the time of their marriage differs from the public records as their marriage can be located in Clark County, IN records dated 7-June-1910.  Jennie Fertig was the daughter of Martin Luther Fertig and Katherine Cassandra Barmore.  Harry R. Shively was the son of Harry Shively and Mary "Mollie" A (last name unknown).  

Harry and Jennie are listed on the 1920 Jefferson County, City of Louisville census record.  In the household are Harry age 33, wife Jennie B age 36, son Raymon E age 9, daughter Dorothy May age 6, son Floyd age 4, and son Walter C age 1.  This family is also listed in the 1930 Jefferson County, City of Louisville census record. The consists of Harry R age 44, wife Jennie age 46, son Raymond age 19, daughter Dorothy age 16, son Floyd age 14, son Carl age 11, daughter Elizabeth age 8 and daughter Jen age 6.  Also in the household are two boarders; Emma E Reese age 43 and Katheryn Reese age 18.  

Harry R. Shively's grandfather was William Shively who who born about 1830 and died on 19-Jan-1906 in Jefferson County, KY.  He was married to Margarett J (last name unknown).  William Shively was the son of Henry Shively (1794-1847) and Maria Hambleton.  Henry Shively was the son of Christian Shively (1746-1826).  Christian Shively was an early pioneer in Jefferson County, KY.  

Augustus R. Shively Who Lived In Wayne County, Ohio

Wooster Republican, April 17, 1862

There is still more information needed to complete the genealogy of Augustus R. Shively (A. R. Shively) who lived in Wayne County, Ohio.  Following is an attempt to compile what information was found for this article.

Augustus R. Shively was born about 1830 in Pottsville, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania.  He is listed on the 1850 Berks County, Pennsylvania census in the household of who is assumed his mother, Keziah Shively (born about 1808). Also listed are a possible sister, Keziah age 15 and brother, William age 10. 

A. R. Shively was married in Wayne County, Ohio on 15-May-1856 to Martha A. Robison.  She was the daughter of Thomas Robison and Jemima Dickey.

A.R. Shively, "Kissiah" Shively, and William Shively are listed on the 1860 Wayne County, Ohio census in the town of Wooster.   Also listed in the household is Martha, wife of A.R., and children Ella and John. 

    

In the Wooster Republican, Thursday, May 5, 1859, Page 3, Column 1 is located the following article which indicates that Mr. Shively was a business man in Wooster having purchased a foundry and machine shop.  There are numerous advertisements that appear in the Wooster newspaper.  An example of one of these ads is above.

Foundry and Machine Shop

   By advertisement in another column it will be seen that Mr. A. R. Shively has purchased the entire Foundry and Machine Shop of Mr. Harrison, and will push the business in a more extensive scale than ever.  It is his determination to not only do all kinds of casting, and mill work, but to build and repair engines of every description.  Mr. Shively has had long experience in the business, is an industrious, energetic, thorough business man, and we have no doubt will largely increase the business of this well known establishment.  He will keep the most competent workmen, and of course will turn out the best of work.  We know, from experience, that he has in his employ, one very skillful workman, Mr. Peabody, who has few equals in his department, in Ohio.

Mr. Shively had a financial loss from a fire which occurred in his stable in 1866.  Recorded in the Wooster Republican, Thursday, June 21, 1866, Page 4, Column 1:

Fire In Wooster

   Our citizens were aroused by the cry of fire, on Monday morning last, about 2 A.M., which proved to be in the stable and adjoining building of A. R. Shively.  The engines were on hand as soon as possible, but the fire had made such headway that the buildings were nearly destroyed.  The loss to Mr. Shively will be from $500 to $600, there being no insurance.  The fire was undoubtedly the work on an incendiary, as it commenced in the hay in the upper story, and there had been no fire kept in the building for some days previous.  There was a Meat Market in one of the lower rooms, being the only place where any fire had been kept in the building.  Mr. Shively intends rebuilding immediately, and the Meat Shop will be carried on as usual at the same place.

A. R. Shively died at the age of 40 in 1870.  Located in the Wooster Republican, Thursday, February 17, 1870, Page 3, Column 5 is the following:

DIED - February 7th, 1870, Mr. A. R. SHIVELY, in the 40th year of his age.

More information was located in the Commemorative Biographical Record Of Wayne County, Ohio, Containing Biographical Sketches Of Prominent and Representative Citizens, And Of Many Of The Early Settled Families, Illustrated, Chicago, J. H. Beers & Co., 1889, Pages 461-462:

MARTHA A. SHIVELY is the widow of A. R. Shively, one of Wooster’s formerly well-known citizens.  She was born in the house where she now lives, in Wooster, May 5, 1831.  Her family is more fully given under the name of her brother, Dr. James D. Robison, on another page.

On May 15, 1869, she was united in marriage with A. R. Shively, a native of Reading, Penn.  At the age of twenty-two he came to Wooster, and embarked in the foundry business, which he had learned in his native State, carrying it on in connection with an uncle.  Here he lived the rest of his life, dying in February, 1870, when but thirty-nine years of age.  By this marriage Mrs. Shively became the mother of six children:  Ellen D., wife of Rev. W. S. Cochran, of Caryopolis; John McB., a resident of Montana;  Ann, Mrs. Hugh M. Annat, of Wooster; Edward, living in Cleveland, Ohio; and George I. and Martha L., with their mother.  Mr. Shively was one of Wooster's progressive business men, and his loss was felt in the community, where he was esteemed as an upright man and a good citizen.  Since he husband's demise, Mrs. Shively has continued to live in her old home.  She is a member of the First Presbyterian Church of Wooster, and is much respected.

            

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.”

George Rudy Shively From Jefferson County, Kentucky To Pettis County, Missouri

It interests me to think about how many of our ancestors did move and to think of what they had to endure prior to the days of moving vans and interstate highways.  One Shively ancestor that made a move was George Rudy Shively who traveled approximately 450 miles from Jefferson County, Kentucky to  Pettis County, Missouri sometime between 1860 and 1868.

George Rudy Shively was born in Jefferson County, Kentucky on 22-Jan-1847.  He was the son of Christian Shively and Susan Jane Rudy.  Christian Shively was the son of  Henry Shively who was the son of Christian Shively.  This Christian Shively was one of the early settlers in Jefferson County.    It is known that George Shively's uncles, Samuel Rudy and John  Fredrick Rudy, moved to Pettis County, Missouri and that George's mother, Susan Rudy Shively, may have wanted to be close to her brothers and followed them to Missouri.

George Shively and Margaret "Maggie" Wright were married on 22-December-1868 in Pettis County, Missouri.  Maggie Wright was born on 31-May-1850 in Cooper County, Missouri and was the daughter of Andrew M. Wright.   On the 1900 census George and Maggie note there were 3 children born to their union and two children were still alive.  The two children that survived were daughters,  Anna Jane Shively and Susan M. "Susie" Shively.  Anna Jane married Samuel W. Coleman and Susan M. Shively married Frederic "Fred" Benz.  

This Shively family seemed to stay in the Pettis County as there are records from various sources for their passing.  Susan Jane Rudy Shively Powell, mother of George, passed away on 1-September-1887 in Pettis County.   The brother of George, Samuel Shively was born 11-January-1845 in Kentucky and died on 1-December-1863 and buried in Salem Cemetery.  George Rudy Shively died 24-March-1914 in Pettis County.   Margaret "Maggie" Wright Shively died on 5-February-1920.  

George Shively is found on the 1850 and 1860 Jefferson County, Kentucky census records.  By 1870 he has moved to Missouri and is located on the Pettis County, Missouri census record.  George remains on the Pettis County census records in 1880, 1900 and 1910.