Jacob Banta Shively And Wife Anna Mavity In Dubois County, Indiana

From information contained in the Descendants Of Henry And Mary Banta Shively by Lottie Compton McDowell, 1972, Page 9:   "Jacob Banta Shively, son of Henry and Mary Banta Shively, was born 25 December 1797 Shelby County, Kentucky.  He was married 5 February 1817 Shelby County to Anna Mavity, a Virginian by birth.  She was born 15 December 1799 and came to Kentucky when three years old.  The family lived in Spencer County until shortly before 1826, when they moved to Orange County, Indiana.

Jacob Banta Shively had labored in the state of Kentucky as a Christian minister about 1825, according to E. W. Humphrey's "Memoirs of deceased Christian Ministers: published 1880--page 318.

He united with the church in 1818 in Montgomery County, Kentucky, and soon was noticed as a sweet singer.  He was a preacher of acknowledged ability, and had a commanding appearance.  He was five feet eight inches tall and had coal black hair, piercing eyes, and very regular features.  The solemn earnestness of his looks, and the brightness of his eyes appealed to his congregations.  Before moving to Indiana, he had served God in Bath, Fleming, Bourbon, and Montgomery Counties in Kentucky.  He was ordained to the ministry by the Reverend David Stewart of Marengo, Indiana.  He preached and built churches in Dubois, Perry, Spencer, Warrick, and Pike Counties in Indiana.  When time permuted he travelled to Orange, Crawford, Daviess, and Posey Counties to preach."

Jacob Shively and Anna Mavity are both buried in the Fairmount Cemetery near Huntingburg.  Their children were Eliza Jane, Henry, John Wesley, Louis Byram, Mahala, Dorothy Ann, William Fletcher, Mary Emeline, Malinda, Ellen and Cora Lauretta.

The above picture of Rev. Jacob Banta Shively was found in the History of Duobis County From Its Primitive Days to 1910 Including Biographies Of Capt. Toussaint Dubois And The Very Rev. Joseph Kundeck, V.G., by George R. Wilson, C.E., Illustrated, 1910, Published by the Author, Jasper, Indiana, pages 213:  The Rev. Jacob Banta Shively, a pioneer minister of the Christian church, in southern Indiana, was born near Harrodsburg, Kentucky, December 25, 1797, of German parentage.  He lived in his native state until about 1824, when he moved to Orange county, Ind.  About 1829 he moved, with his family, to Dubois county and was one of its pioneers.  He was a minister of the gospel and a farmer.  His first cabin was built on what in known as the Temple farm, located on the Troy and Jasper road. Here it was that his ministry began in Dubois county, preaching in the homes of the people scattered over several miles of territory.  As soon as  (Page 214)  a sufficient number had settled around him, he organized them into a church, which they called "The Indian Creek Christian Church." Meetings were held in cabins and groves, for a number of years, but finally a log house was built in which to worship. It was located north of the Temple farm and as long as it was used it had nothing but a ground floor.  The house has long since crumbled to dust.  An old burying ground lies near where the old church stood.

In the fall of 1840, Rev. Shively sold his farm to John Temple, and in March, 1841, he moved on a farm he and previously bought about one mile south of Huntingburg, where he lived the rest of his days.

A new log church building was erected two miles north of the old one on Indian creek and meetings were held there, until the organization was transferred to Huntingburg, in 1852, where it still remains, having had a continuous existence for at least seventy-five years.......

For his life's work, he received a mere pittance.  Sometimes a good sister would present him with a pair of home-knit woolen socks, or, perhaps, home-made jeans, enough to make a pair of trousers, and sometimes he would receive a few dollars for his work.  He depended upon his family for support.

His wife was Miss Anna Mavity, a Virginian by birth.  They were married, February 5, 1817.  Rev. Shively died, at Huntingburg, February 11, 1868."

Peter L Shively Who Lived In Henry County And Wells County, Indiana

Peter L Shively
From Album Of Dennis/Nancy Shively

Our genealogy is enhanced when we can find pictures or personal items of our ancestors.  Dennis and Nancy Shively who live in Oklahoma were very fortunate to have kind people share photo albums which contained the ancestors of Dennis.  One of these ancestors was Peter L. Shively. In a New Castle, Henry County, Indiana newspaper a letter written in 1884 by Peter Shively was shared with the readers.  Peter had recently moved from Henry County to Wells County, Indiana.

The New Castle Courier, Friday, February 15, 1884, Page 8, Column 5:

Wells County

Peter L. Shively’s New Home and How He Likes It

As some of my friends might care to know of my whereabouts and surroundings, I ask to communicate with them through the columns of the Courier.  I was born and raised in the vicinity of New Castle, and moved to this neighborhood last October, the first move I ever made; not a very long one either, but far enough away to break up old associations and require the formation of new friendships and acquaintances.  I find the people here very cleaver and sociable, and am well pleased in that respect.

The country is level and requires a great deal of ditching, which is being done as rapidly as practicable. Wheat and corn gave short yields last year. A large amount of Kansas corn was shipped in for seed, and it is safe to say that no more such corn is wanted.  Its yield reminds those who planted it of the Illinois farmer who felt moved to exclaim:  “Jesus my all to heaven is gone, I have the fodder, but where’s my corn.”

The failure of last year appears to be stimulating the farmers’ energies if not to their stock, and an immense amount of tiling will be laid this spring.  Great efforts will me made to get in a full crop.

Last fall some of my friends said to me, “You are not going to the Wells county swamps.” “Why not.” I was raised in the swamps of Henry county, and being a kind of swamp owl, would feel lost on high land.  Wells county is behind Henry county in some respects.  If we had gravel here as Henry county has Wells county would equal Henry in a few years.  We have a few pikes, but they are expensive, the Bluffton & Salimore pike, for instance, costing $2,700 per mile.  All of our pikes are free.

The price of land ranges from $20 to $60 per acre, the average price being $40 to $45, and much offering.  The country is being cleared rapidly; logging and wood chopping is the order of the day.  One man, Amos Hassour, the station agent, has shipped over 2000 cords of wood to Ft. Wayne, besides a big lot of bolt timber to Bluffton, all from this station.  Poneto, which is located about thirty miles south of Ft. Wayne and is made up about as follows. Two general stores with drug store attachments, they say, a white rat in the cellar; two groceries, one smithshop, express and telegraph office, and one doctor, who complains of nothing to do and spends his leisure time shooting at a mark, or a chicken, at a nickel a shot.

I can be found if wanted one-half mile north and one mile east of Poneto, where the latch-string hangs out to old friends.

                                                                                                 P. L. Shively

Poneto, Ind., Feb. 7, 1884

Philip Shively and Abigail Back who resided in Monongalia County, West Virginia were the grandparents of Michael Shively who lived in Henry County, Indiana. Michael Shively was born 1807 and died 22-April-1900 in Delaware County, IN.   Michael’s parents were Michael Shively and Catherine Toothman and it is most probable that from records they were not married. Two Shively researchers, Venita Foster and Pat Douglas, shared information many years ago in regards to this issue.  From the Monongalia County Court Minutes the child, Michael, was bound to his grandfather, Philip Shively and then in later records to Michael Toothman (possibly Catherine’s father). In the New Castle Democrat Weekly, May 11, 1900 the newspaper obit for Michael mentions in early boyhood he went to Hamilton County, Ohio, making his home with an uncle, Mr. Cameron. Michael was married 1^st in 1832 in Hamilton County, OH to Keziah LaBoyteaux.  Keziah died on 12-Nov-1860.  He married 2^nd on 12-Apr-1862 in Henry County to Amanda Baughn who died on 29-Mar-1878.  Michael married 3^rd on 3-Feb-1880 in Henry County to Mrs. Elizabeth Sweigart who died on 4-Jan-1884.  Michael is found on the 1850 through 1870 census records in Henry County, IN, Henry Township.  In 1880 he is in Liberty Township.  Michael is buried in Batson Cemetery, Liberty Township.  The cemetery is located on CR #500E, about 1/2 mile south of SR #38.  The cemetery was set aside as a neighborhood burial grounds in 1844 by Thomas Batson.  Also buried here are 1^st wife Keziah and 2^nd wife Amanda. His children included:  Catharine born ca. 1833, Peter born  ca. 1834, Daniel born ca. 1838, David born ca. 1841, Naomi born ca. 1843, Mary Ann born ca. 1848, Adaline born ca. 1854.

The following information is known about the children of Michael Shively (born ca. 1807). Catherine married Franklin Roof on 23-Mar-1854, Henry Co. and died 6-Aug-1918 in Poneto, Wells County, IN.  Peter married 1st Martha Ann and married 2nd on 15-Mar-1871 in Henry Co. to Susannah Stretch.  Daniel married on 6-Aug-1854 in Henry Co. to Ann Trowbridge.  David died 3-Jan-1905 and married on 10-Jan-1867 in Henry Co. to Jane E Moore.  Naomi died 3-Jan-1914 in Henry Co. Mary Ann was married 30-Dec-1869 in Henry Co. to William May. Adaline was married on 2-Mar-1871 in Henry Co. to George W. Runyon.

William Thomas Shively And Wife, Mary Ann Thomas, Who Lived In Sangamon County, Illinois

William Thomas Shively was born 20-May-1856 in Grayson County, Kentucky and died 18-Mar-1947 In Divernon, Sangamon County, Illinois.  He was the son of Stephen A. Shively (1803-1895) and Elizabeth Abell.  Stephen A. Shively was the son of Jacob Shively (1772-1851) and Sophia Davis who lived in Taylor County, Kentucky.  

William Thomas Shively married Mary Ann Thomas who was born 18-Aug-1861 and died 5-May-1931 in Sangamon County, IL.  The family of William Shively is listed on the 1900 Pawnee Township, Sangamon County, IL census as William Shiveley born May 1856 age 44 and married 21 years, wife Mary A born Aug 1861, daughter Fannie B born 1880, and daughter Virgie born Sep-1886.  Listed on the 1910 Divernon Village, Sangamon County, IL cenus is Thomas Shively age 53, wife Mary age 48, daughter Virgie Neeson age 24, son-in-law Richard Neeson, Sr age 29 and grandson Richard Neeson, Jr age 2yr 3 months.  William Shively is found on the 1920, 1930 and 1940 Sangamon County census records in the household with his daughter, Virgina Shively Neeson.

William Thomas Shively and his son-in-law, Richard Neeson, were funeral directors in Divernon, IL.  An article extracted from the Illinois State Journal, Springfield, IL, Friday, July 8, 1938, Page 6, Column 4:

Render Able Dignified Service

Shively And Neeson Funeral Home Has Long Served Divernon Area

The profession of funeral directors is one of the most essential services in any district and it is a service that must be rendered by people well versed in all the details of the profession.  Funeral services an only be correctly handled by persons of experience who have a natural aptitude to grasp the case of each individual.

For many years the Shively and Neeson funeral home has served the people of Divernon and adjacent towns and rural districts.  It is an institution that has taken honest pride in the commendation of the families whom they have served. Their services have been arranged so as to sufficiently meet the immediate needs of each and every case.  The personnel of the organization is composed of local people who have had years of experience in the profession; people whom one can depend upon to handle all matters in the most highly satisfactory manner.

The equipment of the Shively and Neeson funeral home is most complete.  Night and day ambulance service to any part of that region is maintained and a lady attendant is on duty at all times.  

We believe that Richard "Dick" Neeson, the owner, and all of the employes of this local home-owned institution deserve much commendation upon the dignified and distinctive service that they have rendered and are rendering their community.  

Extracted from the Illinois State Journal, Springfield, IL, Wednesday, May 20, 1942, Page 4, Column 1:

Thomas Shively To Mark Birthday

Divernon Man Will Be 86 Years Old Today

Thomas Shively, Divernon, who has been a resident of Illinois since 1857, will celebrate his eighty-sixth birthday anniversary today.  He came to Illinois with his parents from Kentucky.  He lived in Pawnee until 1902 and then moved to Divernon, establishing a livery business.  Later he entered the undertaking business as a partner of R. J. Neeson, retiring in 1933.  He is in good health.  Mr. Shively has been a read of the Illinois State Journal for more that forty years.

In 1931 the following article was written in the Illinois State Journal, Springfield, IL, Wednesday, May 6, 1931, Page 10, Columns 3-4:

Mrs. Mary Ann Shively

Divernon, May 5. -- Mrs. Mary Ann Thomas Shively, 70, well known resident of this city, died at 1:30 o'clock this afternoon at her home, following an illness of two years.  Funeral services will be conducted at 9:30 o'clock Friday morning at Sacred Heart church, Rev. Father Smith officiating.  Interment will be made in St. Bernard cemetery, near Glenarm.

The newspaper obituary for William Thomas Shively was located in the Illinois State Journal, Wednesday, March 19, 1947, Page 18, Column 3:

Thomas Shively, 90, Divernon, Dies

Funeral Arrangements Are Incomplete

Thomas Shively, of DIvernon, a resident of Sangamon county for 90 years, died at 7:15 p.m. yesterday at his home.  He was 90 years old.

Mr. Shively was born in Grayson county, Kentucky, May 20, 1856, and came with his parents to Illinois when 6 months old.  The family settled in Pawnee after making the trip in a covered wagon.

In 1897 he married Mary Ann Thomas and the two became the parents of three daughters, Mrs. Charles Lawley, of Rochester; Mrs. Richard Neeson, of Divernon, with whom he resided, and Lulu Shively, deceased.  Mrs. Shively died in May, 1932.

In 1902, Mr. Shively moved to Divernon with his family and opened a livery stable. In 1910 he and his son-in-law, R. J. Neeson, opened a funeral home and were associated together until 1933, when Mr. Shively retired.

Surviving besides his two daughters are a brother, Dan Shively, of Detroit, Mich.; four grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.

The body was removed to the Kirlin & Egan funeral home.  Funeral arrangements are incomplete.

Valentine Party Held In 1885 In Macon County, Illinois At Home Of E. W. Shively

The following newspaper article was extracted from The Decatur Daily Republican, Decatur, IL, Saturday Evening, February 14, 1885, Page 3, Column 5:

A Valentine Party

Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Shively gave a very pleasant and novel Valentine party at their cosy home, on West William street, last evening.  The guests were Mr. and Mrs. P. Loeb, Mr. and Mrs. John A. Swearingen, Mr. and Mrs. N. Hagerman, Mrs. S. P. Young, F. M. Young, Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Barnes, Mr. and Mrs. I. A. Buckingham, Mrs. J. Phillips, Mr. and Mrs. B. K. Hamsher, Mrs. J. W. Phillips, Mr. and Mrs. Albert T. Summers, J. C. Hostetler, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Lewis and Logan Phillips.  An elegant supper was served.  There was a surprise in store for the guests as they seated themselves at the table.  In each napkin was neatly folded a comic valentine, and all were so appropriate that the liveliest merriment was created.  All the hits were taken good-naturedly; but Mrs. John A. Barnes, a neighbor, who had been let into the valentine secret, planned a surprise for Mrs. Shively, and after she had had her fun, the second act was witnessed.  There was a knock at the door.  It opened, and there stood a messenger blind-folded, with a box marked dynamite in his hands.  He entered, and the box was opened with fear and trembling.  It was found to contain a comic photo valentine for Mr. Shively and a pair of terra cotta bisque statuary for Mrs. Shively.  These gifts caused renewed merriment.  The company separated at a late hour delighted with the visit.

Edward W. Shively (E. W. Shively) was the son of John Shively (born 12-Jan-1824 in Germany, died 24-Jul-1906 Delaware County, Ohio) and Elizabeth B. Gook (Cooke) (born 11-Nov-1830 Berks County, PA, died 28-Sep-1896 Delaware County, Ohio).  E. W. Shively married Mary Magdaline Smith Dora on 14-May-1879 in Coles County, IL. 

Listed on the 1880, Decatur, Fourth Ward, Macon County, IL census is Edward W. Shively age 27, a photo artist, born in Ohio and wife Dora, age 20, born in Missouri.  Extracted from The Decatur Daily Review, Tuesday Morning, April 13, 1886, Page 2, Column 2:

Shively, the photographer, has moved his headquarters from the Tower Art Gallery to his new rooms over F. L. Hays & Co.'s store, North Water street.  This gallery will have many advantages over any other he has ever occupied in this city, and will enable him to increase the beauty and excellence of his work.  He has remodeled, renovated and refurnished the entire gallery, adding the newest and latest appliances known to the photographer's art; also a camera for making large sized photograph groups, etc.  This makes by far the finest Gallery in the city.  He has also added the largest and finest line of gold, bronze, oak, metal and mahoganized frames over shown in the city.  Thanking you for past favors, he hopes to see his old patrons and welcomes new ones to his new art rooms.

The following article of interest was extracted from The Decatur Daily Republican, Monday, September 16, 1889, Page 3, Column 5:

Home From The West

Five Weeks In The Boom Section - Bought A Few Lots

S. R. Gher, the real estate dealer, and E. W. Shively, the photographer, are home from their journey of five weeks through the far west, spending most of their time at Spokane Falls, Seattle, Tacoma, Portland, Astoria, Ilwaukee and Sea View, coming home by way of Salt Lake, Denver and Kansas City.  They went over the Northern route.

They reached Spokane a week after the great fire and where 30 of the business blocks were burnt down they found 40 new buildings going up, while in other quarters the firemen were throwing water on the burning embers and taking the ashes and debris out to give space for store tents.  The foundations for 90 buildings were completed before the visitors left the town - 43 on one street.  The fire ordinance is very strict, requiring 21-inch walls for the cellars and 17-inch walls above.  Both gentlemen invested in Spokane city lots, on one of which the Y.M.C.A. will erect a large building that will yield heavy rents.  One Spokane hardware firm received 22 carloads of hardware supplies direct from Chicago before Mr. Gher and Mr. Shively left.   They think the city has a greater future before it than ever.

They were in Tacoma a day, and were driven about the city in a double rig by Ed. Haworth and his associate in the real estate business.  Ed B. Judson and W. H. Olson are soon to start a coffin factory at Tacoma.

They found L. C. Pitner in the real estate business at Seattle, and everything booming.  It is said that L. L. Haworth was offered $14 a thousand for all the brick he could deliver at Seattle for five years.  The demand for building material of every description is far ahead of the supply.

At Portland Mr. Gher and Mr. Shively were entertained in a pricely manner at the home of Ira Brown, formerly of Decatur, who is doing well in Portland.

While at Sea View they took a surf bath.

Mr. and Mrs. Shively decided to move to Spokane Falls as reported in The Decatur Daily Republican, Wednesday Evening, April 9, 1890, Page 3, Column 5:

Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Shively and family and Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Acuff will leave tomorrow for Spokane Fall, Wash., where they will locate permanently.

Listed on the 1900, Butte city, Ward 2, Silver Bow County, Montana is Edward W Shively, photographer, born Aug 1855, wife Marie born Feb 1862, daughter Dora born Aug 1882, daughter Helen born Aug 1885 and William Dore, brother-in-law born May 1878.  Edward W is located on the 1910 and 1920 Spokane County, Washington census records.

Edward W. Shively died 3-Jan-1932 in Spokane County, Washington.  The following obituary was extracted from The Montana Standard, Butte, Montana, Sunday Morning, January 10, 1932, Page 5, Column 3:

Ex-Resident Of Butte Expires

News Received Of Death Of E. W. Shively In Spokane, Wash.

Edward W. Shively, 77, a former Butte resident and widely known photographer and mining man, died at Spokane, Wash., according to a message received here yesterday.  Mr. Shively's death was the result of a cerebral hemorrhage.

Surviving relatives are his widow, Mrs. Mary M. Shively; two daughters, Mrs. Nat Bostwick and Mrs. Edward C. Meiklejohn; three grandchildren, Mrs. Eustice McMasters, Mrs. David Hilger and David Bostwick.  Funeral services were conducted at Spokane.

Mr. Shively was born in Illinois and came west when he was a young man.  He lived for a time at Missoula and later at Helena.  After leaving the latter city he came to Butte, where he was engaged in mining before leaving for Spokane. During his residence in Washington he became prominent as a business man and photographer.

Samuel T. Shively Who Lived In Grant County, Indiana

Swayzee Press, January 1, 1916

Samuel T. Shively was born ca 1849 and died in June-1938.  He was the son of Martin Shively born 1801 and Susan born 1806.  Samuel T. Shively married Rebecca Kiser on 20-Dec-1867 in Miami County, IN. He married second Hannah Malinda Shoffstall Woolery (Wolary) on 22-May-1894 in Grant County, IN.  She was married first to Henry Woolery on 1-Mar-1877 in Auglaize Co., OH.  

In the Samuel Shively household listed on the 1880 Jackson township, Miami County, IN census are Samuel age 29, wife Rebecca age 27, daughter Mary L age 11, son Charles age 9 and son William age 6.  Samuel Shively and family are listed on the 1900 Sims township, Grant County, IN census as Samuel Shively age 52,  wife Hannah M age 42, stepson Granvill Woolery age 20 and stepson Harvey Woolery age 17.

Newspaper articles help tell a little more about the experiences the Shively ancestors encountered.  Several articles have been extracted on the life of Samuel T. Shively from the Swayzee Press, (Grant County, IN).  Extracted from the Swayzee Press, Friday, March 6, 1902, Page 3, Column 3:       Granville Woolery of Marion is spending a few days with his mother, Mrs. S. T. Shively.

Swayzee Press, Friday, March 30, 1906, Page 8, Column 3:   Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Shively have been entertaining, this week, Mr. Shively's mother, of Platt county, Kansas.

Swayzee Press, Friday, October 15, 1909, Page 7, Column 4:     Sam Shively came near losing his home by fire Monday evening.  Mrs. Shively had put a lot of wood in the kitchen stove oven to dry and then gone to neighbors.  When Sam came home to supper he found the wood on fire and house full of smoke.  Prompt action and a little water soon put everything out of danger, but it was lucky that the discovery was made before any of the burning wood dropped to the floor.

Swayzee Press, Friday, February 25, 1910, Page 4, Column 3:

Experience With Coal Gas

Mr. and Mrs. Sam Shively had an experience Monday morning which they do not care to have repeated.  When they awoke, early in the morning, they found that both had a severe headache and were also suffering with a peculiar sickness which seemed to effect them all over.  Sam felt drowsy and was inclined to sleep, but Mrs. Shively suffered pain, which grew rapidly worse.  On arising they felt a dizziness and found it difficult to walk without staggering. On reaching the open air and ventilating the house well the sickness gradually wore off, but the dizziness lingered to some extent all day.

The cause of the peculiar experience is believed to have been coal gas escaping from the base burner.  They slept up stairs over the room containing the stove and a register in the floor near the bed supplied heat from below.  The chimney is one of the small kind built in the days of natural gas.  It was built for a grate and was therefore somewhat open at the bottom. For these reasons the stove did not have a strong draft.  Besides, Mrs. Shively and closed the damper in the stove pipe to keep the fire from getting too hot, and the outside air being still and sultry during the night, it is believed that poisonous gases escaped from the stove and caused the peculiar sickness.

Swayzee Press, Friday, February 25, 1910, Page 4, Column 2:

The experience of Mr. and Mrs. Sam Shively Monday morning may well serve as a warning to all who sleep in or near a room in which a fire is kept all night.  Some of the gases produced by the burning of coal are very poisonous and it is very essential that these gases do not escape into the living or sleeping rooms.  Care should be taken that all joints in  stove pipes are close and tight and that pipes and chimneys are kept open enough to carry all the smoke and fumes up the chimneys as fast as they are formed in the stove.

Swayzee Press, Friday, January 13, 1911, Page 1, Column 2:

Death of Harvey Woolry

A letter from Mrs. Samuel Shively, written at Whittier, California, on January 8th, states that her son, Harvey Woolry, at whose bedside she has been for several weeks, died Tuesday morning, Jan. 3, at 8 o'clock.  She states that he suffered much near the last but died with the assurance that he had made his peace with God and was ready to go.  The body will not be interred at once, but will be preserved and brought here for burial.  On account of Mrs. Shively's exhausted condition and cold weather, however they have decided not to return home until the severe part of the winter is over, perhaps three months hence.  Mr. Shively will secure employment there for the time and they will notify friends here of their departure in ample time to be prepared for their arrival.

Swayzee Press, Friday, July 21, 1911, Page 1, Column 3:

Mrs. Malinda Shively, who has been separated from her husband, Samuel Shively for several weeks past, returned to Swayzee Wednesday in company with a lady friend, Mrs. Marsh, and had her household goods loaded into a car and shipped to SantaFe, Ohio, the home of her father, where we understand she expects to make her home.

Swayzee Press, Friday, December 5, 1913, Page 1, Column 2:

Secured Divorce

Mrs. Hannah Malinda Shively, who lives at Lake View, Ohio, has secured a divorce from Samuel T. Shively of Swayzee and has had restored to her the name of her first marriage -- Wolary.

Swayzee Press, Friday, January 14, 1916, Page 1, Column 1:

Quits Meat Business

Sam Shively sold out his stock of meats to Elmer Wright the first of the week and left Wednesday for a visit with his daughter, Mrs. George Allen in Park county, after which he plans to spend the rest of the winter in Kansas with his sister, Mrs. B. F. Thomas, whose husband died recently.

Swayzee Press, Friday, October 13, 1916, Page 1, Column 5:

Granville Wolary

The body of Granville Wolary was brought here last Saturday from Terre Haute and laid to rest in Thrailkill cemetery, north of town.  Mr. Wolary spent his boyhood days in Swayzee and his mother, Mrs. Malinda Wolary, resides here now.  The sympathy of the community is extended to Mrs. Wolary in her sorrow as Granville was the only remaining member of her family, the husband and other son having died several years ago.

Swayzee Press, Friday, August 16, 1918, Page 3, Column 4:

Sam Shively came home Sunday from Vanceburg, Ky., where he has been working on a farm with his son Charles.  He is now employed at Pence's meat market.

Marsh And Shively Families From Henry County, Indiana

William T. Shively Home, Henry County, IN

This blog was created for the purpose of sharing Shively family information.  It is appreciated when other Shively researchers are interested in sharing their work. The subject of the 26-July-2013 Shively blog was William T. Shively and wives who lived in Henry County, IN. Richard D. Brainard,  of Portland, Oregon, has recently been corresponding and has the following article regarding William T. Shively and Shively Park to be shared: 

MARSH  & SHIVELY FAMILY CONNECTION

William Edward Marsh was b. 11 Nov. 1836, Cincinnati, OH. He attended Harvard University from 1858-60, and Harvard Law School from 1859-61. It is unknown if he graduated either program. He married while in college to Ellen _____. She was b. _ July 1839 in MA. He was associated with Galt House Hotel in Cincinnati, from where he retired in 1892. They lived for a time in Indianapolis, IN. She died ca. 1910-1911 at Newburyport, MA. He then lived with his son at Shively’s Park, Mt. Summit, IN until his death 1 Nov. 1922.

Child:

i. William E. H. Marsh; b. _ May 1860, _____, MA.

William E. H. Marsh supposedly attended Harvard University. However, no record of this has been found. He married in the early 1890’s in Indiana, to Margaret Shively. She was born _ May 1861, Prairie Twp., Henry Co., IN, dau. of William T. Shively and Mildred H. House. Mr. Marsh supposedly owned, or operated, hotels in Cincinnati, OH, Petoskey, MI, Muncie, IN, and Monticello, IN at different times.. They lived at Shively’s Park during much of the 1920’s and 1930’s. Margaret (Shively) Marsh, along with her sister Ella Shively, had inherited Shively’s Park upon the death of their father in 1917. When Margaret died, William E. H. Marsh inherited the property. He supposedly fell on hard times financially and gave financial control of the property, before his death, to a New Castle attorney named Yergin. He died after June 1937, probably at Shively’s Park.

Child:

i. William Shively Marsh: b. 8 Aug. 1896, Muncie, Delaware Co.

William Shively Marsh lived his early life with his parents. He served with the U.S. Army during WW I, from 2 Sep. 1918 to 9 Dec. 1918, as a private in the 2nd. Company, 2nd. Candidate Battalion, I.C.O.T.S. He married ___ 1930, Muncie, IN, to Bertha Golden (Priddy) Hayes. It was his only marriage. They lived at Shively’s Park, along with her daughter Kathryn Trevelle (Stierheim) Hayes by a previous marriage, until the property was taken from them between 1938 and 1943, sometime after his father’s death. They relocated to a home two miles north of New Castle on State Highway 3, across from a portion of the American Legion Golf Course. Their property backed up to the abandoned New Castle-Muncie Interurban right-of-way. He worked at the Chrysler factory in New Castle. He was handy at woodworking and machine repairing, and had a long work bench in the garage. They both loved gardening, sold flowers, plants and strawberries, and raised chickens on a portion of their three-acre property. He had a motor scooter with a sidecar which he made. He died 5 Feb. 1947, at home, of lung cancer. He is buried in the Shively Family Plot at Mt. Summit Cemetery east of Mt. Summit.. She died 9 Aug. 1973, Henry Co. Hospital, New Castle, IN, and is buried in the Priddy Family Plot at Memorial Park Cemetery north of Dayton, Montgomery Co., OH. They were both long time smokers.

Kathryn T. (Stierheim) Hayes used the Hayes name of a former step-father. She was not adopted by him. She graduated from Mt. Summit  High School about 1932. She married 20 June 1937, at Shively’s Park to Paul Richard Brainard.

Shively’s Park was available to private occasions as early as 1902 when the Bouslog Family Reunion was held there. It was a well-know resort facility during the 1920’s and 1930’s. It was originally developed by a Shively ancestor as a place to fish. It had one (or two) ponds in front of a woods. The pond was used for swimming and boating. It had a pavilion extending into the water which was used for dancing. East of the pond was the two-story family home. In the 1950’s, Kathryn’s son’s Dick and Jack Brainard received permission from the then owner to camp overnight in the woods behind the ponds. By this time, the pond was overgrown and had been unused for many years.

SHIVELY’S PARK & HOME

      In response to the request in Vol.34, Number 1, Spring 2007 issue of The Henry County Historicalog  (Henry County Historical Society) for more detailed information concerning Shively’s Park & the Shively home, I am submitting the following data.

      My mother Kathryn Trevelle Stierheim/Hayes (Stierheim-birth name; Hayes-unofficial adopted name from her mother‘s fourth husband), lived in the Shively’s Park  home as a teenager while attending Mt. Summit High School during her junior and senior years. Photos of her (using the Hayes surname) can be found in Mt. Summit High School yearbooks for the years 1930-1932. At age seventeen, she states she was rescued while swimming in the lake by Ralph “Red” Renegar, who during college summer break, was serving as lifeguard at Shively’s Park. Many years later, in 1946, he became her second husband.

        Kathryn was married first in the Shively’s Park family home to Paul Richard Brainard on 30 June 1937. She came down the staircase in her wedding dress for the ceremony. My parents met in Dayton, OH where they both lived in the mid-late 1930‘s. At the time my mother was a model for  Elder’s Department Store in Dayton, and her photograph regularly appeared in the Dayton newspapers. She received numerous invitations to dances and parties at the major hotels in downtown Dayton. That is how my parents met.

      Kathryn’s mother, Bertha Golden (Priddy) Marsh, also lived in the Shively’s Park  home with her fifth husband William Shively Marsh. However, she was often gone for extended periods due to her beauty shop business in Dayton, OH. Times were economically difficult, and her husband had been laid off from the Chrysler factory in New Castle. My mother spoke of being very lonely in the big house out in the country. She would sit at her window and watch for cars to pass along the gravel road, hoping one might stop and take her away. Also living in the home was William E. H. Marsh, the father of William Shively Marsh, who was referred to as “old man Marsh.” He inherited the home and property after the death of his wife Margaret (Shively) Marsh. He is listed in the 1930 Census as park manager (of Shively’s Park).

      William E. H. Marsh was born in May 1860 in Massachusetts. He supposedly went to Harvard, but no record has yet been found to support this. According to my mother, at one time he owned a hotel in Cincinnati. According to various census records, he also owned hotels in Muncie, IN, Monticello, IN, and Petoskey, MI at different times. He went bankrupt in the stock market crash of 1929, or during the following depression in the 1930’s.

      After William E. H. Marsh died, sometime after June 1937 ( he was present at my mother‘s wedding), a New Castle  attorney by the name of Yergin took possession of the home and property. In April 1993, I spoke with a Mrs. Eakins (sp?) who once worked for the attorney Yergin. She acknowledged she knew the story that Mr. Yergin had taken the property from the estate of William E. H. Marsh. Attorney Yergin evicted William Shively Marsh and Bertha Golden (Priddy) Marsh. They found a home on Mt. Summit Road, which later became State Road 3, and later yet North Memorial Drive. The home is located directly across from a portion of the American Legion Golf Course just north of Memorial Park, and is now (2007) part of a religious complex.

      As a very young child in the early 1940‘s, I seem to recall seeing a rail car on the Muncie-New Castle Interurban Line which ran directly behind the property on Mt. Summit Road. In 1945, I moved from Dayton at age 7 to live in the home with my divorced mother, younger brother, and William S. and Bertha (Priddy) Marsh. I regularly explored along the old interurban right-of-way (which by then had it’s tracks removed) from New Castle north to the Indiana State Epileptic Village.

      I attended Sugar Grove Elementary School, located on State Highway 38 west of New Castle, from the first through fifth grades. It was a two room brick schoolhouse built in 1850, with a big coal-fired boiler in the back of each room for heat during the winter. Water was hand-pumped from a well in the front of the building. Outhouses served toilet needs. First, second and third grades were in one room, and fourth and fifth grades were in the other room. My first grade teacher was Mrs. Cassidy. Mrs. Polk taught fourth and fifth grades, and was the school principal. The next year Mrs. Polk transferred to the first three grades, and Mr. Hornback became principal and taught fourth and fifth grades. He was a stern teacher, and was not well-liked by students, or parents. The school closed after the 1949-50 school year, and Sugar Grove students were transferred to Westwood Elementary School. The Sugar Grove building is still standing at the corner of State Highway 38 and Westwood Road. It is currently used as a residence.

      Back to Shively’s Park. According to the article in the Spring 2007 issue of The Henry County Historicalog the park was created by William T. Shively and several friends as a local fishing lake for when they were “too old to go north and fish.”

      William T. Shively was born 5 Nov. 1833 in Indiana, and died 7 April 1917 in Henry County. His parents were Philip Shively and Margaret Tibbett, both born in West Virginia according to census records (I recall  “Grandpa & Grandma Marsh” taking a driving trip to West Virginia in the mid-1940’s to visit some of his distant relatives). William T. Shively had an older brother, John Shively, who married, had children, and lived in Prairie Township.

      William’s first wife, Rebecca (_____) died in 1855 after only one year of marriage. His second wife, Mildred “Millie” H. House was born 30 Nov. 1834 and died 23 February 1898. They are buried in the Shively Plot at Mt. Summit Cemetery, along with grandson William Shively Marsh (d. 5 Feb. 1947 at home on Mt. Summit Road), and Sarah R. Shively (unknown relative b. 1 July 1842 and d. 19 December 1909).  William and Mildred had at least two children, Margaret “Maggie,” born in 1861, and Ella “Dutch“, born 22 Oct. 1864 and died in the 1930’s, unmarried.

      Margaret and Ella inherited the Shively’s Park property from their father. Margaret married William E. H. Marsh.  Upon the death of Margaret, the property was inherited by her husband. Their one child, William Shively Marsh, was born 8 Aug. 1896, Muncie, IN.

      I have in my possession two silver flasks from Tiffany & Co., engraved as follows; “Mrs. Mildred Shively,” and “Miss Margaret Shively.” I also have two Tiffany & Co. silver napkin rings engraved as follows; “WSM May 20, 1914” (William Shively Marsh), and “MSM May 21, 1914” (Margaret Shively Marsh). My brother John E. Brainard, has a number of other small items from the Shively family home.

      Article researched and written by Richard D. Brainard, Portland, OR.

      November  2007.

Samuel S. Shively And Wife Lydia Ullery Who Lived In Miami County, Indiana

Samuel S. Shively/Lydia Ullery Marriage

Samuel S. Shively was born 31-Mar-1818 and died 12-Jan-1881 and buried in Sharpee Cemetery in Miami County, IN.  Samuel was married on 30-Apr-1840 in Montgomery County, OH to Lydia Ullery.  Lydia was born 14-Jan-1824 and died 1-Jan-1873.   Samuel S. Shively was the son of Christian Shively (1770-1836) and Susannah Gripe (1776-1859).

Samuel S. Shively is listed on the 1860 Miami County, IN, Pipe Creek Township census:  Samuel S. Shively age 42 farmer, wife Lydia age 36, son Samuel age 18, son Solomon age 14, son Christian age 6, and daughter Mary E age 2.  On the 1870 Miami County, IN, Pipe Creek Township census is listed Samuel Shively age 52, wife Lydia age 46, son Christopher age 14, daughter Mary age 13 and daughter Anna.  On the 1880 Miami County, IN, Pipe Creek Township census in the household of George Bowman age 30 is the boarder Samuel Shively age 62 and his son Christopher Shively age 23.

The tragic death of Samuel S. Shively was recorded in at least three different newspapers. The tragedy of Samuel’s death is not the reason for this article rather the different telling of the tragedy in each newspaper. 

Extracted from the Logansport Weekly Journal, Logansport, IN, Saturday, January 22, 1881, Page 8, Column 3:

Wednesday evening Samuel Shively and another man, both farmers, started home in a wood wagon, after first absorbing a good supply of whisky.  They had only driven about one mile and a half from Peru when Shively fell out of the wagon; his head was caught behind the spokes of the hind wheel, breaking his neck instantly.

Recorded in the Rochester Republican, Rochester, IN, Thursday, January 20, 1881, Page 2, Column 2:

Samuel Shively, a farmer living near Peru, fell of his wagon while drunk, and met his death.  His head caught between the spokes of one of the wheels, breaking his neck instantly.

Located in the Peru Miami County Sentinel, Peru, IN, Thursday, January 13, 1881, Page 3, Column 4:

Shocking Accident

Yesterday evening about 6 o’clock, Samuel S. Shively, an old and well known resident of Pipe Creek township, was going home with William Bowman, and when they were near the railroad bridge one wheel of the wagon dropped into a deep rut and Mr. Shively, who was sitting on the seat directly above the wheel, was pitched out, his head catching in the spokes and breaking his neck, causing instantaneous death.  Help was procured at Wallick’s mill and the body brought to Peru and taken to the residence of his son-in-law, Mr. Jackson, to be prepared for the rites of interment.  Immediately after the accident deputy coroner Scott was notified, who decided it would only be a useless expense to the county to hold an inquest.  Mr. Shively was near seventy years of age, was the owner of considerable property, and was respected by all who knew him.  He leaves quite a large family, all of whom are grown and in comfortable circumstances.