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Children by William Hager:
NOTES: William Myer Hager, known as Nim, abandoned Lucy. She awoke one morning, and he was gone; never heard of again.
Dora Miller, as Martha was called, was a piano teacher. William lived in Osgood, Ripley County, Indiana.
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NOTES: Called
"C.T." The middle name, as with his brothers, seems
to have been bestowed to honor a friend or neighbor. There was
a Taliaferro family in Bracken County, Kentucky, which has no
known relationship to the Shaws. The same may be true of his first
name. Taliaferro was simplified to Toliver, and he is found in
military records as Callet Toliver Shaw.
Enlisted as a private, Company G, 123rd Reg., Indiana Volunteers, Ohio County, Indiana, 12 March 1864. Age, 38; eyes, dark; hair, dark; height, 5/9; complexion, dark. He suffered poor health during and after his military exploits, as revealed by muster rolls and his application for an invalid army pension, 24 April 1880. In the declaration, he states that he contracted dropsy while at Kennesaw Mountain, Georgia, 23 July 1864; rheumatism while at Wise's Fork, North Carolina, on or about 10 March 1865, and also at Wise's Fork contracted disease of the heart "caused by a force march in which he got overheated and he suffers a great deal from said disease and at times falls over as if dead and will remain in that condition for several hours."
My grandmother, Rissa Hammon, was born and raised in C.T.'s home. He died when she was under ten years of age. One of her stories was about her uncle, who had lost a leg from the knee down. The leg was buried beneath a tree at the edge of the property. On occasion, her uncle would suffer phantom pains, and nothing would relieve the pain except for her grandfather to dig the leg up and give it a fresh wrapping, and then re-bury it. Unfortunately, between her age and my youth, exactly which uncle this was escapes me. I have it as his son, John H. Shaw, in my notes, but also seem to recall that it may have been a great-uncle who lost the leg during the war.
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NOTES: There is a discrepancy between Joseph's age as given in census reports and on his gravestone. Census reports would have him born 1786. Neither is incontrovertible evidence, of course, but my feeling is that he was born after his parents' marriage, rather than before. I do accept that some marriages were delayed until proof of fertility was known, but 3 years is a lot of proof!
Considerable research on the Maryland family was done by Robert Lee Beckley, Jr., of Damascus, Maryland, a descendant of William S. Shaw.
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William:
Priscilla:
Married 9 June 1789, Third Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1. Joseph Shaw
3. (_____) Shaw
NOTES: Robert Lee Beckley, Jr., Damascus, Maryland. Census and bible records.
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