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1(iii). Christian
Shirley born Feb 12,
1773 Washington Co. MD. He died Dec 12, 1858 Floyd Co.
IN. and is buried on the Woods farm near Edwardsville, IN. He
came to Madison Co. KY where he bought land Aug 1799 from William
and Mary McGuire. Mary was the daughter of Michael Shirley, (branch
# 30). By 1810 he had moved to Harrison Co. IN, a
portion that later became Floyd Co. IN. and he lived there
until his death.
Will of Christian Shirley
- I, Christian Shirley of Floyd County Indiana, being of sound
mind and memory, do hereby make and publish this as my last will
and testament. First, I give and bequeath to my son Denton Shirley
the West half of the North West quarter of section one of township
three South of the Base line in Range five east of the second
principal were d'van of the lands directed to be sold at Jeffersonville,
and lying and being in said Floyd County, Indiana. The said quarter
section to be divided by a North and South line between said
Denton and his brother Anderson, said Anderson now having or
being entitled to the legal title of the East half thereof. Second,
I do also hereby give and bequeath to my said son Denton Shirley
a certain trat or parcel of land lying and being in said county
of Floyd and said State of Indiana and on a branch of Bartons
Creek being a fork of Indian Creek, containing eighy acres more
or less, and being the South-east corner of the North-east quarter
of section tow, of townshipthree South of the Base line in Range
five East of the Meridian line, and bounded as follows, to wit...
Beginning at the original quarter section post on the North and
South line which divides the first and second section in said
township when Elijah Creswell, Christian Shirley and John Bowman
and Jeremiah Crook all corner, thence with the said line North
forty poles to a sugar tree corner, thence west thirty two poles
to a corner Elm, thence South forty poles stake, sugar tree and
hickory pinters, thence East thirty two poles including the Spring
now used by me to the beginning corner post, with the appurtenances
belonging to each tract of land. It is also my will and desire
that for and in consideration of the above bequest he, the saaid
Denton Shirley, at my decease shall pay to my daughter, Elizabeth
Holmes, or her heirs, the wife of Oliver Holmes, the sum of two
hundred dollars. In witness whereof I, the said Christian Shirley
have herto set my hand and seal, this 29 day of December in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight and forty five. Christian
Shirley Signed by the above named Christian Shirley as and for
his last will and testament in the presence of us. C. Nunemacher,
H. Collins
married Roseanna Canote Nov 28, 1796. She was born July 27,
1776 MD; living in Georgetown Twp next to her son Denton Shirley
in 1860 Floyd Co IN census, age 86; and died Jan 9, 1861 Floyd
Co. IN. Her parents were John Canote born May 12, 1725
Hagerstown and Rosannah born 1730 Hagerstown, Maryland. (NOTE:
The Canote family also was in Madison Co.KY when Peter and Christian
Shirley were there).
children:
2(i). John
"Judge" Shirley born
about 1794 VA died in 1876 Scyene Texas (now a Dallas suburb).
On Jan 26, 1835 John and 2nd wife Fannie sold a 1/2 section in
Clark Co. IN that John had bought from David Worth Oct 7, 1829
(Floyd Co. Books D page 234 and G page 604). An abandoned
cemetery at the Knobs has a tombstone for Clarissa, daughter
of J. and F. Shirley d. Mar 30, 1836 in her 8th year. (Her
birth date would be before the marriage of John and Fannie, but
must be their daughter). On June 30, 1848 John Shirley was
granted a patent on 800 acres south east of Medoc. In the 1850
census of Jasper Co. MO we find John and Eliza with Charlotte
A. 12 years (born 1838 Indiana), John A.M. 8 years (born 1842
Missouri), Myra 2 years (born 1848 Missouri), Benton 9 months
(born 1849 Missouri) living in the household. In the 1850
census slave schedule, John Shirley is shown as the owner of
8 slaves. On Mar 16, 1850 he sold 160 acres to David Martin for
$700. In June 1851 John Shirley bought two quarter-acre lots
from John and Matilda Richardson located in the town of Carthage.
In 1856 John Shirley sold this farm to George W. Broome. On Mar
29, 1861 George W. Broome advertised this same farm in the Carthage
Southwest News..."600 acres of spring River bottom land
situated in Jasper Co. about three miles northwest of Sherwood,
and on one of the most beautiful streams in the west. There is
100 acres in cultivation, has on it a small apple orchard, dwelling
house, kitchen, stable and c., has a good well. The larger portion
of it is heavily timbered; stone coal is abundant in the vicinity,
and a more desirable stock farm could not be found in the Southwest."
John Shirley's real estate holdings increased from $600 in 1850
to $4000 real estate and $6000 personal property in 1860. John
Shirley kept a hotel and tavern in Carthage which included a
livery stable and blacksmith shop. In the 1860 census John is
recorded as a hotel keeper in Jasper Co. MO with property worth
$10,000. In the settlement of his father Christian Shirley's
estate in 1865 John received 6 20/100 acres. In 1873 the court
recorded that John Shirley of Jasper Co. MO did not pay taxes
on the land for a number of years, and the land and debt was
assumed by Denton Shirley, brother of John. The Floyd Co. IN
records further show that John Shirley died by 1877 and that
on April 17, 1877, a quit-claim was signed by Eliza Shirley,
John Shirley and Myra Walker, all of Jasper Co. MO. (John's widow,
his son and daughter).
married 1st Nancy Fowler April 6, 1818 in Clark Co. IN. They divorced
in 1829.
married 2nd Fannie Minnich May 15, 1829 Knobs, Floyd IN.
He divorced his second wife in 1836
On the fourth Monday of April
in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty
seven and whereas the said cause being called for trial at the
said town of the said court and the said Frances Shirley, by
Henry P. Thorton, her counsel and the said John Shirley, by Hugh
L. Livingston his counsel appeared. And the issue of the fact
being joined a jury was empowered and sworn to try one of said
issues of fact incharged in said bill to wit: that of adultry
do say and fine other mature deliberation that the said John
Shirley is guilty of adultry in manner and form as charged in
said complaintants bill and other allegations in said bill being
sufficiently by proof the said court did on this 27th day of
April at the terms aforsaid of said court in the year aforsaid
amongst other things order and judge and decree that the bands
of matrimony therefore existing between John Shirley and Frances
Shirley be dissolved
married 3rd Eliza Pennington May 11, 1837 in Green Co. IN. She died
Jan 6, 1894 near Dallas Texas. In her death notice in the local
newspaper it mentions Eliza for several years lived upon the
charity of the Methodist Church of which she was a member. She
was regarded as a pattern of piety.
children by the first wife
Nancy Fowler:
3(i). Mary Shirley Jan.
19, 1819 in Indiana; She married Richard Hunter Dec 1, 1836 in
Greene County Indiana. She died 1878
3(ii). Finley Shirley - oddly a Feb 1837 land record
between Williamson Alexander and John Shirley seems to indicate
that Finley was known as John Finley Shirley, yet another son
named John.
3(iii). Elizabeth
Shirley She did not live
with her father during her childhood, and remained with her mother
Nancy after her parent's divorce; She married Williamson D. Alexander
April 22, 1836 in Greene Co Indiana and lived in that county (click
on link "Misc Info" at top of this page to read an
email about this family)
3(iv). Preston Shirley born about 1826 Floyd Co. IN, Preston
came to Jasper Co. in 1839 and lived Georgia City. Living
in Lexington PO, Burleson Co Texas in 1860 census. They appear
to have moved back to Carthage, Jasper Co in 1870; Living back
in Texas in Cooke Co Texas in 1880; Living in Cleveland Co OK
in the 1890 territorial census;
married Mary Arbella Chelson May 26, 1847 in Jasper Co. MO.
children:
4(i). Christian T. Shirley
born about 1848 MO; age
12 in the family's 1860 household, Burleson Co TX; not found
after that date.
4(ii). John F. Shirley born about 1849 MO; not listed with family
in 1860 census
4(iii). Oliver D. Shirley
born about 1856 MO; unmarried
age 24 in 1880 census household living with parents; Lived in
Case Twp in Cleveland Co OK in 1900; Living Oklahoma Co OK by
1910; died 1922 and buried Clearsprings Mashak Cemetery, Midwest
City, Oklahoma Co OK
married Mary J_____ born 1869; died 1959; buried Clearsprings
Mashak Cemetery, Midwest City, Oklahoma Co OK
children:
5(i). Thomas C. Shirley born Jan 1887 in Indian Territory; lived
in Oklahoma Co OK in 1920
married Eulalie _______ she born about 1889
children:
6(i). Lois Shirley born about 1909
6(ii). Jack R. Shirley born Mar. 30, 1910; Served in the US
Navy; died Apr. 20, 1989; buried at Memorial Park Cem, Oklahoma
City OK
married Dorothy E. _____ born Nov. 6, 1909; died Apr. 17, 1992;
buried at Memorial Park Cem, Oklahoma City OK
6(iii). Avery J. Shirley born about 1919
5(ii). George H Shirley born Jan 1888 in Indian Territory
5(iii). Ethel G. Shirley born Aug 1889 in Indian Territory
"My grandfather was Bobby
Brown, b 1930). His mother was Ethel Shirley, (b 1889 b. 1889
or 1890 in Indian Territory, maybe Payne county OK). Ethel was
the daughter of Oliver Shirley, (b. 1856 in Missouri) Oliver
was the son of Preston Raymond Shirley (b. 1826 in Floyd County
Indiana) Preston was the son of John Shirley, (b. 1794, Virginia)
And here is where it get a lil complicated. Preston Shirley was
the son of John Shirley and Nancy Fowler, (b. 1800). Nancy Fowler
Shirley died and John remarried a much younger woman, Eliza,
and one of their children was Myra Belle Shirley, a/k/a Belle
Starr. So with that info Belle star was related to my great grandmother
and a half aunt. Another interesting thing my friend found was
that Preston Shirley was a Confederate soldier from the "Texas
Conscripts" - source: posting at history.net
5(iv). Walter C. Shirley born Apr 1891 in Oklahoma
5(v). Elsie Shirley born November 8, 1894 and died July
21, 1952 in Oklahoma City; she married John Arthur Ruggaber
5(vi). Erman Ressa Shirley born Dec 1897 in Oklahoma
5(vii). Pearl E. Shirley born Apr 1899 in Oklahoma; died 1900;
buried Clearsprings Mashak Cemetery, Midwest City, Oklahoma Co
OK
5(viii). Lessa Shirley born about 1901
4(iii). George Shirley born about 1859 MO
3(v). Charlotte Amanda Shirley
born abt 1828 IN, married
Jesse B. Thompson Jan 13, 1847 in Jasper Co. MO
"According to the family's
ex-slave, Aunt annie, the Shirley's oldest daughter [Sic], Charlotte
A. married a man named Thompson and moved to Matamoros, Mexico.
She was still living at the time of Eliza Shirley's death in
1894." - Starr tracks: Belle and Pearl Starr, By Phillip
W. Steele. p23.
children by the third wife
Eliza Pennington:
3(vi). John Allison M. "Bud"
Shirley born abt 1842
MO; age 18 in family's 1860 census as "Allison Shirley".
Some claim he was one of the first to join the Quantrell Raiders
- a Captain in that group of "Missouri Irregulars";
He was killed in a guerrilla skirmish in southeastern Missouri
during the Civil War, age 21; (another source says d. 1864).
Jasper Co MO probate index includes an estate listing for A.
M. Shirley (needs research)
Aug 2011 update: Email from
Teresa - "RE: John A.M. "bud" Shirley of the Peter
Shirley Branch. He is not listed on any register of Quantrells
raiders. There were many partisan ranger groups in Missouri during
the Civil War. He most definitely fought and died at Sarcoxie
Missouri . He was killed by Union soldiers when escaping a farmhouse
where he had been eating. His sisters husband- to- be, James
C Reed was, however a member of Quantrells raiders."
3(v). Myra Belle Shirley born
Feb 5, 1848 Jasper Co. MO, attended Carthage Female Academy,
Carthage, MO; The "Bandit Queen"; An unknown assassin
shot her from ambush with a shotgun at the time she lived in
the Choctaw Nation, OK. No one was ever charged or convicted
for her murder. Died Feb 3, 1889 OK. Famous outlaw
Feb. 11, 1889
Philadelphia Inquirer (posted to Findagrave.com)
BELLE STARR'S RECORD. The Daughter of an Ohio Emigrant and the
Avenger of a Brother's Murder. FORT SMITH, Ark., Feb. 10 - According
to a lawyer of this city who knew Belle Starr from her infancy
and defended her in each of her trials here, her father, John
Shirley, removed to Carthage, Mo., from Ohio, twenty years before
the war and kept a hotel known as the Carthage House, where Myra
Shirley was born. Her early days were spent at home and nothing
occurred to break the family circle until her eldest brother,
Allison Shirley, was killed towards the end of the war by Kansas
Jayhawkers. The day after the murder Myra was in the saddle in
hot pursuit of her brother's murderers. The prevalence of border
warfare and the great number of struggling troops then in Southwestern
Missouri gave the young daredevil ample opportunity to show her
prowess, and the wayward girl never again went home to stay,
but linked her fortunes with the famous band of guerillas head
by Quantrell. After Quantrell's gang disbanded Myra fell in with
the James and Younger brothers, and married with Cole Younger.
Thereafter the daughter was the famous beauty and desperado Pearl
Younger. While on a visit to her aged father in Texas she met
and married a desperado named Reed. This son was one of the first
to reach her dead body last Monday. Reed was shot and killed
by United States officers at Paris, Texas, and in 1869, and it
was just before his death that the woman, then known as Belle
Reed, stole $32,000 from Walt Grayson, a Cherokee Indian, forcing
him to deliver the money at the muzzle of a six-shooter. She
claimed to be an Indian, and was tried in an Indian court. To
find her guilty would have been like assaulting the entire neighborhood,
and the court acquitted her. As soon as Reed was buried Belle
married a full-blooded Creek Indian, named Sam Star, and thenceforth
she was known as Belle Starr. Their honeymoon was spent in this
city, in the United States Court, where both were tried and found
guilty of horse stealing and sent to the Detroit jail. Upon her
return to the Indian country she was arrested for larceny and
acquitted. Sam Starr was killed in a brawl about four years ago,
and Belle then married Jim Starr, alias Bill July, her late husband's
brother.
February 7,
1889, Dallas Daily Times Herald,
GAINESVILLE, Tex., Feb. 5.--Capt. Bodine, from Eufaula, today,
gives the following particulars of the killing of Belle Starr:
On Monday, she had been in town during the day and had started
to her home, about six miles distant. When about half that distance
had been traveled on horseback, she was shot by some person unknown,
the ball entering her heart and presumably killing her instantly.
The riderless horse went home and Belle's daughter mounted him
and rode back in search of her mother, whom she found lying dead
in the middle of the road. A large number of persons visited
the premises to view the remains of the dead woman. Belle Star,
the desperado woman, was well known to every old citizen and
officer in Dallas county. They recall her as a handsome woman,
a graceful equestrian, and a crack marksman with a faultless
nerve. She possessed commendable courage and would face any danger
without flinching. Mira Reed, and was in the city about eight
weeks ago on a visit. While here, she sent for several of the
old time officers to call on her. Her daring and recklessness
found origin, perhaps, in the Indian blood which coursed her
veins.
John
C. Reed and wife Myra Belle Shirley
Belle
Starr and Her Times: The Literature, the Facts,
and the Legends By Glenn Shirley
married 1st John
C. Reed Nov 1, 1866 in
Collin Co. Texas.; slain by Deputy Sheriff John Morris 6 Aug
1874 northwest of Paris Texas
married 2nd Sam Starr June 5, 1880 near Youngers Bend, Eufaula,
Oklahoma. Killed by an Indian policeman on the reservation.
3(vi). Edwin Benton Shirley born about 1850 MO; killed 1866
TX; apparently buried in a now unmarked grave in old Scyene Cem.,
Scyene TX
"The Shirley's fourth
child, Edwin Benton, was somewhat of a problem child. John Shirley
required Ed to help out with his horse ranch and with his livery
stable in Carthage where he both sold horses nad rented hacks.
Ed, as did all of John's children, became an accomplished horseman
at an early age. Ed was constantly in trouble, and was arrested
and charged on many occasions for stealing horses. After moving
to Texas with the rest of the family in 1864, Ed continued to
be a horse thief. Texas records show that Ed was charged in horse
theift cases there on May 3 1866 and on Oct 24 1866. he was shot
and killed by a man named Palmer from Collin County in the Chamber
Creek Bottom later that year. He was only sixteen years old at
the time of his death." - Starr tracks: Belle and Pearl
Starr, By Phillip W. Steele. p25.
3(vii). Mansfield Shirley born abt 1852 MO d. 1867 Killed
in a fight with officiers in Indian Territory, age about 15.
3(viii). Cravens Shirley born abt 1858 MO; age 2 in family's
1860 census. Oddly later referred to as "John Alva"
by the family. Enumerated in the family's 1870 census household
as "John A. Shirley" age 12.
"Aunt Annie, the Shirley's
ex-slave, reported to the Dallas Times-Herald in her 1894 interview
that this boy had not been seen for years, and that Mrs Shirley
assumed he was dead." - Starr tracks: Belle and Pearl Starr,
By Phillip W. Steele. p25-26/
Letters now in the New Albany
library [Floyd Co IN] written by John Alva Shirley, Jr. (born
1881) says his father's name was John Alva Shirley, Sr., that
his grandfather was John Shirley and his great grandfather was
Christian Shirley of Floyd Co. (John A. M Shirley/Allison Shirley of
the 1850-60 census are different from Craven Shirley/John A/John
Alva Shirley).
2(ii). Henry Shirley born about 1810 died before 1850.
married Melinda Russell May 16, 1833 Floyd Co. IN
children:
3(i). Wilford Henry Shirley
Oct 1, 1832 d. 1921 buried
New Albany; Wilford served in the Civil War, was wounded and
taken prisoner at Stones River.. In 1900 he was living with his
son William in Georgetown. Twp. Floyd Co. IN; He died Feb
11, 1921 and buried at New Albany National Cem. Floyd Co IN
married 1st. Delilah Sillings Feb 22, 1851 born April 26, 1838,
married 2nd Annie Season May 28, 1910 Floyd Co. IN
children:
4(i). Henry D. Shirley born Mar 1852; farmer; He is living
in Georgetown, Floyd Co IN beginning in 1880 census through the
1930 census
married Eliza A. Cole 15 Aug 1878 in Floyd Co IN; she was born
Aug 1862; She died 1901
children:
5(i). Elizabeth Shirley born 1879 d. 1966 m. James A. Ford
5(ii). Edna M. Shirley born Aug 1881 m. __Hatcher
5(iii). Clarence Shirley born Nov 1893 d. 1928 m. Nettie Mayfield
5(iv). Viva Shirley
born Jan. 1888 d. 1964
m. Clarence Watkins
5(v). Lilly Shirley born Dec 1890 d. 1964 m. Alfred Wolf
5(vi). Nora Shirley born Sept 21, 1892 d. 1967 m. Charles
Searles
4(ii). Eliza Shirley born abt 1861 d. 1900 m. Ollie
Newkirk d. 1901; Their children were raised by their grandfather,
Wilford Shirley, and his 2nd wife, Annie
4(iii). Nora Shirley born abt 1868 d. 1918 m. Sam Yates
4(iv). Louis Bartley Shirley born Sept 1868 IN; He and his family
living with John Thomas, his father in law (1920 census) or uncle
(1900, 1910 census) in Lafayette Twp Floyd Co IN; He died Dec
27, 1920
married Margaret "Maggie"
Thomas on July 7, 1891
Floyd Co. IN
children:
5(i). Mary Delilah Shirley born Mar 20, 1892 d. 1972 m. Victor
Banet
5(ii). Edmond J. Shirley born Mar 3, 1894; He and his family
are living with his father in law in New Albany Floyd Co IN 1930
census; He died May 2, 1968 and buried in St Marys Catholic Cem.
at New Albany.
married Marie Agnes Ketchem
5(iii). Agnes Shirley born abt 1898 d. 1976 m. Victor Chapelier
5(iv). Selene Shirley born abt 1900 d. 1978 m. Curtis
Shirley (1903-1981)
5(v). Geraldine H. Shirley
born June 9, 1905
(former member of Shirley Association)
5(vi). Charles H. Shirley born abt 1907 m. Given Goss
5(vii). Regina F. Shirley
born Mar 17, 1909 m.
John Richards
4(v). William Shirley born April 1872; Living in Floyd Co
IN in 1900 census
married ________
children:
5(i) William Edmond Shirley b 7 Apr 1893 in Floyd Co IN; He lived
at Bedford, Lawrence Co IN; He was postmaster of Bedford IN.
married Josephine Elaine Glover 22 Jun 1923 (lic date) at Bedford IN;
She was born 9 Feb 1895 to William Dale Glover and Malinda Mitchell
Harrison
children:
6(i). William Shirley, owns the pharmacy in Bedford IN
4(vi). Hattie Shirley born Nov 1875 d. 1935 m. Robert Fisher
3(ii). Mary C. Shirley born about 1846
2(iii). Elizabeth Shirley born about 1805 KY m. Oliver Wendell
Holmes Dec 2, 1823, born 1798 New Hampshire. He was a steam boatman
according to the 1850 census of Floyd Co. IN.
2(iv). Denton Shirley born July 4, 1813 IN; farmer, living
in Georgetown Twp in Floyd Co IN in 1860, 1870 and 1880 census;
He died Apr 6, 1890 buried Shirley Cemetery Edwardsville, Floyd
Co IN.
married Rebecca Monohon Dec 29, 1845 in Floyd Co Indiana; she
was born Nov 8, 1819 d. Feb 8, 1900
children:
3(i). Julia Ann Shirley born abt 1847; living with parents in
1870 census, age 28, single
3(ii). Christian N. Shirley
born abt April 1854;
living with parents in 1870 census, age 15 and also again in
1880 census, age 26, widowed; He was living in Georgetown Twp
in Floyd Co IN in 1900 census, widowed.
married Maggie Mottweiler on 21 Dec 1876 in Floyd Co IN; She died
prior to 1880 census, possibly in childbirth.
children:
4(i). William B. Shirley born June 1878 in Indiana; living with
his father in 1900 census
2(v). Anderson
Shirley born April 1814
IN; In 1850 census he is listed as a farmer, 1860 a teamster,
and in the 1900 census he is an inmate in the county poor farm;
He died Feb 28, 1903.
married Nancy Coates Jan 6, 1839 or Nov 31, 1838 (two dates
given) in Floyd Co IN
children:
3(i). Elizabeth C. Shirley
3(ii). Parmelia Ann Shirley
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