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1(iii). James Shirley Sr.
was born about 1732, likely in Maryland. He died about 1785 in
Berkeley County, (West) Virginia. James Shirley, with his
brothers, lived on the parental plantation near Keyes Ferry,
later named Millville, (West) Virginia. On March 8, 1773,
James undertook to break the entail of his father's Will by conveying
his property to Thomas Rutherford. James's brothers united
with him in this effort, and clear title to James' land passed
to Thomas Rutherford on September 15, 1774. This Deed is
recorded in Deed Book 3, page 8, in Martinsburg, West Virginia.
James Shirley served in the French and Indian Wars under Captain
Robert Rutherford, as did his brothers Walter and Jarvis.
In 1780 James made application for a Bounty Land Warrant for
the services he rendered in 1758 and 1759 (see: French and Indian
Bounty Warrants, Vol. 2, p. 356, Virginia Land Office, Richmond,
Virginia), In Old Military and Importation Warrants, Vols, 1,
2 and 3, p. 862, Virginia Land Office, Richmond, Virginia, may
be found the following:
"Land Office Warrant, No. 1064 To the principle surveyor
of any county within the Commonwealth of Virginia: This shall
be your warrant to survey and lay off in one or more surveys,
for James Shirley his heirs and assigns, the quality of fifty
acres of land, due to said James, for military service performed
by him as a soldier in the late war between Great Britain and
France according to the terms of the King of Great Britian's
proclamation of 1763 a certificate of which Duly proven is received
into the land office on this 25th day of May in the year of one
thousand seven hundred and eighty."
The land James acquired was "in the County of Monongalia
on the West side of the Little Kenhawa." He later
signed over the land to Robert Rutherford. This assignment was
certified by Patrick Henry, Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia
on July 5, 1785, and is noted in a continuation of the record
cited above. It was apparently during this same year that
James Shirley died, since his name disappeared from the 1785
tax rolls of Berkeley County.
married Mary __________.
Children of James Shirley and Mary are:
2(i). John Shirley, born before 1775 according to the
1820 census of Bourbon Co KY. He appears in the 1820 Bourbon
Co KY census for the Millersburg Township. He and his wife has
5 sons and 2 daughters in his household. He also appears on the
1828, 1829 and 1830 Bourbon Co tax lists. He died about 1833
in Bourbon Co KY. His estate inventory was appraised by John
Shirley (Jr). A Lucy Shirley was named as the primary buyer of
his personal goods. Shirleys of Bourbon
Co Kentucky
married _________ [possibly Lucy _____. She was
the chief purchaser at the 1833 estate sale of John Shirley]
children unproven, but likely:
3(i). Robert Shirley enumerated as 1 male over 21 in
1831 Bourbon Co tax list
3(ii). George S. Shirley born 10 March 1805, enumerated
as 1 male over 21 2 horses in 1831 Bourbon Co tax list. Lived
in Bourbon Co KY in 1850 census. Moved to Clark Co KY by 1860
census; He died Aug. 23, 1860 after enumeration in Clark Co KY.
Buried at Lower Bethel Graveyard in Bourbon Co KY
married Sarah Jane (Mary) Allen on 29 September 1830
in Bourbon Co KY. She was born Nov 7, 1811, died Oct. 6, 1854
children:
4(i). Mary E Shirley born about 1831, age 19 in 1850
census; She married Ennis B Lawrence on 8 May 1859 in Clark Co
KY
4(ii). Newton Shirley born about 1838, age 11 in 1850
census, not living with father in 1860
4(iii). Martha E Shirley born about 1840, age 10 in
1850 census, not living with father in 1860
4(iv). George W Shirley born about 1843, age 7 in 1850
census, not living with father in 1860
4(v). Dr. James A Shirley born about 1846, age 4 in
1850 census, age 13 in widowed father's 1860 census household;
He married and moved to Montgomery Co KY by the time of the 1880
census;
married Laura Wilkerson on 25 September 1872 in Clark
Co KY; She died in 1909, age 59
Winchester News (Winchester KY) Monday Feb 15, 1909 - MUCH
LOVED WOMAN DEAD IN MT. STERLING - Mrs Laura Wilkerson Shirley
Passes Away After Protracted Illness - MT STERLING Ky Feb 15
- Mrs Laura Wilkerson Shirley wife of Dr James A Shirley died
Sunday morning at her home on Maysville Street Mrs Shirley had
been ill for several weeks but her condition did not become alarming
until Thursday evening at which time she became unconscious and
never rallied, passing away without a struggle, acute kidney
trouble being given as the cause. Mrs Shirley was 59 years old
and was born and reared in this county. She was a lovely and
attractive woman and was deeply attached to her home life but
always found tim to help those in trouble and distress. Besides
her husband Mrs Shirley is survived by two children Mrs James
K Shropshire and Miss Flo Shirley and two sisters Mrs W.B. Greene
and Mrs Richard J Hunt all of this city. The funeral of Mrs Shirley
will be the Christian church of which she was a devoted member
Monday afternoon at 1 oclock and the burial will occur in Machpeloh
cemetery. Rev H D Clark pastor of the church will preach thee
funeral discourse
children:
5(i). Nellie Fay Shirley born about 1863 KY, age 17
in 1880 census
5(ii). Florence Lee Shirley born about 1869 KY, age
11 in 1880 census
4(vi). Dr Isaac A Shirley born about 1848, age 2 in
1850 census, age 11 in widowed father's 1860 census household;
He was single and living in Clark Co KY in 1880 census, age 31;
He died in 1920.
Lexington Herald - June 6, 1920 - Winchester, Ky. June
8 - Dr. I.A. Shirley, 71 years old, one of the most prominent
physicians of the state, died this morning at his home in South
Highland street of heart disease. Dr. Shirley was a native of
Bourbon county. Dr. Shirley was Clark county health officer and
a member of the State Board of Health and Rockefeller Health
Commission. He has worked to eradicate hookwork and trachoma
in the mountains of Kentucky. He was succeddful in general practice
here. Dr. Shirley was counciler for this district and district
sanitary inspector. He was formerly president of the Kentucky
Medical Association, having held every office in the gift of
the organization. He has missed attendence at only two state
meetings in the last thirty-five years. He was president of the
Clark County Medical Association several times. Dr. Shirley was
a graduate of the University of Louisville and eastern medical
colleges. Dr. Shirley was a deacon of the First Chirstian Church.
He is survived by his widow, who was Miss Clay Bradley, of this
county; one daughter, Mrs. Mae Shirley Johnson, and a grandson,
William Shirley Johnson; a brother, Dr. J.A. Shirley, 73 years
old, physician of Mt. Sterling. Funeral services will be held
Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock at the residence conducted by the
Rev. J.H. MacNeil and Dr. G.W. Banks, with burial in the Winchester
Cemetery.
married Annie Clay Bradley
children:
5(i). Mae Shirley; She married Johnson
4(vii). Lewis P Shirley born about 1854, age 6 in widowed
father's 1860 census household
3(iii). James Shirley enumerated as 1 male over 21
1 horse 1 black in 1831 Bourbon Co tax list
married Elizabeth Hall on 19 November 1830 in Bourbon
Co KY
3(iv). John Shirley, Jr. enumerated as 1 male over
21 1 horse in 1831 Bourbon Co tax list. He was the administrator
of his father's estate in 1833. (What
is the source for this John Shirley marrying Martha Elliot? We
have created a separate branch for this family, #73)
"John Shirley born 1802 "native
of Lynchburg, VA", died 1853 Lafayette Co. MO. He married
Martha Canada Elliott ca. 1840 in KY. She was born Jan 18, 1819
KY and died Aug 18, 1885, Kelseyville, Lake Co. CA. son: John
Elliott Shirley"
married Martha Elliott on 10 May 1840 in Bourbon Co
KY
3(v). Sally Shirley born about 1805 VA. She is living
alone in 1850 Bourbon Co KY census, possibly a spinster daughter?
2(ii). Mary Shirley. She married Thomas J. Howard.
2(iii). James
Shirley born 24 February 1768, Frederick County, Virginia;
He died 16 January 1840, Charles Town, Jefferson County, West
Virginia. When a young man, and about the time of his father's
death, James Shirley moved to the vicinity of Smithfield, Virginia
(now Middleway, West Virginia). He owned large properties,
and continued to add to his possessions during his life, and
died owning a large estate. James Shirley's Will is recorded
in Jefferson County, West Virginia, Will Book 9, Page 409.
In it he gives his wife Matilda one third of his estate "both
real and personal," stipulating that after her death
her Dower was then to be equally divided between his sons Robert,
George William, and Thomas Lee. The remaining two thirds
of his holdings were distributed to sons Robert, George and Thomas.
At his death James Shirley owned numerous tracts of land amounting
to considerable acreage. A Plat of some of James' extensive holdings
may be found in Will Book Book 24, Page 309, of Jefferson
County. James gave his sons several slaves by name. All
other slaves not named in the Will were to be equally divided
among them (in an estate accounting all are named). James
did will that "my yellow boy named James Rust shall be free
at the age of twenty one years at which time my executor hereafter
named shall out of my estate furnish him with two good suits
of clothes of good quality, and twenty five dollars in cash."
In the accounting of the estate the cost of Mr. Rust's two suits
of clothing came to $57.54 (W.B. 10, p. 11). To his daughter
Mary Hurst he gave "two Negroes by name Jerry and Lucy,"
and $1,000.00 cash. Burial: Episcopal & Masonic Cemetery,
Middleway, West Virginia. Shirleys
of Middleway Jefferson Co WV
married 1) Ruth Hiatt on March 05, 1793 in Berkeley
County, (West) Virginia, daughter of John Hiatt. She was
born April 30, 1756, and died April 1817 in Charles Town, (West)
Virginia. Ruth (Hiatt) Frier was the widow of Alexander Frier,
Jr. at her marriage to James Shirley. Ruth's Father John Hiatt
was an early settler in the region. Burial: Episcopal & Masonic
Cemetery, Middleway, West Virginia
married 2) Matilda Vinson on December 26, 1821 in Frederick
County, Virginia. She was born 1795 in Montgomery County,
Maryland, and died September 17, 1855 in Jefferson County (West)
Virginia . According to Carmen W. Creamer of Locust Grove in
Jefferson County, West Virginia, Matilda Vinson was a friend
made at school by Mary Shirley, daughter of James Shirley and
his first wife Ruth Hiatt. Mary invited Matilda to her
home in Jefferson County where she met and later married Mary's
father James. It is said Mary and her brother James disapproved
to their father's marriage because of Matilda's age (they were
about the same age as their new step-mother). Burial: Masonic
Cemetery, Middleway, West Virginia
2(iv). Robert
Shirley, born about. 1770, Frederick County, Virginia; He
died 1836, Williams County, Ohio. Robert Shirley sold the Jefferson
County land inherited from his father on April 1, 1808 to John
Zuber for $1,248.75 (Jefferson Co. Will Book 4, Page 528). A
short biography of Robert appears at page 389 in Vol. I of "Valley
of the Upper Maumee River," (1889): Shirleys
of Defiance and Williams Co Ohio
married Rachel Gilbert on January 28, 1791 in Frederick
County, Virginia, daughter of Nathan Gilbert and Elizabeth Scout.
2(v). Elizabeth Shirley born about 1777; She married
William Johnson on May 02, 1792, Berkeley County, (West) Virginia5.
2(vi). Timothy Shirley, born February 22, 1777, Virginia;
He died 7 July 1861 at Decator, Brown County, Ohio. In Robert
L, Bates "The Story of Smithfield (Middleway), Jefferson
County, West Virginia," it is said that "Timothy Shirley,
at the time of the War of 1812 was a militiaman in Captain Joseph
Grantham's Company, 2nd Battalion, 55th Regiment of Virginia
Militia. In his early days, Timothy Shirley was reputed
to be an athlete, taking pride in his wrestling prowess."
Timothy Shirley's Will was presented in Probate Count of Brown
County, Ohio, on September 4, 1861, designated as Will No. 221.
In it he names his grand children Justinian Garland Shirley,
Mariah Winter Shirley, and Wilshire Shirley. Named as living
with him was Sarah Burbage. Timothy also names his son William
Shirley, and daughters Isabella and Sarah Shirley. Witnesses
to Timothy's will were James Wright and William McColgin, with
James Wright named as Executor. Shirleys
of Brown Co Ohio
married Ann Burbage on May 03, 1818 in Brown County,
Ohio. She was born July 20, 1796 in Maryland, and died
October 27, 1842 in Decator, Brown County, Ohio.
Children of Timothy Shirley and Ann Burbage are:
3(i). James Shirley, born. July 13, 1819, Brown County,
Ohio; He died July 14, 1849.
married Frances May Anderson. She was born 1821.
Child of James Shriley and Frances Anderson is:
4(i). William Wilshire Shirley, born about 1848, age
12 in 1860 census.
married Sarah Ellen Cheeseman on 25 July 1861 at Brown
Co OH. She was born 1860.
Child of William Shirley and Sarah Cheesemaan is:
5(i). Frank G Shirley born about 1871 OH, age 9 in
grandparent's James and Delila Cheeseman's 1880 census household
5(ii). Laura Shirley born about 1874 OH, age 6 in
grandparent's James and Delila Cheeseman's 1880 census household
James E Shirley born 27 September 1875 in Brown OH,
son of William W Shirley and Sarah E Cheeseman (birth record)
5(ii). William Elsworth Shirley, born 22 November 1876,
New Hope, Ohio; age 4 living in grandparent's James and Delila
Cheeseman's 1880 census household; He died 13 September 1946,
Placerville, CA.
3(ii). Isabela Shirley, born September 07, 1821; She
died October 02, 1881; She married Harris Sidwell on December
24, 1856.
3(iii). William G. Shirley, born about 1826, Brown
County, Ohio; Single and living with widowed elderly father in
1860 census, age 31, Still single, age 45 and living with spinster
sister Sally in Brown Co Ohio in 1870; He died July 17, 1877,
Brown County, Ohio.
3(iv). Sarah Shirley, born October 27, 1830; Single
and living with widowed elderly father in 1860 census, age 29,
age 35 living with bachelor brother William Shirley in 1870 census;
She died 1910; She married _____McManus.
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Walter Shirley (cont.)