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2(vi). Samuel Shirley, born
about 1775, Berkeley County, Virginia; He died about 1842, Caldwell
County, Kentucky. It has been said of a descendant of Samuel
Shirley and Phoebe Cook that Samuel was a tryer and tester of
arms for the Army at Harper's Ferry, Virginia. At a fairly
early age he departed for Blountville in Sullivan County, Tennessee,
with his brother in law Dr. Hugh Taylor. From there he
ended up in Caldwell County, Kentucky. Shirleys
of Caldwell Co Kentucky
married 1) Mary Ellen Riley, daughter of Richard Riley
and Margaret _______. She was born March 01, 1777 in Charles
Town, (West) Virginia, and died Abt. 1797 in Berkeley County,
Virginia. In Unrecorded Deeds No. 1, Page 450, Berkeley
County, West Virginia, there is a deed dated August 13, 1791,
between Charles Washington (brother of George) and Mary Riley.
Mary is identified in the deed as "daughter of Margaret,
and Rich'd Riely deceased." For the sum of fifteen
pounds Charles Washington and his wife Mildred sold a town lot
number 51 in Charles Town to Mary. It is interesting to note
that at the time of the sale Mary Riley was a girl of 14. Mary
Riley died at age 20, unmarried giving birth to Ephriam Benson
Riley. The fact that Mary was unmarried and the father
of Ephriam Benson Riley is clearly established in a Deed found
in Deed Book 21, Page 260, of Jefferson County, West Virginia,
dated September 10, 1836. This Deed is between "Ephriam
Shirley, alias Riley, and Leodocea his wife of Ohio," and
Andrew Hunter of Jefferson County. The land they were selling
was town "lot No. 51, being the same lot which was sold
and conveyed by deed
bearing date on the 13th day of August 1791 and duly recorded
in the Clerk's Office in the County of Berkeley, from Charles
Washington, and Mildred his wife, to Mary Riley, daughter of
Margaret and Richard Riley, the above named Ephriam being the
only child and heir of said Mary Riley, who died intestate, and
the said Ephriam having assumed the name of his reputed father
(Shirley)". Ephriam is named "Ephriam Shirley
alias Riley" some nine times in this deed and its
associated certifications. It has been speculated by numerous
Shirley researchers who may have been the father of Mary's child
Ephriam Benson Shirley, alias Riley. It seems certain that
Samuel Shirley fathered Mary's son Ephriam in view of a letter
written September 9, 1912, by Ephriam's son Benjamin F. Shirley
to Richard Riley. In this letter Benjamin writes "Ephriam
Shirley, my father, told me his father and my grandfather was
Samuel Shirley, and that his grandfather [was] Walter Shirley."
He further writes that "Samuel, Ephraim's father, moved
to a place called French, Broad County, Tennessee."
Samuel Shirley departed for Tennessee with his brother-in-law
Dr. Hugh Barton about the time of Ephriam's birth and Mary's
death. Samuel Shirley was the son of Walter Shirley, Jr. (as
indicated in his notes, Walter married second to Mary's mother,
widow Margaret Riley).
married 2) Phoebe Cook about 1808 in Blountville, Sullivan
County, Tennessee. She was born Abt. 1784 in New York,
and died Abt. 1842 in Caldwell County, Kentucky.
Child of Samuel Shirley and Mary Riley is:
3(i). Ephraim Benson Riley, aka Shirley born about
1797, Jefferson County, West Virginia; d. March 18, 1883, Ball
Cemetery, Mason County, West Virginia. That this Ephriam Shirley
was the child of his unwed mother Mary Ellen Riley is established
by a land deed dated September 10, 1836, found in Deed Book 21,
Page 260, at Charlestown, Jefferson County, West Virginia. This
indenture is "between Ephriam Shirley, alias Riley, and
Leodocea his wife of Ohio" and Andrew Hunter of Jefferson
County. The land being sold is a lot in Charlestown "...which
was sold and conveyed by deed bearing date on the 13th day of
August 1791 and duly recorded in the Clerk's office of the County
of Berkeley [Unrecorded Deeds No. 1, page 450], from Charles
Washington [brother of George Washington], and Mildred his wife,
to Mary Riley, daughter of Margaret and Richard Riley, the above
named Ephriam being the only child and heir of said Mary Riley,
who died intestate, and the said Ephriam having assumed the name
of his reputed father (Shirley)." His father was Samuel
Shirley (see Mary Ellen Riley notes). Mary Riley died in childbirth.
Ephriam was born in his mother's small stone house then located
one half mile out of Charlestown on the Martinsburg road.
The newborn Ephriam was raised to manhood by his grandmother,
the widowed Margaret Riley, who later married 2nd to Walter Shirley,
father of Samuel Shirley. There is some concern that Ephriam's
middle name may have been Benjamin, instead of Benson as believed
by some researchers. Shirleys of
Belmont Co Ohio and Mason Co West Virginia
married Leodocia Steenrod about. 1825 in Leavenworth,
Harrison County, Indiana, daughter of Briggs Steenrod and Rachel
______. She was born September 15, 1808, and died March
18, 1866 in Evergreen Cemetery, Letart, West Virginia.
Children of Ephraim Riley and Leodocia Steenrod are:
4(i). Joseph Lockwood Shirley, born September 27, 1827,
Wegee, Belmont County, Ohio; d. January 15, 1908, Letart, Mason
County, West Virginia.
married Orilla Rebecca Sayre on December 23, 1858,
daughter of William Sayre and Grace Ingels. She was born
March 24, 1837 in Virginia, and died October 08, 1884 in Letart,
Mason County, West Virginia.
Children of Joseph Shirley and Orilla Sayre are:
5(i). Oscar R. Shirley, born October 26, 1859; d. October
13, 1892, Letart, Mason County, West Virginia.
5(ii). Jesse Shirley, born October 03, 1861, Mason
County, West Virginia.
5(iii). A. Jackson Shirley, born November 11, 1864,
Mason County, West Virginia.
5(iv). Walter W. Shirley, born July 30, 1866, Mason
County, West Virginia.
5(v). Mary Shirley, born May 16, 1868, Mason County,
West Virginia; m. TOM DURST.
5(vi). Clayton Shirley, born 1871.
5(vii). Blanche Emaline Shirley, born October 05, 1873,
Mason County, West Virginia; d. 1959, Grove City, Ohio.
5(viii). Grace Shirley, born 1876, Mason County, West
Virginia.
4(ii). Richard Riley Shirley, born November 11, 1829,
Wegee, Belmont County, Ohio; d. March 17, 1855.
4(iii). Andrew Jackson Shirley, born August 10, 1832,
Wegee, Belmont County Ohio; d. 1886, Mason County, West Virginia;
married Arabelle Ball on December 21, 1874.
4(iv). Caroline Elizabeth Shirley, born September 28,
1834, Wegee, Belmont County, Ohio; She married ____ Snyder.
4(v). Margaret Leodocia Shirley, born 1836.
4(vi). Mary Rebecca Shirley, born November 10, 1836,
Wegee, Belmont County, Ohio; d. January 01, 1912, Letart, West
Virginia; She married Andrew Fleming McDermott in 1851.
4(vii). Bejamin Franklin Shirley, born March 02, 1839,
Wegee, Belmont County, Ohio; d. 1917; Benjamin Franklin Shirley
was a member of the 4th West Virginia Volunteer Infantry, organized
at Point Pleasants, West Virginia.
married Perlina ______.
4(viii). Rachel Ann Shirley, born May 16, 1842, Letart,
Mason County, Virginia; d. October 12, 1843.
4(ix). Frances Jane Shirley, born October 17, 1844,
Letart, Mason County, Virginia; d. November 20, 1884.
4(x). Emily Jane Shirley, born July 24, 1846, Letart,
Mason County, Virginia; d. 1876; m. J. L. RYAN.
4(xi). Briggs Hamilton Shirley, born December 27, 1848,
Letart, Mason County, Virginia; d. June 08, 1900;
married Caroline Smith on August 05, 1877.
4(xii). Ephraim Benson Shirley Jr., born October 05,
1852, Letart, Mason County, Virginia.
married Hannah Elizabeth Jane Sayre on July 04, 1886.
She was born July 09, 1860.
Children of Ephraim Shirley and Hannah Sayre are:
5(i). Earl Osmond Shirley, born March 23, 1887; d.
1915.
5(ii). Georgia Mabel Shirley, born March 18, 1888;
d. March 21, 1888.
5(iii). Wilme Eugene Shirley, born April 26, 1889;
d. June 12, 1890.
5(iv). Robert Rush Shirley, born November 18, 1890.
5(v). Bertie Mae Shirley, born February 01, 1893.
5(vi). Forida Frances Shirley, born March 02, 1895.
5(vii). Ralph Robert Shirley, born April 03, 1897.
5(viii). Otto Edward Shirley, born October 03, 1899.
Children of Samuel Shirley and Phoebe Cook are:
3(ii). Hester Ann Vance Shirley, born about. 1807.
She married Harrison Blackburn on March 05, 1845 in Caldwell
County, Kentucky.
3(iii). Margaret "Peggy" N. Shirley, born
about. 1810; She married James Cook on October 11, 1830, Caldwell
County, Kentucky.
3(iv). Mary "Polly" Shirley, born about.
1812; She married 1) Samuel McKenney. Married 2) John Naasbit
on October 25, 1832, Caldwell County, Kentucky; Married 3) William
Ramsey, October 01, 1837, Union County, Kentucky.
3(v). John Allison Shirley, born about. 1818.
3(vi). Eleanor F. Shirley, born about 1820, Caldwell
County, Kentucky. She married Presley Jenkins on October 19,
1837 in Caldwell County, Kentucky.
3(vii). Daniel Shirley born about 1824.
3(viii). Samuel Perry Shirley, born June 20, 1824,
Caldwell County, Kentucky; d. August 07, 1901, Duncan, Stevens
County, Oklahoma. Because of her young age, and the decease of
both of her parents, Samuel Perry Shirley made his 2nd wife Martha
A. Stevens his ward so he could give her permission to marry
him. The guardianship appointment is found in Caldwell
County, Kentucky Order Book J, page 439 (May 2, 1864).
They married that same day (Marriage Book 2).
Samuel Perry Shirley and 2nd wife Martha Stevens
married 1) Clarissa Sigler on December 04, 1844 in
Caldwell County, Kentucky, daughter of Amos Sigler and Elizabeth
Holdman. She was born 1824 in Caldwell County, Kentucky,
and died Abt. 1862.
married 2) Martha Ann Stevens on May 02, 1864 in Caldwell
County, Kentucky, daughter of Jesse Stevens and Jane Leech. She
was born May 1843 in Caldwell County, Kentucky, and died June
18, 1913 in Collingsworth County, Texas.
Children of Samuel Shirley and Clarissa Sigler are:
4(i). Joseph Vance Shirley, born 1848, Critterden County,
Kentucky;
married 1) Cecelia Ann Fuller born October 31, 1872, Critterden
County, Kentucky;
married 2) Saluda Jane Allen on January 09, 1881.
4(ii). Minerva Shirley, born March 12, 1851, Clayville,
Kentucky; d. September 23, 1936, Wellington, Collingsworth County,
Texas; She married John R Bell on 1882, Mineral Wells, Palo Pinto,
Texas.
4(iii). Dr. William Hardy Shirley, born April 07, 1855,
Union County, Kentucky; d. November 21, 1885, Xenia, Clay County,
IL
Dr. W. H. Shirley, physician, Xenia, was born in Union
County. Ky., to S.P. and Clarissa (Sigler) Shirley. The father
was a native of Caldwell County. Ky., born about 1826. For years
he was a member of the firm of Blackwell & Shirley, who carried
on a large tobacco house in Louisville. Kentucky. During the
civil war. it was all destroyed by fire. In 1875, Mr. Shirley
went to Texas, where he is now engaged in farming and stock-raising.
The mother died in Webster County, Ky.in 1864, and soon after
her death our subject came to Xenia, and was reared by his uncle,
Dr. E. S. Shirley, whose sketch appears. His early life was spent
in attending school and assisting in his uncle's drug store.
He continued in the store, and in the study of medicine under
the instruction of his uncle till 1877 when he went to the St.
Louis Medical College, and for two years attended lectures, graduating
in March, 1879, when he went into partnership with his uncle
in the practice of medicine, this partnership lasting for three
years, when, in September, 1882, he went to Texas, where he practiced
his profession for eight months at Mineral Springs, Palo Pinto
County, and Henrietta, Texas. On the last day of March, 1883.
he returned to Xenia,Ill.,and has had a successful practice since.
May 14. 1883, he was married in this county to Miss Honora Finty.
She was born in Ireland, but came with her parents to America
in 1868. She is the daughter of John Finty, a merchant of Xenia.
In politics, Dr. Shirley is an active working Democrat. Excerpted
from "History of Wayne and Clay Counties, Illinois 1884"
married Honora Jane Finty on May 14, 1883. Daughter
of John Finty, a merchant of Xenia IL
Child of William Shirley and Honora Finty is:
5(i). Margaret Clarissa Shirley. She married _______Smith.
4(iv). Margaret E. Shirley, born October 02, 1858,
Union County, Kentucky.
4(v). Sarah Henry Shirley, born September 23, 1860,
Dixon, Webster County, Kentucky; d. January 25, 1949, Wellington,
Collingsworth County, Texas. She married Sewel Wesley Gregg on
September 23, 1877 in Weatherford, Parker County, Texas.
Children of Samuel Shirley and Martha Stevens are:
4(vi). John Lawrence Shirley, born February 11, 1865,
Louisville, Kentucky; d. November 11, 1936, Delhart, Texas.
married Elizabeth Ann Gray on 1936 in Texas. She was
born August 1877 in Oklahoma.
Children of John Shirley and Elizabeth Gray are:
5(i). James William Shirley, born May 15, 1895.
5(ii). Samuel Nicholas Shirley, born August 27, 1896.
5(iii). Lee Arvil Shirley, born November 04, 1897.
5(iv). Jesse Lawrence Shirley, born November 16, 1898;
He married Ozzie Jackson.
5(v). Roy Sanford Shirley, born January 21, 1900; He
married May Ming
5(vi). Hubert Shirley, born November 10, 1901; He married
Alma Rhea.
5(vii). Clara Shirley, born June 18, 1903.
5(viii). Ruth Daphene Shirley, born October 12, 1905;
She married Mac Blizzard
5(ix). John Henry Shirley born April 05, 1907, Lindsy,
Oklahoma; d. January 12, 1957.
Ancestor of DNA Kit #15834
5(x). Laura Mae Shirley, born September 19, 1908; d.
1945.
4(vii). Lanora Sanford Shirley, born May 16, 1867,
Kentucky. She married ______ Bumgarner in Duncan, Stephens County,
Oklahoma.
4(viii). Susan Dennie Shirley, born February 22, 1869;
d. March 04, 1953, Abernathy, Hale County, Texas; She married
John Hugh Brown.
4(ix). Forest Rose Shirley, born May 02, 1871, Marion,
Critterden County, Kentucky. She married George Robinson
4(x). Mary Isabelle Shirley, born. April 27, 1873,
Kentucky. She married 1) William McAlister Brown. She married
2) Robert Ratliff in Duncan, Stephens County,
Oklahoma.
4(xi). Benjamin Cecil Shirley, born. December 07, 1875,
Kentucky.
married Ellen Josephine Martin on May 09, 1897 in Hearldton,
Carter County, Oklahoma. She was born 1881 in Montague,
Texas, and died December 19, 1950 in Pampa, Texas.
Children of Benjamin Shirley and Ellen Martin are:
5(i). Turner Robert Shirley, born April 10, 1902; d.
April 28, 1995.
5(ii). Ruby Jo Shirley, born April 21, 1905; d. May
30, 1992, Pampa, Texas; She married _____ McWhorter.
5(iii). Cecil Shirley, born January 15, 1912; d. December
06, 1973, Pampa, Texas.
5(iv). Harold Lewis Shirley, born 1921.
4(xii). Samuel Mack Shirley, born October 02, 1877,
Jacksborro, Jack County, Texas; d. June 17, 1948, Mayfield, Beckham
County, Oklahoma.
married Mattie Mabel Hunt on March 06, 1901 in Mangum,
Greer County, Oklahoma.
Children of Samuel Shirley and Mattie Hunt are:
5(i). Ewell Young Shirley
5(ii). Carl Chester Shirley
5(iii). Ellis Roan Shirley.
5(iv). Dain Varnic Shirley.
5(v). Kenneth Raymond Shirley.
5(vi). Murl Wilson Shirley.
5(vii). Vera Vechel Shirley.
4(xiii). Hester Shirley, born May 07, 1880; She married
Robert Brown.
4(xiv). Jesse Boone Shirley, born December 18, 1883,
Weatherford, Parker County, Texas; d. May 17, 1947
married Merler Sewel. She was born June 19, 1888
in Melina, Gibson County, Tennessee, and died June 21, 1961 in
Herford, Deaf Smith County, Texas.
Children of Jesse Shirley and Merler Sewel are:
5(i). Delmer Terry Shirley
5(ii). Hardy Raymond Shirley
5(iii). Ruby Jewell Shirley
5(iv). J. Boone Shirley
5(v). Ruth Odell Shirley
5(vi). Carl Edward Shirley
5(vii). Alta Shirley
5(viii). Lorene Marcell Shirley
5(ix). Clifford Glenn Shirley
5(x). Reaford Shirley
3(ix). Dr. Elijah Stevens Shirley, born February 10,
1828, Caldwell County, Kentucky;
Clay County Illinois Biographies - Elijah S. Shirley, M.
D. physician and surgeon, Xenia, was born in Caldwell County,
Ky., February 10, 1828, and is the son of Samuel and Phoebe (Cook)
Shirley. The father was a native of Virginia. He served an apprenticeship
at Harper's Ferry in the United States Armory, and then was Inspector
and Trier of Arms in the United States Army. He continued in
this business for a number of years, and made quite an amount
of money. He then emigrated to Tennessee with Dr. Hugh Barton,
his brother-in-law. He was married at Blountsville, Tenn.to the
mother of our subject, was a native of New York, but had removed
to Tennessee with her parents. After marriage, they removed to
Kentucky, going down the Tennessee River in a keel boat, where
they settled and died. Our subject's grandfathers were both born
in the old country, his grandfather Shirley in Edinburgh, Scotland,
and grandfather Cook in the city of Dublin. At about the age
of fourteen years, our subject was left an orphan. He then went
to Northern Alabama, and was placed in school at Cherokee, Ala.
by his cousin, Armstead Barton. He remained at school at Cherokee
for about five years, and then began the study of his profession
under Dr. J. C. P. Bond, a graduate of Jefferson Medical College,
Philadelphia, Penn. He remained with Dr. Bond for about fifteen
months, and then went to Caseyville, Ky., into the office of
Dr. Enoch R. Ashbey. After remaining there for some months, he
went to Louisville, Ky., and attended medical lectures, after
which he practiced with Dr. Ashbey for two years, and had made
a good start, but in 1851 tried speculating, and lost all that
he had made, so began over. In 1853, he came to Wayne County,
Ill., and for two years did a large practice at Johnsonville.
Health then failed, and he lay sick at Xenia for six months;
and since that time has been in the practice of his profession
here and has been very successful. The Doctor is also engaged
in farming, having a farm of 120 acres near town, which is in
a high state of cultivation. In 1857, he was married in Jefferson
County, Ill., to Miss Martha Casey, youngest daughter of Abram
Casey, an early settler of that county. She died in 1858, and
in 1859 the Doctor was married to Miss Mary Graves. She was born
in Chagrin Falls, Ohio, a town which her father had helped to
lay out, also laying out Graves' Addition to Xenia. Dr. Shirley
is a member of the Centennial Medical Society of Southern Illinois.
Also a member of the Alumni Association of St. Louis Medical
College, from which college he is a graduate. He is a Royal Arch
Mason, belonging to the Richland Chapter No. 38, and is a member
of the Council Lodge, No. 55, at Olney. In politics, he has always
been a faithful worker in the Democratic party. In 1880, he was
the Democratic nominee for the State Senate from the Forty -fourth
Senatorial District, but on account of the perfidy of some fellow-Democrats,
he was defeated, although carrying four townships, where he is
best known, by the largest majority ever received by any candidate.
Excerpted from "History of Wayne and Clay Counties, Illinois
1884"
married 1) Martha Casey in 1857 in Jefferson Co IL
married 2) Mary Graves in 1859.
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Walter Shirley (cont.)