1770 VA John Ambrose Shirley born

1790 KY Tax roll of Mason Co. KY, John Ambrose 21 years old

1794 OH owned lots in Highland Co. Ohio

1798 KY John and Philemon names appear on tax roll, Mason Co. KY

1799 KY John on tax roll of Mason Co. KY

1803 KY Philemon born to John Ambrose

1807 OH John on tax roll of Adams Co. Ohio

1809-1817 KY John on tax rolls of Lewis Co. KY

1810 KY Lewis Co., John 45+, John 16-26

1820 IN Fayette Co., John 45+, Ambrose 16-26

1828 IN John Ambrose moves with family to Hancock and Marion Co. Indiana

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The following appears to have a connection. Look at the names!   Note the name of POLLARD below!  John Ambrose Shirley in 1813  gave Rueben POLLARD power of attorney  to assist him in acquiring his share of his fathers estate. Philemon is not a common SHIRLEY name either! There has to be a connection to this family!

1759 VA Philemon Shurley of Northampton Co. VA .....

[John Gulley, sadler, and his wife Martha Gulley of Edgecombe Co. NC to Philemon Shurley of Northampton Co. Dec 31, 1759 20 pounds VA. 200 acres which had been deeded Oct 27, 1753, joining Arthur Harris, John Gilliam, Lashley, Widow Reavis].

1767 VA King George Co. in vestry for St. Pauls Parish AMBROSE SHURLEY named with other names including a William Pollard.

1768 VA 150 acres Ambrose

1771 VA Philemon Shirley of King and Queen Co. VA to William Fulks of Northampton Co. VA Oct 28, 1771 40 pounds VA, 200 acres which had been granted to John Gulley Oct 29, 1753 .... etc.

1782 VA King and Queen, Tabitha, tax roll

1783 VA King and Queen, Tabitha, tax roll

1784 VA King and Queen, Tabitha, tax roll

1785 VA King and Queen, Tabitha, tax roll

1786 VA King and Queen, Tabitha, tax roll

1787 VA King and Queen, Tabitha, tax roll

1788 VA King and Queen, Tabitha, tax roll

1785 VA King and Queen Co. Ambrose

1788 VA King and Queen Co. Ambrose

1782 VA King William Co., Mary

1783 VA King William Co., Mary

1784 VA King William Co., Philip

             Mary

1785 VA King William Co., Mary

1786 VA King William Co., Mary

1787 VA King William Co., Mary

1788 VA King William Co., Mary

1789 VA King William Co., Mary

1790 VA King William Co., Ambrose

             Mary

1791 VA King William Co., Mary

1793 VA King William Co., Ambrose

            Mary

1794 VA King William Co., Philip

1795 VA King William Co., Philip

1796 VA Prince William Co. Reuben on tax roll

1797 VA Prince William Co. Reuben on tax roll

1799 VA Prince William Co. Reuben on tax roll

1800 VA King William Co., Ambrose a witness to sale of negroes

1801 VA King William Co., Ambrose

1802 VA King William Co., Philip

1803 VA King William Co., Philemon

1804 VA King William Co., Philemon

1805 VA King William Co., Ambrose

1810 Va King William Co., Ambrose in census

1817 VA   Ann D. Shirley, widow and relict of Ambrose Shirley of Norfolk, and heir of Robert Tompkins and Christopher Tompkins, being deceased, being granddaughter of the former and only surviving child of the latter and residing in the Borough of Norfolk Virginia, nominates and appoints her friend Robert Brough of the same place as her true and lawful attorney in fact, to ask, demand, sue for, recover, and receive all rents, arrears, damages or claims now due or which may hereafter become due on her lands in Kentucky, and to settle disputes, and to do all matters relative. July 1, 1817 and recorded by the Kentucky Court of Appeals, August 15, 1817.

Virginia Gazette and General Advertiser (Davis),
Richmond, September 10, 1794.

SIX DOLLARS REWARD. RAN AWAY from the subscriber, about the 25th of March last, an APPRENTICE, by the name of JOHN SHIRLEY, orphan of Philamon Shirley, of King and Queen county. JOHN SHIRLEY is about five feet five or six inches high, and of a dark complexion. I will give the above reward, besides what the law allows, if any person or persons will bring him to me, at Aylett's warehouse, in King William county. I forwarn all persons from harbouring or employing him, under their peril. EDWARDS MILLER. King William County, September 3, 1794.

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Is there a connection to the above lineage? Note a child named Philemon Shirley

THADDEUS SHURLEY b. ca. 1757 died York Co. SC m. Elizabeth

Children

Ruth Ann m. Reuben Wright, lived Davidson Co. NC/ Putnam Co. Indiana.

Philemon b. 1791 SC Lived in York Co. SC etc.....

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See previous page for lineage. 

John Ambrose Shirley born Sept 10, 1770. It is not known just where John was born. The earliest location he can be traced to is that of Marietta Ohio in the year 1797. It is reported that John Ambrose Shirley married "Elizabeth Danner at Marietta in that year. The story passed down through the families is the parents of John Ambrose objected to the marriage. 

Elizabeth Danner was born about the year 1983 in Pennsylvania. She died in Marshall county IN. Elizabeth was the daughter of George Danner who is thought to be the immigrant ancestor of this branch of the family. George was reportedly born in the Rhineland in time to participate in the French and Indian War. It is said the family came from Pennsylvania to Marietta Ohio area around 1789 about a year after the original settlement  of the town.

John Ambrose was about 13 years older than Elizabeth who was about 15 when she married John Ambrose. They eloped since the parents objected to the marriage.

By 1799 John and Elizabeth were listed on the tax records of Mason Co. Kentucky They apparently settled in that part of Mason Co. which in 1807 was to become Lewis Co. In 1811 John was listed as a Justice of the peace in Lewis Co.. On June 28, 1813 John granted Power of Attorney to one Reuben Pollard of Ohio to assist in acquiring John's share of his father's estate. This document is recorded in the deed book of Lewis Co. Kentucky. About 1815 John and Elizabeth Shirley moved from Kentucky to Indiana Territory. In 1816 Indiana became a state and a new capital was laid out at Indianapolis in 1825 in Marion County. In 1827 the Shirley family settled on virgin land about 13 miles from Indianapolis which then was nothing more than a village. John took land in Madison Co. which in 1828 was to become Hancock Co. Indiana. One history of Hancock Co. states that amongst the first settlers was John Shirley of Kentucky.

The area where these Shirley's lived is just south of what is now Cumberland Indiana east of Indianapolis on US Highway 40.

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Sons of Ambrose Sheppard Dec 12, 1798 KY, Francis Marion and his brother, Samuel Jefferson, served in the Union Army in the Civil War. They enlisted as a private on Aug 15, 1863 at Cedar Iowa for 3 years in Company C 8th Regiment Iowa Calvary Volunteers and was mustered out in Aug 1865 at Macon GA. At the close of the war the Shirley brothers migrated to Benton Co. Iowa. In Oct 1865, John and Samuel jointly purchased a farm in section 24 of the big Grove Twp in Benton Co. Ambrose bought the adjoining farm. However it appears that Francis and Sarah Shirley farmed the land and were purchasing an interest in the farm.  In 1869 Francis bought a farm in section 21 of Big Grove Twp and in 1870 gave Ambrose a quit claim deed for his interest in the farm that Ambrose had originally purchased prior to 1870. Philamon also came to Benton Co. and lived in Vintin, the county seat, where he served as the minister of the Baptist church.

Shortly after 1870 John Franklin and Francis Marion left Iowa and settled in Filmore Co. Nebraska where they were joined by the families sisters, Julietta Igon and Sarah Goodin. 

By 1872 Ambrose and Samuel were the only two owning land in Benton co. Iowa. Soon Samuel also moved to Nebraska settling near Juniata in Adams Co. Ambrose and Elizabeth returned to LeClaire, Iowa.

Sometime later Francis Marion moved to Denver Colorado where he had a real estate office.   He died May 27, 1899 in Denver and is buried in the Grand Army Cemetery, Riverside Cemetery in Denver. 

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Posted June 18th. email from: David Simrak, dsimrak@juno.com

Dear Betty;

I have recently discovered your Shirley Association web page. But I now know you have been doing this for many years. Thank you for making the information available.

I am in the John Ambrose Shirley  1770, wife elizabeth line. George Benjamin Shirley b. 1807 married Fanna Crump in 1829 and later married Matilda Ruby in 1847, both in Hancock County, IN. Children of George and Matilda Ruby Shirley are Catharine Elizabeth and George Washington. I also suppect that a third child is Prebe A. Shirley as she is mentioned in the 1860 IN census with Matida Ruby Shirley Bolander and her husband Samuel Bolander, Marion County, Lawence Twp, Germantown P. O.. In George Washington Sherley's obituary it states the following: (When George was about 7 years old his father called him to his bedside and putting his hand on his head and said to him "George be a good boy, I must leave you" and died soon.) As George Washington Sherley was born May 10, 1849 this would make the death of George Benjamin Shirley about 1856/57. Matilda married Samuel Bolander in Hancock County, IN in 1860. Therefore I don't think George Benjamin Shirley moved to Johnson County, MO. I would like to know where George Benjamin Shirley/Sherley is buried. I suspect
Hancock or Marion Counties, IN but don't have a clue this is a fact.

George Washington Sherley (b. May 10, 1849 in IN, d. July 23, 1917 in IN) would marry Sarah Jane Place (b. Sept. 5, 1853 in OH, d. Dec. 13, 1928 in IN) in Clinton County, IN in 1871. They would have 10 children, of which 6 lived: Noah, Walter C., Charles E., Bertha C., William F., and Goldie. Betha and William were born in MO, Trenton and Moody,   while the family were out West, the others children were born in IN.

George and Sarah Jane Sherley lived most of their lives in or about Sheridan, Hamilton County, IN. They are buried in Sheridan, head to head using a common headstone.

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Posted Aug 7th, 2000

email from Jeanne regarding the cause of death of her father... Captain John Shirley, descendant of the John Ambrose Shirley family.

Dear Betty,
I am letting you know what happened to my dad. March 8th he was going to have a transfusion but they decided that he had become just too dehydrated and not responding to the transfusion he had been getting once every 5 or 6 weeks.  He would get one or two units of blood at that time.  At Thanksgiving he had flown back to Denver for my brothers oldest daughters wedding.  He stayed at their house which has an elevation of over 12,000 feet which contributed mightily to the hydration and he just never snapped back and always was saying I'm just too tired to even think of getting up to do anything. We'd say go to the Dr. and his response was when I feel tired I will.  He couldn't decided if he was or not and being who he was, stubborn etc., he'd say the Dr. said come in  in 2 or 3 weeks.... and I will. 

On 3/8/00 they had a 3 way conference call to Poland and the Mayo Clinic to decide what he was to get.  He was the oldest one with Waldenstromes Macroglobulinemia. He had one round of Chemotherapy and 3 units of blood and he was back to his old self with just the tiredness of the chemo.  The 2nd round was 5/8/00 and they reversed the procedure and gave him the chemo first and then 2 units but he never got back to his normal self.  In March there were 32 in the rare disease register with this disease and in May there were 27.  Its a rare form of cancer of the blood, the bone marrow does not reproduce its plasma, not red cells like Leukemia.

When he died he went in 2 days no pain from the disease but from pain from a fall which gave him 3 compression fractures and cracked ribs.  He hurt whenever he breathed.  He went very quietly and in peace. Mom and my sister Ann and I were there but Jon was in the air on his way from Denver.

NOTE from Betty Shirley:

He will be missed by all of us who knew him. He was a special person! He and his wife, Evelyn, traveled with us to Australia, New Zealand, England several times and attended many Shirley meetings and conventions in USA.

Captain John and Evelyn Shirley

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Posted by Debra Spearman Fischer txfischer@aol.com on Thu, 13 Apr 2000

Shirley's in OK, MO, KY, IN, VA

Surname: SHIRLEY, SPEARMAN, HESS, RYAN, DANNER

My grandmother was Bernice SHIRLEY 1916-1916 in Oklahoma She md. Fred
SPEARMAN.

She was dau. of Earl Ray SHIRLEY 1890 MO d. 1943OK and Lillie HESS.

He was the son of Squire Parker SHIRLEY b.1861 MO d. 1934 OK and Elizabeth
RYAN. Squire was the son of Samuel Newton SHIRLEY b. 1814 KY and Elizabeth
White . Samuel was the son of John Ambrose SHIRLEY 1780 VA - 1843 IN and
Elizabeth DANNER. John may have been the son of REUBEN and Tabitha WEST.
Would like to exchange info with other descendents.

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Posted April 6 2008

Hello,

My name is Jeanne Shirley and I used to be a member of the Shirley Assoc web site. I’ve recently started working on my family history project again and was checking your site for any new information on my grandfather Clifford V Shirley. I’ve exchanged emails several times with Betty and see that information I had concerning Clifford Shirley’s death has been added. The addition of a photo of his father Francis Marion was great – interesting to see what he looked like as a young man. I also have a photo of Francis Marion and wife Sarah together when they were much older. If you would like to have that photo please let me know and I’ll email it to you. I also have a picture of Clifford. Following is more information for Clifford. I have the marriage license that verifies the marriage to my grandmother.

Clifford Vernon Shirley

b. 11 Nov 1884, Exeter , Fillmore , NE m. 13 Mar 1916, Warrensburg, Johnson , MO (to Emogene Mayse (Lowry) Slater, b. 18 Mar 1881, Rockville , Bates, MO, d. 01 Nov 1964 Kansas City, Jackson , MO ) d. abt 1918 in Missouri (flu epidemic)

Children:

Bert Clifford Shirley b. 01 Mar 1918, Carterville, Jasper, MO m. 14 Oct 1937, Olathe , Johnson , KS (to Mary Blanche Allen, b. 08 Feb 1919, Amoret, Bates, MO, d. 19 Dec 1988, Osceola, St Claire , MO ) d. 22 Oct 1996, Kansas City , Jackson , MO

Let me know if you would like the pictures.

Thanks,

Warrensburg, Johnson , MO
Jeanne <jshirley00@earthlink.net>