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Sgt. Champanious Shirley - of Edgefield Co SC; died about the close of the Revolutionary War.
1808 State of S. Carolina To the Honorable the president and
members of the Honorable Edgefield District the Senate. The petition
of the under signed heirs of Champanious Shirley, deceased,
who died about the close of the late revolutionary War, Humbly
shewith that they recently have got information that there was
a return made of said Champanious Shirley's services during recent
revolutionary War by his Captains Linchfield & Ryans, to
Col. Leacy Hammond of the State and District aforesaid, and returned
by him to the proper office and an indent now remains in said
office and is not drawn. Figures add to the Amt. of said Champanious's
claim. Immediately after getting such information your petitioners
made application to the Comptroller General who stated that the
doors have since been shut against such claims by an Act of Assembly.
Petitioners being illiterate and a poor family and not having
a friend that gave them information in the time limited by Assembly
for such claim, prays relief from said Act and that your Honorable
body establish their claim and your petitioners will ever be
grateful. November 26, 1808.
Signed Absalam Shurley, Anna Aldrige, Jonathan
Richardson
Married Mary __________
1809 - Report on Shirley's Petition
State of Carolina To the honorable S. Warren Esq. President and
the other Members of the honorable the Senate. The Comptroller
General, to whom at the last session of your honorable House
the Petition of the Heirs of C. Shurley was referred, respectfully
reports that on a careful examination of the Books of the Treasury
he finds that an Indent was paid to Capt. John Gray under an
Order drawn by Mary Shirley, Administratrix of C. Shirley
for 20 pounds 5 shillings 6 pence as will appear by the Order
and other Papers under the hands of your Officer ready to be
exhibited. Respectfully submitted Thomas Lee Campbell 2nd Dec.,
1809 South Carolina Department of Archives and History, File
No. 6950A, Entry No. 133:179-182.
children of Champanious Shirley (note: it is entirely
possible that the children listed below are in fact the siblings
of Champanious. However, since Champanious appears to have been
married, then as siblings, they would not have been designated
as heirs at law - only children would have been so designated.
1.i Absolom Shirley born before 1755; he died about
1817 in SC. 1810 Edgefield Census shows he had 10 children in
his household
married 1) Chloe _______ ; died after 1795; She relinquished
her dower rights in the sale of 240 acres between Absolam Shirley
and Ephraim Franklin where Absolom lived at the time.
married 2) Delilah Eidson aka Hitson in Edgefield Co.
SC; She was born in 1794 in Edgefield, Edgefield County,
South Carolina; Supposedly, she married 2nd Reubin Kirtland in
SC about 1819 (this may not be correct); She died in 1874
in Marshall County, Alabama.
Admin. of estate of Edward Eidson of Edgefield Co SC completed
1818; purchasers were: Absalom ' Shearly, Jonal Padget, Gorden
Smith, Mark: Padget, Joshua Cates, Jobe Padget, Donice Smith,
Henry Padget, Thos, Warren, Wm. Whittle, Shad rack Baley, and,
significantly, one horse by son Henry Hitson and one horse by
Edward Hitson, Jun,
Legacies were paid to Absolum Shirley and later to Delila
Shurley, Edward Hitson, Delila Hitson, Mary Eitson, John and
Henry Eitson
Edgefield SC DB 43; 29 Jan 1828 - Delilah Shirley to Josiah
Padget.....400 acres on Clouds creek known as Edward Eidsons
old Mill tract, the one seventh part of above stated land. 27
Aug 1825. /s/ Delilah (x) Shirley. Wit A. Heron, Mark Padget,
William Sawyer, Deed Books 42 and 43 (Delilah may not have
married Reubin Kirtland in 1819 as claimed?)
children of Absalom Shirley (source: Quitman Echo article)
2.i Thomas Jefferson Shirley born 17 August 1814 in
Edgefield SC, moved to Randolph Co GA before 1830; died between
1880 - 1890 in Randolph Co GA
THOMAS JEFFERSON SHIRLEY (SHARLEY) FAMILY
The Shirley family was originally in South Carolina. Thomas Jefferson
Shirley was born 17 August 1814, died between 1880 - 1890. His
father was Absolom Shirley -- died about 1817; his mother was
Delilah Hitson, she married Reubin Kirtland in South Carolina
about 1819, after Absolom Shirley died. Thomas Jefferson Shirley
was in Randolph County by the year 1830, in the area that is
now Quitman -- Stewart Counties. Thomas Jefferson Shirley and
his wife, Nancy, are both buried at the site of their family
home. Ten children were born to Thomas Jefferson and his wife,
Nancy Shirley. All of the children spelled the name Sharley:
Source: "The Quitman Echo, Quitman County, GA" -
by Jacquelyn Shephard, Page 125, Compiled by Mrs. Carolyn B.
Snow, Rome, Georgia
married Nancy Alley on 14 February 1816; She was born
in 1817, died 1 March 1896. Her father was James Alley, born
1785 in Maryland. Her mother was Jane Oxford, born 1793, died
after 1860.
children of Thomas Jefferson Shirley
3.i Henry Shirley, born 6, August 1837, served in the
Civil War, lived in Birmingham, Alabama.
3.ii Frances Shirley, born 1839, married Green Spence.
3.iii Jane Ann Shirley, born 1841.
3.iv James Samuel Shirley, born 27 February 1843, He
died on 11 Oct 1874 in Edgefield County, South Carolina., buried
in Sharon Church Cemetery. Married Sarah Jane Pierce Griffin,
widow of Thos. Griffin.
3.v Zackery T. Shirley, born 1847, married E. Missouri
_______, 2nd marriage to Millie Shearer.
3.vi Thomas Jefferson Shirley (Jr.) born 1 August 1851,
died 29 September 1904, buried in Damascus Church Cemetery, Randolph
County. Married Roxie Griffin.
3.vii Harriet Missouri Shirley, born 6 March 1852,
died 28 March 1937, buried in Union Methodist Church Cemetery.
Married Richard Morris.
3.viii Nancy Shirley, born 1854.
3.ix Sarena Shirley, born 1856, married Sam L. Garland.
10. Susanna, born 1861.
3.x Susannah Shirley, born 1861
1.ii Anna Shirley, married ______Aldrige; Anna Aldrige
was a petitioner as heir of Champanious Shirley, decd in 1808
1.iii _____ Shirley, married Jonathan Richardson; Jonathan
Richardson was a petitioner as heir of Champanious Shirley, decd
in 1808
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Champanious Shirley