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Pictures and info from Gary Shirley
Kelly Shirley born probably Lenoir or Greene County
NC; Fought in War of 1812; Lived Stokes Co NC; died 19 Feb 1815
according to his military service record; Estate probated in
1815 in that county. New
Finding by Gary!
1815-1823
Estate
File of Kelly Shirley
of Stokes Co NC (pdf)
married Triphenia
_________ ; She
was administrator of the 1815 estate of Kelly Shirley;
married 2) David Williams on 1 September 1816 in Stokes Co NC;
Triphenia Williams died 27 Feb 1855 likely in San Joaquin County
CA "Tryphena Williams departed this life on Tuesday February
the 27th 1855" (See James
Madison Williams bible record)
parents of: (proven by
1815 estate records in Stokes Co NC)
I. Thomas Jefferson
Shirley (See
branch #74) born
abt. 1810-11 in Stokes Co NC; a minor child of Kelly Shirley
in Sept 1817; died Nov 13, 1859 probably in Tuolumne Co. or possibly
San Joaquin Co. California
View 1817
Guardianship papers for Thomas Jefferson Shirley,
minor child of Kelly Shirley of Stokes Co NC (thanks to Gary)
II. Mary Hill Shirley a minor child of
Kelly Shirley in Sept 1817; She may be Mary Shirley, age 50-60
in 1840 Federal Census for Crawford County, MO.
View 1817
Guardianship papers for Mary Hill Shirley,
minor child of Kelly Shirley of Stokes Co NC (thanks to Gary)
III. Jacob
Camplin Shirley
b. ca 1810-1811 probably
Stokes County NC, a minor child of Kelly Shirley in Sept
1817; First known location of Jacob is Warren County, TN, 1830.
Departs TN ca 1838 and relocates to Crawford County, MO. (The
area becomes Dent County in 1851). Jacob is listed in the 1850
Shannon Co MO Census mortality schedule, died March, age 40;
He applied to purchase federal land in October 1849. but d Saturday 2 March 1850 Shannon Co MO
(according to the bible of James
Madison Williams of Butte Co Calif),
View 1817
Guardianship papers for Jacob Camplen Shirley,
minor child of Kelly Shirley of Stokes Co NC (thanks to Gary)
View 1822
Guardianship papers for Jacob C. Shirley,
minor child of Kelly Shirley of Stokes Co NC (thanks to Gary)
Another possible sister is Elizabeth, b. ca 1801,
NC, d. July 12 1877, Dent County, MO, m. John Brooks.
m. 1st Sophia,
who died 18 Sept 1845 (Williams bible). [see email at bottom
of page regarding this date of death]
m. 2nd Lucinda Brooks
ca 1846 MO who was b. ca 1819 NC d. ca 1850s, daughter
of John and Nancy Brooks. Nancy b. ca 1784 NC.
children by first marriage:
[See a page from the
Hodges
Bible showing children's birthdates]
1. Elizabeth SHIRLEY January 31, 1835 TN.
2. William Kelly SHIRLEY February 18, 1837 TN.
3. Charles Calvin or Carroll
SHIRLEY September 24,
1839, TN (?) d. February 21, 1906 Butte County, CA
Posted by Dee Sardoc - Charles
C. SHIRLEY was the nephew of my gr-gr-grandfather, T.J. SHIRLEY.
T.J. and Mary SHIRLEY helped raise their nieces and nephews,
the children of Jacob SHIRLEY, while living in MO and after they
came to CA in 1852. Charles is listed in the San Joaquin Co census
in 1860. He seems to have moved to Jamestown, Tuolumne Co. as
there is a very interesting story in the Sonora newspaper in
1865, where it describes him being shot, though not fatally,
after an argument between his brother-in-law, H.W. WILLIAMS and
the man owning the next claim, there on Whisky Hill. This story
is also told in the book, "The Saga of Old Tuolumne."
4. Mary Jane SHIRLEY March 29, 1842 Crawford County, MO d.
August 25, 1910 San Benito County, CA. m. James Isaac Hodges
November 28, 1860 CA who was James b. September
30, 1830, Wilson County, TN (?)
Submitted by Lynn Hodges (May 2010)
5. Margaret SHIRLEY December 2, 1845 Crawford County, MO.
[see email at bottom of page regarding this date of birth]
Note: In the 1850 U.S. Census
for Crawford County, MO, the above children are found in the
family of Thomas Jefferson Shirley. This mergered family then
relocates to CA ca 1852; see Family # 74. Other names associated
with these Shirleys are David and Tryphena (Shirley) Williams,
John Lemon, John L. Spear, and Jotham Clark.
children by 2nd
marriage:
6. Alexander SHIRLEY December 6, 1847 Crawford or Shannon County,
MO d. July 17, 1926, Dent County, MO m. Sarah Jane Wells March
4, 1869 Dent County, MO who was b. September
2, 1847 MO d. November 29, 1923 Dent County, MO, daughter of
Thomas H. Wells and Mary Elizabeth Jarvis.
Alexander Shirley's family, ca.
1899
Front row: Sarah Jane (Wells) Shirley and Alexander Shirley. Second
row left to right: George Shirley, Elizabeth Shirley, Mary Alby
Shirley and William Franklin Shirley.
children:
A. Thomas Jefferson SHIRLEY b. October 30, 1871 Dent County,
MO d. September 9, 1945 Dent County, MO m. Caroline
Miller February 22, 1893 Dent County, MO who was
b. April 9, 1865 OH d. January 14, 1942 Dent Co. MO, daughter
of John Miller and Maria.
children:
(a) Etta F. SHIRLEY m. 1st James W. Eads m. 2nd Arthur
Hodges
(b) Clarence B. SHIRLEY
April 18, 1894 Dent County,
MO d. July 15, 1952 Dent County, MO m. Mae Bridget Maledy
(c) Inez Blanch SHIRLEY November 29, 1895 Dent County, MO
d. January 6, 1985 Dent County, MO m. Victor Gilbert Ball
September 10, 1919
(d) Ella Virena SHIRLEY May 20, 1898 Dent County, MO d. December
24, 1898
(e) Wilma Jane July 27, 1905 Dent County, MO d. July
16, 1917
B. William Franklin SHIRLEY
June 9, 1876 (another
source has 1873) Dent County, MO d. January 9, 1962 Marysville,
Yuba County, CA m. Dora Elizabeth Sherrell March 23, 1899
Dent County, MO who was b. November 22, 1881 d. August
12, 1956 Great Falls, Cascade County, MT daughter of Silas Washington
Sherrell and Mary Matilda Gill.
William Franklin Shirley's family,
ca 1912
Left to right: Delbert F. Shirley, William Franklin Shirley,
Dora Elizabeth (Sherrell) Shirley, Addison Lemuel Shirley
children:
(a) Mabel Dean SHIRLEY
(b) Delbert F. SHIRLEY September 19, 1899 Dent County, MO m.
Anna Alvina Sarzin, June 16, 1926 in Stockett, Cascade County,
MT who was the daughter of Joseph Sarzin and Alvina Louise Memke.
(c) Addison Lemuel
SHIRLEY August 4, 1905
Belt, Cascade County, MT d. June 16, 1969 Seattle, King County,
WA m. Margaret Milda Connell May 11, 1932 Butte, Silver
Bow County, MT who was born February 22, 1911 Lewistown,
Fergus County, MT d. June 2, 1975 Bellevue, King County, WA
daughter of Timothy Henry Connell and Agnes Loretta Murphy.
C. Mary Alby SHIRLEY April 9, 1878 Dent County, MO d. February
21, 1953 Dent County, MO m. Marion Russell Mowery February 23,
1899 Dent County, MO. He was born February 6, 1871, Iron
County, MO d. July 3, 1948 Dent County, MO.
D. Elizabeth SHIRLEY June 1881, m. ? Hill and moved to MT.
E. George SHIRLEY b. ca April 1885 m. Bertha ? moved
to Yucca Valley, CA
7. Sarah Jane SHIRLEY
January 15, 1849 Crawford
or Shannon County, MO d. February 19, 1917 Dent County, MO m.
William Sparks November 4, 1875 Dent County, MO who
was born October 10, 1846 Wilkes County, NC d. February
11, 1917 Dent County, MO son of Rubin Sparks and Belindah Gray
William Sparks, a wealthy agriculturist
and stock raiser of Dent Co., Mo., has resided on his present
fine farm of 440 acres since his marriage, which took place in
1875. He has 120 acres under cultivationand is now completing
a large, two story frame residence at a cost of $1,500. He has
a thrifty orchard of 700 trees, and is considered one of the
successful farmers of the county. He was born in Wilkes County,
N.C., in 1846, and when twenty-nine years of age was married
to Miss Sarah J. Shirley, who was born in Dent County, Mo., January
15, 1849, a daughter of Jacob and Lucinda Shirley, both of whom
died when Mrs. Sparks was quite young. She is the mother of six
children, and is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
Mr. Sparks has always been a Democrat in politics and is a son
of Reuben and Blineld (Gray) Sparks, who were born in Wilkes
County, N.C., about 1812 and 1829, respectively. The father was
of German descent, a farmer by occupation, and in 1868 immigrated
with his family to Dent County, Mo., where he died in 1881. He
and wife became the parents of ten children, eight of whom are
living. Six reside in Dent County, one in Douglas County, and
one in Kansas. - "History of Laclede, Camden, Dallas,
Webster, Wright, Texas, Pulaski, Phelps and Dent Counties, Missouri"
The Goodspeed Publishing Company, 1889.
From an email thread with Gary Shirley in 2010:
"Jerald, we are very interested in your research, regarding
Tryphena Shirley. There appears to be a very strong connection
between her and my g g grandfather Jacob Shirley b. ca 1810 most
likely NC and Thomas Jefferson Shirley, presumed to be his brother,
b. ca 1810 NC. David Williams appears with them in Warren County,
TN in the 1830s, in Crawford County, MO in 1840 and both David
and Tryphena are in Shannon County, MO. with Lucinda Shirley,
Jacob's second wife in 1850."
"We don't know what became of Jacob Shirley after 1849
but his children from his first marriage are with Thomas Jefferson
"Sherley" in Crawford County, MO in 1850. Shortly thereafter
this combined family leaves MO for CA. Thomas Jefferson Shirley
is killed in 1859 probably in Tuolumne County, or maybe San Joaquin
County, CA. His widow Mary Simmons Shirley is listed in the 1860
census in Castoria, San Joaquin County, CA. And living next door
to her are James and Lucinda Williams along with some of Jacob
Shirley's children!"
Ron Womack, a Butte Co California historian, sent this from
the James
Madison Williams family bible (Butte Co California) in 2010:
The death Date for Jacob Shirley is March 2, 1850
"Sopha Shirley departed this life on Thursday the 18th
of September 1845".
"Tryphena Williams departed this life on Tuesday February
the 27th 1855." (nee Shirley)
"Tryphena Williams emmigrated from North Carolina to
Tennessee in 1817 from Tennessee to Missouri in 1837."
Email May 2010 from VOLTAGE888@aol.com
I am currently working on my husband's family tree. His Shirley
family connection is from his great-great grandmother who was
Mary Jane Shirley, daughter of Jacob (Branch #53) and Sophia
Shirley. She was born 3/29/1842 in Crawford Co., MO and married
James Isaac Hodges.
The question I have concerns the date of death of Mary Jane's
mother Sophia. Until the 4/10/2010 posting of the Williams' family
Bible, Sophia's date of death was unknown. I see that someone
has read her date of death as September 18, 1845 from the Bible
record. However, I am not sure if anyone has noticed that there
is a problem with that date, since Sophia and Jacob's youngest
daughter, Margaret, was born in December 1845. If Sophia died
in Sep 1845, it would have been impossible for Margaret to have
been born 3 months later.
It is my belief that Margaret's birthdate is correct and was
December 1845 (as stated on the Branch #53 page) since I have
a copy of the Hodges' family Bible in which someone (I am assuming
that it was Mary Jane herself judging by the ink and style of
handwriting used) has listed the birthdates of Jacob and Sophia's
children and it shows that Margaret was born on December 2, 1845.
Additionally, I enlarged the photo that is on the website of
the Williams' Bible and if you look closely, it looks like the
left side of the number actually has ink completing the circle,
which would make it a "6", not open as in a "5"
and her date of death should be 1846, which would agree with
Margaret's birth of Dec. 1845 (she would have been 9 mos old
at the time of her mother's death).
Thank you for your help with this.
Best regards,
Lynne Hodges
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Jacob Camplin Shirley
