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 John Ambrose Shirley was born Sept 10, 1770. He died Oct
9, 1843 Marshall Co. Indiana. John was a farmer and a carpenter.
The traditional
family story is that after a family problem of some sort, John
left the home of his parents and took off on his own. His parents
are unknown to us at this time.
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.
married Elizabeth
Braxton or Danner, (or he may have been married twice, both named
Elizabeth), in Marietta, Washington County Ohio in 1797.
She was born in PA.
children:
1. Ambrose
Sheppard SHIRLEY
Dec 12,
1798 KY, died Nov 5, 1877 Le Claire, Iowa. Ambrose was a carpenter,
a farmer and later became a Justice of the Peace for almost 50
years.
married 1st.
Philena Perrin June 24, 1819 in Fayette Co. Indiana. She was
born July 23, 1801 d. Jan 19, 1848 Cedar Co. and
was the daughter of John Perrin and his wife, Hephzibah Williams.
John Perrin was a native of Rehoboth MA. and the 7th generation
to have lived there. He and his family moved to Scott Co. Iowa
about 1840.
married 2nd Elizabeth
Lamer May 9, 1849 Scott Co. Iowa.
2. Philemon
William SHIRLEY Apr 29, 1803 died Dec 31, 1866 Marshall
Co. IN.
married 1st Mary Callen in 1828 in Fayette Co. IN.
married 2nd Hannah Silvey in 1854.
3. George
Benjamin SHIRLEY 1807. George lived in
Fayette and Hancock Co. IN before moving to Johnson Co. MO.
married 1st Gann
Crump
married 2nd Matilda
Ruley.
Children:
(1). Nancy
SHIRLEY 1829
Hancock Co. IN m. George W. Burch Marshall Co. IN.
(2). George
SHIRLEY
(3). Louisa
SHIRLEY m. James
J. Corbaley Marshall Co. IN
(4). Tabitha
SHIRLEY
(5). Mary
SHIRLEY
(6). Susan
SHIRLEY
(7). John SHIRLEY
4. Tabitha SHIRLEY,
May 19, 1808 Lewis Co. KY. She married Jacob Laurence Payne in
1828 in Marion Co. IN. Children born in Monroe Co IN.
5. John
Alexander SHIRLEY
June 24, 1812 in Lewis Co. KY. He died in 1861 of erysipelas.
married 1st Lydia
Blakely
married 2nd Martha
Cormican in 1849 in Marshall Co. IN.
6. Samuel
Newton SHIRLEY
1814 Lewis Co. KY. They lived in Johnson Co. MO.
Samuel Newton Shirley
Samuel spent
his early boyhood in and around the territory now known as Columbia
Township in Fayette Co. Indiana. In 1827 the family moved on
west, settling in the area surrounding the future town of Cumberland
Indiana, on the county line between Hancock and Marion Counties
of Indiana. John Shirley located on the Hancock County
side.
married Elizabeth
White on December 24, 1845 in Marshall Co. Indiana. Eliz. is
probably the daughter of Isaac White who was a neighbor
of the Shirley family. Eliz. was born in Ohio. Her father was
a native of Pennsylvania and her mother of Massachusetts. Hannah
White, wife of Isaac White in 1850, was a native of New Jersey.
7. William
Braxton SHIRLEY
Mar 10, 1816 Lewis Co. KY.
William died
April 1887 from smoke and fire inhalation, and burns suffered
during a fire that swept the prairie near Norcatur Kansas. He
lived only 6 miles away.
His profession
was that of a minister. He lived several places. ..Marshall Co.
IN, Maclean Co. and Richland Co. Illinois, then to Decatur Co.
Kansas in 1881. He also was called upon for doctoring such things
as arthritis, setting bones, coughs and fevers.
married 1st Eleanor
Blakely 1837 in Marshall Co. IN
married 2nd Rose
Ann Gray Dec 14, 1847.
8. Reuben
Franklin "Frank" SHIRLEY Aug
21, 1820 Fayette Co. IN, died 1906 Rockfalls, Whiteside
Co. Illinois,
In 1864 Reuben
and Jane moved to Lee Co. Illinois where they purchased a 240
acre farm. IN 1867 they moved into Whiteside Co. where they purchased
an 80 acre farm on the Dixon Road east of Rock Falls. they sold
this in 1876 to their son, Samuel, and purchased a half block
in Arey's Addition on Rock Falls, erecting a home in which they
were still living in 1885.
married Jane
Thompson June 2, 1842 Marshall Co. IN
9. Levi SHIRLEY died about age 2 years
10. Levin SHIRLEY died about age 2 years.
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John Ambrose Shirley