Morgan Co IL Probate: Died Intestate - SHIRLEY, George
Y. Probate: 10 Feb 1870 Admin: Henry B Shirley
married 1) Evaline Gorin on 17 September 1829 at Barren
Co KY. She apparently died before 1850 "after giving birth
to one or more children" (Glasgow Weekly Times 1870s
pp129-130)
married 2) Emily Brown at Jacksonville, IL; she was
born Philadelphia, PA.
Children born Jacksonville, IL:
3(i). George Yates Shirley, Jr. born about 1836 IL;
He was living in parents' 1850 household, age 14. In 1860 he
is single and living with the John Posey family in Jacksonville
Morgan Co IL, farm laborer. Nothing more known
3(ii). Dr. Henry B. Shirley, born about 1842 IL; He
was living in parents' 1850 household, age 8 and 1860 household,
age 17, student. Living in the JJ Bates household in Whitehall
Greene Co IL 1870 census, age 28, single, occupation: physician;
Living in Whitehall, Greene Co IL in 1880, occupation: physician.
He was registered to vote in 1896 in Carlsbad, San Diego, California;
Shirleys of California
married Susan E. Peters on 9 February 1871 in Greene
Co IL
Children:
4(i). Lina G. Shirley, a spinster; (confused with
her aunt Lina?)
4(ii, iii, iv) three children
died in infancy;
4(v). Frank Shirley
married Bernice A. Gray, b. California
Children:
5(i). Barbara G. Shirley
5(ii). Howard Erle Shirley.
3(ii). Evaline (Lina) G. Shirley, born about 1844 IL;
iving in family's 1850 household, age 6 and in 1860 age 16; died
a spinster.
3(iii). Howard B. Shirley born about 1847 IL; living
in family's 1860 household, age 13; nothing more found
3(iv). J. M. Shirley (male) born about 1849; living
in the family's 1850 household, age 1. Not in 1860 household,
likely died young.
3(iv). Mary Shirley born about 1851 IL; living in family's
1860 household, age 9; married William E. Bridges.
3(iv). Dr Edwin K. Shirley born about 1855 IL; living
in family's 1860 household, age 5; Living with his brother Henry
in the 1880 census, age 25, single
married Anna L.White on 23 April 1882 at White Hall,
Greene Co IL.
Children:
4(i). Henry Shirley (he had two children: Evelyn, Anna)
4(ii). Albert Shirley.
3(v). Helen Shirley born about 1855 IL; living in family's
1860 household, age 5; She married W. G. White, brother of Anna.
"History of Illinois and her people" - Henry
W. Shirley is secretary of the White Sewer Pipe & Stoneware
Company of White Hall, and has been a factor in the business
affairs of Greene County since early manhood. He was born at
White Hall, September 7, 1885. His grandfather, George Y.
Shirley, was a native of Kentucky, and disagreed with other
members of his family on the question of slavery. In consequence
he moved north of the Ohio River to a free state, settling in
Morgan County, Illinois. He was a medical college graduate and
practiced medicine in Illinois until his death. His wife was
Emily Brown, a native of Ohio. One of their six children was
Dr. Edwin K. Shirley, who was born at Jacksonville, Illinois,
in 1855, and died at White Hall in January, 1913, at the age
of fifty-eight. He finished his education in the Missouri Homeopathic
College at St. Louis, remained there a year and spent the rest
of his life in his profession at White Hall. He was a member
of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and Knights of Pythias
and was a Methodist. Doctor Shirley married at White Hall, Miss
Annie L. White, who died March 22, 1926, at Calgary, Canada.
She was a daughter of Alfred and Elizabeth (Hubbard) White, her
father a native of Ohio. Henry W. is the oldest of their children.
Lina is the wife of Roy Beavers, of Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
Anna married Elmer Hoagland, also of Calgary. Albert Edwin, the
youngest, lives at Spokane, Washington. Henry White Shirley acquired
a public school education, completing the high school course
at the age of seventeen. For a year he taught country schools
and then went to Arkansas and spent a year in the office of the
Frank Kendall Lumber Company near Pine Bluff. In 1905, having
returned to White Hall, he began work for the sewer pipe company,
and since October, 1923, has been secretary and director of this
important local industry. Mr. Shirley for eleven years was a
member and secretary of the local board of education. During
that time the high school was erected. For eight years he was
on the local Board of Management of the Chautauqua. He has served
as secretary and is now president of the Men's Brotherhood. Mr.
Shirley was registered and classified during the World war. He
is a republican, casting his first vote for William H. Taft.
He has filled chairs in the Knights of Pythias Lodge, is a Mason,
and was reared a Methodist, but is now a Presbyterian. He married
at White Hall in November, 1909, Miss Lucy North, daughter of
Marcus North and member of the prominent family of that name
in Greene County, as recorded more at length elsewhere. Mrs.
Shirley was born in Greene County, May 25, 1887. They have two
sons, Richard Henry, born November 29, 1911, and Donald North
Shirley, born November 17, 1913.
Shirleys of Spotsylvania Co Virgina