JACOB A. SHAW

SHAW, MCFARLAND

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Date: 5/23/2009 at 16:03:40

The History of Appanoose County, Iowa, Containing A History of the County, its Cities, Towns, etc., A Biographical Directory of Citizens, War Records of its Volunteers in the late Rebellion, General and Local Statistics, Portraits of Early Settlers and Prominent Men, History of the Northwest, History of Iowa, Map of Appanoose County, Constitution of the United States, Miscellaneous Matters, etc.; illustrated; Chicago: Western Historical Company, 1878.

JACOB A. SHAW, farmer, Sec. 24; born in Madison Co., Ind., Feb. 25, 1847; with his father, Jacob S. came to this county in 1856, where his father engaged in brickmaking and farming in this township, near Centerville; killed at a coal shaft, June 7, 1872, aged 53 years; his mother died Feb. 20, 1866, being 48 years and 8 months of age; he remained with his father receiving a common school education until 22 years of age. In 1869 he married Miss Susan McFarland; she was born in Ohio in 1850; daughter of J. S. and Sarah J. McF., of this township; died Nov. 15, 1870, leaving one child - Sherman, born Nov. 15, 1870; he then married Miss Mary E. McFarland, a sister of his first wife, Oct. 25, 1871; she was born in Ohio in 1851. Republican; he is a member of the M.E. Church; she is a Presbyterian. He owns 190 acres of land, valued at $25 per acre.