S. W. SHAW

SHAW, WOOD

Posted By: Mona Sarratt Knight (email)
Date: 5/23/2009 at 16:07:16

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.

S. W. SHAW, farmer, Sec. 14; born March 11, 1842, in Madison Co., Ind.; in 1855, came with his parents to Augusta, Iowa; the following year, removed to Appanoose Co.; in 1860, he crossed the plains to Utah. Enlisted in 1861, and served three years; was in the battles of Shiloh, Corinth, Vicksburg, and twenty others of less note; honorably discharged July, 1864. Married Miss S. H. Wood, Nov. 2, 1864; she was born Jan. 11, 1860, in Des Moines Co., Iowa; have four children - Mary E., born Aug. 25, 1867; George E., Aug. 19, 1869; Josephine B., Aug. 12, 1871, and Ella F., Aug 6, 1874; their oldest child died Aug. 5, 1869. Owns 120 acres land, valued at $25 per acre. M.E. Church; Republican.