Shaw, T. L.

SHAW, ROBERTSON, MCKNIGHT, DAVIDSON

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SHAW, T. L.
Farmer; Sec. 31; P. O. Monroe; born in Allegheny Co., Penn. in 1809, where he married Miss ROBERTSON; she was born in Halifax. They moved to this county in 1866, and settled on their present farm. They have six children - William H., he married Sarah McKNIGHT; Mary Eleanor, born Dec. 11, 1840, died Feb. 9, 1859; Matthew, born in 1842. At the breaking out of the rebellion, he enlisted in Co. B, 61st Penn. V. I.; he as killed in the battle of the Wilderness in May 1864; his remains were buried in a soldier's grave; he fell in defense of glorious cause, a martyr to liberty; Margaret Jane (now Mrs. S. DAVIDSON); Samuel W. and Martha Ann. Mr. SHAW owns 185 acres of land. Himself and wife are members of the U. P. Church, in which Mr. SHAW has been Elder over twenty-five years. He is a Republican in politics. ~ Fairview Township Biographies "The History of Jasper County" (Chicago: Western Historical Company, 1878)