History of Knox County, Ohio, its past and present, Part 168

Author: Hill, N. N. (Norman Newell), comp; Graham, A. A. (Albert Adams), 1848-; Graham, A.A. & Co., Mt. Vernon, Ohio
Publication date: 1881
Publisher: Mt. Vernon, Ohio : A. A. Graham & Co.
Number of Pages: 1096

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first to Miss Etizaber .. Pierce of Richani dochil Jer car I_ 1832. who bore him one child. Lyman W She died in August, 1832. and he mammed Mrs Armelia Frazier. nu Hughes of Holmes county Ohio, in May. 1838 who Lived web jom eighteen years, and deceased in 1856 He married Jame Nell :. of Knox county in 18g; by whom he has had six children. four of whom are now Ering, viz: Joseph B. Mary E. John B. sor James.

SEVERN'S ISAAC D. Pleasant township farber son of Sammel Sereres, was born in Coshocton county, Olio, Decem- ber 23, zeze Farming is his vocation. On the eighth of Oc- tober, :847, he married Miss Elizabeth Mills bom Aped Io. 1826 daughter of Joseph Mills. They settled on a farm in Coshocton county. where they remained until raps, when be purchased the farm in Pleasant township. Knox county, Ohio, where they are sow living. Ther bare a family of four children, Two sons and two daughters.

SEYMOUR. JESSE deceased), Pleasant township, son of James and Susan Seymour. was born in Virginia, September 3, IBog, and brought up in Greece corner Pennsylvania. In :#38 he in company with his parents and other members of the family, emigrated to Kmor country, Chic, and located in Caz- toa :ownship. where they remained a few years. then moved on a farm in Morgan township where they remained until about =85o. when be purchased, and moved his fathers family, oo a farm in Pleasant township bow owned by his bems, and where his parents passed the remainder of their days. His mother died in :362, aged seventy-six years His father died in 1868, aged ninety-one years.

He was a Baptist minister and preached at the Owl Creek church for many years, also in Mt. Vernon and other places. In :856 he had the misfortune to lose has sight, and though blind, continued to preach occasionally He followed farming as his chief vocation.

In 2856 he married Mrs. Rachel Worley, Som in Harrison county, Ohio, November 25, 2622 daughter of Tarret and Mary Parrish. They settled on the farm in Pleasant township Dow cimed and occupied by his widow and family consisting of one daughter and two sons.

He died Ju'y 12, 1879. He was a member of the Baptist church many years.

SHAFFER. PETER. Hittar township, proprietor of Stater house, Centrebergh, Ohio, was born in Westmoreland county Pennsylvania in 1825. George Shaifer, his father was a soldier is the War of =912, and came to Obio with his family in 1823 and settled in Berlin township. where the subject of this sketch spent his vouth. Mr. Shaffer kape hotel in Mount Liberty and i= comsectice ran a farm. At Mt. Vernon be siso kepe a hotel. He returned again to M :. Liberty after being in Mz. Verzon, and in connection with farming kept hotel. From Mz. Liberty he came to Centreborgh amd opened his present botel; in connection with the hotel he has a very stable From his long experience in the business of catering to the, pobic be bas and ired the art of making his guests feel at home. He is do- ing a good business and is always pleased to see his friends. Mr. Sbaffer is pleasant and sociable in his manners, and merits the patronage of the public. He was married to Miss Ellen Thacher of Liberty township, in I854, and br this union they bad a family of six chikiren, all of whom are living.

SHAFFER. GEORGE M., agent cf Cleveland, Columbus &

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Mt. Vernon railroad, Mount Liberty, was born June 6, 1854; he was the son of Peter and Ellen Shaffer, nee 'Thatcher. His youth was spent with his parents, and when he was old enough he was put to work; his educational advantages were limited, but he acquired sufficient to transact business. He was ap- pointed agent at Mt. Liberty on the completion of the road, and has held it ever since. He makes an efficient and competent agent and is affable in his manners. In connection with his other business he buys grain. He was married to Miss Ella Lyal, daughter of John Lyal of Hilliar township, Febru- ary 22, 1877. They have one child, Earl L., born June 19, 1878.

SHALER, DAVID, Middlebury township, millwright, post office, Levering; born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, July 14, 1812, and was married June 12, 1841, to Martha Dwyer. They have the following family: John D., boin March 1, 1842; Catharine, August 27, 1843; E. Shauck, February 20, 1845; Martha, June 1, 1847; Mary E., December 22, 1848; Charles, May 31, 1852; Olive, March 18, 1854. Mrs. Shaler med February 22, 1358. Olive Snaler died February 15, 1857. Mr. Shaler was married September, 1859, to Helen Burk, who was born in Martinsburgh, Knox county, July 21, 1861. They have the following children: Charlotte, born July 21, 1861; Frank L., June 8, 1863; Leah D., January 28, 1865; Bertie, February 12, 1870; David, December 16, 1873; William, Octo- ber 27, 1874.

SHANNON, JOHN, Morris township, farmer, post office, Mt. Vernon, was born in Licking county, Ohio, in 1830; was married in 1855 to Margaret Davis, who was born in Licking county in 1833. They had the following children: Emma Jane, born in 1860; Alonzo, born in 1862; William, in 1856; Byron, in 1864; Maggie, in 1866. William died in 1861.

John Shannon is a farmer by occupation, and is one of the active men in his township.

Mrs. John Shannon died in Morris township, June 10, 1880.

SHARP, DAVID, deceased, Morris township, was born in New Jersey in 1808, and married in 1832 to Mary Rinehart. They had twelve children: William, born in 1833; Christian, in 1835; Margaret May, in 1837; Morris, in 1839; Caroline, in 1841; Anora, in 1844; Samuel, in 1846; Mary, in 1847; Rebec- ca Jane in 1849; David, in 1853; George and Thomas in 1855. Mrs. Mary Sharp died in 1859. Mr. Sharp subsequently mar- ried Margaret Studer, by whom he had four children: Catha- rine, born in 1860; Fanny Ellen, in 1865; Philip, in 1868; Dan- iel, in 1870.

Mr. David Sharp died in 1876, at his residence in Morris township. David Sharp, jr., died in 1853. George died in 1858. Morris and William were soldiers in the late war.

SHARP, W. L., Morris township, gardener, post office, Mt. Vernon, born in Morris county, New Jersey, in 1822, and was married in 1852 to Matilda A. Carr, who was born in the same county in 1834. They had eight children: Mary A., born in 1853; Pealey A., in 1855; Anna E., in 1856; Peter C., in 1858; Cyrena A., in 1860; Edward P., in 1862; Margaret J., in 1864; and Pearlie M., in 1869.

The following members of the Sharp family are married: Mary A., to Dennis Jackson, September, 1871, and resides in this township; Anna E., to John S. Cowden, March, 1879, and is a resident of Clinton township.

Mr. Sharp moved to Bureau county, Illinois, in 1854, and re-

mained there seven years. While residing there Pealey A.

Sharp died, March 31, 1855. Mr. Sharp moved back to Dela- ware county, Ohio, and resided there a short time; then came to Morris township, this county, and resides here. He owns a pleasant home, is engaged in raising vegetables, fruits, etc. He is an industrious and worthy citizen.

SHARPNACK, E., Mt. Vernon, was born in Greene county, Pennsylvania, in 1836, and left there with his parents in the same year and came to Liberty township, Knox county, Ohio, and has been a citizen of Knox county ever since. He com- menced in the grocery business in 1877, March 20, in which he has been engaged ever since. Previous to 1877 he was a farmer; educated at the common schools; doing a business of fourteen thousand dollars per year; married January 9, 1859 to Miss C. Tocam, of Knox county, and has a family of two children.

SHARTLE, DANIEL, Pike township, farmer, post office, Democracy, was born in Centre county, Pennsylvania, in 1811; came to Ohio in 1838, and was married in 1851 to Rebecca Carmichael, who was born in Brown township, this county, in 1826. They have five living children-Louisa E., born in 1852; William H., in 1854; Aaron D., in 1855; Almeda C., in 1861; and Alice M., in 1864.

Their oldest daughter, Louisa E., was married to N. M. Black, and now lives near Danville, in this county. William H. was married in Kansas in 1880 to Miss Phosia E. Zigler, and is a resident of that State. Almeda was married in 1880 to Thomas McDonel, and is a resident of Monroe township. Aaron D. and Alice M. are living with their parents.

Mr. Shartle purchased the farm where he now resides, con- taining eighty acres, on the east half of the northwest quarter of section twenty, in township eight, range twelve. He paid three hundred dollars for the faim, cleared and improved it, and it is now one of the most valuable farms of this county. He gave his children a very liberal education.

SHAW, JOHN, deceased, Union township, son of William and Charlotte Shaw, was born in Allegheny county, Maryland, August 16, 1787. He was reared on a farm, and made farming his principal vocation. In 1809 he married Miss Charity Rickets, born in Allegheny county, Maryland, in 1792.

They settled in Allegheny county, remained until the fall of 1833, when he, with wife and family, emigrated to Danville, Knox county, Ohio, where they passed the remainder of their days.

They reared a family of ten children, viz: William, Benjamin R., Otho, Lavinia, Ruth, Josephus, Parmenas, Henry N., Eleanor and John T. William, Benjamin R., Lavinia and Ruth have died. Mr. Shaw filled the office of justice of the peace for several years, in Union township. He died in 1842, and Mrs. Shaw, in 1855. Their third son, Josephus Shaw, was born in Allegheny county, Maryland, March 27, 1820. He is a saddler and harness maker, served his apprenticeship for three years, with M. L. Dayton, in Martinsburgh, Knox county, Ohio, from 1839 to 1842. He then worked as journeyman at his trade until 1844, when he commenced business for himself, in Dan- ville, in the same county, where he has since lived, being the oldest man in the business in Danville.

In 1846 he married Martha Robinson of Union township. They settled in Danville, where they are living now. Their union resulted in six children, five sons and one daughter.

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SHAW, JOHN, Mount Vernon was born March 4, 1809, in Lancashire, England, where he remained until 1826, when he emigrated to America and located in New Haven county, Con- necticut, where he lived four years, then moved to Ohio and settled in Wayne township, Knox county, where he followed farming, but becoming dissatisfied in the spring of 1833, he started for Philadelphia on foot; when he got as far as Chester county he got a job in a cotton factory, where he remained some two years. During this time the railroad had been built, and he returned home by rail. He went east again in the spring, and worked in the woollen factory, in Cecil county, Maryland, but very soon after his arrival, he was taken sick, and when recovered sufficiently, he returned to England and spent the winter, and regaining his health; in the spring he returned to Cecil county, Maryland, and was married shortly after, to Miss Charlotte Porter. He remained in Cecil for three years and then with his family, he returned to Knox county, Ohio, and farmed for four years; he then worked in a woollen factory in Wayne township. In 1849 he came to Mt. Vernon and worked three years in the woollen factory here, then purchased the Marshal factory which he operated for eleven years. In 1864 he returned to Mt. Vernon and rented the Norton factory and has been engaged in various ways to the present time. They have had a family of eleven children, seven of whom are living.

SHAW, THOMAS, Boston boot and shoe house, corner Main and Gambier streets, Mt. Vernon. Mr. Shaw is a son of one of the pioneers of this city, ex-Senator John Shaw, and was born October 31, 1822. His first business engagement was with the firm of Hill & Woodard, in a general store, where he served two years; he then served the firm of K. Winne one year, after which he was engaged with N. N. Hill for six years. In July, 1843, he went to New York City and engaged with the firm of Dibblee, Pray & Co., dealers in fancy dry goods, as salesman. He was retained five years, after which he entered the firm of Benedick Hall & Co., boot and shoe jobbers, with whom he remained until 1856, when he went to Boston and en- gaged as manufacturer and wholesale dealer in boots and shoes, under the firm name of Shaw & Childs, and Thomas Shaw & Co., in which he remained until the fall of 1876, when he re- turned to Mt. Vernon, and finding the old room vacant that he has occupied when a boy, he decided to go into the boot and shoe business, in which he has since been engaged. He has a stock of from ten to twelve thousand dollars, consisting of boots and shoes, being one of the largest and most complete stocks in the city.

SHAW, WILLIAM A., deceased, born in Brownsville, Pennsylvania, in 1825; was married in 1847 to Emeline Berry, who was born in Waterford in 1830. They had nine children- Hamilton, born September 16, 1848; Jane, August 8, 1850; Sarah, May 5, 1853; Alpheretta, March 7, 1856; Stanley, Feb- ruary 18, 1854; May, September 5. 1859; Douglass, October 16, 1860; Anne Belle, August 21. 1864; Dick, October 25, 1867, and John, February 8, 1869.

William A. Shaw died April 4, 1880; Mary died November 30, 1861; Douglass, May 21, 1877, drowned near Mt. Vernon while engaged in shearing sheep.

Mr. Shaw came to Knox county with his parents when a child; was engaged in farming during life; was a highly re- spected citizen. Mrs. Shaw resides in this township with her children.

SHEFFER, ADAM, Pleasant township, deceased, was born in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, February 24, 1788. He was a cabinetmaker and joiner by trade, which business he followed as his avocation until 1828, when he turned his attention to farining which he . made his avocation until the time of his death. In 1813 he married Miss Susannah Shaffer, of Greene county, Pennsylvania, who was born in 1794. They migrated to Ohio shortly after marriage and located in Licking county where they remained until 1828, when they moved to this county and located on a farm in Morgan township. In 1836 they moved to Clinton township and located near Mt. Vernon, where he died Novem- ber 24, 1838, leaving a wife and eleven children. He was a good citizen, an affectionate husband, and a kind father. His companion survived him until April 24, 1877. Of the eleven children only four are now living, viz: Lovina, Lemuel, Lydia, and Burr.

SHEFFER, BURR, Pleasant township, farmer, son of Adam and Susannah Sheffer, was born in Knox county, Ohio, on the second day of May. 1833. He has followed farming and stock raising as his avocation. On the eighteenth of Feb- ruary, 1858, he was united in marriage with Miss Catharine Bechtel, born in this county, March r, 1837, daughter of Martin and Sophia Bechtel. They settled on a farm in Clinton town- ship, remained there until 1866, when he purchased and moved on the farm in Pleasant township now owned by Philip Fry. They lived on this farm about eleven years. In 1877 he pur- chased a part of the Bechtel homestead, on which they are now living. Their union resulted in four children: 1da M., Charles B., Anna S., and Mary M. Mary M. deceased February II, 1877.

SHELLENBARGER, J. J., Howard township, post office, Howard, was born in Jefferson township, June 4, 1840. He remained at home until he was eight months old when his father died and he was taken to Mr. S. Nighhart's, and remained there until he was fifteen years old. From this time he went from place to place farming, until his twenty-first year. He was then married to Mary Allen, December 3, 1860; moved on a farm and lived a year in Howard township. In October, 1861, he enlisted in Colonel Cassil's company, Ohio volunteer infantry. He went to Kentucky. The first battle he remembers was the battle of Stone Bridge, where he was wounded in the fight and was laid up for seven months. He met his company at Chattanooga. Not long after they engaged in the battle of Mission Ridge. He was in eleven battles, besides several scouting expeditions. He had seven children: F. M., J. C., Nora Ellen, W. G., J. H., H. N., and W. F. Shellenbarger.

SHEPPARD, GEORGE C., Middlebury township, carpen- ter, post office, Fredericktown, born in Richland county, Ohio, June 14, 1845, and was married in 1869 to Lonisa E. Lukens, who was born in Richland county in 1852. They have two children-Ada A., born September 9, 1872; and Annette May, born March 8, 1875.

Mr. Sheppard was in the late war, a member of company I, Second Ohio artillery. He enlisted July 26, 1863, and was hon- orably discharged August 29, 1865.

SHERWOOD, HUMPHREY, was born in Rutland Ver- mont, November 19, 1806, where he resided until 1833, being reared on a farm; came to Ohio in 1833, and engaged to work on a farm for a Mr. Allen during the summer. He then re-

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turned to his old home in Vermont. Coming back to Mt. Ver- non the following October, he bought a farm in company with his brother which they owned about three years when they sold it and went to Indiana, where he bought a farm, but sold it shortly after; came back to Mt. Vernon, and in the spring moved to his father-in-law's place (Nathan Johnson) in Clinton township, where he lived thirteen years, he then rented a farm one and one-half miles from Mt. Vernon, where he lived until January 1, 1863, when he moved to his present residence.

Mr. Sherwood was married to Miss Johnson, February 20, 1839, but lost her by death January 20, 1840. His second wife was Miss A. Wing, to whom he was married August 24, 1849. She died Aug1 1871. He married Sarah Larabee, August 23, 1877, who is a native of Howard township, and was born June 19, 1844.

SHERWOOD, STEPHEN I., retired farmer, post office, Fredericktown .- He was born in Benson, Rutland county, Ver- mont, February 25 1811; came to Knox county in 1835; mar- Manly, who was born in Benson county, Vermont, February 13, 1811. They had four children-Julia M., born September 23, 1837; Horace H., June 21, 1846; Herbert A., March 27, 1851; Lucy M., July 2, 1853; Julia M. Sherwood was married April 16, 1857, to John H. Wilhelm, who was engaged teaching at different places, Cleve- land, Fredericktown, etc. Horace H., was married to Anna R. Robinson, February 24, 1869. They had two children-Lua Dell and Herbert R., both deceased. Herbert A. was married September 12, 1878, to Acelia J. Thompson, of Warren, Trum- bull county, Ohio. He studied medicine and graduated at the Homoeopathic Cleveland Medical institute in 1876. Dr. Sher- wood is engaged in the practice of Medicine in Warren Ohio. Mrs. Julia M. Wilhelm died May 5, 1861.

Mr. Sherwood is an intelligent and enterprising citizen of this township and courty. He has taken great pains in educating his children, and they are reaping the benefits of his efforts.

His son, Dr. Sherwood, is having an extensive practice in his profession, and his daughter Lucy is an accomplished lady en- gaged in teaching instrumental music.

SHINABERRY, WILLIAM, deceased, was born in Lan- caster county, Pennsylvania, in 1800. He emigrated to Knox county, Ohio, with his parents in 1806, who located in Clinton township, on land now owned by William O. Johnson and Mrs. feifer, one mile froin Mt. Vernon, on the Columbus road. His father was killed by a tree falling on him about one year after his settlement in this county. He was reared on a farm, and followed farming as his vocation. About 1819 or 1820 he married Miss Rebecca Cramer, by which marriage he had two children-Elizabeth and Rebecca-both dead. His companion deceased in 1822, leaving two small children to his care. He mar- ried for his second wife Miss Sisson Fisher, about 1823, daughter ot Enoch Fisher. They settled in Clinton township, on a part of his father's home, now owned by William O. Johnson, where they lived until 1837, when they moved on the farm now owned by Henry Myers, in same township, remained there two and a half years, and from thence they, in 1839, moved on the farm now owned by James and Isaac Johnson, located on the Colum- bus road, about two miles from Mt. Vernon. In 1847 he sold this farm and purchased and moved on a small property near the Johnson school-house, where, in 1853, his wife died. In 1853 he moved back on the old farm and there died in 1855. They reared a family of six children-Mary J., Enoch B., Ma-

linda, William B., Ransom, and Nancy C. (who is deceased).

SHINABERRY, ENOCH B., farmer, was born in Clinton township, Knox county, Ohio, September 1, 1826. He married Miss Henrietta G. Gotshall, June 29, 1847, who was born in Northumberland county, Pennsylvania, May 27, 1826. They settled on his father's home farm, where they lived until 1852. when he purchased and moved on the George Davis farm, where they are now living, located on the Granville road, two miles from Mt. Vernon Their union resulted in eleven children- three sons and eight daughters. Five of the daughters have deceased. He was brought up on a farm, and has followed farming and stockraising.

SHINABERRY, WILLIAM B., farmer, second son of the aforesaid William and Sisson Shinaberry, was born in Clinton township, Knox county, Ohio, March 25, 1835. He married Miss Lydia Ann Halsey, March 4, 1858, born in Knox county, February 27, 1840, daughter of D. F. Halsey, esq. They set- tled on his father's home farm, remained five years, and in 1863 they moved on the farm now owned by Minard Lafever, in Clinton township, and from thence, in 1866, he purchased and moved on the farm where he is now living, in same town- ship. His companion deceased in June, 1867. He married for his second wife Miss Anna Parrott, March 3, 1868, born in Clin- ton township, daughter of Edmond and Margaret Parrott, nee Lafever. Their union resulted in one child-Dora. His voca- tion is farming.

SHIPLEY, AMON MASSENA, Mt. Vernon, deceased, was born in Springhill township, Fayette county, Pennsylvania, Oc- tober 5, 1306. He was reared on a farm, and married Miss Susannah Saddler, about one year his senior, and of the same neighborhood, on the fifth day of April, 1827. They came to Knox county in 1832, and settled on what is known as the Old Hill place in Monroe township, about three miles east of Mt. Vernon, on the Coshocton road, where they met with all the privations and hardships incident to clearing up and improving a farm at that time. Mr. Shipley was for some years engaged in school teaching in the winter and farming the balance of the year. In 1852 he sold his farm in Monroe township and bought the "old Indian fields" in Howard township, containing four hundred and eight acres, where, for many years, he carried on farming and lumbering.

On the sixteenth of November, 1872, his wife, Mrs. Susannah Shipley, after eight weeks of intense suffering, passed away in great peace, her wonderful patience in suffering being a signal proof of the triumph of the Christian's faith. Soon after his companion's death, Mr. Shipley sold his land in this county and retired from business, and moved to Jackson county, Michigan, where he still resides. He has eight children living, viz: Minerva, the eldest daughter, was born in Fayette county, Pennsylvania, July 14. 1828, and married William D. Woolli- son, of Monroe township, who is now a successful farmer in Cedar county, Iowa, and has five children living; Worthington R., was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, November 5, 1829; he is now farming in Howard township; Benedict F. (see biography); Emeline, born July 12, 1838, resides in Spring Arbor, Michigan; Agnes D., born March 13, 1842, married Calvin Miller, of Clay township, and is now living in Marion county, Illinois; Eugene C., born June 8, 1845, married Miss E. J. Baker, of Monroe township, December 15, 1871, and now resides in Jackson city, Michigan; he is an excellent mechanic, and is a local preacher in the Free Methodist church; Almon

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D., born August 9, 1847, married Miss Elizabeth Hale, of West Windsor, Richland county, September 10, 1878; he is a physi- cian and surgeon, and resides and practices near Toledo, Ohio; Robert S., born October 26, 1852, married Miss Ellen Barron, of Brown township, March 6, 1877. He is a very ingenious mechanic and a successful physician and surgeon, and is prac- ticing medicine at Lindsey, Ohio.

SHIPLEY, WORTHINGTON, Howard township, farmer, post office, Howard, was born in Springfield township, Fayette county, Pennsylvania, November 5, 1829, and moved to Mon- roe township, Knox county, with his father in 1832, who lived in Monroe township twenty years, and then moved to Howard township in 1852, where he lived on his farm twenty-five years. He then moved to Spring Arbor, Michigan.

Worthington Shipley's mother died in Howard township, February 10, 1873, on the old farm. March 10, 1857, he was married. He has been engaged largely in lumbering, and con- ducting milling as well as farming.

SHIPLEY, BENEDICT F., Monroe township, son of Amon and Massena Shipley, was born in Monroe township, Knox county, Ohio, January 29, 1836. His childhood and youth were spent on the farm and in the saw-mill. In 1838 he went to South Carolina, via Baltimore, Washington City, and Rich- mond. After visiting several places in the southern States he went to Charleston, South Carolina, intending to follow the sea, but after applying to a number of sea captains for a berth, he abandoned the idea, and, as he afterwards learned, barely escaped shipping on a pirate craft. In the spring of 1859 he returned home, visiting all the eastern cities except Boston. The following autumn he started south again via Cincinnati, and down the river to Memphis, and across Arkansas on foot to Clarksville, Texas, where he engaged in merchandizing. In this he continued until early in 1861, when he joined an expedi- tion organized by the State, to march against a force of about twelve hundred Indians, under the old chief Hopotholoholo, who with his braves were threatening the border settlements with destruction. The summer and winter of 1861 he spent among the Indians in the territory, being with his command in some desperate encounters with Hopotholoholo's band, who were finally routed and scattered. In the spring of 1862, he, with the whole command, was marched to White river, in Ar- kansas, and turned over to the confederate government as con- scripts, and placed under command of General Beauregard at Corinth, Mississippi. Having been promoted to a lieutenantcy, Mr. Shipley soon sent in his resignation. It was never accepted, but he was turned over instead to Jeff Davis at Richmond. Having obtained leave of absence on tendering his resignation, he visited Mobile, Alabama, and returned to Texas via Vicks- burgh and Monroe, Louisiana. From Texas he returned to Mississippi, and spent the winter of 1862 and 1863 in Talla- hatchie county, hunting bear on Tipp's lake, in a large swamp near the Tallahatchie river. In the following summer, feeling feeling no longer safe from confederate conscription, Mr. Ship- ley made his way to the Mississippi river, flanked the confeder- ate pickets and appeared in the Yankee lines at Helena, Arkan- sas, July 16, 1863.

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History of Knox County, Ohio, its past and present, Part 168

Author: Hill, N. N. (Norman Newell), comp; Graham, A. A. (Albert Adams), 1848-; Graham, A.A. & Co., Mt. Vernon, Ohio Publication date: 1881 Publisher: Mt. Vernon, Ohio : A. A. Graham & Co. Number of Pages: 1096

Author: Hill, N. N. (Norman Newell), comp; Graham, A. A. (Albert Adams), 1848-; Graham, A.A. & Co., Mt. Vernon, Ohio
Publication date: 1881
Publisher: Mt. Vernon, Ohio : A. A. Graham & Co.
Number of Pages: 1096