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WILLIAM H. PROPST, of Bath County, Va., was born 1822, and is of German and Irish descent; married 1844 to Ellen Hiser, of Greenbrier County. Children : Elizabeth, Jane, Thomas P., James D., George L. P., Alfred F. and Charles W. He is a farmer of 75 acres, one-third improved, on Pleasant Run, 12 miles from St. George. He was in the service of the Southern Confederacy, in the shoemaking department.
GEORGE L. P. PROPST, son of William, was born in 1859. In 1876 he married Angelina, daughter of John M. Hans- ford; he is a farmer, living 12 miles from St. George. Children : Emma Catharine, Julia Ann, John H. and Alonso B.
THOMAS P. PROPST was born in 1850, in Greenbrier County. In 1877 he married Virginia M., daughter of Thomas J. Bright. Children : Charles W., Mary E. and James M. T .; he is a farmer and school teacher, and owns 109 acres of land on Pleasant Run, and has taught three schools.
THOMAS B. PARSONS, son of James R. Parsons, was born in 1849. In 1874 he married Hannah Channel, of Barbour County. Children : Cornelius S., Jasper K. and Upton G .; he is a farmer and blacksmith, with 400 acres of land, one- fourth improved, on Shafer's Fork, 14 miles from St. George.
J. W. PIFER, son of Andrew Pifer, was born in 1861 ; he is a farmer and mail-carrier.
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NICHOLAS M. PARSONS was born in 1812, at the month of Coburn Run, where he has ever since lived. His ancestry were the same family who first came from Moore- field to Tucker; he owns about 1600 acres of land. In 1882 he married Regana Teeter. Their child's name is George J.
LLOYD PARSONS, born 1848, at Alum Hill ; married, 1872, to Anna C., daughter of William Hansford, of Black Fork; was constable at one time. His farm of 244 acres on Shaf- er's Fork, has twenty acres improved.
A. S. PIFER, born, 1863, on Pifer Mountain, is a son of Andrew Pifer, of German descent, and is a farmer and mail carrier.
JACOB PENNNIGTON, born, 1849, in Randolph County, of German and Irish descent; married in 1869 to Mary J., daughter of John G. Johnson, of Lewis County. Children : George W., Jarrett H., Minnie, A. Bennett and Job Par- sons. He worked at the silversmith trade in Weston, under Er. Ralston, and also under Lambrach, of Cincinnati. He came to Tucker in 1880, and now owns a farm of 418 acres on Red Creek, 28 miles from St. George.
JACOB PASE was born in Pennsylvania, and is of German descent; was married in Pennsylvania. Children : Geo. W., Levi H., Ames M.,* John H., Andrew J., Jacob O., Amanda M., Lavina J., Eliza J. and Sarah S .; he lives at Thomas, and his house was the first one there.
JOHN. I. PROPST, of German descent, was born 1824 in Highland County, Va., and was married in 1846 to Delila McClung, of Greenbrier County. He and his wife were di-
* Ames M. Pase died 1883 of lock jaw, caused by a severe cut on the foot, received with a broad-axe, while hewing logs for a house.
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vorced in 1850, and he married Elizabeth Furguson, widow of Ellis Furguson, of Randolph County. His second wife died 1881 and he married Mary, widow of Samuel Kaler. Children : Hiram, Clorinda C., and John E. He has been in Tucker since 1859, having come from Greenbrier County ; lives 8 miles above St. George and has 139 acres of land, one-half tilled ; is overseer of the poor and member of the board of education. He has killed eight bears. With one he had a remarkable fight, hand to paw, and after shooting the bear, and pounding it generally, it fled and left him mas- ter of the field.
JOHN E. PROPST, son of the foregoing, lives 8 miles from St. George, near his father's. He was born in 1859.
A. C. POWELL, born in 1849, of German descent, was married in 1879 to Elizabeth, daughter of Johnson Goff. Children : Sarah V., Mary A., Nancy F., Nettie, Dellie May, Myrta and Rosa Lee. His farm of 30 acres, 8 miles below St. George, has 8 acres improved. He was in the Confederate army three years, and was in a battle where. old Ben Butler tried to storm the entrenchment, but failed to accomplish anything. After he left the Confederate army he entered the Union army and served six months. He was in no general battle, but had a ball shot through his arm, and his coat cut off by a saber.
HAYMOND H. PHILLIPS was born in 1865. In 1882, at the age of 17, he married Floyd Helmick, of the Sugar Lands, aged 15. They ran off to Maryland and got married.
I. W. POLING was born in 1864; is a son of Albert Poling; is a farmer and lives 4 miles from St. George on Clover Run.
JOB PARSONS, generally known by the name of "'Squire Job," was born in Tucker County in 1789, and died in 1883.
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He was a remarkable man in more ways than one. He possessed a powerful constitution, and he seemed capable of enduring almost anything. His weight was 250 pounds, and there was not on him a pound of superfluous flesh. In the War of 1812 he was a soldier, and was sent to the North West to fight the Indians. He was at Fort Meigs and at other posts throughout that country; and when the war was over, he returned to his home in Tucker. His prin- cipal occupation was farming, although he engaged in stock-raising, merchandising and in running a grist-mill. He lived in the Holly Meadows, and Job's Ford is named from him. His farm was called the "Job Place," and is that now owned by the Swisher Brothers.
As a second wife, he married Sarah Losh, daughter of Stephen Losh, and raised a large family of respected chil- dren. His house was open with its hospitalities to all ; and, the traveler whose good fortune brought him to that door at night, was always received with welcome, and in the morning, there was not a cent to pay. Parsons was a great lover of hunting, and always kept a large pack of hounds. It was his delight to hear them cross the distant mountains; deeply baying on the trail of a deer. Such sport was formerly much indulged in by the people along the river. Numerous hounds were trained to hunt down the deer and chase them to the river, where they were shot by hunters with long-ranged rifles. A deer-hunt was the occasion for the manifestation of the fullest spirit of sport. No sooner had
The deep-mouthed bloodhound's heavy bay Resounded up the rocky way
Than the whole country along the river was in commotion, horsemen mounting in hot haste and galloping off to inter-
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cept the deer in its passage of the river. The whole time, from the first cry of the hounds at early morn until the chase ended by the death of the deer, often at evening, was one continuous train of excitement and pleasure, surely not less than that of the high-born Englishmen, who go wild over a fox chase, or kill thousands of dollars worth of horses to catch a hare.
But, the days of this kind of hunting in Tucker are about numbered. The bay of the hounds is seldom heard any more, and many of the old hunters are passed away, some to distant countries and some to that mysterious realm whence none ever return.
When the civil war came on, Job Parsons was a warm sympathizer with the South, and never let pass an opportu- nity of expressing his preference. In consequence, he was much annoyed during the war, by such petty leaders as Hall, Latham and Kellogg. His property was destroyed or carried off, and himself was made to submit to indignities from the guerrilla soldiery who boasted that they were sav- ing the Union. If saving the Union must be done by tor- menting as good a citizen as Job Parsons, it might be questioned whether it deserved saving. The fact that his house was open to all was made a reason for persecuting him. He kept Rebels whenever they wanted to be kept, and did the same for the Yankees, although it was hard to extend to them as hearty a welcome. The last night of Lieutenant McChesney's life was spent in Job Parsons' house.
After Imboden's second raid, the Union troops sent up from Rowlesburg failed to find any of the Rebels who had paroled Hall, and thought to get something of satisfaction by carrying off the property of those citizens who sympa-
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thized with the South. As Job Parsons was well known to be southern in his proclivities, his property was not safe, and he knew it. When he learned that the Yankees were coming, he caught up some of the best of his horses and hurried them off to a hiding place, near the Yellow Rock, along the river between Job's Ford and Alum Hill. Scarcely had he reached the place of concealment when he was seen by Yankees, who peered through spy glasses to search out every nook and corner of the woods. They saw the horses and started for them. He was by his property, and had his. old hunting rifle with him. When he heard the foot-falls of some one passing over the rocks, he was on the alert, and when the blue coats were seen filing up the path, he threw his rifle to his shoulder, and in a stentorian voice, called : "HALT!" The Yankees stopped and stood like cowards until he again spoke to them, when they mustered up courage to ask him who he was. He told them, and they at once took him prisoner and captured his horses. They disarmed him, and made him walk before, while they rode the horses. When they reached his home, they ordered dinner, and af- ter they had eaten, they proceeded to St. George, still car- rying away the horses and taking him as a prisoner.
He walked in front of the soldiers, until the indignities which they heaped upon him became greater than he could bear. Suddenly wheeling in the road, he poured upon them a tirade of invectives, telling them that he had fought the British to make this country free, and now that freedom was denied him. They were making light of his words, when he showed himself in earnest by snatching up a stone. They saw the movement, and leaped from their horses to avoid it. He advanced with deliberation and mounted one
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of the horses and rode off, leaving the unhorsed man to tod- dle along on foot.
Job Parsons died in the winter of 1883, and was buried at St. George.
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JOSHUA ROBINSON, son of John O. Robinson, was born in 1834, and in 1864 was married to Elizabeth, daughter of Jacob Spangler. Children : Mary L., Sarah E., Jacob H., Noah A., Flora D., Manda J. and Laura A. He is a farmer, blacksmith and merchant; lives 9 miles below St. George, on Louse Camp, where he owns 50 acres of improved and 59 of unimproved land.
He was in the Hannahsville skirmish, where McChesney was killed. He was at the river on the morning of June 29, 1861, shooting fislı, and was arrested by Captain Miller, who was dressed in A. H. Bowman's " every-day" clothes. Robinson was pressed into service, and made to do duty as a guard ; he was in the midst of the fight and saw one man's brains shot out, but was himself unhurt.
G. W. SHOEMAKER, of Irish and English descent, son of John Shoemaker, of Randolph, was born in 1861. In 1880 he married Barbara, daughter of Jacob Myers. Children : Annie E. and Henry C .; lives 3 miles from St. George, on Clover.
ANDREW ROSIER, born 1863, married 1882 to Catharine Croston.
ABSALOM ROSIER, born 1848, married 1874 to C. C., daugh- ter of John O. Smith ; rents land 9 miles from St. George, on Clover. Children : Thomas H., Lafayette, Mary and Jennie.
DAVID E. ROOT, son of George Root, of Preston, of Ger-
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man descent, born 1847; married 1872 to Margaret, daughter of David Closs ; lives on a farm of 160 acres, of which 60 acres is improved, 10 miles from St. George on Closs Mountain. Children: Jolin, George E., Duncan, William, David and Agnes. He has been in Tucker since 1872, and followed the blacksmith trade several years, but is now a farmer.
OWEN RIORDAN, whose name occurs in this book in the history of the W. Va. and Pittsburg R. R., was born in the County of Cork, in Ireland, 1826, and came to America in 1854. He has spent the greater portion of his time among the mines of Maryland, of which State he has been a resi- dent until quite recently. He now lives in Tucker County. He commenced as a coal digger, and raised from one posi- tion to another until he became inspection of mines. He was elected justice of the peace, and served one year ; but a change in the politics of Maryland required all officers to swear to support certain doctrine which Riordan refused to do, and resigned. He was afterwards appointed justice and served 12 years. In 1865, he was appointed Registrar of votes, and in 1867 was made mine manager of the Atlantic Company ; had charge of the inside works of mines for 12 years. In 1868 he was appointed mine inspector of Mary- land-a State office, and served two years. In 1880 he was employed by Senator H. G. Davis to prospect the various counties of West Virginia for minerals ; has been engaged in this more or less since. In 1884 he was appointed Supt. of the mines of the W. Va. C. and P. R. R.
In 1854 he married Hannah Sheehan, of Ireland. Child- ren : Mary, Michael, Ellen, Joseph, Eugene and Anna.
A. L. ROGERS, of English descent, from Rockbridge County, Va., was born in 1856. In 1877 he married Mattie
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Robinson, of his native county. Children : Girtha M., Amos Ashby and Oscar U .; is a sawyer on a steam-mill, and owns 250 acres of land in Canaan.
WILLIAM RAINS, son of Gabriel Rains, was born in 1826, in Pendleton County, of Irish and English descent. In 1849 he married Malinda Hedrick, of Randolph County. Children : James R., Catharine, Margaret, Robert L., Ida Belle, William, Gilbert and Albert G. He owns 100 acres of land on Dry Fork, 26 miles from St. George; has been in the mercantile business five years, and has been post-master at Red Creek the same time; has been in Tucker since 1867, and has been a member of the board of education, justice of the peace and county commissioner. The latter office he held four years; is a man of solid business qualities, and exerts a good influence in his neighborhood.
C. R. RUFFIN was born in 1857, in Albemarle County, Va., son of F. G. Ruffin, and a lineal descendant of Thomas Jefferson. The relation was on his mother's side ; was raised within four miles of Montecello, the place of Jeffer- son's residence. In 1879 he left Virginia, and went to Illinois, where he remained till 1883, when he went to Texas, the extreme N. W. panhandle. He was a vaquerro on the ranch of Curtis and Atkinson. They carried 32,000 cattle on the Deamond Stem Ranch. They had other ranches of, perhaps, as many cattle. Ruffin returned to Virginia the same year, and in October, 1883, came to Canaan to look after the interests of the Canaan Valley Blue Grass and Improvement Company, whose lands aggregate 5,000 acres. The Company was organized in October, 1883, by capitalists of Maryland and Virginia.
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The object is to clear the timber from the whole ranch, and make of it a cattle farm.
C. R. Ruffin attended the Potomas Academy at Alexandra two years, and the University of Virginia one year.
G. W. RYAN was born in 1855, in Randolph County, is a son of John J. Ryan, of Irish and German descent. In 1880 he married Burnette, daughter of Ward Parsons. His regular business is house painter and paper hanger; for- merly lived in St. George, where he held various corpora- tion offices. At present he lives on a farm two miles from St. George in the Horse Shoe.
D. W. RYAN, brother of G. W., was born in Randolph, in 1858. In 1882 he married Tabitha, daughter of W. W. Par- sons and sister of A. B. Parsons. Ryan lived in Randolph until his 16th year, when he came to Tucker; is a house painter.
AMBY RAINS was born in 1843, in Pendleton County, brother to William Rains. In 1868 he married Hannah, daughter of Ebenezer Flanagan ; farmer, 25 miles from St. George, on Dry Fork, 130 acres, 50 improved. Children : Gabriel, Jacob, Martin L., Martha L., Ada E., Carrie and Harriet C.
ELIJAH ROY, son of Simon K. Roy, born 1859; married 1880, to Martha, daughter of William Flanagan ; lives 28 miles from St. George, on Dry Fork. Children : J. Madison and baby.
SIMON K. ROY, father of Elijah Roy, of English descent, was born 1827; married 1849 to Sidney, daughter of John Pennington. Children : Melvina, Adam K., Simeon K., Elijah, Malissa and Laura ; lives on a farm 28 miles from St. George, on Dry Fork. He killed five panthers at one
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time, as he reports, and has killed more than a dozen al- together.
SIMEON K. ROY, son of the foregoing, born 1855; married 1883 to Edna, daughter of Columbus Wolford, and lives on Red Creek, 28 miles from St. George, and owns a farm of 110 acres, 30 acres of which is improved.
W. D. RAINS, born 1863 in Pendleton County, son of Phoebe Helmick. He is known by the name of "Billy Bar- low," and he lives on the railroad near Fairfax.
JOHN W. RICHARDS was born 1843 in Harrison County, son of William M. Richards, of English and Turkish de- scent; married 1872 to Floried Riley. Children : Earl D., Earnest C., Everal W. and Flora.
GABRIEL RAINS, born 1808, in Pendleton County, son of James Rains, of Irish and English descent ; married 1826 to Margaret Lawrence. Children : William, Eli P., Amby and Elizabeth ; he lives on Red Creek, 26 miles from St. George.
JAMES W. RUNNER, son of Philip Runner, was born 1849 in Preston County, and was married 1872 to Sarah, daughter of William Hovater. Children : Grant, Marcellus, Florence, Clara A., Charles, Philip T. and Mary J; is a farmer of 92 acres with 23 acres improved ; 8 miles from St. George.
T. A. RIDENOUR, born 1863 in Rowlesburg, son of Aaron C. Ridenour ; is a rafter on the river, working princi- pally with Thomas F. Hebb and William H. Lipscomb, the two most noted rafters on the river.
ELI P. RAINS, son of Gabriel Rains, was born 1829 in Pen- dleton, County, and married 1857 to Malinda White. Chil- dren : Isaiah A. and Rebecca Susan ; owns 139 acres of land with 50 acres tilled, 20 miles from St. George, on Dry
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Fork. He belonged to the Home Guards during the war.
JOHN ROTH was born in Germany in 1819, and in 1833 sailed for America. After eight weeks on the ocean, he landed in Baltimore. He worked at various occupations the first years after he landed, until, in 1842, he married Maria Frederick, of Germany. Children : Margaret Ann, Martha Elizabeth, Louisa, Sophia, Sarah, Emma, Almeda and William; his wife died, 1879, and in 1880 he was mar- ried to Mrs. Elizabeth, widow of Andrew Pifer. He farmed twenty-three years in the Glades, and then came to St. George and opened a dry goods store.
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WILLIAM F. SHAHAN was born in 1852, in Preston County, and married in 1879, M. L., daughter of Samuel Nester; has been in Tucker since 1872, and lives on a rented farm in Licking District, 9 miles from St. George. Children : Louisa C. C. and Sarah E.
JOHN A. STULL, of German descent, and a son of James Stull, was born in 1851, and in 1873 he married Lyda, daughter of Samuel Nester ; has 10 acres of cleared land on a farm of 123 acres, five miles from St. George, on Bull Run. He has been in Tucker since 1871, and is road sur- veyor. Children : Sarah E., Florence B., Winfield C., R. B., Sriver and Sabina J.
ANDREW SHAFER son of William Shafer, was born in 1853, and married in 1877 to Martha A. Bolyard, of Preston County. Children : Olive, Walter, Nora, Bertha and Tasker. Far- mer, 81 acres, 50 acres improved, and lives 7 miles from St. George, on Brushy Fork.
JACOB P. SHAFER son of William P., was born in 1847, in Barbour County. In 1868 he married Catharine J.,
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daughter of John Varner. Farmer, 200 acres, 50 acres im- proved, lives 9 miles from St. George, on Brushy Fork .. Children : Leonard, Isaac See, Sarah M. and William S.
ADAM SHAFER, of German descent, son of Jacob P., was : born in 1822 on the ocean. He was married in 1848 in Preston County, to Elizabeth, daughter of John M. Pitzer; 130 acres of his 200-acre farm is improved. He lives 7: miles from St. George, on Brushy Fork. Children : John. W., Nancy E., Barbara S., George W., Jefferson D., Jenisa : Ann and William R.
HENRY SHAFER was born in 1833, son of J. P. Shafer, of Barbour County ; was married in 1852 to Nancy E., daughter of J. M. Pitzer. Farmer, of 105 acres with 40 improved, on Texas Mountain, 6 miles from St. George. He has been in Tucker since 1869 and was 2 years road surveyor. Children : John M., William B. and Mathew M.
He was in the Confederate army 12 days; went home and got his leg broken by a kick from a horse. He was also a prisoner 12 days in the Union army. His grandfather came from Germany, and his father fought in the war of 1812.
J. R. SHAFER, son of Jacob Shafer, was born in 1851. In 1874 he married Mary C., daughter of Henry Rigaway. He farms 30 acres of a 123-acre farm, 5 miles from St. George, on Texas Mountain ; was in Missouri six months while young, and after he came back, he worked six years on the railroad. Children : Willard P., Willis P., Nittie Sibble and Paisy .*
JACOB SHAFER, son of John P., of Barbour County, was born in 1822, and married in 1846 to Juda, daughter of John Fitzwater; is a farmer with 80 acres of cleared land and 28
* The pecuilarity of these names is worthy of local history.'
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acres of woodland, 6 miles from St. George on Texas Mount- ain; has been in Tucker since 1846; was at one time captain in a company of militia; is a member of the M. P. Church, and is an exhorter. Children: John W., Mary C., Jacob R., Martha S., Annie E., James M. and Albert M.
JOHN M. SHAFER was born in 1856, son of Henry Shafer, and is of German descent. In 1884 he married Anzina E., daughter of Jonathan Murphy. He is a farmer and school teacher. A list of his certificates may be seen by consulting another chapter of this book.
In 1883 he was elected superintendent of schools of Tucker County ; lives 6 miles from St George on Texas Mountain.
D. N. SHAFER, son of Daniel S., born 1860, married 1882 to Eliza Belle, daughter of Isaac Phillips. Mary E. is his only child. He owns 38 acres of land, 9 miles from St. George, on Clover.
C. J. SCHOONOVER, a farmer living on Cheat River, 14 miles above St. George, was born in Randolph County, 1839, being a son of Thomas Schoonover. In 1865 he married Susan, daughter of James R. Parsons, and she having died in 1870, he married, in 1879, Rachael E. Bowman, daughter of Henry V. Bowman, who was murdered by Yankees during the war. Children : Carl W., Harriet E., James T., Adaline C., A. Ward and Sansom C. Mr. Schoonover lived two years with Dr. Bonnifield during the war.
HENRY SNYDER, of German and Irish descent, son of John Snyder, born in Randolph County, 1849; married, 1870, Mary E., daughter of Solomon Boner; has been in Tucker since 1877, and owns a farm of 314 acres, 155 improved, on Dry Fork, 20 miles from St. George. He was in several skir-
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mishes during the war, but was unhurt, except by one of his own men, and when a horse ran over him. He was elected constable and resigned after one year. Children : Clara B., Hulda Jane, John Solomon, Paulina, Martin V., Riley B., and baby.
ISAAC SMITH, born 1843, in Pendleton County, and mar- ried, 1866, to Clorinda, daughter of Joab Carr. He is a farmer, 250 acres, 50 acres improved, on Dry Fork, 24 miles from St. George ; has been in Tucker since 1877, and has been road surveyor ; he taught the Bonner school one term on a No. 5 certificate. Children : George W., Sarah E., Daniel, Mary Jane, Ida, Margaret, Flora, Abraham L. and Charles. He was a soldier in the war, under Col. Latham.
THOMAS E. SHILLINGBURG, born, 1860, in Grant County, of German descent, and son of J. W. Shillingburg, is in the firm of Shillingburg and Duling ; was married July 4, 1883, to Lina Chisholm, of Garrett County, Md. Elmer P., is his only child.
LEWIS C. SHAFFER, born, 1851, in Preston County, son of Jacob Shaffer, of German descent, married, 1878, to Sarah J., daughter of David Closs. Children: Oscar C., Agnes and Mary. He followed the carpenter trade six years, and then purchased a farm of 124 acres on Closs Mountain, and has since resided there.
JACOB SHAFFER, born, 1825, in Preston County, son of Te- walt Shaffer, married, 1850, to Sarah Goff, of Maryland. Children : Lewis, George C., and Martha. He is a carpen- ter and lives 10 miles from St. George, on Closs Mountain.
CHARLES H. STREET, born, 1835, in Virginia, of English descent ; married, 1853, to Catharine J. Bowman, of Virginia. Children : William A., Carrie V., Susan M., Sarah M., and
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eorge L .; has taught six schools in Tucker County, all on 0. 1 certificates. His family live in Barbour.
GEORGE W. SHAHAN, of Irish descent, born in Preston, 330, son of George Shahan. In 1851 he married Luisa offman ; owns 111 acres of land on Licking, and has 20 res improved, 8 miles from St. George. He was in the onfederate army under Garnett. Children : William F., inerva, Christiana, Mary C., George E., Richard J., Olive and Carolina.
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