52 Ancestors: #2 - Elvis, No Not That One

Amy Johnson Crow of No Story Too Small has issued a challenge:  write one blog post each week devoted to a specific ancestor.  It can be a story, a biography, a photograph, an outline of a research problem – anything that focuses on one ancestor.

Amy is a funny girl.  Her Week 2 theme is “King” to coincide with the birthdays of Elvis “The King” Presley and Martin Luther King, Jr.  Her more serious side also offers the option of writing about an ancestor who fled from an oppressive king or about our own connection to royalty.  *Snort.  

No royal distinctions in this family (although quite a few have been a royal pain in the AHEM!).  Surprisingly I found in my database three males name Elvis.  All three died young, one at birth.

Polly Jane Frazier and Elvis Sturdivant Shiflett
photo courtesy "cmagha" on Ancestry

One was given a most grand name:  Elvis Sturdivant SHIFLETT.  He was the son of Calvin and Elizabeth Herrin Shiflett.   Born in 1860 in Albemarle County, Virginia, Elvis was just a young boy when his father, a Confederate deserter, was captured and executed just a few days before the end of the war.  According to family lore, the soldiers had deserted because they lacked food and horses.  It is not clear whether they were captured by Union soldiers or the Confederate Home Guard charged with rounding up deserters.

The prisoners were held in the basement of a house in Boonesville, and Elvis’s mother regularly took food to the prisoners.  One day as Elizabeth was heading there with food for her prisoner husband and his comrades, she heard the gunshots.  Apparently some of the soldiers had escaped; Calvin and one other were executed in retaliation.

One of the prisoners who managed to escape was Tom Frazier, my first cousin four times removed.  After Calvin died, his widow Elizabeth took up with Tom.  So what does this have to do with Elvis?  Tom had a half-sister named Columbia Frazier.  She and Elvis married in April of 1881 in Greene County, Virginia.  That means Elvis’s mother was also his sister-in-law.  But sadly, Columbia died just three years later.

Elvis was one of many Shifletts who intermarried with the Fraziers.  A year after Columbia died, on the 7^th of June 1885 Elvis married his wife’s cousin Polly Jane Frazier, also my first cousin four times removed.  Elvis and Polly Jane had seven children.  Most of them managed to marry Fraziers too, some of them more than one.

Elvis died before 1900, not even 40 years old.  Whether it’s poor spelling, poor transcribing, or hiding from the census taker, it looks as if Elvis managed to stay out of the census records after 1860. 

FAMILY of Elvis Sturdivant Shiflett

Elvis Sturdivant SHIFLETT (1860 Albemarle Co, VA – Before 1900 ) Son of Calvin SHIFLETT and Elizabeth HERRIN

M1) A. Columbia FRAZIER (1857 Greene Co, VA – 1884 Greene Co, VA )   07 Apr 1881 Greene Co, VA

M2) Polly Jane FRAZIER (1852 Greene Co, VA – 09 Apr 1936 Greene Co, VA )  07 Jun 1885 Greene Co, VA

1. Virgie Catherine SHIFLETT ( Mar 1886 Greene Co, VA –  28 Apr 1962 Virginia) & m1) John L. SHIFLETT 13 Jun 1902 Greene Co, VA ; & m2) Ryland G. FRAZIER  22 Sep 1907 Greene Co, VA
2. Robert Harrison SHIFLETT  (07 Nov 1887 Greene Co, VA – 02 Jun 1970 Albemarle Co, VA ) & Sarah Jane FRAZIER LAWSON (0 6 Feb 1886 –  06 Sep 1969 Staunton, VA )  15 Feb 1917 Greene Co, VA
3. Charlie G. SHIFLETT (Jun 1889 Greene Co, VA – )
4. Bertha Lee SHIFLETT (May 1892 Greene Co, VA – 29 Jun 1950 Monongalia, WV) & Edgar A. FRAZIER ( 06 Jun 1880 Greene Co, VA –  23 May 1954 Rockingham Co, VA )  24 Jun 1906 Greene Co, VA
5. Thomas L. SHIFLETT (Jan 1894 Greene Co, VA – 19 Oct 1965 Dundalk, MD )
6. James Albert “Spriggins” SHIFLETT (Jan 1895 Greene Co, VA – Mar 1937 Charlottesville, VA ) & Mary Sally TRIPLET (03 Jul 1909 Albemarle Co, VA – 28 Oct 1979 Alexandria, VA)   10 Oct 1938
7. Selena Gertrude SHIFLETT (28 Sep 1897 Greene Co, VA – 06 Nov 1972 Stafford, VA ) & m1) Andrew Allen FRAZIER  (20 Apr 1892 – 17 Jul 1968 Albemarle Co, VA )  03 Jan 1912 Greene Co, VA ; & m2) Henry Luther FRAZIER (27 Apr 1904 Albemarle Co, VA – 25 Jun 1968 Stafford, VA )

Source:

Addington, Norm. "The House in Boonesville." Shifflett Family Genealogy. Bob Klein, 7 Jan. 2015. Web. 07 Jan. 2015. <http://www.shiflett-klein.com/shifletfamily/Gallery/calvhsgall.html>.

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52 Ancestors: #46 - Joshua SHIFLETT

Amy Johnson Crow of No Story Too Small has issued a challenge:  write one blog post each week devoted to a specific ancestor.  It can be a story, a biography, a photograph, an outline of a research problem – anything that focuses on one ancestor.

For a long time I just assumed that my 4X great-grandfather Joshua SHIFLETT was the brother of another of my 4X great-grandfathers, Jacob SHIFLETT.  After all, they were contemporaries; they lived near one another; they appeared together as witnesses in a number of legal documents.  But another descendant of Joshua has presented a stronger argument that Joshua was the son of Thomas, thus making him the brother of Jacob’s father John, and therefore Jacob’s uncle. 

So I’m going with that unless I can prove otherwise.

Joshua was born in Albemarle County, Virginia about 1774 and remained there his entire life.  On August 22, 1797, he married Melinda BRUCE, daughter of Richard BRUCE and Caty WHITE.  They raised at least three confirmed children but perhaps more.  The 1820 census for Fredericksville Parish in Albemarle shows a family that I expect to see:

MALES

1 10-15 – possibly Isaac

1 16-25 – possibly a son-in-law Michael Shiflett

1 45+ – Joshua

FEMALES

2 under 10 – possibly children of Minerva and Michael

2 16-25 – Minerva and Melissa

1 26-44 – Melinda

But in 1830, the family is more difficult to pinpoint:

MALES

2 5-9 – ?  Who are these children?

1 20-29 – Isaac

1 60-69 – Joshua

FEMALES

1 15-19 – ?  Who is this?

1 50-59 – Melinda

1 female slave 36-54

THREE GENERATIONS:

Joshua SHIFLETT ( 1774 Albemarle Co, VA –  About 1838 Albemarle Co, VA ) & Melinda BRUCE (1783 Albemarle Co, VA – Sep 1872 Greene Co, VA )   22 Aug 1797 Albemarle Co, VA

1. Minerva SHIFLETT ( 1798 Albemarle Co, VA – Before 1850 Albemarle Co, VA ) & Michael “Miley” SHIFLETT  (1793 Albemarle Co, VA – After 1850 Albemarle Co, VA ) 10 Feb 1818 Albemarle Co, VA

• Caroline SHIFLETT ( 1825 Albemarle Co, VA – )
• George SHIFLETT ( 1828 Albemarle Co, VA – )
• Hardinia SHIFLETT ( 1831 Albemarle Co, VA – )
• Franklin SHIFLETT ( 1833 Albemarle Co, VA – )
• Columbus SHIFLETT (1835 Albemarle Co, VA – )
• Decatur SHIFLETT ( 1837 Albemarle Co, VA – )
• Hester A. SHIFLETT ( 21 May 1841 Albemarle Co, VA – 23 Jun 1920 Greene Co, VA & William MCALISTER 30 Jul 1866 Greene Co, VA
• Henrietta Clay SHIFLETT ( 02 Jan 1845 Albemarle Co, VA – ) & Lucian Quint COLEMAN (1859 – ) 21 Nov 1880 Augusta Co, VA 

2. Melissa SHIFLETT ( 1802 Albemarle Co, VA – After 1870 Harrison, WV ) & Joseph Joel SHIFLETT (1791 Albemarle Co, VA –  19 Apr 1856 West Virginia)  20 Oct 1824 Albemarle Co, VA

• Joab SHIFLETT ( 1824 – )
• Maria SHIFLETT ( 1825 – )
• Joseph SHIFLETT ( 1832 – )
• Zephania SHIFLETT ( 1834 – )
• Catherine SHIFLETT ( 1837 – )
• Anderson / Alfred SHIFLETT ( 1839 – )
• John SHIFLETT ( 1840 – )
• Louis SHIFLETT ( 1842 – )
• Melican SHIFLETT (1844 – ) 

3. Isaac SHIPLETT ( May 1807 Albemarle Co, VA – Jan 1862 Albemarle Co, VA ) & Susan JORDAN  (1814 – 28 Feb 1882 Rockingham Co, VA ) 24 Oct 1836 Albemarle, VA

• Philip Penelton SHIPLETT ( 29 Oct 1837 Albemarle Co, VA  – 16 Mar 1919 Rockingham Co, VA ) & Jennetta Ann DOVEL (17 Jan 1841 – 24 Mar 1922 Rockingham Co, VA )
• Octavius SHIPLETT ( 1841 Albemarle Co, VA – 03 Jul 1863 Gettysburg, Adams, PA )
• Lycennius H. SHIPLETT ( 1844 Albemarle Co, VA  – 16 Mar 1919 Rockingham Co, VA) & Emily J. “Ginny” BRUCE  17 Dec 1867 Albemarle, VA
• Comaia Clarissa SHIPLETT ( 1847 Albemarle Co, VA – 03 Sep 1894 ) & John Wesley LONG ( 1847 – )  25 Jul 1867 Albemarle, VA
• Segourney F. SHIFLETT ( 1851 Albemarle Co, VA  – 09 Feb 1926 Washington DC) & George Harvey EPPARD (1839 Albemarle Co, VA – 13 Jan 1917 Rockingham Co, VA )  28 May 1870 Rockingham Co, VA
• M. E. SHIPLETT ( 1854 Albemarle Co, VA – )
• George SHIPLETT ( 1856 Albemarle Co, VA – )

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52 Ancestors: #45 - Richard BRUCE

Amy Johnson Crow of No Story Too Small has issued a challenge:  write one blog post each week devoted to a specific ancestor.  It can be a story, a biography, a photograph, an outline of a research problem – anything that focuses on one ancestor.

My 5X great-grandfather Richard BRUCE is a bit of a puzzle.  (But aren’t they all?)  He was the baby of the family born to George Bruce and Elizabeth Quinn in 1754.  He was surely old enough to have served in the militia during the Revolutionary War, but I have found no evidence of that on Fold3.  However, his brothers served and received pensions. 

Richard must have been a smart man who earned the respect of his family and neighbors.  He might have been a lawyer, in fact.  He was asked to seek the aid of Thomas Jefferson in settling a military claim: 

on Ancestry.com
used by permission from mrtsix3

Albemarle 12^th Dec 1791

Sir,

Having repeatedly experienced favors of this kind from you it emboldens me still to intrude further on your goodness.  David Owings & David Wood have got some military claim sent on by the Assembly to Congress to have them settled.  And they have wrote to Mr. Madison to lay them separately before Congress.  And as I was in some measure the instigation of their not being paid as you will see by the papers therefore beg you to be so good as to try to get them settled when they come to hand [not sure that’s what it says] and write me word their fate.

I am Sir your most obt [obedient] servant

Richd Bruce

In 1794, Richard’s brother William and his wife Ann Nancy, who were residing in North Carolina, appointed him to be their attorney to sell 300 acres of land in Albemarle [Deed Book 1, p. 34].

There are many deeds and other documents witnessed by Richard Bruce; however, quite often the date is many years after the 1813 death date that seems to be accepted by Bruce researchers.  His absence in the 1820 census makes that date seem probable.  Still, the deeds between Richard Bruce and Joshua Shiflett, the husband of Richard’s daughter Malinda, make me wonder whether he was still living beyond 1813 or if there is another Richard Bruce, a son perhaps, or a nephew. 

The rest of Richard’s life can be summed up with statistics from the early census records for Albemarle County in Virginia:

• 1782 – one free male above 21; owned 8 cattle and 5 horses; had no carriages, billiard tables, or license to operate an ordinary
• 1790 – one white male over 16; 2 blacks over 16; owned 2 horses but no carriages
• 1800 – 2 white males over 16; 2 blacks over 16; 2 blacks between 12 and 16; owned 3 horses but no carriages
• 1810 – 3 males under 10, 1 male 16-25, 2 males over 45, 2 females under 10, 2 females 26-44, and 7 slaves

THREE GENERATIONS:

Richard BRUCE ( 1754 Albemarle Co, VA – 1813 Loudoun, VA ) & & Catherine “Caty” WHITE (1744 Virginia – 1784 Virginia)  1773 Albemarle Co, VA

1.  Elizabeth “Betsy” BRUCE ( 1774 Albemarle Co, VA – 24 Nov 1854 Albemarle Co, VA )

2.  Sarah “Sallie” BRUCE ( 1776 Albemarle Co, VA – ) & Zachariah GARRISON (1772 Albemarle Co, VA – )  26 Dec 1797 Albemarle Co, VA

3.  Malinda BRUCE ( 1783 Albemarle Co, VA –  Sep 1872 Greene Co, VA ) & Joshua SHIFLETT (1775 Albemarle Co, VA – 1838 Virginia )  22 Aug 1797  Albemarle Co, VA

• Minerva SHIFLETT ( 1798 Albemarle Co, VA – 1863 Virginia )
• Melissa SHIFLETT ( 1802 Albemarle Co, VA - After 1870 Harrison, WV ) & Joseph “Joel” SHIFLETT (1791 Albemarle Co, VA – 19 Apr 1856 West Virginia)  20 Oct 1824 Albemarle Co, VA
• Isaac SHIPLETT ( May 1807 Albemarle Co, VA – Jan 1862 Albemarle Co, VA ) & Susan JORDAN (1814 – 28 Feb 1882 Rockingham Co, VA )  24 Oct 1836 Albemarle, VA

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52 Ancestors: #35 - The JARRELLS

Amy Johnson Crow of No Story Too Small has issued a challenge:  write one blog post each week devoted to a specific ancestor.  It can be a story, a biography, a photograph, an outline of a research problem – anything that focuses on one ancestor.

My 3X great grandmother Mary P. JARRELL managed to accomplish something few of my oldest ancestors couldn’t:  she had family who provided a tombstone that could survive the trampling of cattle and loss of cemeteries. 

Mary P. Jarrell 1791-1871
photo courtesy Jan Hensley

She was the wife of John Frank RUCKER and mother to five children.  Other than some dates, I know little about Mary since my research has thus far been limited to online sources.  At Ancestry.com, many Rucker researchers claim Mary was the daughter of Daniel and Mary Terry Jarrell.  However, there is no supporting evidence.

In fact, there is significant supporting evidence that those researchers are just wrong.  A website dedicated to the Jarrells and related families provides thorough research as well as documentation.  

Here is where that research differs from the common view on Ancestry:

• Daniel Jarrell was not married to Mary Terry.  He was married to Mary DAVIS, as proved by the wills of James Davis and Benjamin Davis II as well as a number of records that support this close Jarrell and Davis connection.
• MY Mary Jarrell was not the daughter of Daniel and Mary.  Their daughter Mary married William Humphreys.

Searching through the siblings of Daniel Jarrell leads to the conclusion that MY Mary wasn’t a niece either.  All the Mary Jarrells and their husbands were present and accounted for.

The fact that Mary and John Frank were married in Madison County puts them in the neighborhood of this family of Jarrells.  After all, the Jarrells and Ruckers shared property lines, served together in the Revolutionary War, intermarried, bought land from one another, and supplied witnesses for countless records.

So who was Mary’s family if not Daniel’s or his brothers'?

One possibility is that she was part of the Fitzgerald family who also lived in Madison County.  They were a totally separate family unrelated to the Jarrells.  However, a number of proven Fitzgeralds used the name Jarrell or Garrell interchangeably with or instead of Fitzgerald.  The often-used spelling “Fitzjarrell” and “Fitzgarrell” makes it easy to see how that could happen. 

This quirky name game was evident in my 4X great grandmother’s experience.  Mary “Polly” SELF was married to Eason Fitzgerald in January 1802 in Orange County.  What became of Fitzgerald is unknown – he might have died or Polly might have left him (or him her).  Being legally unavailable might explain why during her time with Jacob Shiflett she was a common-law wife known as Polly Garrell/Jarrell. 

Fitzgerald names that need investigating include James, Thomas, William, Stephen and Lewis.   

SOURCE:

Horsley, Joan. The Jarrell Family of Early Virginia with focus on Daniel Jarrell and his wife Mary Davis: Their Family, Relatives, & Neighbors. Raleigh, NC: J. Horsley, 2009. Available online at www.joanhorsley.org.

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52 Ancestors: #29 - July Ann Catherine SHIFLETT Lamb

Amy Johnson Crow of No Story Too Small has issued a challenge:  write one blog post each week devoted to a specific ancestor.  It can be a story, a biography, a photograph, an outline of a research problem – anything that focuses on one ancestor.

My third great grandaunt July Ann Catherine Shiflett was the baby of the family born to Jacob Shiflett and Polly Jarrell in July 1828.  When her father prepared his will prior to his death in 1841, Jacob made special provisions for his unmarried daughter:  $100 over and above what was to be divided equally among all the children. 

Six years later in 1847, though, July Ann married Pemberton Lamb.  Aren’t those fabulous names?  I always thought “July Ann” had a great Southern ring to it, but more often than not, census records spell her name “Julia Ann,” so I have to wonder what her name really was. 

In the 1850 census, there were no children.  Pemberton was a farmer, but he reported no land value, so probably he did not own his own farm at that time.  In 1860, the household boasted one daughter Melissa Ann, age 10.  July Ann’s widowed brother Madison and his children were there too, but apparently only temporarily since Madison was enumerated a second time several months later in his own home.  In 1870, three children were named in the census, and no one in the family could read or write.  Pemberton was still a farmer but with no land value reported. 

By 1880, July Ann and Pemberton’s status must have improved somewhat.  While they didn’t report any land value in the census, Pemberton’s report on the non-population agricultural schedule paints a different picture, although it’s not a glowing report by any means.  He worked only 15 acres of land while 100 acres remained unimproved.  By contrast, his neighbors farmed 30-100 acres.  He estimated his farm, with its fences and buildings, was worth $200 and livestock worth $75; he did not report on the value of machinery and tools.

In the 1900 census, July Ann and Pemberton were “empty nesters.”  She reported having had 15 children, but with only 3 surviving. 

In July 1902, July/Julia Ann applied for a widow’s pension.  Pemberton died that same month from some unreadable condition of the bladder.  Julia Ann was living alone and had no form of income; she also claimed to own no land.  Pemberton had served in the 7^th Virginia Regiment Kemper’s Brigade, Pickett’s Division under Longstreet’s Command.  So evidently he saw the horror in Gettysburg. 

Since Julia Ann Lamb’s name does not appear in the 1910 census, she apparently had died by then.

THREE GENERATIONS:

July Ann Catherine SHIFLETT ( Jul 1828 Orange, VA - After 1902 ) & Pemberton LAMB ( Sep 1822 - 18 Jul 1902 Greene Co, VA )  26 Jan 1847 Greene Co, VA

1. Melissa Ann LAMB (1850 Greene Co, VA - After 1910) & m1) James W. TAYLOR ( 1841 – About 1880 Greene Co, VA )  13 Jan 1871 Greene Co, VA ; & m2) Meshack T. SAMUELS ( 1834 Greene Co, VA – 1913 Greene  Co, VA )  19 Jun 1886 in Greene Co, VA

Melissa Ann and James Taylor had the following children:

• James Edward TAYLOR  ( 1873 Greene Co, VA - 30 Apr 1955 ) & m1) Martha L. BREEDEN ( 1866 Page Co, VA - ) 05 Jan 1893 Page Co, VA ; & m2) Della Marie DEAN (02 Feb 1897 Page Co, VA - 15 Jan 1979 Staunton, VA )  24 Dec 1919 Page Co, VA
• Charles TAYLOR ( 1878 Greene Co, VA – After  1930 Greene Co, VA ) & He m1) Ardista Florence BREEDEN ( 1879 Rockingham Co, VA - Before 1923 Greene Co, VA  ) 29 Jan 1897 Rockingham Co, VA ; & m2) Mary Ellen Bettie LAMB ( 1890 - )  19 Mar 1923 Greene Co, VA
• John TAYLOR ( Aug 1879 Greene Co, VA - )

Melissa Ann and Meshack Samuels had the following children:

• John W. SAMUELS ( 1882 Greene Co, VA - )
• Joseph SAMUELS  ( Jun 1884 Greene Co, VA - 24 Dec 1914 Greene Co, VA )
• Thomas Grover SAMUELS ( 07 Mar 1886 Greene Co, VA - Jun 1972 Bloomsburg, PA ) & Elizabeth B. Lizzie LAM ( Aug 1888 Page Co, VA - 28 May 1961 Pennsville, NJ )  12 Oct 1911 Page Co, VA
• Suel F. SAMUELS ( 29 Jun 1888 Greene Co, VA - ) & Daisy Lee Lessie SNOW ( 1895 - ) 01 May 1917 Monroe, WV
• Pannie SAMUELS ( 26 Jun 1889 Greene Co, VA - Mar 1974 Madison Co, VA ) & m1) Maggie LAMB ( Dec 1892 Greene Co, VA – 20 Mar 1974 ) 02 Feb 1911 Greene Co, VA ; & m2) Myrtie Mae LAM  ( 04 Jun 1898 Rockingham Co, VA - 05 Jul 1984 Madison Co, VA ) 16 May 1918 Greene Co, VA
• Cicero SAMUELS ( 07 Sep 1892 Greene Co, VA - Jan 1980 Gordonsville, VA ) & Delia Nellie TAYLOR ( 27 Jul 1896 - 18 Mar 1986 Gordonsville, VA )  15 Jan 1914 Greene Co, VA 

2. Hiram J. LAMB ( 22 Sep 1854 Greene Co, VA - 1922 Greene Co, VA ) & m1) Lucy Ann GEAR (May 1856 Greene Co, VA  -  03 Jun 1917 Greene Co, VA )  20 Jan 1876 Greene Co, VA ; & m2) Virginia “Sis” BREEDEN ( 1876 - )  09 Apr 1919 Greene Co, VA

Hiram and Lucy Lamb had the following children:

• John Wesley LAMB ( Jan 1877 Greene Co, VA - 19 Nov 1952 Beckley, WV ) & Levvie N. TAYLOR (1880 Greene Co, VA -  09 Dec 1958 Beckley, WV )  18 May 1906 Page Co, VA
• George Harvey LAMB ( Jun 1878 Greene Co, VA - 24 May 1958 Charlottesville, VA ) & Emma Capitola Annie MEADOWS (24 Feb 1885 Page Co, VA - 06 Oct 1939 Greene Co, VA ) 08 May 1902 Greene Co, VA
• Alexander LAMB ( May 1879 Greene Co, VA - )
• James Cal LAMB ( 1883 Greene Co, VA - ) & Maude TAYLOR (21 Mar 1889 Page Co, VA - 11 Jul 1971 Charlottesville, VA )  09 Nov 1916 Greene Co, VA
• Lucy LAMB ( 1885 Greene Co, VA - )
• Irvine Dorsey LAMB ( 09 Jan 1887 Greene Co, VA -  05 Mar 1910 ) & Etta Florence SHIFLETT (Jul 1890 Greene Co, VA - )  06 Jan 1910 Greene Co, VA
• Willie Jackson LAMB ( Oct 1889 Greene Co, VA - Jan 1973 ) & Dalga I. Dollie LAMB (Dec 1898 Greene Co, VA - 25 Nov 1983 Greene Co, VA ) 27 Dec 1917 Greene Co, VA
• Maggie LAMB ( Dec 1892 Greene Co, VA - 20 Mar 1974 ) & Pannie SAMUELS (26 Jun 1889 Greene Co, VA -  20 Mar 1974 Madison Co, VA ) 02 Feb 1911 Greene Co, VA
• Mary LAMB (1898 Greene Co, VA - )

Hiram and Sis Lamb had the following child:

• Floyd LAMB ( 1912 Greene, VA - )

3. Unnamed LAMB ( 1855 Greene Co, VA - 10 Oct 1856 Greene Co, VA )

4. Houston LAMB ( 1858 Greene Co, VA - ) & Ardista JARRELL  ( 1872 Greene Co, VA - ) 1889 Greene Co, VA

• James LAMB ( 12 Apr 1890 Greene Co, VA -  29 May 1986 Greene Co, VA ) & Carrie Etta UNKNOWN (31 Oct 1895 - 14 Aug 1969 Greene Co, VA )  11 Jun 1913 Greene Co, VA
• Maud LAMB ( Mar 1892 Greene Co, VA - 15 Sep 1970 Charlottesville, VA ) & Mathew LAMB ( 1876 Greene Co, VA - )  03 Oct 1916 Greene Co, VA
• Lena B. or Cora LAMB ( 05 Aug 1894 Greene Co, Va - 17 Aug 1972 Greene Co, VA ) & Herndon SHIFLETT (21 Mar 1896 Greene Co, VA - 27 Dec 1968 Charlottesville, VA )  16 Nov 1916 Greene Co, VA
• Lester B. Lirty LAMB ( 03 Sep 1896 Greene Co, VA - 29 Nov 1968 Falls Church, VA ) & Sadie S. JARRELL ( 27 Feb 1901 - 31 Jul 1939 )
• Dalga I. Dollie LAMB ( Dec 1898 Greene Co, VA - 25 Nov 1983 Greene Co, VA ) & Willie Jackson LAMB ( Oct 1889 Greene Co, VA - Jan 1973 ) 27 Dec 1917 in Greene Co, VA
• Gratten Fenton “Dick” LAMB ( 1901 Greene Co, VA - 1973 Greene Co, VA ) & Bertha TAYLOR ( 19 Aug 1905 Greene Co, Virginia, VA - Feb 1984 Greene Co, VA )
• Levie LAMB  ( 1903 Greene Co, VA - 1972 Greene Co, VA ) & Jesse E. LEIGH ( 30 Jul 1903 Madison Co, VA -  Jun 1986 Greene Co, VA )  04 Aug 1928 Greene Co, VA
• Ella Pearl LAMB ( 20 Sep 1905 Greene Co, VA - 17 Feb 1986 Greene Co, VA ) & Roy TAYLOR (19 Sep 1899 Greene Co, VA - 02 Jul 1981 Greene Co, VA )  17 Sep 1928 Greene Co, VA
• Preston LAMB ( 07 Oct 1907 Greene Co, VA - on 21 Feb 1985 Charlottesville, VA ) & Nellie TAYLOR (15 Jul 1918 - 10 Feb 1978 )
• Lilian LAMB ( 1909 Greene Co, VA - )
• Luda Luttie LAMB ( 1911 Greene Co, VA - 1939 Greene Co, VA ) & David SNOW  (12 Oct 1912 -  05 Jan 1980 Greene Co, VA )  04 Jan 1934 Greene Co, VA
• Frank L. LAMB ( 02 Oct 1914 Greene Co, VA - Aug 1985 ) & Mary Branch DEANE ( 02 Jun 1918 - 15 Oct 2010 Greene Co, VA )

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52 Ancestors: #28 - Virenda Jane SHIFLETT Frazier

Amy Johnson Crow of No Story Too Small has issued a challenge:  write one blog post each week devoted to a specific ancestor.  It can be a story, a biography, a photograph, an outline of a research problem – anything that focuses on one ancestor.

My third great-grandaunt Virenda Jane SHIFLETT was the fourth child and first daughter of Jacob Shiflett and Polly Jarrell.  She was born about 1821 in a section of Orange County, Virginia that later became Greene.  Like her brother Burton Shiflett, she married a Frazier:  Michael P. Frazier, more popularly known as “Miley.”  Miley was a younger brother to Burton’s wife Nancy and to Leland Frazier, the one who stabbed Burton to death in 1860. 

While that story about Leland and Burton might be rather shocking, it’s just business as usual for the Frazier men, it seems.  My 94-year old cousin remembered Miley as a real character.  According to one story, he used to ride his horse through the house.  That sounds pretty bad, but read on.

One time Miley woke his nephew John Conway Shiflett because it was his turn to put the coals and wood on the fire. No gentle nudge. No calling out, “Hey, get up!”  No. Miley threw hot coals in Conway’s bed. The two of them started fighting and didn’t stop until the bed burned down to the springs.  They put the fire out and then resumed fighting. 

Probably the worst tale of Miley Frazier concerns Virenda Jane.  Supposedly a man calling on the Fraziers one day found Virenda hanging by her heels from the rafters.

Even though I’ve heard that story many times from different people, I don’t know whether to believe it.  However, it’s actually believable given Miley’s reputation.  He was known to be a terror to Greene County for years.  Ironically, for one who got into lots of fights, he was not a very good fighter; he was nearly disemboweled once.

Poor Virenda Jane – she really had her hands full.  I don’t know the date of her death, but I hope she lived at least until 1902 when Miley, well into his 90s, finally had himself baptized. 

THREE GENERATIONS:

Virenda Jane SHIFLETT ( 1821 Orange County, VA – Bef.  1900 Greene Co, VA ) & Michael P. “Miley” FRAZIER  ( Feb 1814 – Before 1910 Albemarle Co, VA )  14 Jul 1844 Greene Co, VA

1. Julia Ann FRAZIER ( 1845 Greene Co, VA – Bef. 1900 Greene Co, VA) & Thomas J. FRAZIER (1840 – 1918) 04 Jul 1864 Greene Co, VA

• Thomas FRAZIER ( 1862 Greene Co, VA - ) & Elizabeth GARRISON ( Mar 1861 – After 1907 )  02 Jan 1884 Albemarle, VA
•  Mahulda Jane FRAZIER ( 22 Mar 1866 Rockingham Co, VA - 04 Jan 1947 Greene, VA )  & John W. L. SHIFLETT  ( 1866 - )  03 Mar 1913 Rockingham Co, VA ; had several children with Francis Marion “Dosh” GARRISON although they never married

2. John T. FRAZIER ( 1847 Greene Co, VA – 1860 )

3. Henry Timber FRAZIER ( 12 Aug 1849 Greene Co, VA - 12 Feb 1931 Greene Co, VA ) & Eliza Susan LAWSON ( Oct 1857 Rockingham Co, VA - )  03 Jan 1874 Rockingham Co, VA

• Caroline Jane FRAZIER ( 12 Nov 1874 Greene Co, VA  - 09 Mar 1949 ) & John W. L. SHIFLETT ( 1866 - ) 24 Dec 1902 Greene Co, VA
• Ella Frances FRAZIER ( 1876 Albemarle Co, VA - 05 Jan 1937 Albemarle Co, VA ) &  Noah Clark HERRING 14 Apr 1903 Greene Co, VA
• Ryland G. FRAZIER ( 06 Jan 1877 Greene Co, VA - ) &  Virgie Catherine SHIFLETT  (Mar 1886 Greene Co, VA -  28 Apr 1962 ) 22 Sep 1907 Greene Co, VA
• George Henry FRAZIER ( 1879 Albemarle Co, VA - 03 Oct 1965 ) & Martha Fraces SHIFLETT ( 29 Dec 1876 – 11 Jun 1933 )  18 Feb 1901 Greene Co, VA
• Edgar A. FRAZIER  ( 06 Jun 1880 Greene Co, VA - 23 May 1954 Rockingham Co, VA ) & Bertha Lee SHIFLETT ( May 1892 - 29 Jun 1950 Monongalia, WV )  24 Jun 1906 Greene Co, VA
• Sarah F. FRAZIER  ( 06 Feb 1886 Greene Co, VA - 06 Feb 1969 Staunton, VA ) & Samuel P. LAWSON (23 Sep 1875 - 25 Jan 1943 Patrick Co, VA )
• Mary Susan FRAZIER ( Jun 1888 - ) & James Nathaniel FRAZIER ( 16 Jul 1886 Greene Co, VA - 23 Aug 1953 Charlottesville, VA )
• Victoria Anne FRAZIER ( 26 Sep 1890 Greene Co, VA - 26 Oct 1979 Grottoes, Rockingham, VA ) & James Wise ROSSON 20 Jul 1927 Greene Co, VA
• William Austin FRAZIER ( 15 Feb 1894 - 18 Nov 1981 Harrisonburg, VA ) & Julia Ann Rosson (23 Apr 1904 -  13 Jul 1993 Charlottesville, VA )
• Lillian N. FRAZIER ( Feb 1895 - ) & Unknown RIDGEWAY
• Minnie Lee FRAZIER ( 24 May 1897 Albemarle Co, VA -  Dec 1976 Albemarle Co, VA ) & Thomas Jefferson FRAZIER (15 May 1893 Rockingham Co, VA - 10 Apr 1970 Albemarle Co, VA )  09 Aug 1922 Greene Co, VA
• William McKinley FRAZIER ( 1901 Greene Co, VA -  1984 ) & Gracie SHIFLETT (1900 – 1984 )

4. Jacob Emanuel FRAZIER ( 1851 – 1920 ) & Frances Jane MORRIS ( - Bef. 1920 ) 26 Dec 1883 Greene Co, VA

• Rebecca FRAZIER ( 17 Sep 1883 Greene Co, VA - 1967 Charlottesville, VA ) & Moses Sommerville CRAWFORD 05 Jun 1902 Greene Co, VA
• Loretta FRAZIER ( 1884 Greene Co, VA - 1956 ) & Zachary CONLEY ( 1879 - ) 20 Apr 1911 Greene Co, VA
• Annie FRAZIER ( 1888 Greene Co, VA - )  & Henry Hudson COLLIER ( 1886 - )  22 Mar 1909 Greene Co, VA
• Emanuel  A. FRAZIER ( 1891 Greene Co, VA ) & Lucy CONLEY 18 Oct 1911 Greene Co, VA
• Melvina FRAZIER ( 22 Apr 1892 Greene Co, VA - 11 Aug 1968 Greene Co, VA ) & Thomas MORRIS ( 1884 - )  23 Jun 1908 Greene Co, VA
• Noah FRAZIER ( 23 Oct 1897 Greene Co, VA - 12 Oct 1984 Scottsville, Albemarle, VA ) & Sydney CRAWFORD  ( 1901 - ) 20 Oct 1919 Greene Co, VA
• George H. Bluford FRAZIER ( 1900 Greene Co, VA - 1987 Greene Co, VA ) & Amanda COLLIER ( 1900 - )  20 Mar 1919 Greene Co, VA

5. Austin Jackson FRAZIER ( Jun 1855 Albemarle Co, VA - Dec 1921 Greene Co, VA ) & Nancy Frances MORRIS ( May 1852 Greene Co, VA - )  02 Mar 1876 Greene Co, VA

• Loujourn FRAZIER ( Apr 1877 - ) & Sarah MALLOY (1883 - )  12 May 1922 Greene Co, VA
• Virenda J. FRAZIER ( 25 Feb 1878 Greene Co, VA -  26 May 1955 ) & John Turner MCALISTER ( 1875 Albemarle Co, VA – 1961 )  02 Jan 1900 Greene Co, VA
• Arthur Z. FRAZIER ( Feb 1880 - Before 1900 )
• Althea Z. “Alti” FRAZIER  (15 Mar 1881 Greene Co, VA - 22 Feb 1947 Albemarle, VA )  
• James Nathaniel FRAZIER ( 16 Jul 1886 Greene Co, VA -  23 Aug 1953 Charlottesville, VA )  & m1) Annie FRAZIER 02 Dec 1906 Greene Co, VA ; &  m2) Mary Lee MCALISTER  (17 Apr 1881 Albemarle Co, VA - 01 Oct 1917 Albemarle Co, VA ) 18 Jan 1911 Albemarle Co, VA ; & m3) Mary Susan FRAZIER (1888 - )
• George Fountain FRAZIER ( Oct 1890 Greene Co, VA -  03 Mar 1967 Rockingham Co, VA ) & Sarah Mildred ROACH  1910
• Anjenetta FRAZIER ( Apr 1893 Greene Co, VA - )
• Barbra E. FRAZIER ( Feb 1894 Greene Co, VA -  Apr 1929 ) & m1) Richard Bruce SHIFLETT ; & m2) Norfield/Warfield MCCAULEY 01 Mar 1909 Greene Co, VA
• Fannie F. FRAZIER ( Oct 1896 Greene Co, VA - Before 1922 ) & Thomas Jefferson FRAZIER (15 May 1893 Rockingham Co, VA - 10 Apr 1970 in Albemarle Co, VA )  30 Nov 1912 Greene Co, VA

6. J. M. FRAZIER ( 1859 Albemarle Co, VA - )

7. Polly Jane FRAZIER ( 1862 Greene Co, VA -  09 Apr 1936 Greene Co, VA ) & Elvis Sturdivant SHIFLETT ( 1862 Greene Co, VA  – Bef. 1900 Greene Co, VA )  07 Jun 1885 Greene Co, VA

• Virgie Catherine SHIFLETT ( Mar 1886 Greene Co, VA - 28 Apr 1962 ) & m1) John L. SHIFLETT 13 Jun 1902 Greene Co, VA ; & m2) Ryland G. FRAZIER (06 Jan 1877 Greene Co, VA - )  22 Sep 1907 Greene Co, VA
• Robert Harrison SHIFLETT ( 07 Nov 1887 - 02 Jun 1970 Albemarle Co, VA )
• Charlie G. SHIFLETT ( Jun 1889 - )
• Bertha Lee SHIFLETT ( May 1892 - 29 Jun 1950 Monongalia, WV ) & Edgar A. FRAZIER  ( 06 Jun 1880 Greene Co, VA - 23 May 1954 Rockingham Co, VA )  24 Jun 1906 Greene Co, VA
• Thomas L. SHIFLETT ( Jan 1894 -19 Oct 1965 Dundalk, Baltimore, MD )
• James Albert “Spriggins” SHIFLETT (Jan 1895 Greene Co, VA - Mar 1937 Charlottesville, VA ) & Mary Sally TRIPLET (03 Jul 1909 Albemarle Co, VA - 28 Oct 1979 Alexandria, VA )
• Selena Gertrude SHIFLETT ( 28 Sep 1897 - 06 Nov 1972 Stafford, VA ) & m1) Andrew Allen FRAZIER (20 Apr 1892 -  17 Jul 1968 Albemarle Co, VA )  03 Jan 1912 Greene Co, VA ; & m2) Henry Luther FRAZIER (27 Apr 1904 Albemarle Co, VA - 25 Jun 1968 Stafford, VA )

8. George Dallas FRAZIER ( May 1866 Greene Co, VA - 13 Sep 1949 ) & Pauline Ann “Polly” MORRIS ( 1862 Greene Co, VA – After 1930 )  21 Oct 1886 Greene Co, VA

• Drucilla FRAZIER (27 Dec 1890 Albemarle Co, VA – 15 Jun 1967 Albemarle Co, VA ) & Alexander Laird GARRISON  (30 Aug 1889 Albemarle Co, VA – 7 Jan 1935 )  24 Nov 1908 Greene Co, VA
• William M. FRAZIER ( 1891 – Before 1988 )
• George Mitchell FRAZIER (19 Dec 1892 Greene Co, VA – 04 Jan 1984 Harrisburg, PA ) & Eleanor GARRISON
• Frances Louemonia FRAZIER (19 May 1896 Greene Co, VA – 9 Dec 1981 Albemarle Co, VA ) & John Thomas SHIFLETT ( 24 Dec 1895 Greene Co, VA – 16 Apr 1959 Albemarle Co, VA ) 31 Jan 1917 Greene Co, VA
• Christine Helen Jane FRAZIER ( 1898 – After 1960 ) & Lewis Vernon SHIFLETT ( 07 May 1902 Greene Co, VA – 11 Sep 1938 Hummelstown, PA )  19 May 1924 Greene Co, VA
• Lou Mittie FRAZIER ( 1899 – Before 1988 )
• James Alfred FRAZIER (18 Jun 1901 – 04 Mar 1988 Albemarle Co, VA )

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52 Ancestors: #27 - Madison SHIFLETT

Amy Johnson Crow of No Story Too Small has issued a challenge:  write one blog post each week devoted to a specific ancestor.  It can be a story, a biography, a photograph, an outline of a research problem – anything that focuses on one ancestor.

James Madison SHIFLETT, my third great granduncle, was either the first or second son of Jacob Shiflett and Polly Jarrell.  The ages of Jefferson Shiflett as reflected in census records and obituary suggest he was the first born.  However, Jacob’s will lists Madison first and Jefferson third; whether the list was intended to be chronological is not clear. 

Unlike his brother Jefferson, Madison stayed close to home.  In 1836, he obtained a land grant for 59 ¾ acres next to his father’s land in a section of upper Orange County that two years later became Greene County, Virginia. 

In 1844, Madison married Lucinda SHIFLETT.  They had at least 4 children, but sadly they just didn’t seem to stick.  One died as an infant; one was shot and killed as a teenager; one simply disappeared after the 1860 census.  However his daughter Rebecca managed to live a long time, marry, and produce plenty of grandchildren. 

Apparently by 1860, Madison was already a widower.  In June he was enumerated along with his three children living with his brother-in-law and sister, Pemberton and July Ann Catherine Lamb.  In August, Madison was enumerated again, but this time he was on his own living with his children next door to his mother Polly Jarrell and brother Burton. 

In 1870, the 60-year old Madison married a 25-year old Parrenia Herring.  As creepy as that sounds today, those obvious May-December marriages were very common.  They had one daughter.

 Three Generations:

James Madison SHIFLETT ( 1809 Orange Co, VA – May 1887 Greene Co, VA ) & m1) Lucinda SHIFLETT (1819 –  Before 1870) 13 Dec 1844 Greene Co, VA ; & m2) Parrenia HERRING (1845 - ) 3 Jul 1870 Greene Co, VA

Madison and Lucinda had the following children:

1. Matthew SHIFLETT ( 1847 Greene County, VA - )

2. Burton SHIFLETT ( 1849 Greene County, VA - 20 Oct 1866 Greene Co, VA )

3. Rebecca Jane Catherine SHIFLETT ( Aug 1850 Greene Co, VA - 1936 Albemarle Co, VA) & Burton MCALISTER ( Feb 1842 – 1933 Albemarle Co, VA ) 06 Aug 1867 Greene Co, VA 

• Lucinda C. MCALISTER ( Apr 1868 Greene Co, VA - 23 Apr 1933 Albemarle Co, VA ) & John F. WALTON  16 Jul 1914 Albemarle Co, VA
• William B. MCALISTER ( Aug 1871 Albemarle Co, VA – 1939 ) & Martha UNKNOWN ( Dec 1863 - ) about 1898
• Parthena Alice MCALISTER ( 1873 Albemarle Co, VA - )
• John Turner MCALISTER ( 1875 Albemarle Co, VA – 1961 ) & Virenda J. FRAZIER (25 Feb 1878 Greene Co, VA - 26 May 1955 )  02 Jan 1900 Greene Co, VA
• Laura A. MCALISTER ( Mar 1878 Albemarle Co, VA – 1962 ) & Richard Franklin GARRISON 01 Jun 1929 Albemarle Co, VA
• Mary Lee MCALISTER ( 17 Apr 1881 Albemarle Co, VA - 01 Oct 1917 Albemarle Co, VA ) & James Nathaniel FRAZIER (16 Jul 1886 Greene Co, VA - 23 Aug 1953 Charlottesville, VA ) 18 Jan 1911 Albemarle Co, VA
• Richard Harrison MCALISTER ( Mar 1883 Albemarle Co, VA - 1958 Albemarle Co, VA ) & Lillie A. GARRISON (09 Apr 1881 Augusta Co, VA - 1965 Albemarle Co, VA )
• Emmitt Franklin MCALISTER ( 25 Sep 1885 Albemarle Co, VA - 07 Jan 1957 Albemarle Co, VA ) & Fannie Catherine SHIFLETT ( 1895 Greene Co, VA – 1985 )  09 Mar 1912 Greene Co, VA
• Edward F. MCALISTER ( Mar 1888 Albemarle Co, VA - )
• Bernard Dabney MCALISTER ( Jan 1890 Albemarle Co, VA  -  12 Jan 1919 Albemarle Co, VA ) & Beattie WOOD 29 May 1911 Albemarle Co, VA
• Myrtle Blanche MCALISTER ( May 1894 Albemarle Co, VA -  31 Jan 1933 ) & Samuel Watts WALTON (1892 Albemarle Co, VA - 1963 Albemarle Co, VA )

4. Noah W. SHIFLETT ( 10 Apr 1856 Greene Co, VA - 12 Sep 1856 Greene Co, VA )

Madison and Parrenia had the following child:

5. Ardenia SHIFLETT ( 1872 Greene Co, VA - )

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52 Ancestors: #26 - Burton SHIFLETT

Amy Johnson Crow of No Story Too Small has issued a challenge:  write one blog post each week devoted to a specific ancestor.  It can be a story, a biography, a photograph, an outline of a research problem – anything that focuses on one ancestor.

Week 26 - it's the halfway point in the 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks Challenge.  Half a year already?? 

Burton Shiflett and Nancy Elizabeth Frazier were my third great-grandparents, just one of MANY couples created by the intermarriage of Shifletts and Fraziers of Greene County, Virginia.  In fact, one of Nancy’s brothers married one of Burton’s sisters. 

While there was a lot of love between the two families, there was also a lot of fussin’ and fightin’ and feudin’.  Probably nothing changes the family dynamic quite as dramatically as killing one’s own, and that is exactly what happened in October of 1860. 

Nancy was made a widow at the hand of her oldest brother, Leland Frazier (aka Leland Shiflett).  Ironically, in 1840, Leland Frazier was a member of the Committee of Vigilance for Greene County.  The purpose of such groups of private citizens was to maintain law and order particularly where local government was inadequate, which seems to have been the case in Greene having been established for only two years. 

Yet twenty years later, Leland stood indicted for the murder of his brother-in-law, Burton Shiflett.  He pleaded “Not Guilty.”  While I have not found the motive, the means was stabbing.  It took several days for a sequestered jury of his peers to find Leland Frazier guilty NOT of murder but of Voluntary Manslaughter.

From the Greene County Circuit Court Law Book, pp. 116-117

 “We the Jury find the prisoner is guilty of Voluntary Manslaughter, and fixed his term of imprisonment to four years in the penitentiary house, Nov. 20, 1860.” And thereupon it being demanded of him, if anything for himself he had or knew to say why the Court should not now proceed to pronounce judgment against him according to law, and nothing being offered or alleged in delay of judgment, It is considered by the Court, that the said Leland Shiflett commonly called Leland Frazier be imprisoned in the public jail and penitentiary house of this Commonwealth for the space of four years, the period of the Jurors in their verdict ascertained. And the prisoner is remanded to jail.”

Voluntary Manslaughter suggests Leland killed his sister’s husband in the heat of the moment, that there had been no premeditation.  Perhaps Burton had even provoked the incident.  I wish I knew what they were fighting over.

THREE GENERATIONS: 

Burton SHIFLETT ( 1814 Orange County, VA - 22 Oct 1860 Greene Co, VA) & Nancy Elizabeth FRAZIER (14 Feb 1811 - 22 Jan 1895 Rockingham Co, VA )  01 Dec 1834 Albemarle, VA

1. Ola SHIFLETT ( 1835 –  Before 1850 )

2. Jacob Haskell SHIFLETT (About 1836 – Before 08 Oct 1871 ) & Lucretia JOLLETT ( 18 Sep 1838 Rockingham Co, VA  - 31 Dec 1911 Rockingham Co,VA )  05 Aug 1858 Page Co, VA

• Mary E. SHIFLETT ( May 1859 – Before 1955 ) & George R. MAYHEW ( Jul 1947 New York - )  17 Mar 1879 in Page Co, VA
• Martha F. S. SHIFLETT ( 1863 - Before 1955 ) & George W. MCCAULEY ( Aug 1852 – Before 1920 ) 08 Jun 1882 Rockingham Co, VA

3. John Conway SHIFLETT ( 02 Jun 1840 Greene Co, VA - 09 Feb 1917 Albemarle Co, VA ) & m1) Lucretia SHIFLETT  (1846 Greene Co, VA – Before Jul 1880 Greene Co, VA )  07 Dec 1863 Greene Co, VA  ; & m2) Nancy  J. SHIFLETT ( May 1848 - ) ; & m3) Mary D. SHIFLETT ( 1849 – 1924 ) 28 Jul 1880 Greene Co, VA 

John Conway and Lucretia SHIFLETT had the following children:

• Eudora A. SHIFLETT ( 01 Jul 1866 - 28 Dec 1932 ) & John Lewis GIBSON ( 1863 - ) 18 May 1884 in Greene Co, VA
• Joseph Ottobine SHIFLETT ( 30 Mar 1868 - ) & m1) Edie COLEMAN 10 Mar 1909 Augusta Co, VA ; & m2) Rosa L. ROBERTS ( 1892 - )

John Conway and Nancy J. SHIFLETT had the following children:

• John Conway SHIFLETT JR. ( 05 Oct 1877 - 27 Apr 1947 ) & Alice E. SHIFLETT (01 Aug 1887 - 02 Dec 1973 )  11 Oct 1901 Albemarle Co, VA
• Lucy Ann SHIFLETT ( 05 Oct 1877 - 30 Sep 1947 ) & Adam K. WYANT ( 02 Nov 1855 - 21 Jan 1941 )

John Conway and Mary D. SHIFLETT had the following children:

• Maude B. SHIFLETT ( Feb 1883 - 31 Oct 1957 ) & George Burress SHIFLETT (17 Sep 1872 - 21 May 1948 ) 29 Dec 1904 Albemarle Co, VA
• Wilford Clement SHIFLETT ( 05 Apr 1888 - 05 Aug 1961 ) & Lutitia Jane “Lishie” MORRIS (1885 – 02 Dec 1965 ) 27 Oct 1921 Greene Co, VA
• Woodford H. SHIFLETT ( 20 May 1890 - 02 Feb 1926 ) & Louise LEWIS ( 21 Aug 1896 – 02 Jul 1964 ) 06 Mar 1916 Albemarle Co, VA

4. Lucy Ann SHIFLETT ( 1843 Greene Co, VA - 1884 Greene Co, VA ) & James Franklin JOLLETT ( 17 Nov 1836 Rockingham Co, VA - 03 Jun 1930 Augusta Co, VA )  12 Nov 1859 Greene Co, VA

• Burton Lewis JOLLETT ( 1860 Greene Co, VA - Before 05 May 1934 Greene Co, VA ) & m1) Louisa SULLIVAN ( 1861 – Before 1900 ) 20 Jan 1881 ; & m2) Cornelia MORRIS ( Nov 1844 – Before 1920 ) 19 Sep 1900 Greene Co, VA
• Emma  F. JOLLETT ( 01 Feb 1863 Greene Co, VA - 10 Apr 1945 Shenandoah, Page, VA ) & Andrew Jackson “Jack” COLEMAN (29 Jul 1858 Greene Co, VA - 04 Oct 1947 Shenandoah, Page, VA ) 26 Nov 1880 Greene Co, VA
• Laura E. JOLLETT ( 30 May 1865 Greene Co, VA - 30 Jul 1947 Shenandoah, Page, VA ) &  William J. SULLIVAN  (13 Jan 1866 - 22 May 1942 in Shenandoah, Page Co, VA  ) 14 Jan 1886 in Greene Co, VA
• Columbia Ann Leanna JOLLETT ( 14 Mar 1867 Greene Co, VA - 20 Sep 1936 Greene Co, VA ) & James Mitchell KNIGHT (09 May 1866 Greene Co, VA - 16 Feb 1942 Greene Co, VA  )01 Mar 1885 Greene Co, VA
• Mary Frances JOLLETT ( 10 Jan 1870 Greene Co, VA - 22 Feb 1950 Harrisonburg, VA ) & Walter Beriah  Sylvester DAVIS (12 Sep 1867 Rockingham Co, VA - 31 Oct 1934 in Shenandoah, Page Co, VA ) 11 Feb 1890 Greene Co, VA
• Sarah Catherine “Sallie” JOLLETT ( 11 May 1872 Greene Co, VA - 07 Jul 1944 Washington DC ) & George Thomas CLIFT 30 Mar 1891, divorced 1914
• Victoria Elizabeth JOLLETT ( 19 Mar 1878 Greene Co, VA - 02 May 1944 ) & Decatur Bainbridge BREEDEN (15 Sep 1877 - 27 Sep 1952 Washington DC ) 1902
• William Isaac  JOLLETT ( Jan 1880 Greene Co, VA - Jul 1903 Newport News, VA )
• Ulysses Finks JOLLETT ( 26 Jan 1883 Greene Co, VA - 30 Jan 1931 Baltimore, MD ) & Sadie Janiero LAMB ( 07 Jul 1880 – 05 Feb 1961 ) 23 Nov 1903 Greene Co, VA

5. Francis M. SHIFLETT ( 1844 Greene Co, VA - )

6. Jeremiah SHIFLETT ( 1847 Greene Co, VA - )

7. Nancy Frances SHIFLETT ( 1849 Greene Co, VA -  1926 Fairfax, VA ) & William Gordon MORRIS JR.  (1851 Greene Co, VA – Before 1900 Greene Co, VA ) 20 Sep 1872 Greene Co, VA

William Layton MORRIS ( 1874 Greene Co, VA -  03 Feb 1895 ) & Ida Mary DAVIS ( 25 Jun 1869 - )  12 Dec 1890

• Upshur MORRIS ( 1875 – 1891 )
• Addie MORRIS ( 27 Mar 1876 - Apr 1901 ) & Henry ARMENTROUT ( 1875 - )
• Lemuel Belvin MORRIS ( 16 Dec 1877 - Oct 1947 ) & Emma  C. UNKNOWN 1906
• Marvin Tollie MORRIS ( 07 Aug 1878 Greene Co, VA -  1943 ) & Virginia  RHINEHART ( 1872 - )
• Ethel MORRIS ( Jul 1881 - After 1940 ) & Peter DAVIS (1866 - ) 1908 Greene Co, VA
• Vessie Lelia MORRIS ( 15 Feb 1883 - 06 Mar 1950 Fairfax, VA ) & Paul Edgar RHINEHART ( 1873 - )
• Margaret Elizabeth “Maggie” MORRIS ( 13 Sep 1884 - ) & Unknown WILLS
• Blanche Cornelia MORRIS ( 27 Feb 1887 - 25 Dec 1968 Greene Co, VA ) & Levin P. SMITH (1880 – 1971 )
• William Gordon “Bill” MORRIS III  ( 12 Feb 1891 - 09 Jul 1968 Greene Co, VA ) & Dorothy SNIVLEY.

8. Susan Clementine SHIFLETT ( 22 Jun 1851 Greene Co, VA - 29 Dec 1928 Greene Co, VA )  & George Austin MORRIS  (06 Apr 1848 Greene Co, VA - 14 Nov 1934 Greene Co, VA )  12 Dec 1870 Greene Co, VA

• Ida Belle MORRIS ( 15 Oct 1871 Greene Co, VA - 02 Apr 1917 Greene Co, VA ) & George Allen KNIGHT (11 May 1867 - 08 Sep 1948 Greene Co,  VA )  11 Jul 1894 in Greene Co, VA
• Francis Monroe MORRIS ( 21 Jul 1873 Greene Co, VA - 10 Aug 1936 Albemarle Co, VA ) & Ludelia MORRIS (06 Oct 1877 Greene Co, VA - 17 May 1958 Greene Co, VA )  28 Dec 1899 in Greene Co, VA
• Leviston Ervin MORRIS ( 01 Mar 1874 Greene Co, VA - 25 Dec 1957 Albemarle Co, VA ) &  Roberta Ella MORRIS (17 Mar 1878 Greene Co, VA - 30 Mar 1958 Greene Co, VA )  28 Dec 1899 Greene Co, VA
• Altie Zora MORRIS ( 02 Dec 1876 Greene Co, VA - 29 Dec 1954 ) & Charles PERKEY ( 19 Dec 1872 Rockingham Co, VA -  02 Jan 1943 ) 23 Dec 1902 Greene Co, VA
• Mary An n MORRIS ( 02 Dec 1878 Greene Co, VA -  18 Jun 1947 Greene Co, VA ) & James Charles SULLIVAN (11 Jul 1875 Greene Co, VA - 21 Mar 1913 Greene Co, VA )  19 Sep 1900 Greene Co, VA
• John Paul MORRIS ( 30 Mar 1880 Greene Co, VA - 21 Dec 1916 Greene Co, VA )
• Rhoda Green MORRIS ( 17 Nov 1882 Greene Co, VA - 22 Apr 1902 Greene Co, VA )
• Columbus Abell MORRIS ( 02 May 1884 Greene Co, VA - 20 Apr 1964 Pennsylvania ) & Elizabeth “Bessie” COLLINS  ( 16 Aug 1891 Pennsylvania - 11 Nov 1938 Greene Co, VA )  1913
• Sylvester E. MORRIS ( 22 Feb 1886 Greene Co, VA - 12 Nov 1967 Charlottesville, VA ) & Nettie Jane MORRIS (28 Apr 1909 Greene Co, VA - 26 Apr 1978 Greene Co, VA )   05 Aug 1930 Greene Co, VA
• Myrtle Nelson MORRIS ( Feb 1887 Greene Co, VA - 01 Mar 1970 Gordonsville, VA )  & m1) Iola CRAWFORD (1890 Greene Co, VA - ) ; & m2) Anna COLLIER ( 10 Aug 1886 Greene Co, VA -  Jan 1965 Gordonsville, VA )  05 Aug 1930 Greene Co, VA
• Willie Lee MORRIS ( 27 Feb 1889 Greene Co, VA - 15 Jul 1918 France )
• George Washington MORRIS ( 1892 Greene Co, VA - 1892 Greene Co, VA )
• Julia Catherine MORRIS ( 02 Apr 1893 Greene Co, VA - 01 Jun 1979 Alexandria, VA ) & George C. GILMER        ( 10 Aug 1884 Rockingham Co, VA - 08 Sep 1962 Charlottesville, VA )   03 Jul 1918 Greene Co, VA
• Eveline Marie MORRIS ( 12 Mar 1895 Greene Co, VA - 26 Jul 1976 Great Falls, Fairfax, VA ) & Robert Lee COLLIER  (28 Dec 1889 Greene Co, VA - 05 Jan 1963 Loudoun Co, VA)  22 Jun 1922 Albemarle Co, VA
• Mabel Alice MORRIS ( 12 Dec 1897 Greene Co, VA - 27 Jun 1966 Baltimore, MD ) & Isaac Jackson RICE
• (20 Dec 1893 Tyler, WV - 16 Jun 1965 Ann Arundel, MD )
• John Joseph MORRIS ( 24 May 1907 Camden, NJ - 11 Nov 1957 Charlottesville, VA ) & Genevieve EDDINS ( 16 Nov 1914 Madison Co, VA - 30 Mar 2011 Charlottesville, VA )

9. Victoria SHIFLETT ( Mar 1854 Greene Co, VA - Before 1930 ) & Ambrose VERNON 26 Dec 1875 Greene Co, VA

• Ira McClellan VERNON ( 1876 Greene Co, VA - )  & JoAnn “Josie”  MARSHALL ( 1877 - ) 27 Jan 1898 Greene Co, VA
• Madie VERNON ( 1878 Greene, VA - )
• Unnamed VERNON ( Mar 1880 Greene Co, VA )
• John F. VERNON ( Oct 1881 Greene, VA - )
• Lucy Ann VERNON ( 13 Jun 1884 Greene, VA - 03 Feb 1972 ) & Beauregard George SNOW ( 1877 – 1961 )  23 May 1906 Greene Co, VA

10. George W. SHIFLETT ( 20 Apr 1856 Greene Co, VA - )

11. Unnamed male SHIFLETT ( 1857 Greene Co, VA - 10 Mar 1857 Greene Co, VA )

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