When Mary Elizabeth Shaw was born in 1837, in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, United States, her father, John B H Shaw, was 39 and her mother, Mary Polly Lawley, was 32. She married Elijah Jefferson Holliman in 1858, in Fayette, Alabama, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. She lived in Tuscaloosa, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, United States in 1850 and Fayette, Alabama, United States in 1860. She died in 1866, in Pickens, Alabama, United States, at the age of 29, and was buried in Springhill Cemetery, Millport, Lamar, Alabama, United States.
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U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Oldest grave seen in the memorials list.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
English (Yorkshire and Lancashire): from Middle English s(c)hawe, s(c)haghe ‘small wood, grove, thicket’ (Old English sceaga). The surname may be topographic, for someone who lived in or by a small wood, or habitational, for someone from any of the many places so named. Shaw and Shawe are most frequent in Lancashire and Yorkshire, where Shaw in Oldham (Lancashire) may be a principal source of the surname. The English and Lowland Scottish surname was also established in Ireland in the 17th century.
Scottish: shortened form of various surnames from the Gaelic personal name Sitheach, derived from sithech ‘wolf’.
Irish (Down and Antrim): adopted for Ó Síthigh ‘descendant of Sítheach’, a personal name based on sítheach ‘peaceful’. Compare Sheehy .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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