Brief Life History of Mary Elizabeth
When Mary Elizabeth Shaw Holliman was born in 1837, in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, United States, her father, John B H Shaw, was 39 and her mother, Mary Shaw Lawley, was 32. She married Elijah Holliman in 1858, in Fayette, Alabama, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 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 Spring Hill Cemetery, Millport, Lamar, Alabama, United States.
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Family Time Line
Sources (5)
- Mary Holiman in household of Elijah Holiman, "United States Census, 1860"
- Mary Shaw in entry for Mrs. C. M. Halliman, "Tennessee Death Records, 1914-1963"
- Mary Shaw in household of John Shaw, "United States Census, 1850"
Spouse and Children
1839–1937 Male
1837–1866 Female
Children (4)
1861–1946 Female
1862– Female
1865–1910 Female
1866–1954 Male
Parents and Siblings
1798–1876 Male
1805–1886 Female
Siblings (11)
1823–1910 Male
1825–1845 Female
1827–1895 Female
1830–1880 Female
1832–1877 Male
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World Events (3)
1846
Age 9
1863
Age 26
1863 · The Battle at Gettysburg
Age 26
Name Meaning
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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