Amelia Ann Shaw

Female1 May 1819–4 May 1857

Brief Life History of Amelia Ann

When Amelia Ann Shaw was born on 1 May 1819, in Grayson, Kentucky, United States, her father, William Shaw, was 46 and her mother, Sarah Bozarth, was 35. She married Blackford Harrel in 1837, in Grayson, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 4 daughters. She died on 4 May 1857, in Grayson, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 38.

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Family Time Line

Blackford Harrel
1815–1869
Amelia Ann Shaw
1819–1857
Marriage: 1837
Sarah Elizabeth Harrel
1838–1907
William H. Harrel
1846–1917
Noah Harrel
1840–1898
Winaford Ann Harrel
1842–1908
Ruth Louise Harrel
1845–1923
Drusilla J. Harrel
1848–1899
Jonathan Michael Harrel
1853–1931
Charles Alford Harrel
1855–1933

Sources (5)

  • Milly A Herrald in household of Blackford Herrald, "United States Census, 1850"
  • Milley A. Harrel Death Record
  • Amelia A. Shaw in entry for Charles A. Harrel, "Kentucky Births and Christenings, 1839-1960"

Spouse and Children

  • Marriage
    1837Grayson, Kentucky, United States

    • Children (8)

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    Siblings (7)

    +2 More Children

    World Events (6)

    1820 · Making States Equal

    Age 1

    The Missouri Compromise helped provide the entrance of Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state into the United States. As part of the compromise, slavery was prohibited north of the 36°30′ parallel, excluding Missouri.

    1820 · Making Land more affordable

    Age 1

    "The United States law requiring full payment at the time of purchase and registration of any land. to help encourage sales and make land more affordable, Congress reduced the minimum price of dollar per acre and the minimum size that could be purchased. Most of this land for sale was located on the frontier which was then ""The West"". This Act was good for many Americans, but it was also over used by wealthy investors."

    1830 · The Second Great Awakening

    Age 11

    Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.

    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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