Moses Shaw

Brief Life History of Moses

When Moses Shaw was born on 8 November 1861, in Clay Banks, Door, Wisconsin, United States, his father, Zebina Shaw, was 44 and his mother, Catherine O'Brien, was 26. He married Frances Adelia Heald on 5 January 1886, in Clay Banks, Door, Wisconsin, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Ahnapee, Kewaunee, Wisconsin, United States for about 60 years. He died on 3 February 1934, in Kewaunee, Wisconsin, United States, at the age of 72, and was buried in Evergreen Cemetery, Algoma, Kewaunee, Wisconsin, United States.

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Family Time Line

Moses Shaw
1861–1934
Frances Adelia Heald
1867–1937
Marriage: 5 January 1886
Eugene Zebina Shaw
1888–1939
Coleman John Shaw
1890–1935
Ethel Alice Shaw
1892–1972
Genevieve Shaw
1895–1983
Catherine Agnes Shaw
1898–1966
Mildred Shaw
1902–1980
Frank Shaw
1903–1907
Raymond Shaw
1905–1907

Sources (12)

  • Mel* Shaw in household of Shaw, "United States Census, 1870"
  • Moses Shaw, "Wisconsin, County Marriages, 1836-1911"
  • Moses Shaw in entry for Raymond Shaw, "Wisconsin, Death Records, 1867-1907"

World Events (8)

1863

Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.

1867 · The First Successful Typewriter is Invented

A patent was filed on October 11, 1867, on a new direct action typewriter. The patent was filed by Christopher Latham Sholes, Carlos Glidden, and Samuel Soule who had invented the prototype in Milwaukee.

1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield

Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.

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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