Martha E. Shaw

Brief Life History of Martha E.

When Martha E. Shaw was born on 17 February 1855, in Putnam, West Virginia, United States, her father, Thomas W Shaw, was 21 and her mother, Caroline Orr, was 22. She married Caleb E. Boggess on 14 December 1879, in Harrison, West Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. She lived in Grafton, Taylor, West Virginia, United States in 1935 and Youngstown, Mahoning, Ohio, United States in 1940. She died in 1955, at the age of 100, and was buried in Fairmont, Marion, West Virginia, United States.

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Family Time Line

Caleb E. Boggess
1858–1900
Martha E. Shaw
1855–1955
Marriage: 14 December 1879
Hattie E. Boggess
1880–1935
Aurora Boggess
1882–
Capitoila Anna Boggess
1884–1912
Maude Alden Boggess
1886–1963

Sources (32)

  • Martha E Shaver, "United States Census, 1870"
  • Martha E Shaw, "West Virginia Marriages, 1780-1970"
  • Martha E. Shaw Boggess, "Find A Grave Index"

World Events (8)

1860 · Ohio supports the Union side of the Civil War

Although divided as a state on the subject of slavery, Ohio participated in the Civil War on the Union's side, providing over 300,000 troops. Ohio provided the 3rd largest number of troops by any Union state.

1863

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

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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