When Emily Caroline Karnes was born on 12 April 1862, in Eldorado, Saline, Illinois, United States, her father, Lencen B Karnes, was 32 and her mother, Susan Skelton, was 28. She married William Axley Bucher Shaw on 11 November 1877, in Saline, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Saline, Saline, Illinois, United States in 1870 and East Eldorado Township, Saline, Illinois, United States for about 38 years. She died on 12 April 1938, in Eldorado, Saline, Illinois, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Eldorado, Saline, Illinois, United States.
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Irish: variant of Kearns .
perhaps also anAmericanized form of Polish Karniesz, a noun derivative ofthe adjective karny ‘obedient’.
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