Katie Lee Shaw

Brief Life History of Katie Lee

When Katie Lee Shaw was born on 25 August 1874, in Texas, United States, her father, James Dickson Shaw, was 32 and her mother, Lucy Francis Mosley, was 26. She lived in Waco, Milam, Republic of Texas for about 20 years and Glendale, Los Angeles, California, United States for about 10 years. She died on 20 March 1948, in Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in Waco, Milam, Republic of Texas.

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Family Time Line

James Dickson Shaw
1841–1926
Lucy Francis Mosley
1848–1881
Hillie Shaw
1871–
Hallie Dickson Shaw
1872–1958
Katie Lee Shaw
1874–1948
James Tyus SHAW
1876–1947
John R. Shaw
1878–1901
Willis Riviere Cox Shaw
1881–1881

Sources (7)

  • Katie L Shaw in household of Hallie D Ilse, "United States Census, 1930"
  • Katie Lee Shaw, "California, County Birth and Death Records, 1800-1994"
  • Katie Lee Shaw, "Find A Grave Index"

World Events (8)

1876 · Segregation Laws Are Passed

A new state constitution was passed in 1876, announcing the segregation of schools.

1891 · Angel Island Serves as Quarantine Station

Angel Island served as a quarantine station for those diagnosed with bubonic plague beginning in 1891. A quarantine station was built on the island which was funded by the federal government at the cost of $98,000. The disease spread to port cities around the world, including the San Francisco Bay Area, during the third bubonic plague pandemic, which lasted through 1909.

1894 · Texas Files Lawsuit Against Standard Oil Company

Under the direction of Governor Jim Hogg, Texas filed a lawsuit against John D. Rockefeller for violating state monopoly laws. Hogg argued that Standard Oil Company and Water-Piece Oil Company of Missouri were engaged in illegal practices like price fixing, rebates, and consolidation. Rockefeller was indicted, but never tried in a court of law; other employees of his company were convicted as guilty.

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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