Elizabeth Matilda Shaw

Brief Life History of Elizabeth Matilda

When Elizabeth Matilda Shaw was born on 18 November 1848, in Anderson, South Carolina, United States, her father, Peyton R. SHAW, was 44 and her mother, Janie Snipes, was 21. She married John Oswald Buchanan in 1881, in Anderson, South Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Centerville, Anderson, South Carolina, United States in 1920 and Broadway Township, Anderson, South Carolina, United States in 1930. She died on 11 August 1935, in Anderson, South Carolina, United States, at the age of 86, and was buried in Starr, Anderson, South Carolina, United States.

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Family Time Line

John Oswald Buchanan
1861–1918
Elizabeth Matilda Shaw
1848–1935
Marriage: 1881
William Buchanan
1882–1892
Hiram Major Buchanan
1883–1970
Joseph Bailey Buchanan
1886–1961
Samuel Buchanan
1890–1967
Julia Buchanan
1891–1985

Sources (14)

  • Matilda Buchannan in household of J O Buchannan, "United States Census, 1910"
  • Legacy NFS Source: Elizabeth Matilda Shaw - birth-name: Elizabeth Shaw
  • Matilda Shaw in entry for Sam Buchanan, "South Carolina Deaths, 1915-1965"

World Events (8)

1860

In 1860, South Carolina quit the United States because its citizens were in favor of slavery and President Lincoln was not. The Civil War started a year later.

1863

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

1871 · KKK Supression

In March of 1871, in an attempt to supress the Ku Klux Klan in South Carolina, President Grant sends troops in. Later that year in October, the KKK are told to disarm and break up. They do not do this and later many are arrested by the US marshals.

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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