Shadrach Claywell and Martha J. Winters

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Husband Shadrach Claywell ¹

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            AKA: Shadiah Claywell 2 3
           Born: 9 Apr 1816 - Cumberland Co, KY 1 2
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           Died: 20 Dec 1880 - Woodbine Twp, Jo Daviess Co, IL 1 2
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         Father: Jesse Claywell (      -      ) 1 2
         Mother: Hannah Umphers (      -      ) 1 2

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Wife Martha J. Winters ^{1 2}

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Children

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1 F Cynthia Josephine Claywell ^{1 4 5 6 7}

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         Spouse: John Blackburn Shepler (1835-Aft 1918) 1 4 5 7 8
           Marr: 1 Jan 1873 1 2 3

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General Notes: Husband - Shadrach Claywell

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In 1825 he removed with his parents to Sangamon County, Illinois, and after remaining a short period there they removed to Tennessee, where his mother died. In 1831 the family returned to Kentucky, removing from thence two years later to Sangamon County. From there Shadrach Claywell went to St. Louis, then to Springfield, and later to Chicago, and was there when the treaty with the Indians was concluded. He drove a stage and carried mail for many months from Chicago to Blue Island, later to Dixon, and subsequently from Dixon to Dad Jo's Grove. He carried the first mail from Galena to Freeport, blazing his way with a hatchet as far as Burr Oak Grove. For some years following this he was engaged in lead mining, but this not proving successful, he purchased a farm in Woodbine township, on which he resided up to his death. He owned four hundred and twenty-two acres of valuable land at the time of his decease.

1 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. III (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 568.

2 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 1221.

3 Lewis Clark Walkinshaw, A.M, Annals of Southwestern Pennsylvania, Vol. IV (New York, NY: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1939), Pg 98.

4 George Dallas Albert, History of the County of Westmoreland, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 567.

5 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 309.

6 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 262, 1221.

7 Lewis Clark Walkinshaw, A.M, Annals of Southwestern Pennsylvania, Vol. IV (New York, NY: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1939), Pg 97.

8 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 262, 1220.