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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>About a week or so ago, someone, I can’t remember who,
suggested that we post the names of people we are researching in </span></font><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Oregon</span></font><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>. I
have so many that I decided to start with the hardest and only do about one a
week.</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Here goes:</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>I am trying to find out anything and everything I can about
the family of John William Shaw. What I do know about him is that he was
born in </span></font><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Virginia</span></font><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> on </span></font><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Jan. 9,
1797</span></font><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'> and that he moved to </span></font><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Ohio</span></font><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> sometime, probably
with his parents. He married Harriet (</span></font><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Nancy</span></font><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>) Harris in </span></font><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Ohio</span></font><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> and then
they moved to </span></font><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Illinois</span></font><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>. I know of at least two
children that they had but I think there were probably more. One was
Elizabeth Shaw b: ca 1823 in </span></font><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Ohio</span></font><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> and she married Nehemiah
Northrup on </span></font><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Jan. 28, 1841</span></font><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> in </span></font><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Illinois</span></font><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>. </span></font><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Elizabeth</span></font><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> had two
children before her husband died. They were Adeline Northrup and Marion Northrup.</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>The Shaw’s came to Douglas County, Oregon in the early
1850’s. </span></font><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Elizabeth</span></font><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> married
Francis Marion Vliet in </span></font><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Oregon</span></font><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> and then she died
shortly afterwards. </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Adeline married Stanford Howell and had at least 12 children
in </span></font><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Oregon</span></font><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>. My mysteries are: what
happened to Marion Northrup and who were Stanford Howell’s parents?
Also, of course any thing else about the Shaw’s that anyone would
know. John and Nancy died in 1888 in </span></font><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Walla Walla</span></font><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> at the ages
of 91 and 87.</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Thanks for anything I get.</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Dale in California</span></font></p>
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