1850 Noxubee Co. Miss Census
844/844 Samuel Shaw 42 born in NC
HISTORY OF THE SHAW FAMILY OF UNION PARISH
Contributed by Sherry Gritzbaugh
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TO THE MEMORY OF CAROLINE

The State of Mississippi
Noxubee County

To Any regular ordained Minister of the
Gospel, Judge, Justice of the Police Court of acting Justice of
the Peace in and for said county......You or either of you are
authorized to solemnize the Rites of Marriage between Joseph
Shaw and Caroline Lynn and join them together as man and
wife in the Holy Estate of Wedlock; Your official certificate where-
of you are return together this license into the Office of the Clerk
of the Probate Court of said County, wherein the time, prescribed
by Law. Witness the Reuben Ruff Judge of the probate of said
County. This the 24th. day of December.
Test. C. G. Bowen, Clerk

In virture hereof the the Rites of Matrimony between the above
named parties were celebrated by me on the 30th. December,
1847. The foregoing License R. B. (unreadable Borog???)
was recorded the 2nd. March 1848.

C. G. Bowen

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In 1853 Caroline Lynn and Joseph Shaw purchased one
hundred and sixty acres from J. F. Fuller. It was part of 270
acres bought by James Edmunds from Phillip May.

Family lore has said that Caroline died when Joseph Shaw,
Jr. was born. The census records seem to verify this as evidence.

W. H. Anderson & 11th. Judicial District Court
Mary Shaw No. 2248 Parish of Union
vs Joseph Shaw et al State of Louisiana
This suit reads in part:

"The petition of Mary Shaw wife of William Henry Anderson,
her husband and who joins in this court to authorize his said wife
to institute. prosecute and stand in Judgement therin residents
of Union Parish and state respectfully show that CAROLINE LYNN
the wife of JOSEPH SHAW of the Parish of Union departed this
life intestate about the year 1857. (The exact time unknown to
petitioners.)"
The petition also reads in part "Therefore petitioners pray that
she be appointed tutor ad hoc as the sister of the said minors
of Joseph Shaw. The said minors being Joseph Shaw, Jr. and
Sarah F. Shaw.
Mary was also sueing for her share of her mothers estate
which Joseph Shaw, Sr. agreed he owed the one undivided
sixth with interest.
Signed L. Barrett
Atty for Plaintiff
The suit was dismissed Oct. 9, 1871.

Before the 1860 census, Mary, Sarah called "Sallie: and Joseph
Jr. were sent back to Noxubee County, Mississippi to live with
Elizabeth Lynn and her husband Samuel Shaw. Mary felt betrayed
when her father married a young lady only six years younger than
she was. Many years passed before they returned to their home
in Union Parish.

Mary Shaw Anderson had married William Henry Anderson,
a son of Mary Wood and Henry P. Anderson in Union Parish,
Louisiana on the 21st. day of June, 1870 shortly after her
return to Union Parish. It is interesting that Mary Wood also
died in childbirth when William Henry Anderson was born on
June 28, 1847. (Re: Succession of Mary Wood on file in
Union Parish, La.)

On the 4th. day of February, 1872 Mary Shaw and William
Henry Anderson were the proud parents of a son, Wiley
Abraham Anderson who lived his entire life in Ward four of
Union Parish, Louisiana.

Sadly, Mary Shaw Anderson caught on fire when Wiley was
just six weeks old and died. William Henry remarried and
migrated to Texas leaving Wiley behind to be raised by his
grandfather Joseph Shaw, Sr. and his two favorite Aunts
MRS. GEORGE PIERCE " Mary Ann "Mollie" Anderson HINTON
and MRS. WILLIS WOOD "Mattie J. "Martha" Anderson TAYLOR.
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Recollections of Mittie Nancy Rea

When I visited my great grandmother, Mittie Nancy Rea in
the Farmerville Nursing home in 1969, she enjoyed looking back
and telling me about Wiley Abraham Anderson. They were
married on 8 Ocgtober, 1893 in Union Parish, La. She was the
daughter of Lucinda Fitts and John Rea who had migrated to
Louisiana from Bibb County, Alabama. Lucinda's father had
been killed in the civil war.
When Wiley first laid eyes on Mittie he told her, "I am going
to marry you." He often said that she was too pretty to clean and
cook. Theirs was a happy marriage and God was good to them.
She knew right away that she was not about to say no when he
asked her. Theirs was a long and happy marriage.
She wrote this information on a sheet of notebook paper for
me before I left.
1. My oldest daughter was your grandmother, Mattie (Mattle)
Lou Anderson. She was born 4 August, 1894 and died 31 Jan.
1937. She married Lotress Cleva Bagwell, a son of Callie Clarissa
Thomas and Robert Jefferson "Jeff" Bagwell.
Clevy always said he stole Mattle Lou. Mattle Lou had a
sister Harvie who was sparking Clevy's brother, Orin Bagwell.
When Orin found out that Clevy wanted to marry Mattle Lou, he
was the first to come and ask Wiley for Harvie's hand.
He did not want to loose both daughters so close to each other,
so Clevy went to the Gresham home. Tiny Gresham and Mattle Lou
were best friends. She had sewed a beautiful blue dress with tiny
tucks in it. When Clevy told her he wanted to marry Mattle Lou,
Tiny sold him the dress for two dollars.
When he went back to ask for the hand of Mattie Lou, they
eloped and raised eight children in Union Parish, La. in the Evergreen
Community.
2. Levy was our second child and oldest son. He was born 17 Oct.
1895. He married Mae Cole.
3. Infant born Jan. 10, 1897. Buried in the Evergreen Bapt.
Church Cemetery.
4. Harvey Bell Anderson was born 10 January 1898 and died in
1993. She married Orin Bagwell. They are buried in the Fellowship
Bapt. Church located northeast of Dubach in Lincoln Parish, La.
5. Ollie Anderson was born 23 May, 1900 and died 15 Nov. 1991.
She married Ernest Coplen who died in 1974. They are buried at
Shiloh Bapt. Church Cemetery. Ollie did most of the cooking for
the Anderson family when she was growin up. She was reputed to
have been the best cook in the world and I believe it.
6. Mary Anderson was born 16 June, 1902 and died 24 Nov. 1922.
Mary never married. She was also buried in the Evergreen Baptist
Church Cemetery.
7. John Henry Anderson (named for his two grandfathers, John
Rea and William Henry Anderson) was born 1 April, 1905 and died
when he was eighty one years old in 1986. He married Bessie
Jewel Lee.
8. James Ahmed Anderson was born 23 May, 1906 and died
23 November, 1983. He is buried in the Liberty Hill Cemetery.
He was married to the Lunnie Hicks who is a resident of Farmerville,
Louisiana. According to Mama Mittie Anderson, she was the most
beautiful young lady in the parish when Ahmed married her. I think
she still is.
9. Lovie Anderson was born 27 Aug. 1908. She married William
Henry Elliott who died on 10 April, 1966. He was the son of
Etta Mabry and C. T. Elliott. Lovie was the last of the Anderson
children to die. They are buried in the Mt. Patrick Cemetery in
Union Parish, La.
10. Elmer A. Anderson was born 26 Aug. 1910 and died 20 Oct.
1940 in a fire. He was married but once to Uva Elliott, a sister
to William Henry Elliott. She remarried to George Elmer Spencer.
George Elmer Spencer had been married to the late Alice Gresham.
11. Essie Anderson was born 15 June, 1915 and died on the 19th. day
of February, 1985. She is buried in the Evergreen Cemetery. She
married H. R. Gaskin on 25 Dec. 1932.
12. Novis "Sis" Anderson was born 10 Oct. 1919 and died 19 Dec.
1968. She married Woodie Graham. Novis and one of her three
sons were killed in an automobile accident at Tallulah. That is
where they are buried.
13. Waymond W. "Bud" Anderson was born 15 June, 1922 and died 20
Jan. 1989. He is buried in the Mt. Tabor Cem. in Union Parish, La. He
married Eunice Pearson.

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The compiler hopes the above dates are correct. This data was
given to me in 1969. She died in 1971 when she was 94 years old.
She still had a good memory. At the time this history was given she
and her cousin Mrs. Ellen Rea Lowery were the two oldest members
of the Evergreen Baptist Church located on Route 1 in Bernice, La.
Ms. Ellen was also living in the Farmerville Nursing Home and
contributed to the histories obtained that day.
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Mrs. Joseph "Caroline Lynn" Shaw

She was the daughter of Matthew Lynn and Mrs. Ali Brasfield Shaw
who were married in Wake County North Carolina. Ali was the dau.
of Revo. War soldier, John Baptist Shaw of Wake County, North
Carolina.

Matthew Lynn Sr. (The progenitor of the Union Parish Lynn family)
died in eighteen hundred forty two. He left his wife and minor
children under the guardianship of Samuel Shaw. Ailey died around
1850 as gleaned from legal evidence.

Book A, pg. 339 dated 15 Dec. 1845 in Noxubee County probate court,
Special term came into open court:
CAROLINE A. A. LYNN
who made choice of Samuel Shaw as her guardian who was bound
unto Judge of Probate for $1000. with Wooten and Matthew Lynn, Jr.
as his securities.
It is interesting that Joseph Shaw was living in the home
of Samuel Shaw in 1850 Noxubee Co. Miss. census.

Matthey Lynn was a man of property and other holdings. Book E.
page 354 probate records dated 29 Dec. 1845 appraised the value
of his slaves.
Wiley Lynn drew Crusey $550.00
and received 87.50

Caroline Lynn drew
Adaline 325.00
and boy, Elijah 350.00
and pays back -37.50

Louisa Lynn drew
Beck 550.00
and infant George 150.00
and pays back -62.50

Matthew Lynn drew
Clary 500.00
and received 137.50

The foregoing was duly recorded the 11th. day of March, 1846.

This does not include the holdings and properties left to his
other children.

1850 Noxubee Co. Miss Census
844/844 Samuel Shaw 42 born in NC
Elizabeth 35 born in NC
JOSEPH 23 (born 1827 in NC)
(He is to young to be the son of Elizabeth, who was also the
half sister of Caroline Lynn.)
Wiley 22 NC
Isiah 20 NC
The following children were all born in Mississippi
Elizabeth 16
Robert 12
Jefferson 10
William 6

The 1860 Noxubee County Census show the
children of Joseph Shaw and Caroline Lynn who
were sent back to Mississippi after Caroline died
in 1857 in Union Parish, La.
Samuel Shaw 57 NC
Elizabeth 50 NC
All of these children were born in Mississippi
Thomas 18
William 14
*MARY SHAW 12 years old
*SALLIE SHAW 8 years old
**JOE SHAW 3 years old BORN IN LOUISIANA

It appears that Joseph Shaw was a close relative of Samuel Shaw.
Elizabeth Lynn is to young to be his mother plus she was a half
sister of Caroline.

Both Ali and Matthew Lynn had children by their previous marriages.
Each had their own holdings and properties. The records will speak
for themselves.

# # #







Elizabeth 35 born in NC
JOSEPH 23 (born 1827 in NC)
(He is to young to be the son of Elizabeth, who was also the
half sister of Caroline Lynn.)
Wiley 22 NC
Isiah 20 NC
The following children were all born in Mississippi
Elizabeth 16
Robert 12
Jefferson 10
William 6

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JOSEPH SHAW AND MARY CATHERINE HAMILTON
Joseph Shaw, and his wife, Mary, lived only a mile or so from the little town of Shiloh on a farm, yet it was a farm so well managed as to supply almost all the needs of Joseph Shaw and his family. One of the earliest settlers of Shiloh, this man of independence was to live out his days, and his daughter who lived after him long years on the same farm. Joseph Shaw first acquired land near Shiloh in 1852, coming to Louisiana from Mississippi. Almost one hundred years later his daughter, Lelah Shaw Reeves, was still living on this land. Today her descendants own the same land. If the old home is weather beaten, if the once productive land lies idle, the knowledge is in the minds of some that once here was a growing family, thrifty, and industrious in its living of those times. Joseph Shaw, as a young man in Mississippi, had married a girl named Carolyn Lynn, and to them were born three children: Mollie, Sallie, and Joseph, Jr. Some of the oral history of the family claim that he was a widower with three small children when he came to Shiloh, but there is evidence in one old record that Carolyn Lynn died in 1858, thus making it probable she lived five years in Union Parish with Joseph on the land he bought in 1853. In these same early years at Shiloh, a little girl named Mary Catherine Hamilton played and perhaps helped her mother in the home of Henry W. Hamilton at Shiloh. She was to be the second wife of Joseph Shaw, and the Mary in the Shiloh home of "Mary and Joseph." Joseph Shaw bought 160 acres in 1853 from J.G. Fuller, who had bought it from James Edmunds. It was part of 370 acres bought by James Edmunds in 1846 from Phillip May. From this land, a man and his family took substance of a good life, and when the man was gone, it still provided for his family. For him a livelihood was food and shelter for himself and his family, and to keep the farm intact and in his possession. Ahead were years to live through when the world such as the South was used to disappeared forever, and the farmer faced a shortage of money, crop failures, insect pests, and in retrospect to us very bad times. Lelah Shaw Reeves said year later, her father let his slaves go, though the daughter of one of them lived some forty years of the twentieth century on the place of Joseph Shaw. It was on December 22, just before Christmas in 1858, Joseph Shaw married Mary Catherine Hamilton. Records from an old family Bible list her as being born March 2, 1842, so that would make her seventeen when she became the second wife of Joseph Shaw. Their first child, John Thomas, was born July 31, 1862. In her later years, Lelah Shaw Reeves said her father was home in 1865 after four years of long weary fighting in the Civil War, but unhurt. Yet in those years, he no doubt came home on furlough to visit his family. Lelah, herself, was born February 16, 1865, the eldest daughter of Mary and Joseph, who now the war was over, could build up their farm, working side by side. There were yet to be born four girls and another son. What was life on this farm like for the family of Mary and Joseph? According to their daughter, Lelah, her father was stern and upright with his children, believing they should be seen and not heard. All the family went to church at Shiloh, nor was their much frivolity in the family. They grew up devout in their church work. Christmas meant a piece of candy and an orange, but no toys. Lelah Shaw Reeves did not have a doll to play with in her childhood. Her four younger sisters must have been live dolls to her, as she helped her mother, though the term baby-sitter was unheard of in those days. The elder girls simply cared for the smaller children routinely while the mother did the multitude of tasks found on a farm, outside and inside the house. The Shaw children, during those terrible years of re-construction went to school taught by their grandfather, Henry Hamilton, at first, the later to the Concord Baptist Institute at Shiloh. Lelah would often ride a mule bare-backed to Shiloh for mail, for there was a post office established in 1852 in the small town. As the children grew up and times got better, Joseph began shipping his own cotton down the stream of the Cornie to Trenton or Monroe. Sometimes the family would go to Stein's Bluff (where the Cornie birdge is at present), and picnic, trade at the store there, and watch the steamboats come up the Cornie. The family did not do much trading for they raised everything, including plenty of vegetables and meat. They even made sugar by letting syrup drip through cloths. The sugar crystals were allowed to bleach, the were pulverized. At age 16, Lelah Shaw Reeves, was baptized at Shiloh. Early memberhip lists of the church of 1869 show two Mrs. Mary Shaws. The second Mary Shaw must have been the wife of Joseph, Jr., whose wife was Mary Ann, perhaps Culbertson. The third child bornn to Mary and Joseph was Kittie, born May 5, 1868. Kittie did not marry and died in 1900. In 1871, the girl, Nina, was born and at the age of 19, on November 23, 1890, married John Powell. The fourth girl, Ellen Roberta, was born August 26, 1875. She marrried Tilman Kelley, sone of Georgia Penter and William Kelley, on December 4, 1895. She was later the second wife of Will Lewis, and she died October 27, 1918. The fifth daugther was Alma Estelle Shaw, born March 24, 1897, and she was married to Starling P. Tabor on January 22, 1903. Alma Estelle Shaw Tabor died April 11, 1955. The last of the Shaw children was a son, Robert Fredrick Shaw, born August 26, 1882 and married Fannie Brooks, daughter of Jack and Sabrina Butler Brooks in November of 1902. Fred Shaw died in 1953, andd was likewise, as the other Shaw's, buried in the cemetery at Shiloh. Some of the younger children of Joseph and Mary were still quite young, when their oldest full brother, John Shaw, married Ellen Lee on September 6, 1885. She was the daughter of Dan and Mary Edmunds Lee. Already married at that time, when her brother Fred was born, Lelah Shaw's marriage September 2, 1881, had preceeded that of her brother, John. Her husband, William J. Reeves, was the only member of his family to come to Louisiana. John Shaw died in 1924, but Lelah Shaw Reeves lived until 1948. What of the three children of Joseph and his first wife, Carolyn? Joseph Shaw, Jr. married to a Mary Ann, died October 9, 1897 leaving a small estate, and was survived by his wife and the following children: Eula Lee, Vice Eugene, Aja, Martha M., and Effie, all majors and one minor daughter, Jodie. Mary Ann Shaw was appointed tutor for this minor daughter. Sallie Shaw married William Knott on October 8, 1872 with Rev. Jonathan Milner performing the ceremony. The Knott family were early settlers of Shiloh. One of them, John C. Knott, postmaster in 1854 at Shiloh, maried Martha, daughter of James Edmunds and were the parents of William, whose marriage to Sallie Shaw produced children: John, Robert, Joseph, Mattie, and Luda. Mollie, sister to Sallie and Joseph, Jr. married Henry Anderson, who died shortly after Nellie's death in 1873, when their son, Wiley Henry was born. Wiley was reared by his grandparents, Joseph and Mary Shaw.
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The above appeared in "The Gazette," Farmerville, LA, probably in vol. 51, as part of Edna Liggin's "Shiloh Sketches."