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Born 1821
From History of Coshocton County, Ohio: its past and present, 1740-1881. Containing a comprehensive history of Ohio; a complete history of Coshocton County ... a history of its soldiers in the late war ... (1881)
SHAW DANIEL, Bedford township; farmer; postoffice, Warsaw; born in 1821, in this county. His father, James Shaw, was born in 1790, in Harford county, Maryland, and was married in 1820, to Miss Sarah Tredway, of the same county, who was born in 1798. They came to this county in 1820. He died in 1862, and she died in 1870. They were the parents of twelve children, the subject of this sketch being the oldest. He was married in 1848, to Miss Athalia Wright, of this county, who was born in 1823. They are the parents of eleven children, viz: Viola, James W., William H., Sarah L., Lewis C., Mary M., Meda, (deceased), Libby, Nathan E., Sabina and an infant, (deceased).
As printed in History of Coshocton County, Ohio: its past and present, 1740-1881. Containing a comprehensive history of Ohio; a complete history of Coshocton County ... a history of its soldiers in the late war ... (1881). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
Named in this biography: James Shaw (b. 1828)
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