Jesse Shaw

As printed in 1880

JESSE SHAW, farmer and stock-raiser; P. O. Cardington; was born at Shaw Town, March 30, 1823; his father, Joseph Shaw, was one of the pioneers of this county, and was born in Berks Co., Penn., Aug. 18, 1792, and married Hannah DeWitt, who was born in Pennsylvania, in 1800; she came to Waldo, Ohio, with relatives, when a small girl. From this union there were eleven children. Joseph Shaw died (where he had settled sixty-eight years before), May 4, 1876. Jesse went to learn the cabinet-maker’s trade when 20 years of age, at which he worked for seventeen years. He married Miss Phoebe Pringle, April 5, 1844, who died June 16, 1859; from this union there were three children — Francis C., born July 16, 1845, and now a practicing physician of South Woodbury, Ohio; James L., born Jan. 17, 1847, who studied law, but is now engaged in teaching, and Simeon J., born June 19, 1850, now practicing medicine at Marengo, Ohio. Mr. Shaw married, Jan.

26, 1860, Chloe Jane Pringle, born Aug. 27,

1828, daughter of John and Pamelia (Messenger) Shaw, and widow of John Pringle, by whom she had but one son, John H. Pringle, now a resident of Cardington Tp. To them have been born — Emma Minerva, Jan. 10, 1861, now married to Martin Heil; Harrison Orlando,

Aug. 27, 1862; Joel Grant, Aug. 19, 1868, deceased, and Rosa Belle, May 25, 1870. In 1862, he enlisted in the service, and his company, with others, was consolidated with the 88th O. Y. I., and employed in doing garrison duty; his time was chiefly taken up in guarding prisoners, at Camp Chase, and conveying them to Cincinnati, Chicago and other points.

His eldest son, Francis C. enlisted in the 66th

As printed in History of Morrow County and Ohio : containing a brief history of the state of Ohio ... a history of Morrow County ... biographical sketches, portraits of some of the early settlers and prominent men, (1880). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.