SHAW, KEIGHRON,
PETTIT, SHURTLEFF
FAMILY TREE

SHAW

Great-great-great grandfather John Shaw m. Lillie Miller

Great-great-grandfather Solomon Shaw (b.1823,Preston Co WV) m. Delila Sinclear (b.1836)

Great grandfather Charles Russell Shaw (b.1866, Preston Co WV) m. Caroline Beavers (b.1878, Barbour Co WV)

On her father's side, Caroline's ancestors were early settlers in New Amsterdam. On her mother's side, she descends from John Minear, pioneer founder of Randolph Co. John was killed by Indians.

Father Clarence William Shaw, Jr. (b.1925, Fairmont WV) m. Virginia Jean Keighron (b.1925, Fairmont WV)

Children: Geoffrey Gordon, Robert Gregory, Priscilla Lynn, Mark Evan

Great-great grandfather Timothy Keighron (b.1827, Co Sligo, Ireland) m. Mary Higgins

Great-grandfather Daniel Clement Keighron (b.1868, Petrolia PA) m. Carrie Lee Sturm (b.1868, Mannington WV)

On her father's side, Carrie's ancestors include Windle Frushour, a founder of Bath (Berkeley Springs). The Martin family of her mother descended from the original settlers of Germanna, the first German colony in America.

Mother Virginia Jean Keighron m. Clarence William Shaw, Jr.

PETTIT

Great-great-grandfather William Pettit (b.1844, Greene Co PA) m. Isabella Faraby (b.1849 PA)

Great-grandfather James William Pettit (b.1869, Freeport PA) m. Ida Ellen Sole (b.1872, Hundred WV)

James died in a Monongah coal mining accident.

Ida's great-grandfather was Henry Church, an English prisoner in the Revolutionary War, who lived 109 years. The town he founded in Wetzel Co. was named "Old Hundred" after him.

SHURTLEFF

Great-great-great-grandfather Oliver Shurtleff, a pioneer preacher, (b.1796, MA) m. Nancy Trader

Our ancestor William Shurtleff arrived to Massachusetts in 1634.

Great-grandfather Richard Aaron Shurtleff (b.1877, Marion Co WV) m. Gladys B. Kyle (b.1878, Clarksburg WV)

Grandmother Virginia Bernice Shurtleff m. Eugene Leonard Keighron

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