Hi, Your Shockley line keeps jumping out at me. I have quite a
collection of them in Jefferson Co., Ohio. Lots of pictures. Is this
your group? Victoria Gibson
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From: Virginia <WilClaire(a)email.msn.com
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Date:
Saturday, December 05, 1998 11:50 AM
Subject: [INDELAWA-L] Shockley/Brown/Stout/Taylor/Shaw/Gibson
Hello Donata...I'll try to get your copies in the mail on Monday,
next. You
will see my interest in Valentine Shockley and my Brown line.
Valentine
married the mother (widow Martha Gibson Shaw) of my g grandmother,
Artalissa
Shaw m my g grandfather, Christopher Brown, and my gg grandfather,
Wm
Brown, supposedly married them. I would love to get my hands on
Valentine's
wedding certificate to see if it was written/completed by my Wm
Brown.
William was noted as not being able to read or write in the 1850
census, but
yet he preached by appt almost every weekend, frequently staying at
Jesse
Stout's home overnight and holding services in the home of
Jesse's
father.
I don't know what denomination, didn't seem to have an
official
church
building - but maybe a meeting house, and no pay received for
service.
Apparently, this was a principle of the religion and also personal
opinion
of Wm Brown. I've been told that the Fairview Christian
Friend's
Church
wasn't built until 1890, and John Taylor, ordained by Wm Brown,
was
the
minister there in 1895.
Virginia Brown Fyfe
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