Thanks for the info......
Your not bursting my bubble about Indian heritage... but I can see how the
name can be mixed up lol.
When you get back I would love to compare notes. I have traced back through
my dads family and have recorded a lot more info in my string of Abshiers.
How I am related to the Abshiers......Well my great granddad was an Abshier.
His mother divorced his dad (1912), then remarried a Moffett. His mother
died 5 yrs later. Moffett never adopted great Granddad even though he took
the Moffett name. It wasn't until he needed his birth cert to sign up for
the CCC durring the depression did he find out his name was not Moffett.
Family lore says he was adopted but no record excist in the county, or
state. The state has told me not to make a big deal about it because they
say its questiobable whether we are Moffetts legaly even after all these
years.
Great granddads father is JOHN CURRN ABSHIER, b. April 09, 1889, Spencer Co.
IN; d. February 06, 1962, Rockport, Indiana.
His father is FRANCIS MARION ABSHIER. He was born January 09, 1850 in
Indiana, and died December 04, 1934 in Richland, Indiana. He married
MELVIANIA E. WHEATLY December 31, 1876, daughter of ELISHA WHEATLY and RUTH.
She was born March 07, 1863 in Pike County, Indiana, and died May 12, 1938
in Richland, Indiana.
I have a lot more info such as obits and addtiona children etc......
Le t me know when you would like for me to send it all....
Isaac
-----Original Message-----
From: inspence-bounces(a)rootsweb.com [mailto:inspence-bounces@rootsweb.com]
On Behalf Of Jerry Jones
Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2006 8:38 AM
To: inspence(a)rootsweb.com
Subject: Re: [INSPENCE] Abshier
Isaac,
Again, thanks for sharing your records. At present, I am out of town and
don't have access to my files, and I won't be home until after Thanksgiving.
But -working from memory - I have seen the 1850 census and I believe this is
the family of my Nancy Abshier who married Henry Shoptaugh. I believe
Nancy died in childbirth. Perhaps the sisters, Mary and Nancy Abshier
married brothers, Henry and Garrett Abshier.
How are you connected to the Abshiers?
Nancy Abshier is my husband's gggrandmother. My mother in law always
claimed that her ggrandmother was a Choctaw Indian, although she never knew
her name. All her life the family believed this.
Now that I've started this research, I've come to the (rather amusing)
conclusion that her ggrandmother was not a Choctaw but a Shoptaugh! But let
me ask you anyway, do you know of any Choctaw Native Americans in the
Shoptaugh/Abshier family (or even in Indiana for that matter?)
If I'm going to burst the family's bubble about having Indian blood, I
have to explore all avenues first!
Joe Anne
Isaac Moffett <imoffett(a)mcleodusa.net> wrote:
I don't know if you alreasdy have this info or not but this is what I have
in any Shoptaugh's.
Mary Shoptaugh married Garrett Abshier on 8/8/1841
I have a lot more on Abshiers.
-----Original Message-----
From: inspence-bounces(a)rootsweb.com [mailto:inspence-bounces@rootsweb.com]
On Behalf Of Jerry Jones
Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2006 2:10 PM
To: INSPENCE(a)rootsweb.com
Subject: [INSPENCE] Abshier
Does anyone have info on Powell, Shoptaugh, or Abshier families in Spencer
county? Thanks,
Joe Jones
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