Re: Indiana Sheaks Genealogy
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In reply to:
Indiana Sheaks Genealogy
9/08/01
Oh, man; talk about bad luck!Your grandfather Earl was a BIG-time lottery winner.We had been searching and searching for any family member, no matter how remote; to no avail.The statute of limitations expired 6 weeks ago; we reluctantly had to turn over his entire estate to Lucy, the fire-engine red-haired waitress at the Y-GO-BY diner, which Earl frequented.
Too bad U did't know the Sheaks; the most common trait is a wry sense of humor: just kidding about the foregoing!
Your grandfather Earl had 2 siblings (at present I don't even know their sex).His father, Irvin, was one of four children in the "second" family of Isaac Sheaks.Isaac first married Ann Eliza Barber.They begat 6 children: George married Izora Wilkerson (3 kids produced); Dell (moved to Garden City, KS and dropped off the genealogy map); Norman; Albert; ?; ?.
After Isaac's 1st wife's death, he then married Jane Ports.They begat: Irvin; Elmer, who married Angeline Hardy, producing 4 sons; Bruce, who married Myrtle Ackles...3 kids; Nora, who married Grover Cassady...2 daughters.
Issac was the son of John & Eliza Prall-Sheaks.He was one of 12 children.Jacob died in infancy.Mary married Charles Waters and migrated to Iowa.Susan married Benjamin Clark.Issac.Julia married Ashbel Brown and remarried (why?don't know) John Murdock.Sarah married Edwin Lane.Sanford married Eliza Buzzard (my lineage).Hanna married Oliver Alexander.Rosanna married David Stoner. John married Mary Jane Brown. Philip died at the age of 18 of typhoid fever in 1865, the same year his mother, died.Louisa died at the age of 11 months some time before Philip.
John and Eliza came from Deleware County, Ohio on or about 1855, in covered wagon to Polk Township, Marshall County, Indiana.
Sheaks (Shieks, Sheeks, etc.) came from Germany approx. 1740.
Does this help?