Re: Louisa F.Shaw md. to Andrew Jackson Nelson lived in Arkansas middle 1800s
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Re: Louisa F.Shaw md. to Andrew Jackson Nelson lived in Arkansas middle 1800s
Sharlyn Shaw 11/01/11
I misread your message and thought you were saying that Louisa had lived in Arkansas and married the Campbell man. It could be that she had an uncle named Campbell.
I have a good bit of information about her if this is the same woman you are looking for.
Both of her parents are buried in the Lithonia cemetery that I gave you a link to in my previous msg, but their headstones were unreadable when I was there a few years ago.
Her father was John C. Shaw (I believe, but am not certain, that his name was John Calvin Shaw - same as her first born son). Her mother was Eliza. I haven't looked at my records in a while. I will fire up my old computer and see what I can find.
What I can recall off the top of my head is that Louisa's father and his father and brother's all won land in the GA land lotteries of the late 1700s. They traveled to GA down the Scot-Irish highway through the Carolinas - some settling in the Carolinas. The family traces all the way back to Plymouth Plantation and has a rich history.
For whatever reasons, John C. Shaw (Louisa's father) lost it all (I suspect alcohol and gambling and being disowned by his family) and ended up sharecropping. Louisa became the mistress of John Treadwell when she was very young. She had her first child by Treadwell when she was just 13. He was the age of her father and had another older family in the 'big house' on the plantation.
Family legend has it that her children changed her birth date on her tombstone to make it appear that she wasn't so young when she had her first child.
That whole story was a big shame in the family and hidden until after my grandfather (her grandson) died. Then people started talking about it more openly. She had gotten 'respectable' after the Civil War because she was a landowner - land/houses given to her by Treadwell. She became known as Mrs. Shaw (her maiden name). The family kept the fact she never married a secret. It was only uncovered in the last 30-40 years with genealogy research and questions asked of my grandmother after my grandfather died.
After re-reading your msg I think they might be the same person.
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Re: Louisa F.Shaw md. to Andrew Jackson Nelson lived in Arkansas middle 1800s
Vicky Hodges 12/13/11