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Chase County Sketches
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Shaw, James Madison James Madison Shaw, born 15 Oct 1837 in Hanoverton, Columbiana Co, OH, died 21 Sep 1907 in Chase Co, KS. He was a Civil War veteran.
During the three years James Shaw served in the Civil War, he participated in battles at Shiloh, Corinth, Vicksburg and Clinton, and marched on Atlanta with General Sherman, specifically in the battle for Kinnesaw Mountain and Jonesboro.
Before the war he was a stonemason, a trade he learned from his father, Isaac Shaw. After the war he took over the running of a stage line in Ohio and secured contracts for carrying the mail on three lines, as his father had done before him.
There is some discrepancy about his birth date. His Matfield Green graveyard marker says he was born in 1834, but nothing else agrees with that date. He was 24 when he enlisted as a private in the Union Army's 3rd Ohio Light Artillery on 13 Jan 1862, which means he was born in October, 1837. The 1850 census shows him age 12; the 1860 census, age 22; the 1870 census, age 35; the 1880 census, age 43; the 1895 census, age 58, and the 1900 census, age, 63. All of these ages except the 1870 indicate an 1837 birth date.
He and his wife, Mary Gallaher Shaw, and their five children, Lillian, Luella, Hal, James and Perry, moved to Chase County about 1881 to farm and raise cattle. They had two more children there: Brint and Guy. All of the children except Brint, who died as an infant, grew up in Matfield and all married there, except Harry, who died of consumption as a young man.
His obituary read as follows: "Sept 24, 1907--- J. M. Shaw Dead---James Madison Shaw, one of the oldest residents of Chase County, died at his home near Matfield Green early Friday morning. Although Mr. Shaw had not been well for several months, yet his death was very sudden. Only the week before he was in this city and seemed to be in as good health as usual. Mr. Shaw was a veteran of the Civil War, having served in Company 3. of the Ohio Independent Battery Artillery. He came to this county more than twenty-five years ago and located near Matfield where he has ever since lived. A wife, two daughters, Mrs. Hurst and Mrs. Perkins, and three sons, Guy, Perry and J. C. Shaw, besides a host of life long friends are left to mourn Mr. Shaw's death."
Submitted by Patti Bates.
by Lorna Marvin
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