U.S. Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ -- USGenNet Inc. -- Please read the U.S. Data Repository Copyright Statement on the following page: --------------------------------------------------------------------- Shaw, Omer Y. (1868-1931) --------------------------------------------------------------------- A History of Preston County West Virginia Biographical Department, Supplied by J. R. Cole Kingwood, W. Va., The Journal Publishing Company, 1914 by H. S. Whetsell Pages 786-787, OMER Y. SHAW. Benjamin Shaw, from Ireland, the first of whom anything can be learned in this country, was made a sheriff in one of the East Virginia counties by reason of his having been a justice of the peace longer than any other in his county. He had children: Edgar, Celia and William Shaw. Samuel, the brother of Benjamin Shaw, settled near Little Sandy Creek, on the Scott farm, where Marshall Wolfe now lives. He owned about four hundred acres of land there. He married Elizabeth Miller and kept a tavern there, where he died at the age of seventy years. Their son, Alexander, became a very successful farmer before his death, which occurred at the age of sixty-five years. He owned a large farm near Kingwood. James, the father of Omer Y., and son of Samuel and Elizabeth, was born July 7, 1811. He married Catherine Cook, February 27, 1834. She was born April 16, 1812. Their children were: (1) Samuel Harrison, born November 27, 1834; (2) Sarah Ann, born March 16, 1836; (3) James Milton, born July 15, 1838, died October 15, 1841; (4) Ami Lucian, born July 30, 1840, died August 27, 1847; (5) Benjamin Franklin, born October 19, 1841; (6) Elizabeth Jane, born, November 14, 1843; (7) Charles Griffin, born February 20, 1845; (8) Ashabel Skiles, born April 25, 1847; (9) Laodicia, born October 6, 1849; (10) Leroy, born November 9, 1857. The second wife of James Shaw was Mary Ann Tuttle. She was the daughter of Eli and Sophia Crutchman Tuttle and was born September 7, 1838. The Crutchmans were Somerset county Dutch people. The children to this union were: (1) Cameron W., born August 7, 1865, died in 1888; (2) Omer Y., May 21, 1868; (3) Walter D., February 11, 1874, and Georgiana Shaw, born October 3, 1879. Omer Y. Shaw was reared a farmer and is a speculator as well as an agriculturist. As a promoter he has been very enterprising and successful. Until thirty-six years old he lived on the old homestead at Rockville. Some four years ago he located where he now lives, but his real estate holdings are at different places and consist of valuable coal and timber lands. Like his father, he has been remarkably self-reliant, and his returns based on good judgment have materialized favorably as a general thing. His father drove a six- horse team on the old National Pike at the age of sixteen years, making periodical trips to Old Baltimore. Omer Y. Shaw exercises his genius rather more than his physical strength in this money-making world of ours, and not without success. Instead of investing his money in bank stocks, insurance bonds, and like properties — unless rates paid are very high — he capitalizes on his own account, and has been singularly successful in that way. Mr. Shaw was married to Dora, daughter of William M. and Hester Jenkins Wolfe, on November 27, 1909. No issue. (See sketch of Jenkins family.) --------------------------------------------------------------------- From Death Certificate, Preston County, WV #17128 FULL-NAME: O. Y. Shaw BIRTH-DATE: May 1, 1868 BIRTH-PLACE: W.Va. DEATH-DATE: December 14, 1931 DEATH-PLACE: Grant District, Preston County, WV MARITAL-STATUS: Widowed OCCUPATION: Farmer FATHER: James W. Shaw (born in W.Va.) MOTHER: Mary A. Tuttle (born in W.Va.) CAUSE-OF-DEATH: Chronic Nephritis INFORMANT: Walter Shaw (of Bruceton Mills, W.Va.) BURIAL: Bruceton Cemetery (wife of Omer Y. Shaw) From Death Certificate, Preston County, WV #15517 FULL-NAME: Dora Shaw BIRTH-DATE: August 7, 1869 BIRTH-PLACE: W.Va. DEATH-DATE: December 12, 1924 DEATH-PLACE: Bruceton Mills, Grant District, Preston County, WV MARITAL-STATUS: Married OCCUPATION: house wife FATHER: William M. Wolf (born in W.Va.) MOTHER: Hester Jenkins (born in W.Va.) CAUSE-OF-DEATH: progressive muscular atrophy INFORMANT: O. Y. Shaw BURIAL: Bruceton Mills --------------------------------------------------------------------- If you've reached this file through a SEARCH, you can access other biographies for Preston County, WV by going to the following URL: http://www.us-data.org/wv/preston/bios.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------