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- Middle name of Dale per his daughter, Eulalia's death certificate.
"Mary Burke"
Fri, 11 Apr 2003 21:42:10 +0000
Anna Trullinger and Sidney Shirts were married in Fountain Co in 1839. Sidney's name is mispelled in the marriage record--Shirks (I don't think he was able to read. Other documents I have proved this.) Sometimes you will find his name as "Sidnor." His son Roscius has found to be "Rossins," "Roseus," "Rosiuss," ect, so tracing this family history has been very difficult. I even have his marriage record for him and his second wife as "Roscius Shults."
Sidney Shirts is the son of George Shirts and a so far anonymous Mrs Shirts--he was the first white baby born among the settlers of Hamilton Co Indiana. He had three siblings as his father brought them from (probably) Ohio. George Junior, b around 1813--and then maybe Simon, b 1815, and maybe Elizabeth. Sidney was born in 1818, then James in 1819. After the birth of James, Mrs Shirts died. While her name is never disclosed, great detail was given to describe her funeral: she was buried by the local Indians in the Indian grave-yard (but she was white, they say. Maybe.)
You will find George Shirts living back in Ohio with relatives in 1820-- no wonder, with 5 little kids, a guy would need help. Then returned to Indiana and he married a lady named Rebecca Finch in 1821 in Fayette Co. They turned out a huge family with a few great lines. George Shirts Sr died in 1840 and Rebecca Finch remarried quickly to a James Ridgeway. George Shirts Junior was a missionary to Indians and traveled all the way to Oregon in 1847--with him were a few Trullingers, I noticed. Augustus Finch Shirts became a great attorney and historian. I think William Shirts died in the Civil War.
Sidney and James Shirts seemed to stick together--in the 1860 census, you will find them in Kansas farming together. This is where Mr Benjamin Gordy comes in--he died there in El Dorado Kansas in his late 80's. The Shirts family cared for him.
George Jr married a lady named Sarah Brock and James married her sister Rhoda--the two brothers and the two sisters probably never saw each other again as George died in Oregon and James in Kansas.
No where is it written what the first Mrs George Shirts name, their birth mother, was. Sidney Shirts, in the 1880 Census, says that she was from Tennessee. (He could be talking about Rebecca Finch, his step-mother, though. I can't figure that out.)
Sidney's middle name is given as "Swift" or "Sevift." I was assuming that was his birth mother's last name. I have had a lot of leads on this, but nothing turns up. There are millions of "Swifts" to chose from and a couple of "Sevifts" which is very vague. I don't know.
A lot of records say that the older of George Shirt's children were born in New York or Connecticut. That would make sense, because of the four Schertz brothers (Michael, David, George, and Johannes.) who came to America from Germany in the Palantine Immigration, three of them settled in New York (a HUGE family)and one of them went to New Jersey.
However, it is the descendants of the one brother who went to New Jersey that went on to Pennsylvania, then Ohio.
George Shirts was a veteran of the War of 1812, and he enlisted in Ohio and served with an Ohio militia--so I am assuming he was a decendant of Michael Schertz, who went to New Jersey. This branch of the family was the first to change their name to "Shirts."
But I know that this is definately his family: An account by Augustus F. Shirts reveals that "his father's grandfather was one of the four Schertz brothers who came from Germany."
We are still waiting for the National Archives to give us the military records for George Shirts so we can find more information on him.
As far as Sidney Shirts and Anna Trullinger's children, I will have to give you that info this afternoon--I have a test today in one of my college classes, so I need to get to crammin at the last minute. I will write more when I get back from class.
Mary
S D Shirts
in the 1850 United States Federal Census
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Name: S D Shirts
[Sidney Dale Shirts]
Gender: Male
Age: 30
Birth Year: abt 1820
Birthplace: New York
Home in 1850: Locust Grove, Jefferson, Iowa, USA
Occupation: Farmer
Industry: Agriculture
Real Estate: 100
Line Number: 11
Dwelling Number: 96
Family Number: 3099
Household Members Age
S D Shirts 30
Ann Shirts 28
Rassens Shirts 6
Melissa Shirts 4
Eliza A Shirts 1
James Gouroy 15
1860 United States Federal Census
about S D Shirts
Name: S D Shirts
Age in 1860: 41
Birth Year: abt 1819
Birthplace: Indiana
Home in 1860: Camp, Polk, Iowa
Gender: Male
Post Office: Adelphi
1880 United States Federal Census
about Sidney Shirts
Name: Sidney Shirts
Age: 65
Birth Year: abt 1815
Birthplace: Indiana
Home in 1880: Madison, Polk, Iowa
Race: White
Gender: Male
Relation to Head of House: Father
Mother's Birthplace: Tennessee
Occupation: Lives Here And Works On Farm
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1820 - 1893 (73 years)
