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Gards Point Cemetery, Friendsville, Wabash County IL

Joseph Shearer

  Joseph Shearer     Born: 10 Jan 1790    Died: 16 Jan 1860    Plot: N2-28
age 70y 4m 6d; Veteran War of 1812
Where born: Colrain-Franklin Co MA
Where died: Wabash
Son of: William Shearer (1747 MA-6 Nov 1826 buried Colrain-Franklin Co MA) & Elizabeth [Betsey] Morton (1758-1833) of Palmer MA
Married: Elizabeth Canedy* (m2: 6 Mar 1864 Wabash William Deisher 1810-1876; divorced)
Lived at: 1850 Franklin Co MA
Children:
- Joseph (ca 1834 MA-20 Feb 1920 James Co TN m: Sarah Hewitt)
- Barber Austin* (5 Jul 1836 Deleware Co OH)
- George C* (1837 MA)
- Angeline (1839 MA-13 Sep 1843 MA)
- Jonathan (1841 MA-13 Sep 1843 MA)
- Laura/Lura Jane (14 Apr 1844 MA-27 Mar 1905 buried Allendale Cemetery; m1: 1864 Peter Keen; m2: 1878 John Dardeen)
- Thomas (1845 MA-5 May 1864 TN during Civil War)
- Sarah Jane (Apr 1845 MA-13 Sep 1843 MA)
- Lucinda [Lucy] Minerva (ca 1847 MA-1925 CO m: Vernal Jordan Jr (1843 buried Jordan Cemetery)
- Sarah Lucinda (22 Mar 1850 MA)

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