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 James Shasteen, Sr., Partial Descendant List
All in bold red are in the 1911 Family Reunion Picture with William Henry Harrison Shasteen

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James Shasteen Sr. (b 01 Jan 1807 Rockbridge Co. VA, d 18 Jun 1866 near Yellow Bud)

      |  m. Eleanor Ryan (b 14 Aug 1811 Rock, Frederick Co. VA, d 22 Jan 1867 near

      |            Yellow Bud, & buried Spring Banks Cemetery bet. Circleville & Chillicothe)

      |—James Shasteen                                                           (b est 1834 Ohio d ?)

      |—Francis Marion Shasteen                                              (b 18 Feb 1844 Ohio d in Andersonville
      |    Andersonville Civil War POW Camp) — NY Times 1865 Article — by Latrine — Wooden Headstones

      |—William Henry Harrison Shasteen                           (b 16 Mar 1841, d 18 Oct 1916)

             |  m1. Nancy Minear, first wife                                    (b 05 Jun 1845, d 20 Nov 1864, Yellow Bud)

             |      |—Walter Shasteen                                              (b est 1864, d ?)  m. Unknown

             |      |      |—George H. Shasteen                                  (b 14 Jun 1884, d 28 Feb 1980)

             |      |      |        m. Maude Unknown                               (b ?, d ?)

             |      |      |—Arno Shasteen                                          (b ?, d ?)

             |      |      |—Unknown Shasteen                                   (b ?, d ?)

             |      |—Unknown Shasteen                                         (b ?, d ?)

             |  m2. Mary G. Rowe, second wife                             (b 28 Apr 1852, d 16 Oct 1875)

             |      |—Nettie Mae Shasteen                                   (b 03 Jan 1874, d 16 Jan 1961)

             |      |      |        m. Terence Burns                              (b 02 Feb 1871, d 03 Feb 1957)

             |      |      |—Joseph Harrison Burns                        (b 29 Jul 1897, d 17 Oct 1947)

             |      |      |        m. Ida Elizabeth Imbroth                         (b 10 Apr 1900, d 08 May 1942)

             |      |      |—Margueritte Agnes (Dollie) Burns      (b 10 Sep 1902, d __ ___ __)

             |      |      |        m. Ernst Sigvard Sanderson                 (b 22 Jan 1903)

             |      |      |—Doris Roe Burns                                    (b 14 Nov 1906)

             |      |      |        m. Jennings Bryan Barge                      (b 02 Feb 1900)

             |      |      |—Terence Lawrence                                   (b 28 Aug 1912, d 17 Sept 1948)

             |      |              m1. Juanita Thompson                          (b ?, d ?)

             |      |              m2. Sylvia Unknown                             (b ?, d ?)

             |      |—Charles Harrison Shasteen                       (b 10 Oct 1875, d 18 Aug 1941)

             |            |        m. Clara Ina Price                               (b 12 Sept 1881, d 19 Aug 1941)

             |            |—Murl Harrison Shasteen                       (b 06 Feb 1900, d 08 Mar 1988)

             |            |        m. Ruby Viola Fross                             (b 03 Aug 1901, d 08 Jan 1985)

             |            |—Walter Everett (Bill) Shasteen             (b 14 Apr 1903, d 11 May 1953)

             |            |        m. Lois Daretta Borton                          (b 21 Feb 1910, d 15 Sep 1985)

             |            |—Ralph Oliver Shasteen                          (b 29 Mar 1906, d 31 Jan 1984)

             |            |        m. Dorris Waddell                                  (b 17 May 1911, d __ ___ 1999)

             |            |—George Donald Shasteen                     (b 5 Aug 1910, d 14 Jan 1984)

             |                   |  m1. Frances True Meyers                    (b 30 Jul 1906)

             |                   |  m2. Roberta Marie Nelson                    (b 28 Aug 1919, d 30 Nov 1992)

             |  m3. Augusta Jane Sauerbrei, third wife             (b 22 Jul 1857, d 11 Apr 1947)

                   |—Delena Eleanor Shasteen                           (b 03 May 1879, d 30 Jun 1929)

                   |      |  m. Cary Wilson                                         (b ?, ?)

                   |      |—Ruth Wilson                                            (b ?, d?)

                   |      |—Augusta Bell Wilson                              (b 31 Jul 1902, d?)

                   |      |—Helen Rebecca Wilson                          (b 15 Jan 1910, d ?)

                   |      |        m. Harry Lutz                                        (b 15 Sep 1912, d 04 Jan 1981)

                   |      |—Reginald Wilson                                         (b 24 Jul 1913, d ?)

                   |—James William Shasteen                            (b 30 Aug 1881, d 13 Jul 1974)

                   |      |        m. Rowena Ebenhack                        (b 19 Dec 1885, d 25 Sep 1965)

                   |      |—Beatrice Shasteen                                 (b 13 May 1903, d 12 Feb 1915)

                   |      |—Esther Shasteen                                    (b 11 Jun 1907)

                   |      |        m. George Williams                                (b 03 Aug 1905)

                   |      |—Terry B. Shasteen                                 (b 23 Dec 1909, d 26 Jan 1915)

                   |—  John Logan Shasteen                               (b 29 Aug 1885, d 13 May 1950)

                   |      |        m. Edna Anna McCollister                (b 16 Aug 1888, d 12 Aug 1968)

                   |      |—William Cary Shasteen                              (b 02 Feb 1912, d __ ___ 19__)

                   |              m. Gertrude Genevieve Parks               (b 16 Dec 1912, d 26 Jul 1993)

                   |—Viola Shasteen                                              (b ?,d ?)

                          |        m. Robert Reynolds                           (b 03 Jun 1891, d 12 Mar 1974)

                          |—Oscar Reynolds                                        (b 21 Nov 1911, d 04 Oct 1973)

                          |        m. Marguerite Mowery                          (b 05 Feb 1916)

                          |—Opal Eleaner Reynolds                              (b 12 Jan 1914, d 06 Mar 1956)

                          |        m. Wayne Edgar Chester                      (b 30 Mar 1913)

                          |—Ruth Ester Reynolds                                 (b 28 Jan 1916)

                          |        m. George Holman                                (05 Jul 1906)

                          |—Mary Elizabeth Reynolds                           (01 Mar 1918)

                          |        m. Clyde Emerson Turner                      (16 Oct 1911)

                          |—J. Carroll Reynolds                                    (b 10 Aug 1920)

                          |        m. Mary Jane Rittenhouse                     (b __ ___ ____)

                          |—Lois Belle Reynolds                                   (b 09 Jan 1923)

                          |        m. Kervyn Morrison                               (b 14 Apr 1918, d 07 Dec 1970)

                          |—Gerald Wayne Reynolds                           (b 02 Feb 1926)

                          |        m. Doris Lee Schleich                           (b 22 May 1926)

                          |—Joan Rosella Reynolds                              (b 17 May 1929)

                                  m. Unknown Ziegler                              (b 21 May 1929, d 14 Jan 1971)

James Shasteen, Sr. Biographical Notes

The family was listed in the Ross County Ohio June 1, 1850 Census, house 1990 in Ross County, indicating his birthplace in Virginia, as was that of his wife, while his three sons were indicated as having been born in Ohio, assumably, Ross County, near Yellow Bud. (Note that Yellow Bud is spelled this way on the map below, but present day, the spelling is Yellowbud, one word.) James Sr.'s occupation was listed as farmer, while that of his eldest son James, 16, was shown as laborer.

The family was still listed in the 1860 census as family 887 in Ross County, Yellow Bud, Union Township. All three sons (James, Francis Marion and William Henry Harrison Shasteen) were still living with James, Sr. and Eleanor with the value of their real estate set at $950. James, Sr. place of birth still shown as Virginia, occupation still farmer.

The family was not listed at all in my copy of the 1870 census as James Sr. died in 1866 and Eleanor in 1867.

In the 1880 Ohio census, Harrison (WHHS), occupation dry goods clerk, was shown as the head of the household with wife (Augusta) Jane, occupation keeping house, born in Germany, as were her parents. Children living at home at that time were Walter, Nettie, Harry and Elina.

1884 Yellowbud Area Map

James Shasteen  - First Son

Almost solely initially from census research not uncovered until March 2008, included only as an example of what can be found (Stll some question as to proving this is all one James Shasteen and he is truly the son of James, Sr.):

The first son James Shasteen was was born Nov 1834 in Ohio and probably married Margaret Alice Brink on 28 Jan 1858 who was probably the daughter of Thomas and Margaret Brink of Ross Co. Ohio. She was born 14 Jan 1839, passed away 2 Sep 1858 and is buried in the Spring Banks Cemetery in Yellow Bud. James was living with his father in the 1850 and 1860 census. Then I believe he (as James C.) remarried to Catharine Creviston on 21 Aug 1860 (1860 census was taken July 24, 1860 which would account for him being with his father). Catharine was born in 1840 and died 14 May 1904. This family is next found as a farming family in Cerro Gordo, Piatt Co., IL in 1870 (as James Shostein) and in 1880 in District 175, Bement Township, Piatt Co., IL (as James Shastine). Their known children were:

Nevada Shasteen born Jan 1868 in IL died 13 Nov 1927 married Burroughs Moore (born 4 Jul 1897 in Vermilion Co., IL)

Minisota (Minnie) Shasteen born Feb 1866 in OH died 18 Apr 1922 in Decatur, Macon Co., IL whose first marriage was with John Conner 20 Jun 1887 in Piatt Co., IL and second marriage was with William R. Hughes (b abt 1865). She had one son Charles F. Connor, b about 1878.

Mary M. Shasteen born abt 1870 in IL probably married Jacob Reinhart on 20 Jun 1887 in Douglas Co., IL

Reuben H. Shasteen born about 1873 in IL married Mabel about 1890 who was born about 1882 in IL and died 19 Jan 1947. They lived in the Chicago area for the 1920 and 1930 census and he went by Ruby and Rudy. They had one known child , Pauline Shasteen born about 1904.

Anna M. Shasteen born about 1876 in IL

William Franklin Shasteen born Apr 1882 in IL and died after the 1930 census. William is first found in the 1900 census living with his father in Bement Township, Piatt Co., IL. His father James owned the home, with a mortgage on it and was a day laborer. William was single and employed as a mail carrier. In the 1910 census as William Sharteen he was living with his sister Nevada and her husband Burroughs (employed as an engineer at a coffin factory!) and was employed as a packer at a flour mill. His 1918 WWI Registration card gives his address as 1328 E. North, Decatur, IL working as a packer at Suffern and Hunt (W. H. Suffern moved his grain business from Pierson to Decatur in 1891, and was joined in 1892 by Robert I. Hunt. The company incorporated as Suffern, Hunt & Co., erected a mill later at Union street and the Wabash. The same men in 1907 built a cereal mill at Eldorado and Van Dyke. It burned in 1909.), 706 N. Union in Decatur and his nearest relative as Minnie Hughes at 601 N. Witt, Decatur IL. In the 1930 census, he is found as William Sharteon living as a single man with his brother in law, the widower Burroughs Moore, now age 63. No record of William's death has yet been found after the 1930 census.

James Shasteen died 10 Sep 1906 in Bement Township, Piatt Co., IL per county death records. Unfortunately for the family, Catharine Shasteen was found in the 1900 census at the Piatt County Poor House and listed on the census as being insane. Her death was found in the county death records as 14 May 1904.

NOTE: Now we have tombstones in both Bement IL and Yellowbud OH for James Shasteen. The duplication is being researched to hopefully determine who the second James might be.

This Newspaper article was found regarding James in the Decatur IL Daily Review of Friday Evening, January 27, 1905 some 20 months before his death. (Use your browser to magnify and read.)
 

William Henry Harrison Shasteen - Second Son
 

Francis Marion Shasteen - Third Son

Per 09 Sept 1994 Phone conversation with Goulding Sanderson

William Henry Harrison Shasteen could not pass the physical for the Civil War but Francis Marion Shasteen did and joined up with the Union forces and was in only a short time in a line outfit before being captured and taken to the prison camp in Andersonville, Georgia. Apparently he and six others dug a tunnel to get out under the fencing but Marion was so weak that he was left behind and died. Apparently the camp was poorly run with little or no food and water had also become so scarce that the men were attempting to escape more to save their lives than to rejoin the War. Anyway, he had been drinking his own urine and blood and probably got extreme dysentery and died as a result. The camp had run out of water, the POW's had exhausted all the flow from the local streams and around 2000 men were dieing every day at this period of time. Sometime thereafter a new spring opened up and relieved the water problem. There is a memorial at Andersonville which includes photos and much historical information. Goulding visited the location and stood at the hole under the stockade fence that was dug by these young men. William Henry Harrison Shasteen apparently decided later to recover his brothers remains and had them buried in the cemetery in Circleville (Spring Banks Cemetery near Yellowbud) where Uncle Johnny Logan Shasteen (William Henry Harrison's second son with his third wife Augusta Sauerbrei) (b 29 Aug 1885 d 13 May 1950) and his wife Aunt Edna Shasteen (b 16 Aug 1888 d 12 Aug 1968) are buried. The POW's apparently were buried in long trenches side by side and simple wooden crosses placed to mark their names. Goulding said William Henry Harrison Shasteen was unsure as to whether Francis Marion Shasteen's remains were actually those which were retrieved and buried in the Circleville Cemetery.

Research discloses Francis Marion Shasteen was a Union Soldier in the 89^th Regiment Ohio Infantry [Roll M1303_4] – His rank was a musician. Others in his regiment were Edward (son of William b 1839), James C. (brother of Francis Marion or son of Robert's brother James?), and Lewis Shasteen (son of William b 1842). He was in Company K, died 17 Feb 1865 of Diarrhea C., was captured 20 Sep 1863 at Chickamauga, GA (Code 22668 Grave 12668). I have not yet found his gravestone at Spring Banks Cemetery in Yellowbud.
 

Francis Marion Shasteen Likely Namesake
(Thanks to Wikipedia.org)

Francis Marion (February 26, 1732–February 27, 1795) was a lieutenant colonel in the Continental Army and later brigadier general in the South Carolina Militia during the American Revolutionary War. He became known as the "Swamp Fox" because he set up his base of operations in a swamp. His use of guerrilla tactics helped set in motion the decline of open battles in the conflict. Early records indicate that he was a sailor before the Revolutionary War.

Marion is considered one of the fathers of modern guerrilla warfare, and is credited in the lineage of the United States Army Rangers.

Family and early life

Marion's family was of Huguenot ancestry. His parents were Gabriel Marion and Esther Cordes Marion, both first-generation Carolinians. His grandparents were Benjamin and Judith Baluet Marion, and Anthony and Esther Baluet Cordes. Gabriel and Esther had six children: Esther, Isaac, Gabriel, Benjamin, Job, and Francis. Francis was the last born and was a puny child. Peter Horry, who served under Marion in the American Revolution, joked, "I have it from good authority, that this great soldier, at his birth, was not larger than a New England lobster, and might easily enough have been put into a quart pot."

The family settled at Winyah, near Georgetown, South Carolina. Marion was born in midwinter, 1732, at Goatfield Plantation in St. James Parish, Berkeley County, South Carolina. When he was five or six, his family moved to a plantation in St. George, a parish on Winyah Bay. Apparently, they wanted to be near the English school in Georgetown. In 1759, he moved to Pond Bluff plantation near Eutaw Springs, in St. John's Parish, Berkeley County, South Carolina. Francis Marion was fluent in both French and English.

When Francis was 15, he decided to become a sailor. His imagination had been stirred by the ships in the Georgetown port. When he asked his parents' permission, they willingly agreed. They hoped a voyage to the Caribbean would strengthen his frail physique. He signed on as the sixth crewman of a schooner heading for the West Indies. As they were returning, a whale rammed the schooner and caused a plank to come loose. The captain and crew escaped in a boat, but the schooner sank so quickly that they were unable to take any food or water. After six days under the tropical sun, two crewmen died of thirst and exposure. The following day, they reached shore.

Despite his sea ordeal, Francis came back in better health. Peter Horry wrote, "His constitution seemed renewed, his frame commenced a second and rapid growth, while his cheeks, quitting their pale, suet-colored cast, assumed a bright and healthy olive." However, Francis was done with sailing after that one disastrous voyage.

Marion began his military career shortly before his 25th birthday. On January 1, 1757, Francis and his brother Gabriel were recruited by Captain John Postell for the French and Indian War to drive the Cherokee away from the border. In 1761, Marion served as a lieutenant under Captain William Moultrie in a campaign against the Cherokee. Peter Horry quoted a letter in which Marion spoke of this British-led campaign with sorrow:

"The next morning we proceeded by order of Colonel James Grant, to burn down the Indians' cabins. Some of our men seemed to enjoy this cruel work, laughing very heartily at the curling flames, as they mounted loud crackling over the tops of the huts. But to me it appeared a shocking sight. Poor creatures! thought I, we surely need not grudge you such miserable habitations. But, when we came, according to orders, to cut down the fields of corn, I could scarcely refrain from tears. For who could see the stalks that stood so stately with broad green leaves and gaily tasseled shocks, filled with sweet milky fluid and flour, the staff of life; who, I say, without grief, could see these sacred plants sinking under our swords with all their precious load, to wither and rot untasted in their mourning fields."

Service during the Revolution

In 1775, he was a member of the South Carolina Provincial Congress, and on June 21, 1775 was commissioned captain in the 2nd South Carolina Regiment under William Moultrie, with whom he served in June 1776 in the defense of Fort Sullivan and Fort Moultrie, in Charleston harbor.

In September 1776, the Continental Congress commissioned Marion as a lieutenant-colonel. In the autumn of 1779, he took part in the siege of Savannah, and early in 1780, under Gen. Benjamin Lincoln, was engaged in drilling militia.

Marion escaped capture when Charleston fell on May 12, 1780, because he had broken an ankle in an accident and had left the city to recuperate.

After the loss of Charleston, the defeats of Gen. Isaac Huger at Moncks Corner and Lt. Col. Abraham Buford at the Waxhaw massacre (near the North Carolina border, in what is now Lancaster County), Marion organized a small troop, which at first consisted of between 20 and 70 men—the only force then opposing the British Army in the state. At this point, he was still nearly crippled from the slowly-healing ankle.

He joined General Horatio Gates just before the Battle of Camden, but Gates had no confidence in him and sent him (mostly to get rid of him) to take command of the Williamsburg Militia in the Pee Dee area and asked him to undertake scouting missions and impede the expected flight of the British after the battle. Marion thus missed the battle, but was able to intercept and recapture 150 Maryland prisoners, plus about twenty of their British guards, who had been en route from the battle to Charleston. The freed prisoners, thinking the war already lost, refused to join Marion and deserted.

However, with his militiamen, Marion showed himself to be a singularly able leader of irregulars. Unlike the Continental troops, Marion's Men, as they were known, served without pay, supplied their own horses, arms, and often their food. All of Marion's supplies that were not obtained locally were captured from the British or Loyalist ("Tory") forces.

Marion rarely committed his men to frontal warfare, but repeatedly surprised larger bodies of Loyalists or British regulars with quick surprise attacks and equally quick withdrawal from the field. After the surrender of Charleston, the British garrisoned South Carolina with help from local Tories, except for Williamsburg (the present Pee Dee), which they were never able to hold. The British made one attempt to garrison Williamsburg at Willtown, but were driven out by Marion at the Mingo Creek.

The British especially hated Marion and made repeated efforts to neutralize his force, but Marion's intelligence gathering was excellent and that of the British was poor, due to the overwhelming Patriot loyalty of the populace in the Williamsburg area.

Col. Banastre Tarleton, sent to capture Marion, despaired of finding the "old swamp fox", who eluded him by travelling along swamp paths. Tarleton and Marion were sharply contrasted in the popular mind. Tarleton was hated because he burned and destroyed homes and supplies, whereas Marion's Men, when they requisitioned supplies (or destroyed them to keep them out of British hands) gave the owners receipts for them. After the war, most of the receipts were redeemed by the new state government.

Once Marion had shown his ability at guerrilla warfare, making himself a serious nuisance to the British, Governor John Rutledge (in exile in North Carolina) commissioned him a brigadier-general of state troops.

When Gen. Nathanael Greene took command in the south, Marion and Lieutenant Colonel Henry Lee were ordered in January 1781 to attack Georgetown, but were unsuccessful. In April, however, they took Fort Watson and in May, Fort Motte, and succeeded in breaking communications between the British posts in the Carolinas. On August 31, Marion rescued a small American force trapped by Major C. Fraser with 500 British. For this, he received the thanks of the Continental Congress. Marion commanded the right wing under General Greene at the Battle of Eutaw Springs.

In 1782, during his absence as State Senator at Jacksonborough, his brigade grew disheartened and there was reportedly a conspiracy to turn him over to the British. But in June of that year, he put down a Loyalist uprising on the banks of the Pee Dee River. In August, he left his brigade and returned to his plantation.

After the war, Marion married his cousin, Mary Esther Videau. His nephew Theodore had hinted to his uncle that it was time to get married. His relatives and friends informed him that Mary always listened with glowing cheeks and sparkling eyes when anyone began reciting the exploits of the Swamp Fox. Marion was in love earlier with Mary Esther Simons but she refused his proposal and married Jack Holmes.

Marion served several terms in the South Carolina State Senate, and in 1784, in recognition of his services, was made commander of Fort Johnson, practically a courtesy title with a salary of $500 per annum. He was originally supposed to receive 500 English pounds a year, but economy-frightened politicians reduced his payment to 500 Continental dollars. He died on his estate in 1795.

Slave owner

Like many of the Southern political and military leaders of the Revolutionary War (including George Washington) Francis Marion was a slave owner. He had an estimated 200 slaves, many of whom took the last name "Marion." Of them, the slave Oscar Marion was renowned for his service as a soldier in the war, and apparently was especially close to his master.

Landmarks

The Francis Marion National Forest near Charleston, South Carolina is named after Marion, as is the historic Francis Marion Hotel in downtown Charleston. Numerous other locations across the country are named after Marion. The city of Marion, Iowa is named after Francis, and the city holds an annual Swamp Fox Festival and parade every summer. Marion County, South Carolina, and its county seat, the City of Marion, are named for General Marion. The City of Marion features a statute of General Marion in its town square, has a museum that includes many artifacts related to Francis Marion, and the Marion High School mascot is the Swamp Fox. Francis Marion University is located nearby in Florence County, South Carolina. In Washington, DC, Marion Park is one the four "major" or large parks in the Capitol Hill Parks constellation. The park is bounded by 4th & 6th Streets and at the intersection of E Street and South Carolina Avenue in southeast Washington, DC.  The town of Marion, IN as well as Marion, MA, formerly Sippican, are also named after Francis Marion. Marion County, Indiana which the city of Indianapolis is apart of, is also named for the general. The town of Marion, Alabama is named after Francis Marion, as are Marion County, Arkansas; Marion County, Ohio; Marion, Illinois; Marion, Virginia; and Marion County, Illinois. The Junior Military College Marion Military Institute located in Marion, Alabama has an organization called Swamp Fox which is attributed to Francis Marion.

In 2006 the U.S. House of Representatives approved a monument to Francis Marion, to be built in Washington, D.C. sometime in 2007–08. The bill, however, died in the U.S. Senate and was reintroduced in January, 2007. The Brigadier General Francis Marion Memorial Act of 2007 passed the US House of Representatives in March of 2007, and has emerged from the Energy Committee in the US Senate with a favorable opinion. The bill, H.R. 497, has been placed on the General Calendar and waits for a Senate vote and a Presidential signature to become law.

Gravestone

Marion's grave stone reads:

He is buried at Belle Isle Plantation Cemetery, Berkeley County, South Carolina.