Thanks to M. L. P. Bailey for the following bio offered 14 august 2017:
Her obituary, reported in the 16 March 1836 edition of the Southern Christian Herald, "Departed this life, Mrs. Lillis Shaw Cousar, consort of the Rev. John Cousar, on Tuesday morning, the first inst., in the 34th year of her age, leaving four sons in minority."
Lillis Shaw married Rev. Cousar when she was twenty and he was fifty-two. Despite the thirty-two year difference in age, they shared a common dedication to the Presbyterian denomination of Christianity.
Her husband, Rev. Cousar, died in 1837, eighteen months after his wife, leaving their four young children orphaned. They were taken in and raised by Lillis' brother, William Shaw and his wife, Elizabeth Emmaline Bradley Shaw.
The first born child, John Shaw Cousar (1825-1841), died young; the other three sons survived to adulthood, married, and had families.
Her obituary, reported in the 16 March 1836 edition of the Southern Christian Herald, "Departed this life, Mrs. Lillis Shaw Cousar, consort of the Rev. John Cousar, on Tuesday morning, the first inst., in the 34th year of her age, leaving four sons in minority."
Lillis Shaw married Rev. Cousar when she was twenty and he was fifty-two. Despite the thirty-two year difference in age, they shared a common dedication to the Presbyterian denomination of Christianity.
Her husband, Rev. Cousar, died in 1837, eighteen months after his wife, leaving their four young children orphaned. They were taken in and raised by Lillis' brother, William Shaw and his wife, Elizabeth Emmaline Bradley Shaw.
The first born child, John Shaw Cousar (1825-1841), died young; the other three sons survived to adulthood, married, and had families.
Thanks to M. L. P. Bailey for the following bio offered 14 august 2017:
Her obituary, reported in the 16 March 1836 edition of the Southern Christian Herald, "Departed this life, Mrs. Lillis Shaw Cousar, consort of the Rev. John Cousar, on Tuesday morning, the first inst., in the 34th year of her age, leaving four sons in minority."
Lillis Shaw married Rev. Cousar when she was twenty and he was fifty-two. Despite the thirty-two year difference in age, they shared a common dedication to the Presbyterian denomination of Christianity.
Her husband, Rev. Cousar, died in 1837, eighteen months after his wife, leaving their four young children orphaned. They were taken in and raised by Lillis' brother, William Shaw and his wife, Elizabeth Emmaline Bradley Shaw.
The first born child, John Shaw Cousar (1825-1841), died young; the other three sons survived to adulthood, married, and had families.
Her obituary, reported in the 16 March 1836 edition of the Southern Christian Herald, "Departed this life, Mrs. Lillis Shaw Cousar, consort of the Rev. John Cousar, on Tuesday morning, the first inst., in the 34th year of her age, leaving four sons in minority."
Lillis Shaw married Rev. Cousar when she was twenty and he was fifty-two. Despite the thirty-two year difference in age, they shared a common dedication to the Presbyterian denomination of Christianity.
Her husband, Rev. Cousar, died in 1837, eighteen months after his wife, leaving their four young children orphaned. They were taken in and raised by Lillis' brother, William Shaw and his wife, Elizabeth Emmaline Bradley Shaw.
The first born child, John Shaw Cousar (1825-1841), died young; the other three sons survived to adulthood, married, and had families.
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Daughter of John and Lillis Mitchell Shaw
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