Shaw, Col. JosiahCol. Josiah Shaw departed this life Oct. 31, 1877, and was buried near his residence in Colorado county, November 1. Col. Shaw was born in Shelby county, Ky., December 24th, 1817, immigrated to Texas in 1839. He joined the Baptist Church in 1817, and led a true Christian life to the day of his death. He was a man of great energy, enterprise and courage, surmounting every obstacle. Kind and generous even to a fault, he was respected and beloved by all who knew him. In 1866, he represented his county, (Colorado) in the State Legislature, during the Throckmorton administration, and with his energy, force of character, and rich volume of information, he was at once recognized as one of the most efficient member of that body. He was a true, honest Christian gentleman, and all who knew him recognized these traits of character. The State and county has lost one of its best, and most worthy citizens, the bereaved wife a true, kind, affectionate and frugal husband; his children a kind, affectionate and protecting father, and the poor man his best friend. [Interred in the Fitzgerald Cemetery] Colorado County Citizen, November 8, 1877
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Col. Josiah and Delinda Jane (Fitzgerald) Shaw
Josiah Shaw was a native of Shelby county, Kentucky, and his wife of Nashville, Tennessee. The family has lived in Texas from the time of the establishment of the Republic, Josiah having come to the state in 1836 and settled in Fayette County, near the town of Lyons, now Schulenburg. Col. Josiah Shaw was married at LaGrange in 1842, and a few years later moved to Shaw's Bend, in Colorado county, on the river about ten miles above Columbus. Here he became prominent as a planter, cultivating corn, cotton and ribbon-cane, and was the first in that section to engage in cane culture. He served as colonel in the Confederate army from 1863 to 1865, principally in Texas and Louisiana. In 1866 he served as a member of the legislature, being elected as a Democrat in the reconstruction period, when the Republicans were almost two to one. He continued a leading citizen of the county all his life, and died, much esteemed, in 1877, at the age of sixty-eight.
Col. Josiah Shaw's family consisted of four sons and two daughters, as follows: William Howard enlisted in the first company organized in Colorado county, being first under General Sibley and later in Gen. Tom Green's command, and was killed at Fort Donelson in 1862, when twenty one years old. Josiah, Jr., now deceased, was also in the Confederate army. Andrew Jackson died in 1892. Carey is the youngest of the sons. Laura is the wife of James W. Towell, of Columbus, and the other daughter, Mrs. Julia Brooks, is deceased. (Historical Review of South-East Texas and the Founders, Leaders and Representative Men, Vol 2, by Dermot Hardy and Maj. Ingham S. Robert, by The Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago, 1910 -)
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Col. Josiah and Delinda Jane (Fitzgerald) Shaw
Josiah Shaw was a native of Shelby county, Kentucky, and his wife of Nashville, Tennessee. The family has lived in Texas from the time of the establishment of the Republic, Josiah having come to the state in 1836 and settled in Fayette County, near the town of Lyons, now Schulenburg. Col. Josiah Shaw was married at LaGrange in 1842, and a few years later moved to Shaw's Bend, in Colorado county, on the river about ten miles above Columbus. Here he became prominent as a planter, cultivating corn, cotton and ribbon-cane, and was the first in that section to engage in cane culture. He served as colonel in the Confederate army from 1863 to 1865, principally in Texas and Louisiana. In 1866 he served as a member of the legislature, being elected as a Democrat in the reconstruction period, when the Republicans were almost two to one. He continued a leading citizen of the county all his life, and died, much esteemed, in 1877, at the age of sixty-eight.
Col. Josiah Shaw's family consisted of four sons and two daughters, as follows: William Howard enlisted in the first company organized in Colorado county, being first under General Sibley and later in Gen. Tom Green's command, and was killed at Fort Donelson in 1862, when twenty one years old. Josiah, Jr., now deceased, was also in the Confederate army. Andrew Jackson died in 1892. Carey is the youngest of the sons. Laura is the wife of James W. Towell, of Columbus, and the other daughter, Mrs. Julia Brooks, is deceased. (Historical Review of South-East Texas and the Founders, Leaders and Representative Men, Vol 2, by Dermot Hardy and Maj. Ingham S. Robert, by The Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago, 1910 -)
Shaw, Col. JosiahCol. Josiah Shaw departed this life Oct. 31, 1877, and was buried near his residence in Colorado county, November 1. Col. Shaw was born in Shelby county, Ky., December 24th, 1817, immigrated to Texas in 1839. He joined the Baptist Church in 1817, and led a true Christian life to the day of his death. He was a man of great energy, enterprise and courage, surmounting every obstacle. Kind and generous even to a fault, he was respected and beloved by all who knew him. In 1866, he represented his county, (Colorado) in the State Legislature, during the Throckmorton administration, and with his energy, force of character, and rich volume of information, he was at once recognized as one of the most efficient member of that body. He was a true, honest Christian gentleman, and all who knew him recognized these traits of character. The State and county has lost one of its best, and most worthy citizens, the bereaved wife a true, kind, affectionate and frugal husband; his children a kind, affectionate and protecting father, and the poor man his best friend. [Interred in the Fitzgerald Cemetery] Colorado County Citizen, November 8, 1877
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Col. Josiah and Delinda Jane (Fitzgerald) Shaw
Josiah Shaw was a native of Shelby county, Kentucky, and his wife of Nashville, Tennessee. The family has lived in Texas from the time of the establishment of the Republic, Josiah having come to the state in 1836 and settled in Fayette County, near the town of Lyons, now Schulenburg. Col. Josiah Shaw was married at LaGrange in 1842, and a few years later moved to Shaw's Bend, in Colorado county, on the river about ten miles above Columbus. Here he became prominent as a planter, cultivating corn, cotton and ribbon-cane, and was the first in that section to engage in cane culture. He served as colonel in the Confederate army from 1863 to 1865, principally in Texas and Louisiana. In 1866 he served as a member of the legislature, being elected as a Democrat in the reconstruction period, when the Republicans were almost two to one. He continued a leading citizen of the county all his life, and died, much esteemed, in 1877, at the age of sixty-eight.
Col. Josiah Shaw's family consisted of four sons and two daughters, as follows: William Howard enlisted in the first company organized in Colorado county, being first under General Sibley and later in Gen. Tom Green's command, and was killed at Fort Donelson in 1862, when twenty one years old. Josiah, Jr., now deceased, was also in the Confederate army. Andrew Jackson died in 1892. Carey is the youngest of the sons. Laura is the wife of James W. Towell, of Columbus, and the other daughter, Mrs. Julia Brooks, is deceased. (Historical Review of South-East Texas and the Founders, Leaders and Representative Men, Vol 2, by Dermot Hardy and Maj. Ingham S. Robert, by The Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago, 1910 -)
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Col. Josiah and Delinda Jane (Fitzgerald) Shaw
Josiah Shaw was a native of Shelby county, Kentucky, and his wife of Nashville, Tennessee. The family has lived in Texas from the time of the establishment of the Republic, Josiah having come to the state in 1836 and settled in Fayette County, near the town of Lyons, now Schulenburg. Col. Josiah Shaw was married at LaGrange in 1842, and a few years later moved to Shaw's Bend, in Colorado county, on the river about ten miles above Columbus. Here he became prominent as a planter, cultivating corn, cotton and ribbon-cane, and was the first in that section to engage in cane culture. He served as colonel in the Confederate army from 1863 to 1865, principally in Texas and Louisiana. In 1866 he served as a member of the legislature, being elected as a Democrat in the reconstruction period, when the Republicans were almost two to one. He continued a leading citizen of the county all his life, and died, much esteemed, in 1877, at the age of sixty-eight.
Col. Josiah Shaw's family consisted of four sons and two daughters, as follows: William Howard enlisted in the first company organized in Colorado county, being first under General Sibley and later in Gen. Tom Green's command, and was killed at Fort Donelson in 1862, when twenty one years old. Josiah, Jr., now deceased, was also in the Confederate army. Andrew Jackson died in 1892. Carey is the youngest of the sons. Laura is the wife of James W. Towell, of Columbus, and the other daughter, Mrs. Julia Brooks, is deceased. (Historical Review of South-East Texas and the Founders, Leaders and Representative Men, Vol 2, by Dermot Hardy and Maj. Ingham S. Robert, by The Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago, 1910 -)
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