Son of David Shatto & Julia Anna Gardner
Married: Rebecca Ann Boyd 1 March 1838 in Oliver Township, Perry County, Pennsylvania
Children:
Cyrus Thomas - 15 January 1839
Jeremiah James - 9 December 1839
Margaret Ellen - 15 May 1841
Ephraim Benjamin - 24 April 1843
Isaac Newton - 7 July 1845
Harriet Singer - 23 February 1848
William Lynch - 28 May 1850
John Lewis "Louie" - 27 March 1853
Emma Ann - 16 March 1856
Harvey Leigh - 15 December 1859
William Shatto was the first born of his parents who at the time were living in Rye Township, Cumberland (now Perry) County. He grew up in a farm household that came to include nine siblings, one brother Cyrus dying at two and half. His father, David Shatto, died unexpectedly of smallpox in 1841, leaving the remaining family at home in straightened circumstances.
In 1850 he and family were in Johnstown, PA. to earn money in a foundry - a moulder pouring iron pigs. After a short time he moved to Crawford County, Ohio, where he worked clearing timber for agricultural land. By the mid 1850's he moved to his own farm near Angola, Steuben County, Indiana, that became a home until about 1870. His daughter Emma describes how they built a log cabin, the crops they grew, hunting and various adventures and misadventures of herself, her siblings and visiting Boyd cousins. Two of his sons, Jerry and Isaac, served in Indiana units during the civil war, saw some heavy action and came home without a scratch. Here the last of the children were born and the household included his father-in-law, Thomas Boyd, a retired weaver from Perry County, in his declining years.
Not entirely satisfied with Indiana, William bought land sight unseen in Daviess County, Missouri, where his brother David H Shatto, had settled, moving the family by wagon as he couldn't bear to leave behind his favorite horses. The land, although fertile, was on low land on the confluence of two rivers that was subject to flooding. He gave that up and moved the family to a farm bought from a homesteader outside Linn, Washington County, Kansas where he and Rebecca lived out the rest of their lives. He is reported by the Washington County Historical Society as a Washington County pioneer arriving 1871.
According to his vanity biography, "He took up a tract of land and for a few years labored early and late in its cultivation and improvement and practised the most rigid economy in order to make both ends meet. He erected buildings, planted fruit and shade trees, and gradually gathered around himself and family all the comforts of life. Now sitting under his own vine and fig tree, he can look over the past with a measure of satisfaction, feeling that he has not lived in vain."
He was preceded in death by Rebecca and after his death the family moved on, primarily to the west coast, settling in Oregon, California and Washington.
Barry Michie G-G Grandson
Ref:
1. Portrait and Biographical Album of Washington, Clay and Riley Counties, Kansas. Chicago: Chapman Bros. 1890, pps. 627-629
2. Emma Shatto Field. Memories of Early Days in the Middle West. Unpublished manuscript 1949.
Married: Rebecca Ann Boyd 1 March 1838 in Oliver Township, Perry County, Pennsylvania
Children:
Cyrus Thomas - 15 January 1839
Jeremiah James - 9 December 1839
Margaret Ellen - 15 May 1841
Ephraim Benjamin - 24 April 1843
Isaac Newton - 7 July 1845
Harriet Singer - 23 February 1848
William Lynch - 28 May 1850
John Lewis "Louie" - 27 March 1853
Emma Ann - 16 March 1856
Harvey Leigh - 15 December 1859
William Shatto was the first born of his parents who at the time were living in Rye Township, Cumberland (now Perry) County. He grew up in a farm household that came to include nine siblings, one brother Cyrus dying at two and half. His father, David Shatto, died unexpectedly of smallpox in 1841, leaving the remaining family at home in straightened circumstances.
In 1850 he and family were in Johnstown, PA. to earn money in a foundry - a moulder pouring iron pigs. After a short time he moved to Crawford County, Ohio, where he worked clearing timber for agricultural land. By the mid 1850's he moved to his own farm near Angola, Steuben County, Indiana, that became a home until about 1870. His daughter Emma describes how they built a log cabin, the crops they grew, hunting and various adventures and misadventures of herself, her siblings and visiting Boyd cousins. Two of his sons, Jerry and Isaac, served in Indiana units during the civil war, saw some heavy action and came home without a scratch. Here the last of the children were born and the household included his father-in-law, Thomas Boyd, a retired weaver from Perry County, in his declining years.
Not entirely satisfied with Indiana, William bought land sight unseen in Daviess County, Missouri, where his brother David H Shatto, had settled, moving the family by wagon as he couldn't bear to leave behind his favorite horses. The land, although fertile, was on low land on the confluence of two rivers that was subject to flooding. He gave that up and moved the family to a farm bought from a homesteader outside Linn, Washington County, Kansas where he and Rebecca lived out the rest of their lives. He is reported by the Washington County Historical Society as a Washington County pioneer arriving 1871.
According to his vanity biography, "He took up a tract of land and for a few years labored early and late in its cultivation and improvement and practised the most rigid economy in order to make both ends meet. He erected buildings, planted fruit and shade trees, and gradually gathered around himself and family all the comforts of life. Now sitting under his own vine and fig tree, he can look over the past with a measure of satisfaction, feeling that he has not lived in vain."
He was preceded in death by Rebecca and after his death the family moved on, primarily to the west coast, settling in Oregon, California and Washington.
Barry Michie G-G Grandson
Ref:
1. Portrait and Biographical Album of Washington, Clay and Riley Counties, Kansas. Chicago: Chapman Bros. 1890, pps. 627-629
2. Emma Shatto Field. Memories of Early Days in the Middle West. Unpublished manuscript 1949.
Son of David Shatto & Julia Anna Gardner
Married: Rebecca Ann Boyd 1 March 1838 in Oliver Township, Perry County, Pennsylvania
Children:
Cyrus Thomas - 15 January 1839
Jeremiah James - 9 December 1839
Margaret Ellen - 15 May 1841
Ephraim Benjamin - 24 April 1843
Isaac Newton - 7 July 1845
Harriet Singer - 23 February 1848
William Lynch - 28 May 1850
John Lewis "Louie" - 27 March 1853
Emma Ann - 16 March 1856
Harvey Leigh - 15 December 1859
William Shatto was the first born of his parents who at the time were living in Rye Township, Cumberland (now Perry) County. He grew up in a farm household that came to include nine siblings, one brother Cyrus dying at two and half. His father, David Shatto, died unexpectedly of smallpox in 1841, leaving the remaining family at home in straightened circumstances.
In 1850 he and family were in Johnstown, PA. to earn money in a foundry - a moulder pouring iron pigs. After a short time he moved to Crawford County, Ohio, where he worked clearing timber for agricultural land. By the mid 1850's he moved to his own farm near Angola, Steuben County, Indiana, that became a home until about 1870. His daughter Emma describes how they built a log cabin, the crops they grew, hunting and various adventures and misadventures of herself, her siblings and visiting Boyd cousins. Two of his sons, Jerry and Isaac, served in Indiana units during the civil war, saw some heavy action and came home without a scratch. Here the last of the children were born and the household included his father-in-law, Thomas Boyd, a retired weaver from Perry County, in his declining years.
Not entirely satisfied with Indiana, William bought land sight unseen in Daviess County, Missouri, where his brother David H Shatto, had settled, moving the family by wagon as he couldn't bear to leave behind his favorite horses. The land, although fertile, was on low land on the confluence of two rivers that was subject to flooding. He gave that up and moved the family to a farm bought from a homesteader outside Linn, Washington County, Kansas where he and Rebecca lived out the rest of their lives. He is reported by the Washington County Historical Society as a Washington County pioneer arriving 1871.
According to his vanity biography, "He took up a tract of land and for a few years labored early and late in its cultivation and improvement and practised the most rigid economy in order to make both ends meet. He erected buildings, planted fruit and shade trees, and gradually gathered around himself and family all the comforts of life. Now sitting under his own vine and fig tree, he can look over the past with a measure of satisfaction, feeling that he has not lived in vain."
He was preceded in death by Rebecca and after his death the family moved on, primarily to the west coast, settling in Oregon, California and Washington.
Barry Michie G-G Grandson
Ref:
1. Portrait and Biographical Album of Washington, Clay and Riley Counties, Kansas. Chicago: Chapman Bros. 1890, pps. 627-629
2. Emma Shatto Field. Memories of Early Days in the Middle West. Unpublished manuscript 1949.
Married: Rebecca Ann Boyd 1 March 1838 in Oliver Township, Perry County, Pennsylvania
Children:
Cyrus Thomas - 15 January 1839
Jeremiah James - 9 December 1839
Margaret Ellen - 15 May 1841
Ephraim Benjamin - 24 April 1843
Isaac Newton - 7 July 1845
Harriet Singer - 23 February 1848
William Lynch - 28 May 1850
John Lewis "Louie" - 27 March 1853
Emma Ann - 16 March 1856
Harvey Leigh - 15 December 1859
William Shatto was the first born of his parents who at the time were living in Rye Township, Cumberland (now Perry) County. He grew up in a farm household that came to include nine siblings, one brother Cyrus dying at two and half. His father, David Shatto, died unexpectedly of smallpox in 1841, leaving the remaining family at home in straightened circumstances.
In 1850 he and family were in Johnstown, PA. to earn money in a foundry - a moulder pouring iron pigs. After a short time he moved to Crawford County, Ohio, where he worked clearing timber for agricultural land. By the mid 1850's he moved to his own farm near Angola, Steuben County, Indiana, that became a home until about 1870. His daughter Emma describes how they built a log cabin, the crops they grew, hunting and various adventures and misadventures of herself, her siblings and visiting Boyd cousins. Two of his sons, Jerry and Isaac, served in Indiana units during the civil war, saw some heavy action and came home without a scratch. Here the last of the children were born and the household included his father-in-law, Thomas Boyd, a retired weaver from Perry County, in his declining years.
Not entirely satisfied with Indiana, William bought land sight unseen in Daviess County, Missouri, where his brother David H Shatto, had settled, moving the family by wagon as he couldn't bear to leave behind his favorite horses. The land, although fertile, was on low land on the confluence of two rivers that was subject to flooding. He gave that up and moved the family to a farm bought from a homesteader outside Linn, Washington County, Kansas where he and Rebecca lived out the rest of their lives. He is reported by the Washington County Historical Society as a Washington County pioneer arriving 1871.
According to his vanity biography, "He took up a tract of land and for a few years labored early and late in its cultivation and improvement and practised the most rigid economy in order to make both ends meet. He erected buildings, planted fruit and shade trees, and gradually gathered around himself and family all the comforts of life. Now sitting under his own vine and fig tree, he can look over the past with a measure of satisfaction, feeling that he has not lived in vain."
He was preceded in death by Rebecca and after his death the family moved on, primarily to the west coast, settling in Oregon, California and Washington.
Barry Michie G-G Grandson
Ref:
1. Portrait and Biographical Album of Washington, Clay and Riley Counties, Kansas. Chicago: Chapman Bros. 1890, pps. 627-629
2. Emma Shatto Field. Memories of Early Days in the Middle West. Unpublished manuscript 1949.
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