Suggested edit: Galesburg Enterprise Aug. 16, 1901: Phebe Poling was born Jan. 29, 1810, in Barbour county, Va. Was married to Joseph Shaw, Jan. 11, 1833, and soon after thereafter they removed to Fairfield Co., Ohio. To this union were born four sons and four daughters, two sons and two daughters having passed away nearly fifty years, her husband following fifteen years later. Phebe Shaw died at her home in Hocking Co., Ohio on July 29, 1901, aged 91 years and 6 months. She leaves 2 daughters, Sarah A. Sheets and Elizabeth Sholl, of Hocking county, Ohio, and J. N. and B. M. Shaw of Neoshio county, Kansas, all of whom were present at her funeral. She also leaves a number of grand and great grandchildren to mourn her loss. During the past two years, with her have passed away a sister, Sarah Haddicks, and three brothers, Absalom, Remus and Edgar Poling, whose ages average about6=86 years. Three brothers and one sister survive; Harvey Poling of Barbour county, W. Va., Benjaman Poling and Anna Swearingen of Hocking Co., Ohio, and Capt. Newton Poling of Phillipsburg, Kansas, whose ages average about76 years, and a half sister and a half brother living in W. V. A. Phoebe Shaw united with the M. E. church in her girlhood days, more than 70 years ago. For a number of years she made it a rule to read the Bible through at least once a year, but after having read it through twenty-seven times, her eyesight failed so she was unable to read for several years previous to her death. In her will she bequeathed $500 each to the Home and the Foreign Missionary Society of the M.E. church. She was laid to rest beside her husband in Harvey Chapel cemetery, her four children being present. Written by J. N. Shaw.
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Suggested edit: Galesburg Enterprise Aug. 16, 1901: Phebe Poling was born Jan. 29, 1810, in Barbour county, Va. Was married to Joseph Shaw, Jan. 11, 1833, and soon after thereafter they removed to Fairfield Co., Ohio. To this union were born four sons and four daughters, two sons and two daughters having passed away nearly fifty years, her husband following fifteen years later. Phebe Shaw died at her home in Hocking Co., Ohio on July 29, 1901, aged 91 years and 6 months. She leaves 2 daughters, Sarah A. Sheets and Elizabeth Sholl, of Hocking county, Ohio, and J. N. and B. M. Shaw of Neoshio county, Kansas, all of whom were present at her funeral. She also leaves a number of grand and great grandchildren to mourn her loss. During the past two years, with her have passed away a sister, Sarah Haddicks, and three brothers, Absalom, Remus and Edgar Poling, whose ages average about6=86 years. Three brothers and one sister survive; Harvey Poling of Barbour county, W. Va., Benjaman Poling and Anna Swearingen of Hocking Co., Ohio, and Capt. Newton Poling of Phillipsburg, Kansas, whose ages average about76 years, and a half sister and a half brother living in W. V. A. Phoebe Shaw united with the M. E. church in her girlhood days, more than 70 years ago. For a number of years she made it a rule to read the Bible through at least once a year, but after having read it through twenty-seven times, her eyesight failed so she was unable to read for several years previous to her death. In her will she bequeathed $500 each to the Home and the Foreign Missionary Society of the M.E. church. She was laid to rest beside her husband in Harvey Chapel cemetery, her four children being present. Written by J. N. Shaw.
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