Mary Jane Gantt Shaw provided for her family by canning the food she grew in the garden. She had livestock and chickens on the farm. She also was a mid-wife.
According to conversation recorded by Zanetta Mitchell Perry with her Mom, Ora Shaw-Mitchell (Mary Jane's Granddaughter):
Ora's Dad's Mother, Mary Jane was a midwife. People all around Lovelady, Texas would have Mary Jane deliver their babies. She had a whole trunk of thank you cards that she had received from the parents of the babies. Ora said that usualy the people would arrive at her grandmother's house in a wagon to pick her up and take her to the home where the baby would be delivered. Ora said Mary Jane's single sister, "Aunt Jennie" who lived with them, would ask Mary Jane why she did this because she new she would never get paid for it.
After her son and daughter-in-law passed away (Bryant Wilson Shaw and Etta Williams), Mary Jane raised her two grandchildren (Odis (9) and Ora (6) until she was unable to keep house any longer and had to move in with her daughter, Eura Shaw-Monzingo.
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From the collection of Ora Shaw Mitchell (newspaper clipping-Enterprise newspaper) Obituary for Mary Jane Gantt Shaw
Aged Houston County Woman Dies Tuesday
Mary Jane Shaw, aged 75, died at the home of her daughter Mrs. W. E. Monzingo in Crockett, Texas, Tuesday afternoon, May 21, 1935.
Deceased is survived by two sisters, Mrs. Lottie Elliott, near Trinity, another sister in West Texas; a one-half sister, Miss Almeda Gantt of Lovelady, one daughter, Mrs. Monzingo of Crockett; two sons, Willie Shaw of the Prairie Point Community, and Farmer Shaw of Houston.
Funeral and burial services were held at the New Zion cemetery in the Piney Woods at one o'clock Wednesday, with Layman J-L Straughan officiating.
Pallbears, all of Crockett, were: J. W. McGraw, Richard Epps, C. R. Scott, H. M. Price, John Potts, G. W. Lunsford.
Funeral arrangements were in charge of R. B. Rainer.
Deceased lived in the Piney Woods community most of her life, moved to the Piney Point community where she lived with her family until she broke up housekeeping and was living with her daughter. Deceased was a member of the Church of Christ and known as a very consecrated Christian, as was manifested in her every day life.
The Enterprise joins the many friends and bereaved family in tender and loving sympathy.
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According to conversation recorded by Zanetta Mitchell Perry with her Mom, Ora Shaw-Mitchell (Mary Jane's Granddaughter):
Ora's Dad's Mother, Mary Jane was a midwife. People all around Lovelady, Texas would have Mary Jane deliver their babies. She had a whole trunk of thank you cards that she had received from the parents of the babies. Ora said that usualy the people would arrive at her grandmother's house in a wagon to pick her up and take her to the home where the baby would be delivered. Ora said Mary Jane's single sister, "Aunt Jennie" who lived with them, would ask Mary Jane why she did this because she new she would never get paid for it.
After her son and daughter-in-law passed away (Bryant Wilson Shaw and Etta Williams), Mary Jane raised her two grandchildren (Odis (9) and Ora (6) until she was unable to keep house any longer and had to move in with her daughter, Eura Shaw-Monzingo.
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From the collection of Ora Shaw Mitchell (newspaper clipping-Enterprise newspaper) Obituary for Mary Jane Gantt Shaw
Aged Houston County Woman Dies Tuesday
Mary Jane Shaw, aged 75, died at the home of her daughter Mrs. W. E. Monzingo in Crockett, Texas, Tuesday afternoon, May 21, 1935.
Deceased is survived by two sisters, Mrs. Lottie Elliott, near Trinity, another sister in West Texas; a one-half sister, Miss Almeda Gantt of Lovelady, one daughter, Mrs. Monzingo of Crockett; two sons, Willie Shaw of the Prairie Point Community, and Farmer Shaw of Houston.
Funeral and burial services were held at the New Zion cemetery in the Piney Woods at one o'clock Wednesday, with Layman J-L Straughan officiating.
Pallbears, all of Crockett, were: J. W. McGraw, Richard Epps, C. R. Scott, H. M. Price, John Potts, G. W. Lunsford.
Funeral arrangements were in charge of R. B. Rainer.
Deceased lived in the Piney Woods community most of her life, moved to the Piney Point community where she lived with her family until she broke up housekeeping and was living with her daughter. Deceased was a member of the Church of Christ and known as a very consecrated Christian, as was manifested in her every day life.
The Enterprise joins the many friends and bereaved family in tender and loving sympathy.
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Mary Jane Gantt Shaw provided for her family by canning the food she grew in the garden. She had livestock and chickens on the farm. She also was a mid-wife.
According to conversation recorded by Zanetta Mitchell Perry with her Mom, Ora Shaw-Mitchell (Mary Jane's Granddaughter):
Ora's Dad's Mother, Mary Jane was a midwife. People all around Lovelady, Texas would have Mary Jane deliver their babies. She had a whole trunk of thank you cards that she had received from the parents of the babies. Ora said that usualy the people would arrive at her grandmother's house in a wagon to pick her up and take her to the home where the baby would be delivered. Ora said Mary Jane's single sister, "Aunt Jennie" who lived with them, would ask Mary Jane why she did this because she new she would never get paid for it.
After her son and daughter-in-law passed away (Bryant Wilson Shaw and Etta Williams), Mary Jane raised her two grandchildren (Odis (9) and Ora (6) until she was unable to keep house any longer and had to move in with her daughter, Eura Shaw-Monzingo.
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From the collection of Ora Shaw Mitchell (newspaper clipping-Enterprise newspaper) Obituary for Mary Jane Gantt Shaw
Aged Houston County Woman Dies Tuesday
Mary Jane Shaw, aged 75, died at the home of her daughter Mrs. W. E. Monzingo in Crockett, Texas, Tuesday afternoon, May 21, 1935.
Deceased is survived by two sisters, Mrs. Lottie Elliott, near Trinity, another sister in West Texas; a one-half sister, Miss Almeda Gantt of Lovelady, one daughter, Mrs. Monzingo of Crockett; two sons, Willie Shaw of the Prairie Point Community, and Farmer Shaw of Houston.
Funeral and burial services were held at the New Zion cemetery in the Piney Woods at one o'clock Wednesday, with Layman J-L Straughan officiating.
Pallbears, all of Crockett, were: J. W. McGraw, Richard Epps, C. R. Scott, H. M. Price, John Potts, G. W. Lunsford.
Funeral arrangements were in charge of R. B. Rainer.
Deceased lived in the Piney Woods community most of her life, moved to the Piney Point community where she lived with her family until she broke up housekeeping and was living with her daughter. Deceased was a member of the Church of Christ and known as a very consecrated Christian, as was manifested in her every day life.
The Enterprise joins the many friends and bereaved family in tender and loving sympathy.
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According to conversation recorded by Zanetta Mitchell Perry with her Mom, Ora Shaw-Mitchell (Mary Jane's Granddaughter):
Ora's Dad's Mother, Mary Jane was a midwife. People all around Lovelady, Texas would have Mary Jane deliver their babies. She had a whole trunk of thank you cards that she had received from the parents of the babies. Ora said that usualy the people would arrive at her grandmother's house in a wagon to pick her up and take her to the home where the baby would be delivered. Ora said Mary Jane's single sister, "Aunt Jennie" who lived with them, would ask Mary Jane why she did this because she new she would never get paid for it.
After her son and daughter-in-law passed away (Bryant Wilson Shaw and Etta Williams), Mary Jane raised her two grandchildren (Odis (9) and Ora (6) until she was unable to keep house any longer and had to move in with her daughter, Eura Shaw-Monzingo.
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From the collection of Ora Shaw Mitchell (newspaper clipping-Enterprise newspaper) Obituary for Mary Jane Gantt Shaw
Aged Houston County Woman Dies Tuesday
Mary Jane Shaw, aged 75, died at the home of her daughter Mrs. W. E. Monzingo in Crockett, Texas, Tuesday afternoon, May 21, 1935.
Deceased is survived by two sisters, Mrs. Lottie Elliott, near Trinity, another sister in West Texas; a one-half sister, Miss Almeda Gantt of Lovelady, one daughter, Mrs. Monzingo of Crockett; two sons, Willie Shaw of the Prairie Point Community, and Farmer Shaw of Houston.
Funeral and burial services were held at the New Zion cemetery in the Piney Woods at one o'clock Wednesday, with Layman J-L Straughan officiating.
Pallbears, all of Crockett, were: J. W. McGraw, Richard Epps, C. R. Scott, H. M. Price, John Potts, G. W. Lunsford.
Funeral arrangements were in charge of R. B. Rainer.
Deceased lived in the Piney Woods community most of her life, moved to the Piney Point community where she lived with her family until she broke up housekeeping and was living with her daughter. Deceased was a member of the Church of Christ and known as a very consecrated Christian, as was manifested in her every day life.
The Enterprise joins the many friends and bereaved family in tender and loving sympathy.
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