One Shugart Branch: My Paternal Line

Dedicated to the memory of William Shugarts and Lou (Shugart) Ryan and those before them.

William Shugarts and I connected sometime in the early 1990's and began collaborating for many years right up until his death. He worked on genealogy for more than 40 years, was very diligent, and became my mentor and friend. Appendices E1-E5 are some of the raw notes that I have from William. For the most part, I have not edited anything. They are being provided as source material or a place to start if someone is interested or gets the genealogy bug.

At some point Lou (Shugart) Ryan entered the picture. She too had been doing Shugart genealogy for decades. William, Lou, and I began collaborating our efforts and I eventually took on the task of combining all our files. Appendix D presents the first four generations of the John who moved from PA to NC; a result of that collaboration. Notes and sources aren't included; this small sample of data is presented just so one can see how and where some of the lines branched out.

A long time ago, 250,000 years or so, there was a man. He lived long enough to find a woman and have a son. His son also lived long enough to find a woman and produce a son. Throughout time, through wars, disease, famine and other calamities the pattern continued. The father had a son who had a son who had a son and so on - perhaps 15,000 times this string continued until finally, I was born.

A long time ago, 250,000 years or so, there was also a woman. She got pregnant and had a daughter. Her daughter lived long enough to get pregnant and she had a daughter herself. Then that daughter lived long enough to get pregnant and have a daughter. This pattern continued, perhaps 15,000 times, where the mother had a daughter who had a daughter who had a daughter and so on until finally, Becky Heggen was born.

Then I met and married Becky.

Had this specific sequence of events never occurred, none of my children would have ever been born. Therefore, this book is presented to my children who, despite the astronomical odds that were stacked against them, exist.

Introduction by G. Eric Shugart; 12/17/20

In the 1990's, I became interested in my paternal genealogy. My Aunt Janet had once given me a piece of paper that had my line going back about 7 or 8 generations to a guy named Zachariah. She also told me how we have a connection to Jefferson Davis (her mom and my grandmother was Stella Davis.

The Family Tree Maker program had just come out and I put what little I knew out on the internet and asked if anyone had anything to add. In time, I connected up with a guy named William Shugarts who had been doing genealogy for 40 -plus years and began collaborating with him. Then a lady named Lou (Shugart) Ryan connected up and joined us. As my internet site grew, other interested people would add to the base - sometimes a little and sometimes a lot. I think at one point I had over 5000 Shugarts identified and became sort of the 'guru' of Shugart genealogy for a short time span

But William died, other things in my life took priorities and I put genealogy aside for the last twenty years until this year. At the beginning of this year, I thought that I might write a book on Shugart genealogy; more specifically on my paternal line.

Instead of just listing names, dates and locations (which is about as interesting as reading a dictionary), I wanted to try and learn a little bit more about the men and maybe what was going on in the country or in their lives that drove them.

After about a month, the project began taking a life of its own and heading in directions that I didn't envision. The internet now has so much (sometime erroneous) genealogical information today compared to when I first started, and I kept getting off on tangents that I found interesting.

As one example, I began trying to see how many of my paternal grandparents that I could identify (realizing that going back eight generations produces over 1000 grandparents). On a different tangent, I ended up having conversations with two non-Shugart men who have the Shugart DNA on their Y-chromosome. Subsequently I got caught up in that mystery for a while.

There have been a few interesting things uncovered along the way this year that I did not know twenty years ago:

1. Having thought my whole life that my paternal line was of German descent, I now know my paternal line is almost entirely English. It is my current thinking that the name Shugart may have been originally spelled as 'Suger' or 'Sugar'.
2. As it turns out, my wife Becky's mother is my 7th cousin, making my wife my 7th cousin once -removed.
3. I was astounded how many generations I had to go back on my paternal line to find a European ancestor, no matter which path I followed. In fact, I have been unable to find any paternal grandparent who was born in a different country after 1750. In other words, all of my immigrant grandparents identified to date were born in the 1600's or early 1700's.

So, what started out in my own mind as being just a simple exercise of writing up a few biographies of Shugart men that preceded me, took several twists, turns, and tangents.

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There are difficulties in studying genealogical records going back nearly 300-400 years. It is not like today where everything is on the computer and we all have unique social security numbers and birth certificates. The US Post Office wasn't created until 1792 and it's not like someone could go down and fill in a 'change in address' form for us to stumble across.

Furthermore, while there is so much more information out on the web than when I first started, there is also a lot of mis-information out there on various family trees as well. One person says something is true, another person copies it and pretty soon it's all over the place without a shred of documentation (e.g., the first Zachariah came from Germany).

The literacy rate among white men in the 1700's, especially in New England, was actually quite high and yet records contain variations in spellings further complicating the issue. For example, we see the following spellings in the tax rolls:

And:

The very first 2 or 3 generations of our original American Shugart forefathers has a lot of speculation surrounding them. When did the original immigrant arrive? What were the spouses and sibling's names of these earliest ancestors? There are not a lot of paper trails to follow that remain from the early 1700's and so we are left to make educated guesses around what little facts we know. As we get closer to 1800, people, names, and dates are a bit more solid.

Further complicating the issue is that there were multiple men named Zachariah and John Shugart running around in Pennsylvania in the 1700's. Thus, the waters are pretty murky in trying to precisely understand what was going on and who was who.

Sometime, around 1778, a Shugart forefather of mine -I believe a father named John and his son Zachariah- moved from Pennsylvania to North Carolina. I speculate and believe that this John also had a son John (born in 1758, married in 1785 and who chose to remain in Pennsylvania.) I have called this first John: Old John, North Carolina John and John Senior at various points in time to distinguish him from other Johns.

Who that first John's father was is not known with any certainty, nor whether he had any siblings. We do know that almost all Shugarts descend from one of four men. There were two other men born about the same time that Old John was born: a Zachariah and a Peter Shugart and, has already been mentioned, there was the John who was born in 1758.

There is more on the relationship between these four men in Appendix A. What we do seem to know, based upon DNA analysis, is that all four men shared a recent common ancestor with one another. Many have speculated that NC John, Zachariah and Peter were brothers and I don't dispute that.

Around 1800, my g-g-g-g- grandfather George, son of Zachariah (and grandson of Old John), moved to Grant County, Indiana. In 1835, George's son John moved 160 miles northwest to Wayne County. From 1835 until the late 1940's, all my paternal Shugart grandparents remained in Wayne Co. Indiana.

All of these families, going all the way back to the 1740's or even earlier, were practicing Quakers and heavily involved in the church and community. (In fact, I am the first non-Quaker in 8 or 9 generations).

Because of the influence and attitudes the religion had upon my forefathers and how it shaped their lives; I am going to first start with a little bit of the history of the Quaker movement. This might give insight as to what the circumstances might have been like for our original immigrant and what his mindset might have been, and how our line started out in Pennsylvania. The following article gives a pretty good overview:

William Penn and the Quaker migration to Pennsylvania

By Allyson Patton; Feb 05, 2020

"The Society of Friends began around 1650 in England by George Fox, who had had no intention of founding a new sect. As a youth, Fox saw clergy and many of his contemporaries give way to alcohol and tobacco, showing little sign of self-control or integrity. For his part, Fox merely wished to experience God in a true, untainted way, so he sought the advice of learned clergy. But he came away unsatisfied."

After much soul-searching, Fox experienced an epiphany, which he described in his journal:

"But as I had forsaken the priests, so I left the separate preachers also, and those esteemed the most experienced people; for I saw there was none among them all that could speak to my condition. And when all my hopes in them and in all men were gone, so that I had nothing outwardly to help me, nor could tell what to do, then, oh, then, I heard a voice which said, 'There is one, even Christ Jesus, that can speak to thy condition'; and when I heard it my heart did leap for joy. Then the Lord let me see why there was none upon the earth that could speak to my condition, namely, that I might give Him all the glory; for all are concluded under sin, and shut up in unbelief as I had been, that Jesus Christ might have the preeminence who enlightens, and gives grace, and faith, and power. Thus, when God doth work, who shall [hinder] it? And this I knew experimentally."

Quaker beliefs

What developed from this was a belief that God inhabited all people and communicated with the individual who acknowledged his presence and submitted to his will. Given that, everyone was equal in God's eyes, so members of the Society of Friends (as Fox's followers came to be called because they greeted everyone as 'friend') refused to recognize social superiors. They did not bow or curtsey; they did not remove their hats before their betters -- even the king; nor did they use formal language. Instead, they took to exclusively using the informal 'thee' and 'thou.' George Fox began preaching his gentle philosophy in 1648. Two years later, Fox and his followers acquired a new name after he was arrested for blasphemy and stood before a judge, whom Fox exhorted to 'tremble at the word of the Lord.' The judge derisively dubbed the group 'Quakers,' and the name stuck. Nevertheless, Fox continued preaching and his simple eloquence won many converts. He spoke of living without extravagance and of nonviolence, and he encouraged his followers not to bear arms. Fox also spoke against the incongruity of taking an oath, which acknowledged the presumption that honesty necessitated a prescribed guarantee. Quakers advocated absolute truth in everyday life.

All of this was considered radical thought, especially the manner of Quaker services, or 'meetings.' These were silent affairs during which any individual, even a woman, who was moved by the Spirit could speak. Moreover, the sect saw no need for ordained clergy, church ceremonies, sacraments or a formal church building. Yet perhaps their most damning aspect in the eyes of other Christians was the Society of Friends' refusal to pay the mandatory tithe to support the clergy of the Anglican Church. Persecution and imprisonment followed.

Parliament acts

Parliament wanted to be rid of Catholics and all nonconformist groups that had sprung up in the religious turmoil of 17th-century Europe. The new sects challenged authority and were filling the courts and prisons, making nuisances of themselves. Therefore, Parliament passed legislation which prohibited any nonconformist preacher from coming within five miles of any town. Quakers constantly ran afoul of those strictures. Then came the Test Act of 1673, which required public officials to affiliate with the Church of England and to swear allegiance to the king. Friends were frequently arrested on trivial charges and made to demonstrate their loyalty by swearing allegiance to the crown. Their refusal was interpreted as disloyalty and an indication of papist leanings, and the jails filled with Fox's followers. Approximately 1,000 Friends had been imprisoned by 1657. Fox, too, saw the inside of a jail many times during his life. Other Quakers withstood beatings and torture for their beliefs, and in 1675 the sect began the Meeting for Sufferings to keep a record of their persecutions.

William Penn

As a son of an admiral and a friend of the royal family, William Penn suffered far less hardship than his fellow Quakers. Born on October 14, 1644, Penn joined the Society of Friends in 1667, and by September of that year, he was in prison. Young Penn quickly dispatched a letter to a local nobleman and was released. Thereafter he traveled the countryside preaching, writing pamphlets and working to liberate Quakers from prison, as well as spending time in jail himself.

Penn grew in prominence in the Society and in time even stood as a substitute for George Fox when needed, as in the fall of 1671 when Fox went to the American colonies to help organize the meeting structure there. Individual Quakers had been emigrating to the colonies since the 1650s. Full-scale migration came in 1675 when the first full shipload of Quakers arrived and settled in West Jersey. Within six years approximately 1,400 members of the Society had emigrated there. Penn had served as a trustee of the West Jersey endeavor and his participation fed the idea of creating a colony of religious freedom. He envisioned a haven from persecution and a place where Quakers could live in harmony, 'love and brotherly kindness,' as an example for all Christians. Indeed, 'there may be room there,' he wrote, 'though not here, for such a holy experiment.'

The government owed Penn's father money. In lieu of payment, on June 1, 1680, Penn formally petitioned King Charles II for a land grant west of the Delaware River between New York and Maryland. The king granted the request in 1681 with the stipulation that the new province be named in honor of Admiral Penn. Thus, the Quaker became the proprietor of Pennsylvania, an area of some 600,000 square miles (larger than the present commonwealth of Pennsylvania).

As soon as everything was settled, Penn began advertising for the sale of land tracts and sent his cousin William Markham to the colony to act as deputy governor. He instructed Markham to form a preliminary government that granted the right to vote to virtually all free inhabitants. Penn later drafted laws that promised public trials where 'justice shall be neither sold, denied, nor delayed.' Verdicts would be delivered without harassment. All court proceedings would be conducted in English, instead of Latin, and 'in ordinary and plain character, that they may be understood.' Bail would be allowed in all but capital cases.

Mindful of his own experience with English jails, Penn wanted also to ensure the humane treatment of prisoners. To that end, he scrapped the traditional practice of charging the detainees fees for food, heat and lodging in favor of a system that incorporated rehabilitation. Perhaps most noteworthy, unlike the New England colonies, the new province assured religious tolerance, although only Christians (including Catholics) could vote or hold office.

Penn's laws also regulated marriage and outlawed a long list of items that included 'swearing, cursing, lying, profane talking, drunkenness, drinking of healths, obscene words...[and] mayhems....' Stage performances, May Day dances, cards, dice and anything else that might 'excite the people to rudeness, cruelty, looseness, and irreligion' were banned.

Pennsylvania

Markham was also charged with finding a location for a town that would be called Philadelphia, meaning the 'city of brotherly love,' after the ancient city that is praised for its faithfulness in the New Testament book of Revelation. Penn dreamed of a 'great town' built in a grid formation, unlike the sprawling, congested cities of Europe, which had grown up without planning and where fires could wreak havoc. He later gave instructions for laying out the town, calling for 'every house [to] be placed, if the person pleases, in the middle of its plot...so there may be ground on each side for gardens or orchards or fields, that it may be a green country town, which will never be burnt and always be wholesome.'

Large numbers of migrants began pouring into the province. The year 1682 saw 23 ships bring some 2,000 colonists to settle in Pennsylvania. Ninety more ships followed during the next three years, and by 1715 approximately 23,000 emigrants had relocated there. Most were either Quakers or Quaker sympathizers. By 1750 the Society of Friends was the third-largest denomination in Britain's American colonies.

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Penn's tracts were extremely appealing and members of the Society of Friends entered the middle colonies in two great migratory waves beginning in 1676. This first wave was largely triggered by the persecution of Quakers under the reign of Charles II in England.

More settlers came. The land advanced in price. As an example, in 1724 a man purchased 7700 acres for 800 pounds. This compares to a purchase of 5000 acres for 100 pounds in1681. People were selling land to newly arriving immigrants and making tremendous profits.

A second migratory wave occurred between 1714 and 1740, evidently chiefly for economic reasons.

The almost inescapable wealth and prosperity which the Quakers experienced in Pennsylvania created problems within their faith. Many left the faith to enjoy their rising prosperity and there is little doubt that the conflict between wealth and the preferred simple style of living of the Quakers contributed to the pressure to migrate away from Pennsylvania.

(This is actually an important point and may have a bearing on Old NC John and his possible siblings. No documents exist that suggest Peter and Zachariah were Quaker. If Old John, Peter, and Zachariah were brothers, why the religious split? Perhaps the preceding paragraph offers an explanation.)

After 1700 huge numbers of Ulster Scots, Welshmen, Huguenots, and Germans streamed across the Atlantic escaping, wars, famines, persecutions and other intolerable conditions in their home countries.

By 1723 they were pushing into what would become Lancaster County in 1728. By 1750 most of the land was taken up, and as an example, one person could obtain land that was only a 100-acre parcel and was "poor, mittling, and stony" according to tax records. No doubt this was also the Quaker experience.

With all this being said, we really don't know who my first immigrant was and when he came and who his spouse or children were. It is possible that Old John was our original European immigrant. However, there was a Zachariah who might possibly be Old John's father and we will start with him:

Zachariah Shugart (possibly the first immigrant)

A man named Zachariah Shugart could very well be the original immigrant who settled in Pennsylvania in the early 1700's. There is no earlier possibility that anyone has found.

The Chester County Historical Society lists Zachariah on Concord Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania tax lists:

We also have a little information upon Zachariah's death. From copies of the original bond and inventory for the estate of Zachary Shugart, letters of administration were granted on 29 SEP 1739 to John and Mary Shugart of Chester County and John Thomas and George Saur(?) of Lancaster County. The inventory of the estate showed shoemakers tools. (I have not seen the letters, but the spelling I'm sure was not 'Shugart')

We know Zachariah was not one of the original 24 purchasers of land that made up Concord Township which was established in 1683. We also know that the original Concord Township plots were originally sold to Englishman, several of whom were still in England and that this was William Penn's property to be sold (presumably to Quakers).

If Zachariah purchased land for the first time in 1724, then we know he didn't get the bargain prices that the first wave of Quakers was getting earlier, in the late 1600's. We might reasonably assume that Zachariah left Europe (probably England) for economic reasons, and perhaps religious reasons as well. It is likely he came over poor, would have paid much higher prices for property than the earliest Quakers did, and probably died poor, or at least there is no indication to the contrary.

When was he born? Since there is no record of any 'Shugart' prior to this Zachariah, I assume he came over as an adult, possibly putting his year of birth sometime in the late 1600's to 1700.

When did he immigrate to America? No one knows. Perhaps he came in the 1710's, worked as a shoemaker and earned enough money to eventually buy land. Alternatively, perhaps he came over years later with his wife and family to buy land in 1724. These are just a couple of reasonable possibilities among many.

Was he a Quaker? Quite likely, but not certainly. My 'Old' John who eventually moved to North Carolina was a Quaker, so if John was this Zachariah's son, maybe Zachariah raised him in his own faith. Furthermore, the area was also initially heavily populated by Quaker Englishman. It seems natural to assume Zachariah might have settled in an area of like-minded people.

Who was the Mary Shugart, named in the letters of administration? She was either his wife, sister, or daughter. (It is also possible that she was John's wife, but if this is the case then Old John who moved to North Carolina was not the same John named here.) Zachariah died without a will and it was customary to offer the wife the letters of administration so Mary being the wife would be consistent with the common practice.

Did Zachariah have any other children? It is possible that he had sons Peter and Zachariah, both who remained in Pennsylvania and became sheriffs. There is no paper trail that supports this conjecture; however, DNA evidence does suggest that a familial relationship of some sort existed between Old John, Peter, and Zachariah.

Was our original immigrant English or German? This is discussed in Appendix B; I believe the evidence strongly suggests that our original ancestor was an Englishman, whether he was this Zachariah or someone else.

Unfortunately, the trail backwards in time stops here with Zachariah. There has been no record found (yet) that takes us back into Europe. There is no documentation that supports who Zachariah's parents were or who his wife was or who his kids were, other than possibly the John and Mary named in the will.

We can guess that my original immigrant probably had a struggle starting a new life in the New World There was Queen Anne's War ***(1702-1713) which cut off trade to Philadelphia, which caused a lot of hardship. This was followed by a depression in the 1720's.

***Queen Anne's War was primarily a conflict between French, Spanish and English colonists for control of the American continent. At that time, the total population of the English colonies was about 250,000.

Concord Township (red arrow), where my American heritage begins was at the edge of the wilderness. The Pennsylvania map of 1730 shows much unsettled territories. (Concord Township was contained in Chester County until 1789). Colonists knew little of the interior of the continent to the west of the Appalachians and south of the Great Lakes.

When first settled in the 1680s, all of Pennsylvania was frontier. But by the 1720s and 1730s, Chester County was thickly settled. The frontier was 50 miles west. This area was dominated by Indian tribes, although French and English traders had penetrated it.

I found this little bit of information about the Concord Township history which perhaps gives a tiny bit of insight into what our earliest ancestor was dealing with, especially if they were here at the turn of the century:

"In addition to providing for basic housing necessities, the early settlers had to establish transportation and communication lines. The journey from Chester, the logical disembarkation points for settlers in SE Chester County, to Concord was not an easy one. Newly arrived immigrants had to follow either Indian trails, which were relatively narrow or one of the 2 winding streams, to find their way to their new home. Once having arrived in Concord, the early residents found that transportation routes in the township were not much better. Concord Street outlined on the 4-5-1683 survey map divided the township in half from north to south. It must have been very crudely laid out because it never became a major thoroughfare; if anything, it was used as a surveyor's reference point. By the beginning of the 18th century, Concord would have appeared to a traveler as exactly what it was, a settlement on the edge of the wilderness. The land was being cleared, houses built and roads constructed, but the progress was slow. One early account by a woman who was born in 1688 in Thornbury gives a good indication of the initial efforts": father and others deeded the timber and burned the leaves and hold in their wheat by hand, there being few horses and scarcely a plow in their settlement.

John Shugart Sn. (aka Old John or NC John)

So now we come to a John Shugart Sn, one of my g-g-g-g-g-g grandfathers. Whether his father was the Zachariah just discussed who died in 1739 is circumstantial but suggestive:

1. a John is named in the letters of administration of Zachariah's estate
2. a John shows up on the Concord Township tax list in 1739, so he is in the vicinity of Zachariah as a young adult.
3. John names one of his sons Zachariah, perhaps after his father.

On the other hand, it is entirely possible that John was the original European immigrant and bears no relation to the Zachariah just discussed. (The letters of administration make no mention of John's possible brothers, Peter or Zachariah, which could be significant or meaningless)

John was possibly born and raised in Concord Township; PA. A few years after Zachariah's death (around 1745), it seems that John moved to West Bradford:

We don't have any real knowledge of John from about 1763 -1783. We can guess that he was born around 1718 if we back out twenty-one years off of 1739 which is when he shows up in the tax rolls. This birth year would also be consistent with a father Zachariah being born in the late 1600's to about 1700.

John was certainly a Quaker. On 5/18/1745 John provided proof of his Quaker membership in Concord when asking to join in the Bradford meetings, which was accepted. Obviously, John was a Quaker while living in Concord Township and it would not be unreasonable to speculate that he was born and raised a Quaker.

As an aside. the Bradford Friends Meeting house still exists and actively holds services today:

John married an English woman named Susannah Talkington on February, 1746 in Wilmington, Delaware at the Old Swedes' Church which is about 27 miles from West Bradford Township, PA (if that was where they were living) and only 10 miles from Concord Township. John would have been around 28 years old at the time, assuming he was born in 1718.

Unfortunately for John and Susannah, the day after they got married, a complaint was made about John marrying a woman not of the Quaker faith which was a very serious infraction.

Now from William Shugart, we have:

"He or some John moved from Bradford MM to Kennett MM in 1753. At Kennett MM, we see complaints in 1760 and 1763 that John moved away without paying his debts. The Kennett Meeting sent complaints to the Cecil Meeting and maybe the Hockessin Meeting about John. We now know that he signed a Deed for property in Cecil Co, MD in 1759. We have absolutely no knowledge of him from 1763 to 1790 (NC Census) although actually he probably was in NC as early as 1787 since Hannah wrote back to Concord Meeting to acknowledge her criticism of "years ago". The chances are that John was a disowned Quaker at that time.

There are several questions about John that just cannot be answered with certainty and presumptions have been made by me and others."

Did John have children? John had a son named Zachariah, born in 1747, very shortly after he and Susannah got married, probably a son John (1758) and then John also had four other children:

1. Zachariah (born 1747)
2. John (born 1758), probable brother
3. William (about 1766)
4. Isaac (born 9/12/1767), lived in NC, died in Indiana
5. Rachel (before 1774). Rachel hung herself with a loom cord. In her will she names brothers William, Isaac, Zachariah, and Nathan (but no mention of a John)
6. Nathan (unknown), died in Illinois in 1822

Now, I would be remiss if I did not point out that William, Isaac, Rachel and Nathan all appear to have been born 20 years (or more) after John married Susannah Talkington. This could lend credence to a theory that Susannah died after having Zachariah (and possibly John Jr.), and then Old John Sn. married a woman named Hannah- perhaps around 1765, when he was in his late 40's, producing the last four children. Further support for Hannah being someone other than Susannah Talkington lies in the fact that NC Quaker notes consistently refer to John's wife as being 'Hannah', not Susannah.

Hannah's will is recorded in NC on 6/24/1811; however, John's date of death and his and his wife's burial sites are not known to me. Perhaps they are in one of the many unmarked graves in some old Quaker cemetery in North Carolina.

We can put a range around the time in which our John moved to North Carolina as somewhere between 1774 and 1783. Most, if not all of John and Susannah/Hannah's children were certainly born in Pennsylvania.

Again, from William Shugarts: "Your Zachariah (son of NC John) paid taxes in West Marlborough Twp 1767-1771 and in Kennett Twp in 1774. He and his wife Catherine settled the estate of Enoch Woodward in 1771 charging expenses for the upkeep of Enoch's daughter Hannah for the period 1767-1771. At any rate, we don't hear from Zachariah until he applies to join the Quakers in NC in 1787."

However, recently I have received the following comments from the Quaker historian Thomas Hamm which puts Old John and Zachariah in NC around 1779.

"Now, for the arrival of John and Zachariah Shugart in Orange County, North Carolina, we are somewhat handicapped by missing records. The Orange County court minutes for 1766-1777 and deed books from 1760 to 1781 were mostly lost during the Revolutionary War."

"In A. B. Pruitt, Orange County North Carolina Land Entries, 1778-1795, p. 90: Dec. 31, 1779. Joel Ramsey enters 100 acres in Orange County on Mary's Creek of Haw River, bordering lands of William Adams, Henry Dale, & George Goust, including the improvement where Zacharias Sugart lives. So, Zachariah was in Orange County by 1779. (There is no record of Zachariah owning land there, although many deed records are missing before 1781.)

On page 100 of the same work: Dec. 29, 1783. John Sugart enters 270 acres in Orange County on both sides of Mary's Creek of Haw River bordering Richard Laughlin and Hannah Massey; warrant issued (meaning the purchase was completed) April 25, 1785.

From the records above I conclude that Zachariah and John lived close to each other, but when Joel Ramsey entered the land where Zachariah was living, Zachariah moved a few miles northeast."

Old John doesn't appear to have been a successful man for at least the first half of his life. In 1753, it seems he moved without settling his debts. We can also see from tax lists that he was moving around quite a lot in the 1740's and 1750's.

The political environment in Pennsylvania was also shifting. Initially, the area was dominated by Quakers, both in the government and in the sheer size of the population. But as the flood of immigrants arrived from other countries, the Quakers lost influence and soon became a minority.

Religious controversy soon led to riots in the 1740's. As an example of the tension that was building, consider the following:

Also known as the "Philadelphia Election Riot of 1742," the Bloody Election occurred when there was conflict between the Quakers, who had been the primary citizens of the Delaware Valley for decades, and the "Proprietary" faction, whose main concern was business.

The Quakers were most concerned about freedom, peace between citizens and with the Indians, and low taxes. The Quakers were joined by immigrant German farmers, who were very concerned about their own rights. On election day, Quakers and the Germans came early and crowded the courthouse steps, attempting to make it difficult for the opposition to cast their votes. The Proprietary party, as it turns out, had even less ethical tactics in mind.

After magistrates cleared the steps and had the separate parties line up, sailors from business vessels attacked the Quakers and Germans with clubs. The newspapers would report that it was a miracle that no one was killed. Quakers take a vow of non-violence, but German farmers do not. They got whatever wood they could from the courthouse and fought back, driving the sailors back to their ships.

In addition to losing political influence, it didn't help the Quakers that the Revolutionary War (1775-1783) pushed them further out of the mainstream.

Just as rapidly as they ascended to prominence, influence, and importance, the role of Friends began to swiftly and steadily diminish. Although there were many reasons for this decline, one major factor may have been that Quaker beliefs, especially pacifism and the refusal to contribute to military activity, did not resonate with increasing numbers of non-Quaker immigrants. "Naturally their pacifism kept the Quakers out of active participation in the American Revolution," Whalen wrote, noting their refusal was unpopular with the rest of society.

While most of the Revolutionary War was fought in New York, New Jersey, and South Carolina, Pennsylvania had its share of battles and Philadelphia, being a thriving metropolitan city at the start of the war, had significant importance to the new country.

The Battle of Brandywine, about four miles away from Concord Township, was the largest single day engagement of the American Revolution where nearly 30,000 soldiers (not including civilians, teamsters, servants and other members of the army) squared off on a ten square mile of roughly 35,000 acres.

Equally unpopular was the Quaker decision to censure those who did serve the colonial cause or stray from tradition. Prior to the American Revolution, Quakers disowned Betsy Ross (1752-1836), honored throughout history as the maker of the Flag of the United States, and General Nathanael Greene (1742-1786), George Washington's gifted and most dependable officer.

The Friends also refused to provide any financial support for wartime activities. "The Quakers dominated the political life of this colony, the wealthiest and most populous in America, until 1756, when they refused to vote a tax for a war against the Shawnee and Delaware Indians," wrote Whalen. "The political power of the Quakers began to wane towards the latter half of the eighteenth century," he concluded. "Their pacifist beliefs were believed to have weakened the colony during the various colonial wars and by 1756, during the French and Indian War, emasculated and fractured the faction of Quaker legislators.

During the Revolutionary War, certain Quakers who would not sign 'writs of assistance' (or allegiance) to the revolutionary cause faced punishments such as confiscation of property and exile. Such was the fate of the prominent Philadelphian Thomas Gilpin [1728-1778]." A farmer, manufacturer, and an original member of the American Philosophical Society, Gilpin was one of many Quakers exiled to other states.

As pacifists, most Quakers refused to support taxes to finance the American Revolution and most would not take up arms against the British. The resulting backlash from non-Quakers was predictable. "The American Revolutionary War did not offer an opportunity for the display of the best Quaker qualities," wrote Comfort.

There were other factors for the decline, including an ongoing exodus of Quakers to regions to the west. Ironically, according to author Albert Cook Myers in his book Immigration of the Irish Quakers into Pennsylvania, 1682-1750, "Friends (Quakers) had taken such a firm stand against slavery that they were no longer able to come into economic competition with their neighbors who utilized slave labor."

The result, Myers contended, was that "thousands of Friends, including many of Irish name originally from Pennsylvania, left their old homes to escape . . . and following several routes through Virginia and Kentucky, poured into the new country." The exodus significantly impacted Quakers in Pennsylvania. Meetings, lacking sufficient members to survive, began to close.

It is almost certain that John and his family moved out of Pennsylvania to North Carolina in the hopes of a better life and to escape the political environment which was becoming increasingly unfriendly toward Quakers.

Whether Zachariah and Old John moved out together to scope out the land ahead of the wives and children, or whether they all travelled as a group, who is to say precisely how these events unfolded?

We find more land records in Surry County starting around 1788 to Zach Sugart, John Sugart, William Shugart and Isaac Sugart. We also see alternative spellings of the last names on some deeds as 'Sugirt'. Son Zachariah is named as a witness to one land purchase and is listed as being a farmer and therefore, without any other information, it is likely they all settled in NC to continue or to try their hand at farming.

Even though we don't know precisely the year in which our forefathers moved from Pennsylvania to North Carolina, we do know the probable path they took. The road to NC was well established and guides helped organize and accompany wagon trains along the trip westward. The path to Carolina came to be called the Great Wagon Road. "The country," wrote colonist Nathaniel Rice in 1752, "is in a flourishing condition, the western parts settling very fast." Knowledge of available land came about through advertising. Perhaps not surprisingly, there were also a lot of speculators.

In the map that follows, you can see Surry is one of the north central counties of the state. Just north of Surry County is Virginia. Surry County is also roughly 400 miles away from Wayne County, Indiana where eventually my branch of Shugarts settled, for more than 100 years.

Beginning in the 1740s, settlers arrived in the region known as Rowan County, NC in search of fertile and affordable land. This was originally a vast untamed area. These first settlers included American Quakers from Pennsylvania, Maryland, and New England. As the county grew, both Guilford County and Surry County were formed in 1771 from Rowan County. Later, in 1850, Yadkin County was formed from Surry County

"The period from 1790 until the 1820s were the halcyon days for Surry. It was the land of plenty in the context of the times. Wood for building and for fuel was limitless. Nature provided abundant food. Wild game including quail and wild turkeys were there for the taking. Every family had cows and cows provided milk, butter, cream and cheese. Cows also provided fresh and dried bee and hides for leather. Families also grew sheep for wool and for food."

So interestingly, the Quakers having been 'encouraged' to leave England due to their religious beliefs and practices, found themselves 'encouraged' to leave Pennsylvania to go to North Carolina and unbeknownst to them, some would soon find themselves 'encouraged' to leave North Carolina to go to Indiana.

Zachariah Shugart

Next in line is Zachariah. This man is one of my 64 g-g-g-g-g grandfathers. Born on 2/28/1747 in Pennsylvania, he married a woman named Catherine, perhaps around 1767, and had their first child born in October 1768.

It is believed that Catherine's maiden name was 'Best' and that she was the widow of an Enoch Woodard. Catherine Best came to America in 1752 from Germany at the age of ten, being five years older than Zach, and had a daughter named Hannah with her first husband, Enoch.

Catherine died in North Carolina in 1822. Zachariah is then seen to have remarried Elizabeth Piggot Wheeler in 1824 when he was age 77 in North Carolina.

Between 1768 and 1782, Zachariah and Catherine had eight children, most born in Pennsylvania:

1. John, named after his grandfather, born 10/9/1768 and died childless in 1840 in Kentucky
2. George, 8/30/1770 -10/10/1851 - and married Mary Davis on 10/10/1793 in Cane Creek MM, Surry Co, NC
3. Leonard Leenor, born 7/2/1772 and died 1858 in Yadkin Co, NC
4. Sarah, born 12/12/1773 and died in 1856 in Iowa
5. Mary, born 8/30/1776
6. Eli, born 10/3/1778 and died 1835 in Kentucky
7. Catherine, born 10/6/1780
8. Levi, born 8/11/1782 and died on 10/10/1786 and is buried in Snow Camp Cemetery, NC

We don't have a lot of information about Zachariah's life.

Per Thomas Hamm, "In 1788 he purchased land in what is now Yadkin County, near the present site of Boonville. He moved his family to it in 1790. In 1793 they became chartered members of Deer creek Monthly meeting of Friends. Zachariah led a quiet life, farming his land along North Deer Creek."

I asked Thomas Hamm if Zachariah was a 'squatter' in 1779 when he first shows up in any NC record and here was Tom's response:

"Perhaps. But he may have been caught in an odd situation. In the colonial period, most of the northern half of North Carolina, including all of Orange County, was the personal property of the Earls of Granville. When the Earl died in 1763, his son and successor closed the land office and suspended sales to settlers. Apparently, he thought that if he held land back from sales for a period, it would increase its value. Once the American Revolution began, the state seized all of the Granville land, but it was slow to get sales underway. People who staked claims to part of the Granville claim and improved their farms were to have priority in getting title. Zachariah may have settled on the Mary's Creek place, then decided not to assert a claim. Maybe he had other land in mind, maybe he couldn't afford it. He could have sold his claim to Joel Ramsey; otherwise, he could have contested Ramsey acquiring the land after he, Zachariah had "improved" it. But there is also another possible reason:

I have a copy of the 1781 Orange County tax list. John Sugart is in Caswell District. This is what is now southwestern Orange County and southeastern Alamance County; Haw River flows through it. Zachariah Shugart is in Hillsborough District, which is around the current city of Hillsborough in Orange County. From the records above I conclude that Zachariah and John lived close to each other, but when Joel Ramsey entered the land where Zachariah was living, Zachariah moved a few miles northeast. Both John and Zachariah appear as delinquent, meaning that they hadn't paid their taxes. Perhaps it was poverty. But most of the delinquents are known Quakers or Loyalists. Loyalists, of course, disavowed any allegiance to the new state government. Quakers refused to pay taxes to the state government partly because they had to swear that the amount that they were paying reflected the value of their property, partly because the tax was used for military purposes. Quakers refused oaths of any kinds, and, of course, they were pacifists. I read this as indicating that John and Zachariah had Quaker leanings even if they weren't officially members."

We know that Zachariah was a Quaker in NC. He, his wife and some but not all of his children show up in NC at the Cane Creek MM (monthly meeting), the Deer River MM, the Deep Creek MM, and the Centre MM. Per T. Hamm: Once Zachariah got to what is now Yadkin County, he was active in the affairs of Deep Creek Monthly Meeting. He served regularly on committees. He also served as an overseer. That had nothing to do with slavery. Quaker overseers were charged with reporting violations of Quaker rules to the monthly meeting."

Considering the environment that was going on around the turn of the century (1800) in North Carolina, perhaps gives a small glimpse into the family's psyche:

"North Carolina Friends entered a century-long period of decline during the civil strife that began with the War of the Regulation ** and continued into the American Revolution. The pacifist Quakers were particularly affected by the military operations and the protracted violence of the internal conflict between the Whigs and Loyalists. The key factor, however, in the diaspora of southern Quakers was their witness against slavery, which began in the late eighteenth century and intensified in the nineteenth century. Quakers organized manumission and African colonization societies and gradually began to advocate abolition of slavery. Levi Coffin of Guilford County was a founder of the Underground Railroad, which enabled thousands of slaves to escape to freedom. The southern community met the Quaker antislavery stance with escalating hostility, precipitating mass migrations of Quakers"

** The War of the Regulation, also known as the Regulator movement, was an uprising in British America's Carolina colonies, lasting from around 1765 to 1771, in which citizens took up arms against colonial officials, whom they viewed as corrupt. Though the rebellion did not change the power structure, some historians consider it a catalyst to the American Revolutionary War.

The escalating hostility toward anti-slavery people and abolitionists cannot be understated. Walking or riding down the road, one might be murdered for simply holding those views

While Zachariah remained in NC at least through 1824, his son George (my g-g-g-g grandfather) appears to have gotten caught up in the anti-slavery movement and was one of the initial NC Quakers that moved north and settled in Indiana.

Zachariah's wife Catherine died before he did, in 1822 and presumably is buried in a Quaker cemetery in North Carolina. (There is a cryptic note from William Shugarts that she was disowned by Zachariah). Zachariah then married his second wife Elizabeth on January 18,1824 in Guilford County, sold their land in 1829, and the next year moved up to Indiana to live with his son George.

Zachariah died a couple years later in 1832 and is buried in the New Garden Friends Cemetery in Fountain City, Wayne Co, Indiana. Also buried in the New Garden Cemetery is a Thomas Shugart (dod 3/31/1830). I don't know his date of birth or how he fits into our family. I can speculate that he was a child that died young, perhaps a grandchild of Zachariah, but I am not aware of any Quaker notes that record any such person.

George Shugart

We now come to George, one of my 32 g-g-g-g-grandfathers. He was born in 8/30/1770 in Chester County, Pennsylvania. Assuming the move to North Carolina occurred around 1780, he would have been around 10 years old at the time. I have found the following biography:

"The Shugart family is an old North Carolina one, and Quakers of the old type. Like all their fellow religionists, they were stanch abolitionists, and in Civil war times the Shugarts were among the leading agents of the well-known underground railroad that aided in the escape of so many negroes.

George Shugart, the first of whom there is authentic record, was born about the close of the Revolutionary war. He was a farmer and a Quaker, the family from first to last having adhered to its industrial and religious tendency and belief with but slight variation.

The family made the journey from North Carolina to Indiana after the manner affected by travelers of that early period, and their first location was on section 30, Mill township, Grant county, on Deer creek. The land they chose was a dense forest wild, and they reared a rude log cabin in a spot that promised to be a convenient one, there setting up their household goods after the manner of pioneers of all periods and places. It is perhaps, quite unnecessary to say that this family suffered all the privation and hardships that might be expected to attend primitive conditions such as they were subject to, and though is an undeniable fact that they did live a life attended by many discomforts, it is also true that they were happy and prosperous, according to the prosperity standards of the day. There was often a shortage of money. In fact, there were long seasons when the family never once gazed upon actual specie of the day, but their wants were few, and forest and field and stream provided their simple needs. Wild game abounded at all seasons, and game laws, the plague of the wood's dweller of today, were then unthought of. So it was that they lived simply, but content with their lot, and it is more than probable that the present generation, blessed with a goodly share in this world's goods, are not happier than were their ancestors in the wilderness homes they built themselves.

Here he died, as did also his devoted wife, and they are buried in the old Deer Creek Cemetery of the Friends."

George married his wife Mary Davis on 10/10/1793 at the age of 23 in the Cane Creek MM, North Carolina where they stayed in the area for the next 17 years or so.

George and Mary began having children right away, ultimately having nine children, with the last two children born in Indiana:

1. John (named after George's grandfather and/or Mary's father), our g-g-g grandfather, born on 12/5/1794, died in Grant Co, Indiana
2. Sarah, born 12/14/1797 and died in Wayne Co., Indiana in 1871
3. Mary Keys, born 1/20/1799 and died in Grant Co, Indiana in 1862
4. Tamer, born 3/14/1801 and died in Randolph, Indiana in 1857
5. George Jr, whose house was an Underground Railroad waypoint, born in July 1804 and died in Fountain City, Indiana in 1891
6. Zachariah Taylor, a big-time anti-slavery advocate and activist, born 11/27/1805 and died in Iowa in 1881
7. Isaiah, born 6/14/1807 and died in Wayne Co, Indiana in 1857
8. Catherine, the first child of George and Mary to be born in Indiana, on 3/13/1812 and died in Kansas in 1905
9. Gulielma, also born in Indiana on 6/4/1814 and died in Grant Co, Indiana in 1880

George and Mary moved to New Garden Township in Wayne County, Indiana around 1810, when he was 40 years old, showing up in the 1810 census there. They were among the first settlers in the Township and undoubtably he was a self-reliant man. In 1813, George and one other man were named as receiving money for wolf bounty (a wolf bounty was $1 and $13 was paid out that year).

We can only guess at what the state of mind of George and Mary might have been, picking up their family and moving off into the Indiana wilderness. John, their oldest child (of seven children), would have been only 16 at the time.

North Carolina Friends migrated for numerous reasons and between 1804 and 1824 many of them left the state for Ohio and Indiana. Some left for better marital opportunities as Quakers were marrying out of their faith and becoming disowned. Others left because the competition from non-Quakers with their cheap slave labor were making it difficult to make a living. Others left because of intimidation from their neighbors. The bottom line is that they moved for more access to land that would allow them to maintain the close-knit community they had.

There are a couple accounts of a story about George. Apparently, an Indian was walking down the road peacefully when he came upon two men who shot their guns at him. One gun misfired while the other gun did not and hit the Indian who was assumed to have been mortally wounded. However, the Indian was taken by George Shugart to his house where he was tended to and survived his wound. The next day, George and his son took the Indian back to the Indian camp near Green's Fork. The Indian recovered and the Indians were pacified by a gift of a horse, saddle, and bridle.

At the time of the Indian alarms during the War of 1812, the inhabitants fled for safety to the vicinity of Richmond, Indiana. Only George Shugart and Obadiah Harris Sn. are said to have remained and they were unmolested by the Indians.

Around 1815, George built the first grist-mill (mills grain). The family lived in New Garden Township for many years before moving over to Grant County, about 160 miles northwest. (Today's Fountain City was originally called New Garden; New Garden became Newport in 1834, which was then renamed Fountain City in 1878, named for its natural springs.)

The family was raised Quaker and had strong feelings about alcohol and slavery. Sometime around 1830, a Temperance reform began in the township due to the extent that alcohol had been introduced. Its effects were serious and the friends of temperance joined to prevent the spread of its 'evil'. Among the Friends, besides George Shugart was Levi Coffin - often considered the leader of the Underground Railroad. A society was formed, pledges signed and circulated, and many inebriants were reclaimed. For forty years, no alcohol retailer was in business in Wayne County.

It's pretty clear that George passed along his morals and feelings to most, if not all of his children, particularly in regards to slavery. His sons George and Zachariah Taylor were activists within the Underground Railroad and it's clear that George had a close association with Levi Coffin.

There is a little story I found about Levi and George, apparently about a Friend who may have been having some marital issues:

"Levi sent an emissary, fellow Quaker and abolitionist George Shugart, to Indianapolis for the purpose of retrieving Wilson's clothing and goods as well as ascertain whether or not Sophia still felt love for her husband. Shugart reported to a relieved Wilson and to Coffin that, indeed, the bonds of love still endured"

George moved to Grant County, most likely sometime in the late 1840's, shortly before his death in 1851.

His father Zachariah had moved to Wayne County, around 1830 to live with George and died in 1832. George would have been age 62 when his dad died.

During this period, the United States was ever so slowly edging toward Civil War. Sides and hostilities were being taken well before war broke out. The anti-slavery movement was not only beginning to break up the country, but was starting to form a schism within the Quaker organization, as well.

As the country struggled with the issue of slavery which ultimately led to the war, we see that the:

"Indiana Yearly Meeting (Orthodox) was involved in internal conflict of its own. All members of the Society were, to some degree, committed to the opposition of slavery. Differences came in the application of this belief. There were members who flagrantly violated the Fugitive Slave Law, joined antislavery societies that were not under the influence of Friends, and opened meetinghouses to conferences of these societies. To conservative Friends this was unsound, and as a consequence the two groups diverged. On the 7th of Second Month, 1843, Indiana Yearly Meeting of Antislavery Friends was organized and met annually at Newport (now Fountain City), Indiana. In a few years the attitudes of the larger body changed, and by 1857 there had been a reunion of the two groups. The damage was considerable since many valuable members were permanently lost."

George and his family and many of their friends were involved and a part of the Antislavery Friends organization.

George died 10 Oct 1851, three years after Mary died, in Mill Township, Grant County, Indiana, USA at the age of 81. He and his wife are buried in Deer Creek Cemetery, and apparently no tombstone remains (or ever existed)

Becky and I took drive on 12/28/20 to look at the Deer Creek Cemetery. We saw the ravine where the cemetery is supposed to be . On both sides of the woods were houses. There was no sign identifying the cemetery and no tombstones were visable . I contacted a few nearby residents and have been invited to stop by; they say the path thru is cleared and maintained but not visible from the road. I hope to stop by again when we go visit Becky's mom in Fort Wayne in the Spring.

John V. Shugart Sn.

My g-g-g grandfather John was born on 12/5/1794 in North Carolina. (His middle name was probably Voluntine as one source has one of his grandsons as John Voluntine. Shugart III). He would have been the oldest of 9 children. When he was 16 or 17, his family relocated to Wayne County, Indiana, leaving behind his many uncles and aunts and friends. Being the oldest, he must have borne a great responsibility in helping the family with whatever was going to be needed to survive in the Indiana wilderness.

John married Sarah Ratliff on 9/28/1814 and they are said to be the first couple to be married in the county. For the next 20 years, John and Sarah raised their family in the Quaker faith through farming operations in Wayne Co., Indiana. The Quaker records have the family making a move from New Garden to Grant County with wife Sarah, and sons Henry, Cornelius, George, and John Jr and daughters Sarah and Abagail on 11/18/1835.

What compelled him to take his family Northwest from the Ohio/Indiana border about 80 miles is not known. He would have been around 40 years old, so something must have caused the famiy to relocate. Perhaps he saw the move as a way to improve his station in life. We can see that Grant County had been under development for approximately ten years by the time he and his family made the move:

"Marion, the county seat of Grant County was settled in 1826; it was organized in 1831. The original inhabitants of the area were the Miami Indians, but several battles and treaty negotiations ceded much of the land to the American government. Grant County had a strong Quaker history, who came in the 1820s and 1830s, drawn by the rich, fertile farmland. As the county was developed for agriculture, the county seat became a center of trade and business, as well as government and the court system."

Thomas Hamm commented: "It's impossible to be certain, but most likely they were looking for good, cheap land. They were part of a general migration of Quaker families from the New Garden settlement in Wayne County to Grant County: Baldwins, Knights, Thomases, Smalls, Ratliffs, and Moormans."

John, like his father before him, was a Friend and raised his family in the Quaker tradition. He was an activist against slavery and an abolitionist. "Grant County was home to Obadiah Jones, publisher of the abolitionist paper "The Herald of Freedom" as well as many who helped with the Underground Railroad including Nathan Coggeshall, Thomas Baldwin, and John Shugart."

The schism that occurred in the Quakers due to the slavery issue formalized itself in 1837, and John was part of the anti-slavery Quaker movement. Perhaps his move to Grant County had something to do with the fellow Quakers who had moved there in the decade preceding his move.

Whatever the reason was for John's move, over the next 100 years, John's son Cornelius and then his son Albert and then his son Harold, and then his son George all grew up and remained in Grant county. (The last man, my father George, moved out of Indiana in the late 1940's)

Almost immediately after he arrived in Grant County, he, along with his sons George, John Jr. and Henry signed a petition to ban saloons in the county.

From a descendant who retells the story that had been passed down, we have:

They had made the long journey to Wayne county in a one-horse cart, and the experience was one they remembered to the end of their lives. John Shugart died at the age of fifty-four on the farm he had settled and partly improved in Grant county, death resulting from blood-poisoning, and his widow survived him for many years. They were of the Quaker faith, and helped to organize the church in their community, having deeded three acres to the Deer Creek church for a cemetery and school site. The first church erected was a humble log affair, the second a frame building and the third a fine appearing brick edifice.

Their Grant county home was for years a station, having aided the Negro on every possible occasion. His farm, upon which he now lives and on which he was born, was a station for the Underground Railroad."

We know that John (and his father George) were very active and respected members of the Quaker church and from the "History of Grant County":

The children of John and Sarah were:

1. Henry, born 8/22/1815 in Wayne, Indiana, died 10/18/1886 in Indiana, married Susannah Schooley
2. Elizabeth (Betsy), born 10/11/1817, married Reuban Small, died before 1904
3. Cornelius, born 2/9/1820, died 10/25/1864, married Harriet Telitha Coleman
4. George, born 5/19/1823 in Wayne, Indiana, died 2/9/1904 in Grant, Indiana, married Abigail Osborne
5. Mary, born 6/4/1825 in Wayne and died before 1835
6. John Jr., born 9/5/1827 in Wayne, died in 1910, married Rebecca Guyer
7. Sarah, born 10/16/1829 and married Bennett B. Coleman
8. Sally Abagail, born 1832 in Wayne, died 12/18/1898, married Allen Coates
9. Isaiah R., born 11/16/1837 in Grant, Indiana, died 6/21/1892, married Ann W. Whitson

The county map, below shows Wayne County on the border of Ohio along the east side of Indiana and Grant County to the north west:

This was written by the DAR in the 1940's:

This long since abandoned cemetery stands where there was once a church and school house - a Quaker settlement of an early day. In 1837 a Preparative Meeting was organized. In later years this group was disciplined because of the Anti - slavery sentiment prevalent in it. Later they were received back into the fold.

This plot of ground is located on the banks of Deer Creek in Mill Township Section # 31.

John Shugart came to Grant County in 1835. He deeded three acres of ground to the Deer Creek Church for a church and cemetery site. The first building was made of logs, the second was a frame structure and the last was made of brick.

He married Sarah Ratcliffe in North Carolina before they migrated to Grant County. Both of them are buried in the Deer Creek Cemetery. The school building and the church house have both been remodeled into dwellings and all that remains of the once prominent Quaker settlement is the little cemetery so overgrown with briers that passage thru it is impossible.

Deer Creek Cemetery is four miles south of Marion on State Road No. 9. At one time a Friends Church and a public school stood nearby. The two have for some time been used as residences and the old cemetery left to the ravages of underbrush.

The Quakers have used, in many cases the number of the month instead of the name. The Ladd and Harris families have placed cement covering over their graves so that nature cannot grow weeds or thorns above these worthy pioneers.

And from another write-up:

I visited this cemetery and read it in the spring of 1997. It was a very beautiful place, situated on 2 high places with a deep ravine in between. But the ravine has mostly been filled in now. The south side of the cemetery sits high above Deer Creek. It is one of the most beautiful settings for a cemetery I have ever seen.

I am sure much has been lost here, as the many empty places attest to. Several places are sunken way down in the ground, showing there had been a burial there, but no stone was found. One other thing I might point out is the Quakers, in the early days, never marked their graves, feeling it wasn't necessary for man to know where the dead were buried, only God needed to know.

The old church is still there being used for a residence. It has been added on to. At the rear of this home is a smaller log cabin I believe may have been the school. It was redone, but now stands vacant. One can see in the past someone had done a lot of work on it and had made a lovely place there.

This cemetery is located in the N.W. 1/4 of the N.W. 1/4 of Sec. 31 Range 8 E. Twp. 24 N. on the old Kokomo Road just east of Ind. State Rd. #9 south of Marion.

John's tombstone

John's wife Sarah's tombstone

A total of twelve known Shugarts are buried in this old Quaker cemetery:

George and Mary, John's parents, apparently do not have grave markers

Cornelius Shugart

Cornelius was one of my g-g-grandfathers. I have found two biographical sketches of the man. The first was found published by the Indiana legislature where they provided sketches of all the Representatives; I believe this was published around 1875.

"Cornelius Shugart, Representative from Grant, was born in Wayne county, Indiana, February 9,1820. His parents were of American birth and English extraction. The son was educated at Richmond, where he passed the first fourteen years of his life. Then he removed to Grant county, where he has lived for forty years, and has had the happiness of seeing that portion of the State become from a howling wilderness, great and populous. For the first few years of his life in the county, Mr. Shugart was a teacher; since a farmer. He claims to be "but a small man of limited ability", yet a full believer in the adage, "Duty is ours; consequences belong to God:" and also a strenuous advocate, as well as believer in, temperance in all things.

He has heretofore held no office, but that of Supervisor of a very muddy road, to which position of trust he was unanimously elected. Politically speaking, he is a Republican; but strictly, not a strenuous politician. Jonesboro is the address of the gentleman from Grant"

One of the most interesting things that I find in this sketch is the statement that his parents were of English extraction

The second bit of biographical information I have was written by his grandson, Thurlow W. Shugart. Now, Thurlow was born a year after Cornelius died so his information would have been second hand coming presumably from his parents, aunts, and uncles. Thurlow's father was Bennet Shugart and Gulie Jay; Bennet was the oldest son of Cornelius.

"Cornelius Shugart was a Friends minister. In addition to this, he was a teacher of several years' experience, at one time a member of the legislature of Indiana, and the owner of over four hundred acres of Franklin and Mill township land, 370 acres of which are in possession of his direct descendants. He was, also, an M.D., but never began practice, as other fields seemed more lucrative and otherwise desirable."

So, it would seem that Cornelius' claim of "being a small man of limited ability", should be taken with a grain of salt. It would appear that Cornelius was a very accomplished man and yet not prone to bragging. (his obituary reads in part: "he was a prominent citizen and a prosperous farmer, and a sincere Christian."

Thurlow also gives a bit of genealogical information on his parents Bennett and Gulie Jay.

Bennet and Gulie (Jay) Shugart, of "Willow Lodge."

Affaire d' amour! of a pair of youthful Friend lovers—matrimonial culmination—1877. This Friend bridegroom was the eldest son of Friend parents, Rev. Cornelius and Harriet (Coleman) Shugart, becoming a member of the family in 1854. Cornelius Shugart was the son of Friend parents, John and Sarah (Ratliff) Shugart. These, in turn, were of Friend origin. Harriet Shugart's parents, Elias and Rachel Coleman, were Friends of Friend descent. The bride in question was the daughter of Denny and Anna (Coggeshall) Jay, both Friends, and was born in 1858. Denny Jay's parents, Thomas and Elizabeth Jay, were also Friends, of Friend descent. Anna Jay was the daughter of Nathan and Gulie E. Coggeshall, Friends who, also, were of Friend stock.

Not much is known about Cornelius beyond what I have found, above. However, there is some information I have found on his brother John Jr, born in 1827 (seven years younger than Cornelius), which gives some insight in the environment Cornelius was raised in:

"John Shugart, Jr., brother of Cornelius, was eight years of age when his parents moved to Grant county, and he was educated in a somewhat meagre fashion in the log schools of the period. Dirt or puncheon floors, rude slab benches and oiled paper for window lights was the equipment of the schools of that day, and if the attending children learned even the rudiments of the much talked of Three R's, they did well indeed, and should be congratulated upon their wit and enterprise.

Reared to the farm, John Shugart knew no other enterprise in which he might find a living, and he cared for no other, for the men of this family have for generations been successful and well-equipped farmers, their inherent qualities insuring a measure of prosperity in their chosen work.

Mr. Shugart was a Quaker and strong Prohibitionist. During all his days he was prominent in the community that represented his home, and in which he had wielded a most excellent influence all his days. He exemplified many sterling traits as his bond. He always interested himself creditably in the civic affairs of the community, and might be ever relied upon to further the interests of any enterprise calculated to result in a moral or spiritual uplift in the town and county.

Mrs. Shugart, like her husband, was a member of the Deer Creek Monthly Meeting of the Friends, and they were among the most ardent and dependable workers in the society. Mrs. Shugart especially was a devoted temperance worker and crusader, and it would be difficult and well-nigh impossible to form any adequate estimate of the good she did in her life in this community. Mr. and Mrs. Shugart gave homes to eight orphaned children whom they helped to suitable educations and did much missionary work among the poor and needy.

They were true Christian people, and their beautiful charity was one of the finest traits they possessed among many that were praiseworthy, indeed. When they died the community mourned their passing as only kindly and simple people of their stamp are ever mourned, and their influence is yet felt in Mill township."

We also can look to Cornelius' brother George (born 1823) and see that George was heavily involved in the Underground Railroad:

"George was a very devout Quaker and a leader in his religion. He and his wife both had very strong beliefs on some very controversial issues. Mr. Shugart and his wife both took a very determined stand on the question of temperance giving their unqualified support to the Prohibition Party, hoping in time to see the liquor traffic wiped out. Mr. Shugart was a strong supporter in the Underground Railroad. In fact, his house was a slave station that helped thousands of runaway slaves to freedom. In one such case of runaway slaves, the bounty hunters were unable to sniff the girls out even when they were right under their noses. Mrs. Shugart dressed the girls in her own clothes—the Quaker bonnets had wide brimmed hats so the women's faces could not be seen in profile—and passed them off to the bounty hunters as her daughters. Then she led them to a buggy and to freedom, taking the precaution of advising her husband to tell the bounty hunters that she and her "daughters" were going to assist a neighbor in childbirth.

His home is said to be "a labyrinth of hiding places for runaway slaves." The upstairs walls of the home are indeed a labyrinth. "I told my daughters," said Bill Fields, current owner, "if anyone ever breaks in, they should get inside these walls—no one would ever find them." At one time a ladder led from between the upstairs walls to the root cellar. The root cellar in turn connected to an underground tunnel, which led to a nearby creek (Hoch, Kathy). This made it convenient for slaves to escape by traveling through water in which the dogs could not smell them out. 'The tunnel apparently caved in over time,' suggested Bill Fields after searching for the tunnel and finding only the original well.

Not only is the house equipped with a labyrinth, but it also has many other very interesting features. The home proudly boasts architecture, more elaborate than the usual Quaker dwelling. It seems George Shugart, the prosperous builder, found nothing amiss with the elaborate woodwork, beautiful furniture, and stylish Williamsburg wallpaper (Hoch, Kathy). The house is a prime example of prosperous pioneer living before the civil war."

There can be little doubt that Cornelius and his wife were aware of all the anti-slavery activities that were occurring in Grant County and in the rest of Indiana, leading up to the Civil War. His father and brothers being activists could not have gone unnoticed and it might be expected that Cornelius supported their activities in some shape or form.

"The Underground Railroad helped change opinions about slavery. In the decades prior to the Civil War, Indiana's abolitionists, antislavery supporters, and free people of color remained staunchly opposed to slavery, but the majority of Indiana residents were indifferent to the issue. Many Hoosiers, especially those in the southern part of the state who had migrated to Indiana from slave states in the South, had a more tolerant attitude toward slavery. Popular opinion regarding the plight of escaping slaves eventually shifted, especially after witnessing bounty hunters and slavecatchers forcibly taking runaways and, in some cases, free people of color into bondage. By the late 1850s and early 1860s, public attitudes in Indiana had swung firmly against the continuation of slavery in the United States."

Cornelius and Harriet had eight children, 6 girls and two boys. Cornelius died in 1884 and almost 2 years later, to the day, Harriet died. I seem to recall someone telling me that Cornelius died at age 64, from a kick in the head from a horse, however his obituary says that he was an invalid for many years suffering from a paralytic stroke.

The daughters had all apparently been married off. Son Bennet was out on his own with his family and thus it seems the youngest son Albert took possession of the house and farm. Albert would have been 16 when his dad died and 18 when his mom died so he likely was forced to grow up quickly to take on that responsibility.

The children of Cornelius and Harriet Tabitha Coleman were:

1. Anna Jane, born 4/4/1850 and married either J.H. Rook or Abel Knight
2. Caroline C, 7/17-1852 - 1/6/1906 and married William Mendenhall
3. Bennet L, 8/29/1854 - 10/2/1946 and married Gulie E. Jay
4. Mary Adeline, 11/6/1856 - 5/15/1879 and married Robert White
5. Addie O. Shugart, 1859 - 1934 and married John C. Pearson
6. Elnora N., 8/25/1860 - 1/1/1864
7. Isabella H., 6/3/1865 - 8/26/1883 and married Jesse C. Overman
8. Albert Elijah, 11/24/1867 - 11/13/1948 and married Jennie Hathaway on 11/28/1888

The Mississinewa Friends Cemetery lies in the Northwest corner of the IOOF (International Order of Odd Fellows) Cemetery. It started in the late 1820s. The oldest part of the Mississinewa Friends Cemetery has been marked with yellow posts. That is the main Section of the Cemetery known as Mississinewa Friends Cemetery.

In the mid to late 1830s. the IOOF people acquires the adjoining land to the East and South of the Mississinewa Friends Cemetery and started their Cemetery and they called it the IOOF. The IOOF was separate from the Mississinewa Friends cemetery. When the Friends Church split up into others parts, they paid the IOOF to keep their part up, grass mowed etc. At the present time there are 891 marked or unmarked burials. There is a lot of open space there (Mississinewa Friends Cemetery Section). In knowing that all Friends graves were never marked, one wonders how many were buried in that way.

The IOOF laid their cemetery in Blocks, Lots and Grave sections. I have maps showing all of that. There are no burial records for the period of when the IOOF started until 1895. After that date records are available. Again, how many were buried in that time frame without a marker? I do know that there are almost 2,000 marked graves in that time frame. Along about 1985 the IOOF sold the IOOF Cemetery to private operators and at that time the name was changed to Estates of Serenity Cemetery.

Cornelius' and Harriet's tombstones are shown below. There are 34 Shugarts buried in this cemetery, including my grandfather Albert.

On 12/28/20, Becky and I visited the cemetery. Cornelius' and Harriet's tombstone are barely legible from years of weathering. There were many familiar (to me) Shugart names buried here. Unfortunately, the day was bitterly cold with a strong wind so perhaps on another day I will get back to examine it further.

Albert Elijah Shugart

Albert was born on 11/24/1867 in Jonesboro, Grant County, Indiana, just a couple years after the Civil War ended. He died on 11/13/1948, shortly before his 81st birthday in Jonesboro as well. He was the son of Cornelius and Harriet Telitha Coleman and had seven siblings. The cause of death was listed as coronary thrombosis due to hardening of the arteries (old age).

Albert married Jennie Hathaway (born 3/13/1869 in Fairmont, Indiana) on 11/28/1888. He had just turned 21 and she was 18. Albert described himself as a farmer and he worked his farm and raised his family for his entirely life in Jonesboro, Indiana.

As was mentioned, he lost his father when he was 16 and then his mother when he was 18 and had to assume management of the farm at a very young age. His sisters were all married and his older brother was off preaching. Three years after his mother's death, at age 22 he was married with baby Harold.

Albert and Jennie's first born, just ten months after their marriage was my grandfather Harold Coleman Shugart (8/19/1889), born in Jonesboro, Indiana.

In total, Albert and Jennie had 8 children:

1. Harold Cornelius, 8/19/1889-10/1978 who married Estella 'Stella' Davis on 3/26/1913
2. Mabel, 6/12/1891 - 3/31/1919
3. Ralph Albert, 8/30/1893 -9/1967 who married Serena Middleton
4. Mark Wilson , 10/29/1895- 5/15/1984 who married Alma L. Davis
5. William Floyd, 9/6/1897 - before 1948 who married Cindarella Jones
6. Lucille, 9/26/1899 -? who married Don Cobler
7. Irene, 2/27/1902 -? who married Chromer Smith
8. Charles Lehman, 1/15/1906 -? who married Sarah Elmyra Samuel

When I was a child - maybe age 10 - Harold was charged with taking care of me for a while. He took me around and I met many of his siblings.

In particular, I remember visiting Lucille many times (her husband's name was Don) and I remember visiting and sleeping over at brother Mark's farm and playing in his barn with all the hay and 2nd cousins. I know I met other of Harold's siblings but have no real specific memory.

Albert and Jennie were Quakers, coming from a long line of Quakers who didn't tolerate alcohol abuse or sinful behavior as they would have defined it. Even though Albert was born after the Civil War, he would have been influenced by the attitudes of his parents, grandparents, uncles and aunts while growing up. The Shugart famiy was very active in the community and in the Quaker church and Albert followed tradition.

Albert, like his father dabbled a little bit into politics. Albert was elected and served atleast one term as an Indiana State Representative; he was a Republican and was elected in 1920, at the age of 53.

Of the five men who ran in the primary, Albert Shugart got 1,922 votes and Robert McGibbon got 1,562 votes.

In December, 2020 Becky and I took a drive to visit his gravesite. It was a bitterly cold windy day but we did manage to find the old cemetery and walked around. Albert's and Jennie's tombstone sits large among a couple dozen other Shugart markers in the old Quaker section.

The cemetery is located at 225 S. Lincoln, Marion, Indiana, USA and the Shugart tombstones are but 50 yards from the cemetery office door.

Harold Cornelius Shugart

My grandfather was Harold Shugart. He was born on 8/19/1889 in Jonesboro, Indiana and married Stella May Davis on 3/26/1913 in the Oak Ridge MM, Indiana.

I only have fond memories of him. When I was born in 1955, he would have been age 66 and so my memories of him are when he was in his 70's and 80's. I would see him every summer in Elk Rapids; he loved to fish and took me out fishing lots of times while I was growing up. He would not bait my hook but he didn't mind checking my handiwork with a worm or minnow.

When on shore, I also remember he always had his bucket of water and he'd bonk the fish on the head to kill it then he had some kind of roller that would peel the skin off and then he would filet and toss the remain in the bucket of water. Then we would dump all the fish carcasses back by the railroad tracks. He eventually taught me and had me clean my own fish by the time I was around ten or eleven, but I always preferred that he do it. But he told me that if I'm going to fish then I have to clean what I caught.

He used to tell me that we had to wake up at 6:00 AM to get ready to go fishing. So, I would wake up bleary eyed and he would be up making something called "hominy". I don't know what hominy is, and I never acquired a taste for it.

One time we were out fishing and returning. It must have been rough water because we were bouncing along and all of a sudden, our motor bounced right off the boat and down to the bottom of the lake. When the motor fell down, it got tangled up in ski ropes so it was still attached to the back of the boat but about 15 feet down in the sand. Grandpa mentally marked the location and then pulled out the oars and rowed us to shore. I may have helped him oar, but I just don't remember. (He was probably age 75, give or take) There was a girl's gymnastic camp where we ended up at. He called back to the cottage somehow - we didn't have phones or cell phones back then, so he must have called the Miller's or the Young's to relay the message of our dilemma. At any rate, we were rescued; I had a lunch at the girl's camp; we must have been there a few hours. I believe the men eventually managed to find the motor and pull it up out of the water.

I also remember when I was about 4 or 5, he and his friend were going fishing the next morning by driving a boat over to another lake. I begged to go along but it was not to be. I convinced Janet Ann (my cousin) to sneak and hide in their car in the morning with the idea that the two men would then take us fishing with them. We probably drove about a mile down the road before we got 'caught' and were returned to our parents who were probably still asleep.

When I was 5 and 6, I went to Elk Rapids Elementary School for a couple months with Janet Ann. Grandpa and my mother baby-sat the two of us for several months in Elk Rapids while the grown-ups went back to work, and perhaps to attend to my Aunt Janet's health.

I also remember Grandpa would take his teeth out at night and put them in a glass of water; he would read his Bible most nights and he rarely missed church on Sunday's. He was a Quaker, and it seems like 'everybody' loved grandpa.

I remember there was a couple weeks or so I spent with him in Indiana and took me around to visit his brothers and sisters that were living in the area. I remember picking eggs at Don's and Lucille's farm and doing whatever chores a 9 or 10-year-old could do and I also remember going to his brother Mark's farm and spending at least one night with my more distant cousins.

Grandpa loved those little red-hot cinnamon candies. He used to hide them in a dish, way up on top of the tall china cabinet. This worked for many years but eventually I figured out where he was hiding them and that was then the end of that.

Several times, Grandpa would take me to a place called Ann-Do-Bo's on River Street in Elk Rapids where they had a soda fountain in back. He would buy me a root beer float. I never knew much about Grandpa's childhood or adult life. My dad never talked about his childhood. I knew Grandpa was a teacher and I remember him telling me over a root beer that he used to ride around on a horse and had a gun with him when he was a kid (to shoot snakes he explained) and I remember being really envious.

I remember when my dad died and we were at his wake and Grandpa sat next to me and held my hand and had tears in his eyes and told me "You're not supposed to see your child die before you". It was very sad.

I never knew his wife Stella, as she died when I was around 3 years old. He told me he was driving and that she wasn't feeling well and put her head on his shoulder and passed. In hindsight, I think she really died in a hospital, but that was the story he told me. I was working in California when Grandpa died and I came back to Indiana and was one of his pallbearers at his funeral.

Grandpa wrote up an autobiography which Janie (my cousin Mary Jane) found. This seems to have been written around 1952, give or take. Janie had been born, but not Janet Ann, and my father was still a single man. At any rate, here is Harold's own writings (items in Bold, are from me):

"My grandfather, Cornelius Shugart, settled on a large farm just south of Marion, Indiana. He did not take out a claim as some of the men at that time did but was able to buy the land at a very low cost. He built a log cabin on a hill overlooking Deer Creek which wound in and out among the hills which were more than covered with a heavy forest. My grandmother was Harriet Coleman before her marriage (1848) to my grandfather. Together, they made a cultured and happy home for four little girls and two sons. I can say without boasting that I have never seen ladies of more modest and gentler demeanor than my lovely aunts who were once those four little girls. My uncle (Bennet), the oldest son, grew up to be a fine Christian worker in the Quaker Church and I have listened to his earliest testimonies as I sat as a child in old Deer Creek Church.

My father, Albert Shugart, was the youngest of the family. He was interested in the church and school from childhood. When he was six years old (1873) the little log house was taken down and a large brick house took its place. The house was on a tract of land which later became the property of my father. It was here that he brought my mother as a bride. She was Jennie Hathaway and came from Fairmount to the farm, a young girl of eighteen (1888). To this new home were born eight children, five sons and three daughters. I was the first-born. My mother was tireless in her efforts in giving us Christian training. Every Sunday we went to Sunday School and church. The church was set up by the Friends of Deer Creek in 1835 and of which my grandparents were charter members."

Now I remember walking down the road with my brothers and sisters all dressed up in our 'Sunday clothes'. We held our Sunday School Quarterlies tight in our little hot hands, each child trying to remember his or her "Golden Text" which was to be repeated at the end of class. The church was only an eighth of a mile from the house down a winding road, so we always walked. After Sunday School, we had 'meetings', a few songs, prayers, a sermon, and a period of testimonies from the different members. Sometimes the bench got pretty hard and our small dangling legs grew tired as we waited for the last testimony. This came from an old man who woke up about this time and who always said the same thing in his quavering voice "I've enjoyed the blessing of the hour." Then we knew it was time to get down and try to stand on our feet for the benediction. We managed to walk decorously out of the building and then with a bound we were on our way home up the hill.

I remember those Sunday dinners: pie, cake, chicken, noodles, vegetables from the garden, and always a delicious potato salad. Usually, there was "company". Since we lived in a large brick house this became known as The Homestead. My father's relatives loved the old house and were always returning for a visit. No matter when or how long they stayed they were made welcome by my mother. (I have an oil painting of The Homestead in the Elk Rapids house).

We had a large lawn and here we and our cousins or the children of our neighborhood grouped and played together. We always had a dog which capered besides us on our walks. We often took walks along the creek and gathered wild-flowers in the woods. Deer Creek, how we loved it:

Along the banks of Old Deer Creek
and in and out among the trees
Spring beauties, lamb's tongue, violets
also, wood-enamines,
Sheep's sorrel, and penny royal.
I can taste and smell them yet;
and sometimes we'd find some mushrooms
Those were days we can't forget.

On week days, never on a Sabbath, we were allowed to take our home-made fishing-poles and our can of worms and fish along the creek. This was great sport for the boys and it was still better if some of the neighbor boys happened to come along doing the same thing. And the swimming holes! All of us could swim at a very early age, thanks to the Old Creek and to our father. We would dive and do many other water stunts. Our father would often go with us and this, of course, made it more fun than ever. I think he enjoyed it too, but I know, now, that he went to watch out for our safety until we were old enough to take care of ourselves.

In the winter the creek served as a skating-rink for the neighborhood. Now we would skim over the ice from one bridge to the other; we would often build bon-fires along the bank to warm our hands as we rested from the strenuous race. We learned to cut the Figure Eight and cut the Pigeon Wing on our skates. Some could even write their names as they twisted and glided over the ice.

Shall I tell you a story of a joke that was played on me when I was about 7 (1896) years old? One of the large boys buckled our skate straps so tight that when the school bell rang, we couldn't get them off- there were three of us little fellows - so we had to hobble all the way to the schoolhouse with them on and as it took a long time to get there, we were quite late; next came the bother in helping us to get the skates off. By this time, the teacher had lost his patience and so as punishment put us on high stools in front of the room for all to see. Needless to say, tears were shed and I still think the wrong pupils shed the tears.

The school was just across the road from the church and was called Deer Creek School. It was a one-room building or a typical 'little red school-house'. We had wonderful times there. We had many kinds of tag games which were very popular with the smaller children. Then there were Blackman, Dare Base, King's Base, and Stink Base. The little folks liked to play Tippy-Up for a ballgame and they could also play Ante Over.

The hills around Deer Creek provided wonderful sliding and, in the wintertime, we had our sleds at school and used the noon-hour sliding if the ice wasn't thick enough for skating. There was another winter game that we liked very much and was played in a large ring made in the snow. The game was called Fox-and-Geese. We had races and jumping contests. Sometimes we were allowed to practice high jumping in the schoolhouse. We boys wore felt boots to school and we'd take off our big heavy overboots and jump over a broomstick which someone else would hold up for us, raising it higher each time we succeeded. Down we'd come landing on our felts. Such teacher patience that teacher had and how much fun we had on stormy days when we couldn't be outdoors!

After graduating from grade school (1902?) I went to Fairmont Academy which was a Friends School and was something like our high schools of today. I took the Latin Scientific Course and a Business Course. Football was the big game of the school but only a few were able to be on the team. This was before basketball became so popular. We played tennis and this was my favorite game. We also had field meets. At these field meets we ran races straight and relay. We Put the Shot and had all kinds of jumping contests. I always entered the races. There were four Friend Academies and every year we had inter-academic contests. I won the mile run at one of these contests and was the hero for the day!

I graduated from the Academy after four years of study. In January of my Senior year, I took the teachers 'examination for a license to teach school. At that time, High School graduates were allowed to teach if they were able to pass an examination which was put out by the state. So, at the age of 17 (1906) I had my diploma from Fairmont Academy and a license to teach school in the elementary schools in Indiana. I didn't get to use the license, however, as about that time my father lost his health and as I had finished High School; I felt obliged to help with the work on the farm. There was much work to be done as we also had a dairy to look after. So, forgetting my own ambitions, I worked on that farm for six years. In the latter part of each summer, I added to my small income by running a threshing machine for a thresherman and his son. I enjoyed this very much and used to wish I could take an engineering course in college. I never realized this ambition.

At the age of 23 (1912) I was married to Stella Davis. Although we had lived only two miles apart all the years of our childhood we were not acquainted as she attended school and church in another neighborhood. I first knew her as a student in the Friends Academy as she also attended that school. Her family on both sides were Quakers. She became a teacher in the public schools and continued teaching after we were married. We are the parents of two sons and one daughter.

As it turns out that Harold and Stella shared a common grandparent 5 generations back, making them 4th cousins:

John Davis m Mary Chamness

The oldest boy (Joseph) is a physician and is on the staff of doctors in the St. Vincent Hospital in Indianapolis. He is in the father of two little girls and a baby son. His wife is a pleasant girl and they have a beautiful home.

Our daughter (Janet) was a commercial teacher in the High School system in Indiana. She is married to a dentist and they live in Kokomo, Indiana. They have one small daughter.

Our youngest son (George) isn't married. He was meteorologist for the Air Force during World War II. He was a captain and received his training at the Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He is now an actuary for the General Motors Company and works in their office in New York City.

We have lived on the same farm to which we moved when first married. I became interested in a course of study given by Marion College and under the direction of a great educator, A. Jones. This was a course in General Science. From this course grew an interest in other courses. My associations with the teachers who were also taking these extension courses renewed my interest in becoming a teacher myself.

My first school was in a one-room school near Jonesboro. Here I enjoyed the friendly atmosphere of the neighborhood and the companionship of the children at school. I next was asked to take a school in North Jonesboro. It was a two-room building in the same township. I taught at this place for twenty years! I had the grades fifth through eighth inclusive. The township schools consolidated with the city schools of Jonesboro and Gas City and I was asked to teach mathematics at the Mississinewa Schools sixth, seventh and eighth grades. It's a fine place to teach. We have a fine staff of teachers and a principle who understands his responsibilities. During my teaching career I did outside work toward a college degree and finally realized the ambition I had at the end of my Academy Course. I received my diploma with a Bachelor of Science degree last June (1951?)

Soon the time for retirement will come as I have taught twenty-seven years in Indiana. I am now taking graduate work in Muncie Ball State College. I am doing this because I wish to get a license to teach school in Florida and they demand a term's work in Physical Education before they will give a Grade II license. They also demand graduate school work for that kind of license. Because of my wife's health, I would like to teach the next three years in Florida. She has the asthma but finds it much better where it is warm weather the year round. We bought a cottage in Michigan many years ago so that she would have a place to escape hay fever and asthma in the fall.

The cottage is located on Elk Lake in Millers Park near Elk Rapids, Michigan. A paved road goes through the park and has a turn-around at the south end. Any car passing through the park will have to turn around and go back the same way they came in. On each side of this road are lines of cottages. Our cottage is on the lake side of the road. It is a very pleasant place to be. There are congenial neighbors that we meet year in and year out as most of them own their own cottage. There are also people who rent, that like it so well that they come back every summer. The park has many beautiful trees. There are mountain ash with their red berries, silver birch, pines, spruce, cedars, and many maples. We have a large picture window in the living room which looks out on the lake. This lake is as blue as the ocean and it is really a beautiful picture that we see through the window. Sometimes there are great waves with their white-caps and sometimes the lake is a mirror reflecting the trees along its shore. We have electricity and city water and so have the convenience of home.

Down next to the lake and to one side of our lot is a boat house. In it we have a fourteen-foot Thompson Cruiser and an outboard Mercury motor. There is also a bright red canoe which the little grandchildren (Sue and Joellen) can paddle in the shallow water along the shore.

Elk Lake is the last one of a chain of lakes and empties into Lake Michigan just a mile from Millers Park. There are lake trout, northern pike, perch, bass, and muskies in this chain of lakes. There are sight-seeing boats which make the rounds from Torch Lake, Round Lake (now Skeegamog) and Elk Lake every day. From this location are many beautiful drives which are only a few hours long.

One is a drive to the Hartwick Pines; this is a large forest of pines that was never cut over and the pines are the largest to be found anywhere. It is wonderful to stand at their base and listen to the whispering of their needles a hundred feet or more above us.

Another drive takes us to Dead Man's Hill. This is a great canyon which is called Michigan's Grand Canyon. It is a canyon cut by the Jordan River and is truly breathtaking in its beauty, especially in the fall when the leaves are taking the bright colors of red and yellow and etc.

We are only ninety miles from the Straights of Mackinaw. Here one can ferry across to the upper peninsula of Michigan. The strait is about nine miles across and it takes about forty minutes to make the crossing. The ferry boat lets cars off at St. Ignace, a town settled by Father Marquette in the 1600's. Only fifty more miles to see the locks at Sault St, Marie and on into Canada across the mile-wide St. Mary's River. There are many more trips which we enjoy if we grow tired of fishing. However, that doesn't happen often.

There are tennis courts and shuffle board courts on the bay shore and all are welcome to use them anytime. Elk Rapids has a golf course for golf lovers. Many people about to retire worry about what they will do with their time to keep from being bored. That is one thing I do not worry about as the days seem too short to enjoy all the interesting things around us. We enjoy swimming in the ocean in Florida, too. It is too cold for us to enjoy that sport in Michigan.

So, the years have passed. It seems only such a short time since I, myself, was one of the school children who went hopping, skipping, and running to meet my friends on my way to Old Deer Creek School. We were very happy and care-free. I am reminded of a quotation from Whittier's poem, The Barefoot Boy:

Oh, for boyhood's painless play
Sleep that wakes in laughing day,
Health that mocks the doctor's rules
Knowledge never learned of schools.

The old school has long been abandoned. For years it stood lonesome and neglected. Old Deer School is now made into a dwelling house and has no resemblance whatsoever of once being a school building. The Old Deer Creek Church, too, has been made over into an apartment building. The change has been so great that no one would ever guess that it was once a church.

But the creek still winds its way through the little valleys among the hills, rippling and singing over the shallows, oblivious to the changes that have taken place up on the hill. It seems to say as did Tennyson's brook:

"Chatter, chatter, so I flow
To join the brimming river
Men may come and men may go
But I go on forever"

Janet Ann Baker (Janet Shugart Baker's daughter) sent me some notes a few years back:

"My memories of Grandpa were that he was the warmest, gentlest, and most loving Grandpa I could ever hope to have. Grandpa was the epitome of love and acceptance in my life. He took care of me at a very difficult time in his life. When Stella died, my mother had a breakdown which left her incapacitated. Grandpa helped to take care of me. He held me, loved me and gave me attention and support. I don't know what I would have done without his assurance

Grandpa would fix me apples with salt on them when I came home from school. He'd have them all ready when I got off the bus. Then we would watch General Hospital. I'd sit on the arm of his recliner where he sat. He would often say that he should have been a doctor. He thought he would have been a good doctor.

Grandpa was very intelligent. He especially excelled in math skills. I was not gifted in math, however, and to his credit, he did NOT force me or even put pressure on me to perform well in math. Although I do remember when he took me to school after I'd been sick. My teacher told him that I was having a hard time learning to tell time. By the next day, he had taught me to tell time, not only the hour and the half hour (which was all my class had learned) but quarter till and quarter after and everything in between. He wasn't going to let me NOT learn.

He also would sit and have me read to him in 1st and 2nd grade. He was SO patient. I would only read for him. I'd sit in his lap and he'd wait forever while I sounded out the words. He never hurried me and he always made me feel like I'd done a great job. He sat and listened to me practice the piano every day after school. I was horrible but he sat there and acted like I was a concert pianist. He was always complimentary. He thought Janie and I were absolutely wonderful on the piano- at least he acted like it.

Grandpa loved babies. He could get every baby to smile and giggle. He loved to hold them and they loved him.

He was very social. He would go visiting his fishing friends at the lake in Millers Park. In Indiana he would go visiting every Sunday. Everybody loved Grandpa. He had a way of accepting people that endeared him to everyone who knew him.

One time he told me that he had a religious experience that changed his life. I don't know much about it. I know that I was a baby when it happened. I don't know exactly what it was. He had never been particularly spiritual or concerned with God. When he was in his 50's, he found God or God found him. Anyway, his life became completely different. He felt loved, accepted, and forgiven.

As long as I can remember, his faith was central to his life. I have his old bible at home where he had taken notes. His bible was well read. He went to church every Sunday in the years I knew him. He lived his faith in the way he treated other people and offered grace to other people like the grace he had received from God.

Grandpa had to stop traveling when he became older. Up until I was in high school (1970's), he would travel to different places every winter with a traveling companion. He went to Hawaii and rented an apartment for a winter. He stayed in Florida, Texas, Arizona, California, at different times for the winter, and visited the Panama Canal in South America.

He would preside at the lake from June to October. Then he would come to Kokomo from November to December and then take off for the winter. Then he would return to Indiana in May and help plant crops with his brother.

Janie and I always had such a hard time saying good bye to him at the end of the summer. He would keep us during August while our parents were back in Indiana. He would drive us home in time for school to start and then go back up to the lake. We would cry and cry when we stopped staying with him in August. And Grandpa would love to "milk our emotions". He'd say "you're going to go away and leave me all alone" and we would just hang on to him and cry. He loved it!

The years we would stay with him during August were wonderful. We all slept together and he would tell us bedtime stories. He called skunks "pole cats" and would always try to convince us that there was a pole cat right outside our window. He cooked for us a lot. Grandpa made us fried potatoes and onion; I have NEVER tasted any other fried potatoes that were so good.

We loved to go to the "White Front" restaurant in town. We would go over with him for lunch many days. The waitress was named Sandy. She was a pretty, peppy young thing and ADORED Grandpa. She's put both hands on his face and squeeze him every time he went in.

Grandpa had a bad back most of his life due to a farming accident where he broke his back and never received proper treatment. One summer he had really hurt it and had spent most of the summer in constant pain. I had been paddling around in the red canoe and hadn't tied it up properly so it drifted downstream. Grandpa noticed that it was gone, went to retrieve it and slipped on the rocks and fell. He thought "oh boy, I've really done it now" and expected to have horrific pain. But instead, the fall must have slipped something back into place and his back wasn't sore anymore. He loved to tell that story because it was such a surprise that he healed his own back.

When Grandpa got too old to travel during the winter, he stayed with us in Kokomo. After I was married in 1976 mom would bring Grandpa over to visit me at Lafayette, Purdue, quite often. They would pull up in the car with Grandpa in the passenger seat holding our little white dog. He loved Cheri and she was a good companion for him driving the long winter days. One-time Grandpa saved her life by his quick reflexes when Mom accidentally put the power window up and almost caught Cheri's head.

Grandpa was always willing to do anything to help out. He helped us move from Purdue to Delphi. He went to live with Janie in Detroit for a while because Gary, her husband, was traveling. I'm grateful that Janie had that special time with him.

The only time in my life that I have fainted due to emotions happened when Grandpa was in the hospital in Detroit. Janie had called us in Indiana and said that she had to take Grandpa to the hospital. Greg, Mom, and I left that night and drove to Detroit. We got there about 2:00 AM. All the way there I had prayed and asked God to please let me make it there before he died. I ran to the intensive care and got there before Mom and Greg. The nurse let me in his room. When I saw him hooked up with all of the IV tubes and looking so weak, I felt myself go dizzy, and I fell to the ground.

He was so weak that he couldn't speak. It was so sad to see him unable to move, I was worried about his back hurting him because it always hurt if he had to lay flat on his back. I tried to get the nurses to turn him so I could rub his back as I had done since I was little, and they helped me but he was too weak for it to help.

Janie was afraid to go see him because she knew she'd be too sad, so stayed in the waiting room. I went in every time they would let me. Grandpa used every bit of his strength he had and said "Where's Janie?" I went out and got her; he wanted to see her so badly.

I read to him from the Bible right into his good ear (he was very hard of hearing). I didn't know where the verse was that speaks of Heaven but I knew it was in the New Testament. I prayed and asked God to help me find it and when I opened the Bible I was on the exact page where the verse was. It speaks of Jesus going to prepare a place for us to go to in Heaven after we die.

After I finished reading it, Grandpa nodded his head, "yes". I know that it was what he wanted to hear. He wasn't afraid to die. He was very peaceful.

We had a code where we would squeeze each other's hand three times for "I love you" and the other person would squeeze back two times for "Me too". I squeezed his hand three times and he did mine back two. Then he squeezed Janie's hand three times for "I love you" for he didn't want to leave her out. We were not in the room when he died.

What I know about being loved, cherished, and accepted has been in large part, because of Grandpa. He was the perfect Grandpa and I consider him to be a gift of grace to me from God.

Grant Memorial Park, in Marion, Indiana

George Cornelius Shugart

My father, George Cornelius Shugart was born on 2/11/1919 in Wayne Co,. Indiana. He married my mother (Edna) Carole Brummel in July of 1953 at the age of 34 (she was 22) and he died 5/9/1977. (George hated his middle name and told everyone his middle name was Charles)

Unfortunately two weeks after I had turned 22, my father died and so I never really got a chance to know him as an adult. What I can say is that he was a quiet man and I don't recall very many conversations with him where we talked about his childhood or job.

George was one of three children, born to Harold and Stella, having an older brother Joseph and an older sister Janet. As a boy, he helped his father on the farm, although his interest and talent in mathematics came to him as a very young boy.

I gather there is a story where he was walking around with a book at a very young age and an adult asked him what he was reading and he replied "Rithmatic".

At any rate, it is said that he worked very hard on the farm. Grandpa Harold had bought the Elk Rapids cottage, primarily to allow his wife Stella to have a place to go in the summers on account of her asthma and allergies. George's brother and sister also had health issues and often times would spend the summers with their mother in Elk Rapids, Michigan, causing George to have had the increased responsibility of helping his father on the farm during the summer months.

This is not to say that George did not have his fun in Elk Rapids while he was growing up. I remember Uncle Bob (his sister Janet's husband) telling me how they used to have fun with the boats when they were young.

George, unlike his father, was not a fisherman. He played the clarinet for many years in middle and high school and I have seen a picture of him in his school team basketball uniform.

I cannot say with any kind of certainty whether or not he was a religious man. Undoubtedly he was raised in the Quaker faith, but I never heard him express his religious views. When I was growing up, say around age 6, I have memories of us trying out an Episcopalian Church and then a Lutheran Church (my mom was a Lutheran) and finally settling on us going to a Methodist Church. There were no Quaker Churches on Long Island near us and my guess is that the Methodist theology may have been the next best thing as far as my father and mother were concerned.

George wanted to leave Indiana, or maybe it was that he wanted to leave the farm. He went off to college, probably around 1937, and I want to say he went to MIT (but this is not certain) . I don't know when he graduated, but it was probably around 1941 and I assume his major was mathematics.

WWII had broke out and he was drafted. I believe that he was in the service for nearly three years. Being a Quaker, he likely could have avoided the sevice entirely but chose not to. I also know that he resented being drafted and serving in the Army. His resentment may have been because of an anti-war stance, but I have the impression that being in the Army interfered with what he wanted to do with his life.

In the Army, George never went abroad. He told me his job was to be a meteorologist and that he stayed stateside. When he was discharged he was a Captain, sometime around 1945.

I do not know what he was doing after he left the service in the late 1940's, but by 1953, he was in NYC working for General Motors. He would end up working for GM until he got terminally ill at the end of 1976 . He apparently was a pension actuary and GM, being an international company, caused him to fly to Europe, many times in the 1950's and early 1960's.

George loved dogs and we had three German Shephards, one after another. We had one when I was born; she died of old age and we got another; she died of old age and we got a third one.

He was a great father. He would spend a lot of time with me teaching me math, up until I was about 10-11 years old. I never viewed his lessons as work and probably owe my love for math and logic to him.

Economically, we lived in an upper middle-class neighborhood and community. I believe he actually made more income than most men his age but he was not extravagant in the slightest. We lived beneath his means. If something was broken or needed fixed, if it was possible, he would fix it himself or learn how to fix it. I don't remember ever seeing a repairman in our house.

He had also built two boats. One was a sailboat- sort of like a sunfish, but was just a flat board with no cockpit. George had bought a little strip of sand on the north shore of Long Island and we would take his sailboat out on Long Island Sound and spend hours sailing (This is where I learned to sail) all the time that I was growing up.

He also built a little boat that was about 10-12 feet long, about 5 feet wide and about 10 inches in depth out of plywood. I think it may have been a kit. Anyway, he put a motor on it and the boat would skip around Elk Lake like a stone. If the water wasn't calm, a wave could crash over the bow; it really wasn't a particularly safe boat but boy did I have a lot of fun with it when I was 12 and allowed to take it out myself.

He liked to camp and travel and we went on two month-long cross-country trips with a tent and a German Shepard, and a cat in 1968 and 1969. I also recall a trip down to the Smokey Mountains in the late 1960's.

Of course, every summer we would pack up and head off to Michigan where he would visit with his sister Janet, her husband Bob, and his father Harold. As the families grew, eventually Janet and Bob bought a cottage to make room . These were always pleasant times for the families. George would enjoy driving the boat and giving us kids 'torture' tests while we skiied.

He worked in NYC and commuted from Long Island, putting in 12 hour days if you count the commute time - drive to the train station, catch the train, catch the subway, walk to the office and return at night.

We would visit my mom's mother 3-6 times per year but , because of his asthma and because his mother -in-law was a heavy smoker, those visits were probably a bit of a burden for him (but I never heard him complain)

George did not smoke, curse, or drink and was quiet, gentle and reserved. I never heard him yell in anger.

When I was growing up and looking at my options to deal with the potential of being drafted to go fight in Viet Nam, his advice was to be a conscientious objector and go to jail verses my mom's advice to run off to Canada, if I wasn't willing to go off to war.

George died of heart disease. He had ventricle fibrillation which in 1977, was probably a death sentence. He had his heart attack in December 2016, and spent many months in the hospital after that. In late March he had had enough of the hospital and was released; on May 9th he died. I never heard him complain and I don't know if he even knew that he was dying (I didn't know).

George was very well liked and respected at General Motors. I know this because at his wake, there were so many people who came each night from all over. The room was full.

He and his wife (my mom) are burried in Maple Grove Cemetery, Elk Rapids, Michigan and is where I anticipate that I, along with my wife, will be burried.

George 'Eric' Theodore Shugart

Born 4/23/1955 in a Roslyn, NY hospital and with a date of death yet to be determined, I married Becky Heggen in Indiana on 1/17/1987. I was 31 and Becky was 23. Just as a point of interest, Becky's sister, Jeanne, found through genealogy that Becky and I share a set of common grandparents, and are 7th cousins once removed:

Anthony Chamness m Sarah Cole

Mary and Sarah Chamness were sisters and they got married on the same day in the same ceremony - a double wedding

I was raised in Plainview, Long Island, New York. I lived in one house from the time I was born until I went away to college. The town was new and developing. I remember riding my bike as a child around the streets and there were farms all around, in between neighborhood developments. Most of the farmland had been converted to single family homes by the mid 1960's.

I vaguely remember the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1960; at least I remember that there was something that was going on that made people nervous. I remember President Kennedy was shot and they put the news on the television while I was in school but really didn't appreciate the importance of it. My mom used to let me stay home from school when the United States was blasting off rocket ships or having the capsules land in the ocean. Television was in black and white and we had about 6 television stations. ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS, WOR and WPIX.

My favorite show, when I was age 5 or 6, was Diver Dan which would be totally politically incorrect today and I was in love with the mermaid Minerva. (These little 3-minute shows are on the internet). We also had 3 German Shepherds, one after another, each dying of old age. So, from the time I was born until I left home at age 22, there was always a German Shepherd around the house.

There were a pair of brothers who lived down the street from me, the same age, and the three of us became best friends until they moved away when we were twelve. We used to go on long distance biking adventures, build forts in the woods, and smoked our first cigarette together from a pack they had stolen from their mother.

I have fond memories of elementary school. I was so far ahead of the kids in math and I remember one time that the class wanted me to compete against the teacher on the 'times table' flash cards and I won, to her chagrin.

The town itself was probably 80+ percent Jewish, 10+ percent Catholic, and 5% Protestant. All the Catholics, including my best friends, went to a private school. Being a son of a Hoosier Quaker didn't exactly allow me to fit in with my peers, but this really wasn't an issue while in elementary school.

I went to a Methodist Church and became very involved with it, until I went off to college, eventually becoming President of the Methodist Youth Fellowship. Summers, we would go off to Elk Rapids. It seems like we would stay there for weeks and my memories of Elk Rapids are many.

For a couple years, while my Aunt Janet was ill, Janet Ann (my cousin) and I went to the Elk Rapids school for a few months (kindergarten and first grade). I remember the town as not really being a tourist destination. It was pretty poor and run-down; the lake didn't have houses all along the shore. Everyone's cottage was old and small. There were three-inch-long yellow leaches in the water along the shore and we always had to watch out where we stepped when we would go into the lake. (We would catch them and pour salt on them and kill them from time to time)

I learned to waterski when I was 8 and grew up with the Baker girls (Janie and Janet Ann) and the Staley's (Jeff and Linda) and Steve Miller, a local boy, as we would reunite each summer.

In 1967 I went to Junior High School. Unfortunately, due to school district zoning, I was one of two kids who went to Matlin Junior High School whereas the rest of my elementary class went to Plainview Junior High. It was a hard year for me going off to a new school not knowing anybody and where the school size was maybe 1000 kids (4 grades). Most kids had their friends and were in their cliques. But I adjusted, joined the band, got on the soccer team and over time got to know my new classmates.

The Viet Nam War was heating up in 1967. I was 12, and for the next 5-6 years as I approached draftable age, this became more and more important to me and the country. Jeffrey Miller, one of the students killed in Ohio by the National Guard, lived two houses down from me. He had a motorcycle and was 'cool' in the eyes of a young boy. I delivered papers at the time, and I remember one of my families on my route lost a son. Every day on the morning news there was the casualty report about how many American boys had died the day before and how many of the Viet Cong.

I would be invited to Bar Mitsvahs as the boys began turning 13. Later on, when I began having an interest in dating, I would learn that Jewish girls weren't so inclined to date non-Jews. Things were pretty clique-ish back then. It didn't really help that I was blond haired and blue-eyed. Many parents and grandparents were not so far removed from the Nazi's and WWII and I know I was a reminder to some of them - some were refugees and were in or had family killed in concentration camps.

In 1969, I was 14. It seemed like there was a youth revolution going on. Kids were seeing the war as pointless. Woodstock was back then. I was looking to see what my alternatives might be as the draft was going on; We had over 500,000 boys over in Viet Nam. I remember a couple girls wore jeans to school and got suspended for not wearing a dress. Then the next day another handful of girls did it. They got suspended. The next day, 100's of girls wore pants instead of dresses…And that was the end of that dress code rule.

I was placed into the accelerated 'track' where the brightest 50 kids were put into two classes and we were put into advanced and more difficult curriculums. (My graduating class was somewhere around 350 kids).

In high-school I was on the soccer team and track team for one year. I joined the chess team and found my niche. The teacher who ran the team was a Grand Master and he saw something in me and we began playing all the time. He would rarely give me lessons but I got better and better. I only managed to beat him once in my 3 years of playing against him. In college, I began playing 5 games or more per day and people would come from all over campus to challenge me; there was a point in my life (my young 20's) where I would hardly ever lose.

As age 15 became age 16 and then 16 became 17, going off to Viet Nam became an ever -increasing possibility. My dad suggested I become a medic or go to jail as a conscientious objector; my mom was more inclined to suggest that I 'run off to Canada'. My being heavily involved with the Methodist Church and my pastor being strongly anti-war, he and I were mapping out a strategy as well. Methodists and Quakers both were recognized as religions where boys could avoid the draft on religious grounds.

I did get a draft card and I did get a draft number (the government was doing a lottery by birthdate to see who would get drafted) but by the time I was 19 and of draftable age, the draft had ended.

Although I became sort of an anti-war long-haired hippie in the early 1970's, I remained in the accelerated education curriculum through-out high school. By the time I entered my senior year, I had accumulated almost all the high school credits that I would need to graduate. I only needed one class (Health) to graduate. However, I signed up for Calculus at 7:30 in the morning (5 days per week) and Health was 3 days per week and over by 10 AM. Basically, my school day was done extremely early in the morning, thus my senior year was pretty much a waste of time academically speaking.

I worked in a warehouse; I would go to the ocean on nice days, I had my clique of friends. I played Chess. Friends would come to me and have me tutor them in math. We all had cars and we were all college -bound. The legal drinking age in NY was 18. The war was over. It was a fun time to be alive.

At the age of 18, I knew I was going to end up in a career that involved math. I had no idea beyond that of what type of work I would do and really didn't concern myself with that. I just knew I would study math in college and it would work out.

(Actually, I always thought I would become a veterinarian until I nearly failed high school biology in 9th grade.)

I was lucky in the sense that I didn't have any struggle or angst that others my age were having to 'find' their field of study. I was lucky to have a good brain and I was lucky that mathematics gave me such enjoyment. I never saw studying math as work. Stuff that was hard was just simply a fun puzzle to figure out.

When I was 18, before I went off to college, I hitchhiked around the United States and Canada for about 7 weeks. I had my backpack, tent, sleeping bag and about $200. My friend and I took off from Elk Rapids. In Banff, Canada we split up, with me heading to Vancouver Island, then south while he heading north to Alaska. It was a fun adventure, and fortunately I didn't run into any significant problems.

My freshman year of college didn't work out very well for me. I think I ended up with about a 1.8 cum. But I did manage to get Calculus I, Calculus II, Logic, and Linear Algebra all passed with good grades. I also possibly reached my peak in Chess playing abilities that year, due to the number of games I was playing.

After my freshman year, I decided to take a break from school and mow lawns. A friend of mine had a lawn business and he hired me to manage it. There were around 100 lawns (1/4 acre -1/3 acre lots) that had to be mowed each week. I hired a crew and fixed the machines and did that for several months until the season was over.

I then went back to college with a much better attitude. Once I went back, it was as if nothing could hold me back on learning math. Class sizes were small as I got past the basic problem-solving courses and began learning math theory. I excelled in theory and at the time, as I would just sit and think and completely forget where I was as I pondered meaningless, but beautiful abstractions in mathematics. I ended up taking the advanced math GRE which was a national test that graduating math majors from college would take if they were going to go on to graduate school. I scored higher than the top 99% of my peer group that year.

Summers I would work. I had begun working at age 12 and have worked my entire life. Paper route from age 12 to 15. A warehouse from age 16 -18 and an assortment of odd jobs in between - donut truckdriver; greenhouse worker, fast food server. I ended up working on a house building crew for the summers of 1974 -1977 inclusive.

In the late spring of 1977, the foreman of the construction company that I was working for had moved out to Lake Tahoe. He had called me up several months earlier and asked me if I would come out and stay with him and his wife and help him build his house during the summer months. So, for three months, I lived and worked 7500 feet up in the Nevada mountains and just he and I framed his $750,000 home. (He also asked me if I wanted to be his partner after I graduated from college, which was tempting but I turned him down)

Unfortunately, my dad got sick in December of 1976 and eventually succumbed in May of 1977 with my having one semester to go (I would graduate in December 1977). I had applied to graduate schools and was planning to get my PhD in theoretical mathematics. It was looking like I was going to go to either Michigan State or Colorado State, having been accepted at both with good scholarships. I also had sent my resume off to a bunch of insurance companies looking to see about a job as an actuary.

Had my dad not died, I am certain that I would have gone on to graduate school and probably become a college professor. However, I chose instead to defer school for a year and took an actuarial job in Sacramento, which then turned into a life-long career.

As far as my career went, I had a very successful career. I think one reason for my success was that I never reported to an actuarial student, but always reported to a seasoned VP and FSA for the first half of my career. Aside from luck and hard work, another reason for my success was that I took some risks. I made several cross-country moves between companies and had to reestablish myself and reputation each time. (I actually have had driver's licenses in eight different states so far). Each move I made was into a job that was bigger than me and would force me to grow into the new role quickly (or risk getting fired).

In May of 1978, I moved out to Sacramento, California and began my actuarial career. I rented an apartment that had an old couch and a ripped-up love seat and a couple lamps. Some of the first things I did was to adopt two kittens, buy a motorcycle, and buy a waterbed. My initial annual salary was $11,300 and I was good to go.

In March of 1980, a recruiter told me of a job in Dallas Texas. It was to be the first 'group' actuary for a small subsidiary of JC Penney. I interviewed and ended up taking the job. I reported to an FSA but hardly ever saw him; I mostly dealt with the marketing VP and also just explored and examined data, pretty much on my own. Computers had just recently been introduced to actuaries so it was a 'new world' for the actuarial field.

I passed a couple actuarial exams while in Dallas and for about a month I actually considered joining the Air Force. I was talking with a recruiter and they wanted to send me to college to become a cryptologist (code-breaker) and an officer. It sounded like a pretty good life, but I passed an actuarial exam and got my credentials (ASA), so continued down the actuarial career track.

In November 1981, I moved from boiling hot Dallas to freezing cold Milwaukee Wisconsin where I ended up staying for 14 years, working 7 years each at Time Insurance and then Blue Cross of Wisconsin. Here I ended up with staff and a department, ultimately becoming an assistant VP at age 28 for Time and then 'acting' Chief Actuary for Blue Cross.

As a side note, I also interviewed and subsequently hired an intern, named Becky Heggen in 1985, who was to become my wife in 1987.

In 1995, I was recruited by Blue Cross of Michigan (as their first ever FSA actuary) and to be a liaison between Blue Cross, the UAW and the Big Three Auto Companies and so we left Wisconsin. This was really an interesting job and 100% totally out of my comfort zone. It was an extremely visible position dealing with many tough players, many negotiations, many public speaking roles along with having to build trust by all the parties. e.g., not to tell Ford what GM was thinking or not to tell management what the UAW was thinking, etc. Ultimately, I had four departments and about 90 people reporting to me. I was also asked by BCBSM to become their Chief Actuary but turned them down.

In 2001 and 2002, I decided to pursue my Master's degree at Oakland University. (My thinking was that I might retire and that I would need a Master's Degree if I wanted to teach at a college). I let BCBSM know of my intention to quit work and they asked me if I would keep working part-time in a different role. So, I worked 2.5 days a week, mostly monitoring the lines of business, went to school, and hung out with the family. It was really nice having 4.5 out of 7 days off from work for two years. However, with two classes to go to finish my Masters, I was made an offer to move to Ohio that was too good to pass up. Full time retirement would have to wait.

In 2002, we moved to Cleveland Ohio where I would work from 2002 to 2006 as VP and Chief Actuary. The company, Medical Mutual of Ohio, was on the verge of going bankrupt and there was a chance they were going to be out of business within a year. There were many challenges and as the 'new outsider' coming in who was hired by the Board of Directors, there was a fair amount of suspicion of me by my peers. I had to gain their trust and not be a pushover as there were tough actions that needed to be taken.

(An interesting note regarding that last job is that I was interviewed by ten of the Board members and the Chief Counsel all at the same time for about three hours straight.)

In 2006 I attempted to retire and we all moved up to Elk Rapids, Michigan, where we remained until the middle of 2011. Retirement didn't last long, however.

In 2008, I was talking with my connections at BCBSM trying to get Zak and Erica a job. The company asked me if I would come help them straighten out their individual and Medicare product lines. Initially I told them I wasn't interested but ultimately, I agreed to work with them as a consultant. I would go down to Detroit from Elk Rapids one or two days per month throughout 2009 and some of 2010.

In 2010, I was getting tired of consulting for BCBSM and I was beginning to get ready to retire again. These plans got thwarted when the new president of MMO called me up and asked me if I would meet him for dinner. The old president, Kent Clapp, had recently died in a plane crash and Obama-care was about to become a reality. Over dinner, an offer was made and after talking to Becky, I accepted it that evening. I told him I would work two years, but two years turned into five, where I was a Senior Vice President and Chief Actuary for Medical Mutual of Ohio until I made my final attempt to retire on February 1st, 2016.

*****

On January 17th,1987 I married Becky Heggen and we are now in our 35th year of marriage. I am hoping to get another 20 or 30 years out of her. She ran the household as we moved around the mid-west. After our third child was born, she gave up her actuarial career to spend time at home raising the kids. We homeschooled them with Becky doing about 95% of the work. I was quite good at recess however.

Robert 'Zak' was born 12/8/1987
Erica Renee was born 11/21/1988
George 'Peter' was born 1/20/1990
Kevin James was born 12/20/1991
Hayley Jo was born 11/4/1993

All the big decisions we have made in our lives, whether it was to move, or to have a child, or to buy a house were always joint decisions between Becky and me.

In February 2016 I finally retired for good. Becky and I had a small travel trailer which we took out west to the Grand Canyon and, quite unexpectedly, we ended up being on the road with a 5th wheel for the next 4 years. It was quite an unplanned adventure and even now, with this writing, I am not sure that we are completely done.

All in all, I would say I have had a happy and unique life. Becky and I have lived and travelled all over the country. Work, for the most part, was always interesting and challenging. I was able to spend more time with my children as they were growing up than most dads do.

My son-in-law Joe tells me that the actuarial tables give me another 20 years. Nevertheless, Becky and I bought our cemetery plots in Maple Grove Cemetery, Elk Rapids for us and any of the children.

Appendix A

Shugart DNA - paternal line by G. Eric Shugart 12/20/20

beckyshugart@yahoo.com

This is a bit of a technical report. It is presented to document what I have learned and for someone who wants to dig further and deeper into the weeds or to supplement it someday with additional information, if and when it becomes available.

The first thing I learned was that the Y-Chromosome passes from father to son to son to son with the only variation occurring between generations being due to mutations. From what I can gather there are two types of measurements: STRs and SNPs which look at different parts or aspects of the Y-chromosome. These two measurements are independent, but the results they produce generally have high correlation

With regards to STR's:

The term I use is 'marker'. There are many of them. I, and along with others that I will discuss later, have taken DNA tests and produced results on either 67 or 111 markers.

What is a 'marker'? A marker has a name, for example DYS#393 and each marker can take on one of several values. So maybe DYS#393 can take on a value of 10,11,12,13, or 14 while DYS#578 might take on a value of 7,8, or 9.

For each marker, some values are very common while other values are quite rare. Also, each marker also has a mutation rate. Some mutate quite quickly while others experience slow mutation rates.

Mankind has been around for only 250,000 years which may be 15,000 -20000 generations, give or take. And while we are all 'related' somehow, the question may be "how recent is our common ancestor?"

The Y-chromosome analysis is most useful at suggesting two people are not recently related. If two men have vastly different values for many of their DYS#'s, we can say something like "they probably don't have a common ancestor within the last 20-30 generations."

When two men match on all but a few markers we have a little more confidence that the two men are related, but it is an enigma to say how they are specifically related, i.e., who was the common grandfather.

With regards to SNPs:

SNPS are apparently a different and independent type of measurement than STRs. The Big Y measurement offered by Familytreedna.com provides information on SNPs (and on 700 STRs, as an aside)

We all have a common ancestor that started about 250,000 years ago and that is called SNP A. He lived in Africa. When they look at your SNPs, or mine, or a complete male stranger, they see that we all have SNP A in us. There were other guys running around when our first ancestor was around, but apparently all those other branches died out and so everyone alive today started from one guy who started branch A.

As time marched forward, there were mutations and other SNP branches were formed, some of which continued and others which have died out. So, for me, as an example, I went from SNP A to SNP FM89 to SNP RM207......to SNP RL1029....to SNP FT242243......There are actually/apparently 100's of SNPs that my path went through. SNP FT242243 is about 1500 years old (There was some other male who was DNA tested and who matched me and hence, due to this, 'they' were able to define my terminal SNP FT242243.)

New SNP's are waiting to be discovered as more people get tested and new SNPs are formed today as a result of mutation.

With that background, as best that I understand it, I now move on to more specific results.

Four Shugart men

Years ago (circa 2000), I was working with a man named William Shugarts (with the trailing 's') and we knew there were four main Shugart branches which could not be connected with one another with any certainty:

1. John Shugart, who moved to NC
2. Zachariah Shugart who was a sheriff
3. Peter Shugart who was a sheriff
4. A John Shugart who remained in Chester Co. PA (born 1758)

How these four men relate was and remains a mystery that Shugart genealogists have struggled with for more than 100 years. There is simply no paper documentation that exists which shows 'proof' of relationship. One theory is that the John who moved to NC and the two sheriffs were brothers and that the John who remained in Chester County, PA was a son of the John who moved to NC.

My Aunt Janet told me that there were three brothers that came over from Germany and I have heard the three brothers' story from others, as had William. But anecdotal stories aren't proof and the story never provided any names that I am aware of.

DNA analysis was not at all common back when Bill and I were collaborating and we found a little company that offered to test Y Chromosome markers called Familytreedna. (This was back in 2001). They are much bigger now, but at the time, Bill and I were two of their first 1500 customers.

We started off with obtaining 25 'marker' values and as the years passed and the technology and availability increased, I eventually obtained values on 111 markers and then, just recently, the Big Y. I also have taken the 23 and Me test.

Now Bill descended from the John who remained in Chester County, PA and I descend from the John who moved to NC. We did our DNA test and were rewarded with the knowledge that we matched on all but 4 markers. We still didn't know how the two John's are related. Was one the son or nephew of the other? Or what kind of cousins were they to one another? But at least we now knew with some certainty that there was a fairly recent connection of some sort.

Bill eventually died ☹️. Over the years, I eventually found descendants of the two Sheriffs (Zach and Peter) and convinced the living Shugarts to help, by providing their saliva to Familytreedna.

As of this writing (12/2020) I have DNA results on 11 men including myself. One of the men's name is Curtis Shugart.

Curtis' DYS#'s results are very important. In my view, Curtis was the 'purest' Shugart and does not appear to have had any mutations in his values as you will see shortly. Here are his values on 111 DYS#'s:

The 11 men that I have data on

So, let's dig down into some of the data that I have accumulated over the years. Including myself, there were eleven living men that I have been able to get DNA results on. The different highlighted colors indicate how each DNA sample ties back to one of the four oldest Shugarts.

1. My line goes, G. Eric, George, Harold, Albert, Cornelius, John V., George, Zachariah, and then the John who moved to NC.
2. Curtis, John A., Curtis S., John Thomas, John J, Leonard, Zachariah, and then the John who moved to NC
3. Jason, Jack G. Jr, Jack G. Sn, Benjamin W., John B, Thomas H, Eli, Zachariah, and then the John who moved to NC
4. James D. Harris, James C. Harris, William D. Harris, James Shugart, Edom, Zion, Nathan, Zachariah and then the John who moved to NC
5. James Spencer; James has no idea how he connects in; he has gone back about 4 generations and was very shocked to find out he has Shugart DNA. James matches Curtis' markers exactly.
6. John Shugert, Warner, Hamilton, Thomas Wesley, Moses Mendenhall, Joseph Bishop, and then the John who remained in Chester
7. My friend William Shugarts, William Sn, Aaron Jr Shugarts Jr., Aaron Shugart Sn, Zachariah, and then the John who remained in Chester
8. Charles, Cecil, Walter L., Robert A., Earl BC, John Michael, and then the Zachariah who served as Sheriff
9. Woodward E, L. Asberry Jr, L. Asberry Sn., Timothy, Earl BC, John Michael, and then the Zachariah who served as Sheriff
10. Richard Shugert, Max Talmage, Theodore Talmage, Zachariah, John, Zachariah II, Zachariah I, and the Peter who served as Sheriff,
11. Austin Wesley Spencer, who has Shugart DNA but has no idea how this came to be. Austin has no idea how he relates to James Spencer.

Now, in a perfect world as an example, one would think or hope that all the men (in red) who descend from the John who moved to North Carolina would have an exact match on each of their DYS# values. This doesn't happen due to the mutations that have occurred through the generations. While all 11 men match on most of the DYS#'s values, the following chart shows the DYS#'s where at least one man differs from Curtis:

What this chart tells you is that all 10 men have at most 4 deviations from Curtis. Surprisingly, Jim Spencer is an exact match to Curtis. (Most of us took the 111 Marker test but where you see N/A, those men only took the 67 Market test).

This chart does not tell us how the two Sheriffs and the two John's relate to one another but it gives strong support that the 4 men shared a recent common ancestor, given the closeness of fit we all have to Curtis. Curtis' values are the mode of the rest of us.

The other information I have relates to a discussion that I had with a geneticist about 15 years ago. He provided me with the probabilities of someone having the value that I have on each of my markers. As it turns out, on some of my markers I have some rare values. On all of these rare values, most of the eleven men share the same value. The geneticist called this a "Shugart footprint'. These probabilities are listed for each rare marker in the right most column.

This research was a real break-through. Instead of pure speculation that these four men were related, we now have strong DNA evidence that there is a relationship. The conjecture that the John (who moved to NC) and the two sheriffs were brothers is stronger now. That John who remained in Chester County, PA was a son of one of these men is very plausible.

Probabilities

Familytreedna has a program which estimates the probability that two people share a common ancestor within 'X' number of generations. According to their program, G. Eric Shugart (me) has an 88.7% probability of having a common ancestor with Curtis within 8 generations, James Harris has a 95.22%, and Jason Shugart has a 69.23%.

However, Curtis, Eric, James, and Jason all descend from the John who moved to NC and these probabilities should be 100%. The reason these percentages are understated and aren't 100% is due to the mutations that have occurred on Eric, James Harris and Jason.

As far as the John (1758) who remained in Chester County, we have descendants John Shugart and William Shugarts in this branch who took DNA tests. Their probabilities with Curtis are respectively: 87.84% and 88.5%. These probabilities are also understated given the apparent mutations we see with John and William's DYS# values. We can conclude the John who remained in Chester County has a very close relationship of some sort with the John who moved to NC.

Since I show that both Sheriff Zach and Sheriff Peter each had a son named John, I believe that the younger John (born 1758) is likely the son of Old NC John.

Walter and Woodward descend from Sheriff Zachariah and their probabilities of sharing the ancestor with Curtis. according to Familytreedna are respectively 95.5% and 85.5%. Again, we can conclude that the probabilities are understated and that Sheriff Zachariah were closely related to NC John.

Finally, Richard Shugert is the only descendant I have found who descends from Sheriff Peter and his probability of sharing a common ancestor within 8 generations with Richard is 76.2%.

It would be nice to have another descendant of the Sheriff Peter in our sample. We do know that the 76.2% is likely understated due to mutations, so I think we can conclude it is also likely Sheriff Peter is also part of the family. As an aside, Sheriff Zachariah and Sheriff Peter lived close to one another and actually alternated turns being sheriff. This fact is also suggestive that Zach and Peter may have been brothers.

Interestingly, Curtis has a 99% chance of sharing a common ancestor with James Spencer and an 87.8% chance with Austin Spencer within 8 generations. It would be a real interesting mystery to figure out how Shugart DNA found its way in these two Spencer men, particularly since neither Spencer man knows how they relate to one another!

Back to SNPs

There is not a lot more I can say yet about SNPs. I am awaiting SNP results of William, Richard and Walter and we will see what their terminal SNP is. What follows below is my certificate from Familytreedna:

John Shugert, who has not done the Big Y test, but did do the 23 and me had a terminal SNP of RL1029......which means, there was some guy, way back when, who is a common ancestor of John Shugert and me (since I too have RL1029) If John Shugert were to take the Big Y test, we can guess that he may also have SNP FT242243 (given we suspect we have a common ancestor in the 1700's).

Perhaps more importantly, If John Shugert and I are matching, SNP-wise, then it is pretty likely a new terminal SNP will be defined that is more recent than 1500 years ago. Likewise, if John Shugert doesn't go through FT242243, he and I will NOT have a recent common ancestor except going back in real deep historic times.

Once we have the SNP results on the Richard, William and Walter we will know a little more. (The following page is therefore left intentionally blank to make room for potential additional DNA results and comments)

Haplogroups

As a side point, unless one has royalty in their blood, written records really weren't maintained for most of the population prior to the 1500's. Thus, there becomes a point for all genealogists, where all we have is migration patterns of populations that might be gleaned from SNP analysis.

Continuing on in the discussion, there is something called a 'haplogroup'. Both FamilyTreeDNA and 23andMe have all of the eleven men in the Haplogroup R1a. I found the following write-up on the internet which explains what a Haplogroup is:

"What is a haplogroup and how does it pertain to your family history? At its essence, a haplogroup is an ancestral clan. Some clans are the Vikings, Native Americans (all tribes), Celts, Aboriginal Australians, and other such groups. Your haplogroup tells you where your ancestors came from deep back in time.

There are also male and female haplogroups, so you can see where your male and female sides of the family originated back in pre-historic times. As with Y-DNA (which traces the male line from father to son) and mtDNA (which traces the female line from mother to daughter), haplogroups also follow straight male and female descendancy lines.

Initially, there was only one haplogroup, and it was in Africa. As African tribes moved off the continent and went to various other places on the planet, their DNA mutated and the number of haplogroups increased. New haplogroups are formed even today when a gene mutation occurs in someone from a particular ancestral clan. However, it takes generations for enough people to carry the mutation for it to be prevalent enough for it to be considered a haplogroup. Therefore, any haplogroups that start forming today will not be recognized as new ones for centuries.

Haplogroups today are divided into four main ones: European, African, Native American, and Asian. Within these haplogroups are many sub-haplogroups that further define where a person's earliest known non-African ancestor on the male and female sides of their family originated and when.

Haplogroups are names alphabetically in order of discovery. The sub-groups of haplogroups are named with letter and number combinations indicating where and when in time they were discovered, which main haplogroup they descend from, and sometimes even the very specific small geographical area where their earliest members lived.

The more letters and numbers in your haplogroup's sub-group, the more likely you are to be able to pinpoint an exact region, and maybe even a county or town. (I believe a subset of a haplogroup is called a subclade, just as an aside)

Right now, haplogroups are the only way to trace your family tree back to the time before surnames were invented. You can take your last known ancestor in a particular direct male or direct female line and connect them to a larger clan in the more distant past, knowing that their ancestors, the ones you can't identify and trace, wound back through time to the time and place where the known ancestor's haplogroup and sub-group originated."

We have a fairly decent paper trail going back to the 17th century. 23andMe provides the following write-up of how my paternal line may have migrated.:

Haplogroup A

The stories of all of our paternal lines can be traced back over 275,000 years to just one man: the common ancestor of haplogroup A. Current evidence suggests he was one of thousands of men who lived in eastern Africa at the time. However, while his male-line descendants passed down their Y chromosomes generation after generation, the lineages from the other men died out. Over time his lineage alone gave rise to all other haplogroups that exist today.

From A, we went to the following

F-M89
76,000 Years Ago
K-M9
53,000 Years Ago
R-M207
35,000 Years Ago
R-M420
25,000 Years Ago

R-M512
25,000 Years Ago

Origin and Migrations of Haplogroup R-M512

From the Middle East, men bearing R-M420 likely passed through the Caucasus mountains to the steppes above the Black and Caspian Seas. The people of the steppes were the first to domesticate horses nearly 6,000 years ago, and their southern neighbors in the Caucasus developed the earliest bronze tools and weaponry. Equipped with these technologies and seeking new grazing land and natural resources, the people of the steppes swept west into northern Europe and east through Central Asia.

Your paternal line stems from a branch of R-M420 called R-M512. Today, the men who share your haplogroup are most common in Eastern Europe, Russia and Ukraine. The lineage is also quite common in Poland, but decreases in frequency toward the Mediterranean countries. Farther to the west, about one-third of Norwegian men and a quarter of men from the far northern British Isles carry R-M512. Their ancestors arrived with various groups over the past 2,000 years, including with the Anglo-Saxons from central Europe in the 5th century and the Vikings who came from Scandinavia beginning about 800 CE.

Additionally, the haplogroup is still relatively common in the Middle East, as well as in Central and South Asia where it reaches levels of up to 60% among the Kyrgyz and the Tajiks.

R-L1029
< 6,000 Years Ago

Your paternal haplogroup, R-L1029, traces back to a man who lived less than 6,000 years ago.

It seems to me that our American forefathers came from Western Europe; I highlighted the above comment in bold. We can see from their map (above) that some of the R-M512 headed toward Europe.

(The above write up from 23 and Me stopped at R-L1029 and Familytreedna has provided the more recent ancestral results where 23 and Me has left off)

Appendix B

Paternal line by G. Eric Shugart 12/20/20

Are We German?

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It has been assumed by many, that the first Shugart that came to America came from Germany. There is a story that has been passed down through the generations that there were three brothers who came over together from Germany. I have heard this story from three different people over the years and we do have NC John, Sheriff Peter, and Sheriff Zachariah running around in the early 1700's in Pennsylvania.

The name certainly sounds German and you can find many family trees on the internet that have our first immigrant being from Germany.

In my notes, I have a note from Thomas D. Hamm: “In a letter written in 1878 a grandson of Zachariah stated that Zachariah was a German and spoke very broken English”. I followed up with T. Hamm to find out that the grandson who wrote the letter was Thomas Shugart, son of Eli, who was born in 1818 in Kentucky. His grandfather Zachariah was living in NC at the time and moved to Indiana around 1830 when Thomas would have been age 10 or 11. The distance between young Thomas' location and his grandfather Zachariah was close to 400 miles. Rhetorically, how many times could Thomas have met Zachariah and how good would a young boy's memory of him have been fifty years later?

There are also records of a man or men named Zachariah who were alive in the early 1700's with similar sounding names as 'Shugart':

1. As member of the 1st Reformed Church of Philadelphia, a Zacharias Schuckert signed a call to Rev Boehm dated 24 March 24th,1734. (From Dorterer's Historical Notes on the Reformed Church, Vol1/66. This Zachariah was almost certainly a German
2. From the Holy Trinity Evang. Lutheran Church, Lancaster PA, at least two versions of translated records of this church have been printed. Baptism of Anna Maria Bentz, d/o Philip Bentz on December 2, 1738 witnessed by Zacharias Schuecker and wife (one version) and wife Anna Maria (another version), also Anna Thomas as another witness. This Zachariah's last name is clearly German.

This is the entirety of the 'evidence' that I am aware of that would argue we have a German ancestry.

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Having gone through this paternal review this year, I do not believe that we are German. In fact, I have come to believe this year that we are of English or Irish heritage.

1. This dawning of awareness came to me when I discovered and read a sentence in Representative Cornelius' official biography, published by the State of Indiana: “His parents were of American birth and English extraction. If Cornelius thought he had some German roots, it would be reasonable to think his biography would have included this, rather than the way it was worded.
2. Cornelius' parents were John Shugart and Sarah Ratliff and his grandparents were George Shugart and Mary Davis and his great-great grandparents were John Shugart and Susannah Tarkington The Ratliff family and the Davis family came from England several generations back. The Tarkington's, as well, were of England. The Shugart men were all marrying English women, suggesting the men were living in English communities, not German communities, perhaps marrying women of their ilk.
3. The original Shugart settlers in Concord, Pennsylvania were in dominant English Quaker areas.
4. Let's consider John Shugert (See DNA Appendix). From Ancestry.com, his DNA suggests 40% England and NW Europe, 34% Scotland, 18% Ireland, 4% France, 2% Sweden, and 2% German. From MyHeritage he is 54% Scandinavian, 24% English, 11% Balkans, 10% Iberian (southern Europe). Here we see almost no trace of German. Since half of John's genetic make-up is from his father (which went father to son to son to son….), we can be pretty confident that John Shugert does not have an original German immigrant coming to America. And since we have some reason to believe that John Shugert (see DNA write-up) shares a common grandparent with me, nor do we
5. The 23andMe results on me are 36% French and German; 20% British and Irish, 23% NW Europe, and 15% Ashkenazi Jewish. We know that the 15% Ashkenazi Jewish comes from my mother's side. We also know that, on my mom's side they were in Germany in the late 1800's, so that most of the 36% comes from her (to make up a total of 50%). Thus, the British (20%) and probably most of the NW Europe (23%) is coming from my dad's side. This too suggests the original Shugart ancestor was a non-German
6. The Appendix labeled 'Some of my Grandparents' shows an abundance of English immigrants. It is reasonable to think that the original Shugart would have congregated with like-minded people.
7. Finally, the literacy rate in early America was reasonably high. The spelling of our name has never been with the German 'Sch'. In fact, from the earliest records that I am aware of in Concord, PA to records showing up when the men bought land in North Carolina generations later, we see various spellings, none of which are remotely German. Apparently, 'Sugar' is English names, based upon a very quick look-around on the internet. In particular, some of the earliest spellings we have are:

This last point doesn't prove we are English, but suggests we aren't German and furthermore, I think 'Sugar' might be a path to follow which might bear some genealogical fruit.

Appendix C

Paternal line by G. Eric Shugart 12/20/20

Some of my Grandparents

I have one set of parents, two sets of grandparents,4 sets of great grandparents and so on. Though not impossible, it would be a Herculean task to understand all the grandmothers and grandfathers who contributed their time, effort and DNA to produce me. Since I identify myself as a Shugart (and not a Brummel or a Munsch or a Davis and so on), I have mainly decided to primarily focus on the Shugart line.

However, I became interested enough to know how many grandparents could I identify and began to browse ancestry.com for information.

It didn't take long for me to figure out that I have to go back 100's of years before I can find any grandparent from my paternal line that wasn't born here in the United States.

There is information on almost 200 grandparents presented below. The data presented comes straight off the internet with only a minimal amount of due diligence on my part regarding accuracy.

Highlighted rows are those grandparents that were born in a foreign land. The difference in highlighted colors represent differences in countries; green was England, grey was Ireland, and blue was all other countries.

Where available, I show the location where the grandparent got married to give a sense of where he or she was living as a young adult.

As can be seen, many of the grandparents were born in the British colony of America and would have been British citizens. There is even one grandparent who was supposedly on one of Columbus' ships (I think it was the Mayflower)

It is also interesting as one scrolls up from the bottom of the list to see the migration from New England to North Carolina to Indiana over time by inspecting the marriage location column.

With more time, it would have been a simple enough task to keep searching around in Ancestry.com and find many more grandparents. Maybe someday, I'll do that.

Note the column labeled index and parents. The index points to the set of parents of the individual. For example, Albert's Index number is 4, so slide down in the 'parents' column to '4', and you see that his parents were Cornelius and Harriet

Appendix D

Four Generations of Descendants of John (NC branch) Shugart

*Assumes NC John had John Jr who stayed in PA

Generation 1

1. JOHN (NC BRANCH)1 SHUGART was born before 1718. He died before 1800. He married (1) HANNAH after 1747. She was born before 1745. He married (2) SUSANNAH TALKINGTON in Feb 1746 in Wilmington DE.

John (NC branch) Shugart and Hannah had the following children:

2. i. WILLIAM² SHUGART was born about 1766. He died between 1840-1850. He married (1) RUTH BOND on 20 Feb 1814 in ,Surry, NC. She was born about 1768 in NC. He married (2) POSSIBLE WIFE before 1814.
3. ii. ISAAC SHUGART was born on 12 Sep 1767. He died on 02 Jan 1839 in Parke Co, IN. He married RHODA. She was born on 06 Nov 1761 in England. She died on 12 Oct 1851.
   iii. RACHEL SHUGART was born before 1774. She died on 07 Jan 1834 in, Parke, IN.
4. iv. NATHAN SHUGART was born between 1774-1784. He died in Sep 1822 in Springfield, Sangamon Co. Il. He married SORILDA--LUCINDA BREWER. She died after 1824.

John (NC branch) Shugart and Susannah Talkington had the following children:

5. v. ZACHARIAH SHUGART was born on 28 Feb 1747 in ,Chester Co, PA. He died about 1832 in ,Wayne Co, IN. He married (1) CATHERINE L. WOODWARD about 1766. She was born on 03 May 1742 in ?. She died about 1822 in Surry Co., NC. He married (2) ELIZABETH (PIGGOT) T WHEELER, daughter of Benjamin Piggott and Elizabeth, in Jan 1824 in Guilford Co, NC. She was born on 24 Apr 1760 in Orange, NC.
6. vi. JOHN (CHESTER JOHN) SHUGART was born about 1758 in ,Chester Co, Pa. He died in 1814 in Bald Eagle Twp, Centre Co, Pa. He married HANNAH (ELIZABETH?) WHITAKER. She was born about 1759 in, Pa.

Generation 2

2. WILLIAM² SHUGART (John (NC branch)¹) was born about 1766. He died between 1840-1850. He married (1) RUTH BOND on 20 Feb 1814 in , Surry, NC. She was born about 1768 in NC. He married (2) POSSIBLE WIFE before 1814.

William Shugart and possible wife had the following child:

i. 1 GIRL SHUGART POSSIBLE 2³ BOYS was born between 1810-1815.

3. ISAAC² SHUGART (John (NC branch)¹) was born on 12 Sep 1767. He died on 02 Jan 1839 in Parke Co, IN. He married RHODA. She was born on 06 Nov 1761 in England. She died on 12 Oct 1851. Isaac Shugart and Rhoda had the following children:
   7. i. HANNAH³ SHUGART was born on 10 Dec 1797 in NC. She died on 21 Jan 1864 in Parke Co, IN. She married Isaac Harvey on 15 Oct 1817 in Spring MM, Orange Co, NC. He was born on 16 Jan 1793 in Cane Creek, NC. He died on 25 Mar 1848 in IN. ii. RACHEL SHUGART was born in 1799 in NC. She died on 07 Jan 1834 in, Parke Co, IN.
4. NATHAN² SHUGART (John (NC branch)¹) was born between 1774-1784. He died in Sep 1822 in Springfield, Sangamon Co. Il. He married SORILDA--LUCINDA BREWER. She died after 1824.

Nathan Shugart and Sorilda--Lucinda Brewer had the following children:

i. LUCY M3 SHUGART was born about 1800. She married DOWNEN.

8. ii. ZION SHUGART was born about 1800. He died in 1833. He married Rebecca Glenn on 09 Mar 1826.
9. iii. MATILDA "MARY" SHUGART was born on 10 Mar 1802 in ,,VA. She died on 25 Dec 1833 in ,DeWitt Co, IL. She married John B. Coppenbarger on 11 Mar 1818 in Marysville, Blount Co, TN. He was born on 08 Mar 1797 in ,Wythe Co, VA. He died on 06 Oct 1869 in, Dewitt Co, IL.
10. iv. EDOM SHUGART was born on 22 May 1810 in TN. He died on 06 Aug 1897 in NE.

Generation 2 (cont.)

He married (1) ELIZABETH TROXEL on 19 May 1831 in IL. She was born on 03 May 1817 in KY. She died on 11 Jun 1852. He married (2) ELIZABETH ANN WINN on 27 May 1856. She died on 19 Dec 1868 in Fulton, IL. He married (3) ELLEN POOL about 1870. She was born on 13 Mar 1820. She died on 10 Jan 1889.

5. ZACHARIAH² SHUGART (John (NC branch)¹) was born on 28 Feb 1747 in, Chester Co, PA. He died about 1832 in, Wayne Co, IN. He married (1) CATHERINE L. WOODWARD about 1766. She was born on 03 May 1742 in ?. She died about 1822 in Surry Co., NC. He married (2) ELIZABETH (PIGGOT) T WHEELER, daughter of Benjamin Piggott and Elizabeth, in Jan 1824 in Guilford Co, NC. She was born on 24 Apr 1760 in Orange, NC.

Zachariah Shugart and Catherine L. Woodward had the following children:

11. i. JOHN³ SHUGART was born on 09 Oct 1768 in PA. He died after 1840 in Clinton Co, KY. He married POSSIBLE WIFE.
12. ii. GEORGE SHUGART was born on 30 Aug 1770 in ,Chester Co, PA. He died on 10 Oct 1851 in, Grant Co, IN. He married Mary Davis, daughter of John Davis and Mary Chamness, on 10 Oct 1793 in Cane Creek MM, Surry Co, NC. She was born on 17 Jun 1775 in, Chatham, NC. She died on 15 Jul 1848 in, Grant, IN.
13. iii. LEONARD LEENOR SHUGART was born on 02 Jul 1772 in PA. He died on 09 Mar 1858 in Yadkin Co. He married (1) NANCY before 1797. He married (2) MARY RUSSELL, daughter of Charles Russell and Elizabeth Catherine, on 09 Mar 1797 in Deep Creek MM, NC. She was born on 17 Jun 1775. She died in, GA.
14. iv. SARAH SHUGART was born on 12 Dec 1773 in Chester Co, PA. She died on 23 Sep 1856 in Providence Twp, Hardin Co, IA. She married Levi Reece, son of Abraham Reece and Mary Huff, in 1796 in Surry Co, NC. He was born on 30 Mar 1777 in Surry Co, NC. He died on 25 May 1860 in Providence Twp, Hardin, IA.
    v. MARY SHUGART was born on 30 Aug 1776.
15. vi. ELI SHUGART was born on 03 Oct 1778. He died on 01 Sep 1835 in Bear Creek, Cumberland Co, KY. He married Jean (or Jane) Harding, daughter of William Harding and Obedience Hutchins, on 05 May 1801 in Surry Co., NC. She was born on 10 Sep 1784 in VA. She died on 22 Mar 1854 in Bear Creek, Cumberland Co, KY.
    vii. CATHERINE SHUGART was born on 06 Oct 1780. She married James Brown on 01 Jan 1798.
    viii. LEVI SHUGART was born on 11 Aug 1782. He died on 10 Oct 1786 in Snow Camp Cem. NC Row G Plot 342.

6. JOHN (CHESTER JOHN)² SHUGART (John (NC branch)¹) was born about 1758 in, Chester Co, Pa. He died in 1814 in Bald Eagle Twp, Centre Co, Pa. He married HANNAH (ELIZABETH?) WHITAKE. She was born about 1759 in, Pa.

John (CHESTER JOHN) Shugart and Hannah (Elizabeth?) Whitaker had the following children:

i. ANN³ SHUGART was born about 1776 in ,Chester Co, Pa.

16. ii. JOSEPH BISHOP SHUGART was born on 18 Jul 1779 in ,Chester Co, Pa. He died on 14 Nov 1853 in ,Snyder Twp, Blair Co, Pa. He married (1) RACHEL PATTON about 1833. She was born on 04 May 1805. She died on 10 Dec 1866. He married (2) MARY MENDENHALL, daughter of Moses Mendenhall and Mary James, in 1802. She was born on 04 Nov 1782 in ,Chester Co?, PA. She died on 13 Mar 1831.
17. iii. JOHN W. SHUGART was born about 1784 in ,Chester Co, Pa. He died on 11 Jun 1859 in Gowanda, NY. He married Catherine Schwartzwalder on 29 Oct 1810. She was born in Pequea, Salisbury Twp, Lancaster Co, Pa. She died about 1852.
    iv. HANNAH SHUGART was born in 1784 in Chester Co., PA. She died in 1854. She married SCOTT. He was born about 1776.
18. v. ZACHARIAH SHUGART was born about 1789 in ,Chester Co, Pa. He died on 30 May 1863 in Miles Twp, Centre Co, Pa. He married Catharine Boyer, daughter of Andrew Boyer and Elizabeth Kulp, in 1808. She was born about 1794 in ,Chester Co, Pa. She died in ,Centre Co, Pa.
    vi. GIRL SHUGART was born after 1800 in ,Chester Co, Pa. She died before 1808 in, Pa.

Generation 3

7. HANNAH³ SHUGART (Isaac², John (NC branch)¹) was born on 10 Dec 1797 in NC. She died on 21 Jan 1864 in Parke Co, IN. She married Isaac Harvey on 15 Oct 1817 in Spring MM, Orange Co, NC. He was born on 16 Jan 1793 in Cane Creek, NC. He died on 25 Mar 1848 in IN. Isaac Harvey and Hannah Shugart had the following children:
   1. i. JOHN⁴ HARVEY was born on 24 May 1819 in NC. He died on 29 Mar 1842.
   2. ii. RHODA HARVEY was born on 29 Nov 1820 in Orange, NC. She died on 27 Nov 1907 in IN. She married William Chapman on 26 Oct 1848 in Parke, IN. He was born on 24 Nov 1815 in Yorkshire, England. He died on 05 May 1875.
   3. iii. ASENATH HARVEY was born on 08 Sep 1822. She married Aaron Maris on 18 Nov 1840.
   4. iv. CYRUS HARVEY was born on 23 Feb 1824.
   5. v. ASAHEL HARVEY was born on 23 Oct 1825. He married Sarah Maris Lindley on 18 Feb 1847.
   6. vi. NATHAN HARVEY was born on 25 Oct 1827. He married SARAH REYNOLDS.
   7. vii. ISAAC S. HARVEY was born on 12 Jun 1829. He married MARY ANN.
   8. viii. WILLIAM B. HARVEY was born on 01 Dec 1830. He married MARTHA WOODARD.
   9. ix. ELISHA B HARVEY was born on 26 Apr 1833 in IN. He died on 29 Aug 1913.
   10. x. ELIZABETH HARVEY was born on 04 Jul 1837. She married William Dixon on 23 Apr 1863.
   11. xi. HANNAH MARIAH HARVEY was born about 1841.
   12. xii. AMBROSE HARVEY was born on 08 Jun 1841. He died on 05 Oct 1842.

8. ZION³ SHUGART (Nathan², John (NC branch)¹) was born about 1800. He died in 1833. He married Rebecca Glenn on 09 Mar 1826.

Zion Shugart and Rebecca Glenn had the following child:

1. 1. i. TWO SONS⁴ SHUGART was born between 1825-1830.

9. MATILDA "MARY"³ SHUGART (Nathan², John (NC branch)¹) was born on 10 Mar 1802 in, VA. She died on 25 Dec 1833 in, DeWitt Co, IL. She married John B. Coppenbarger on 11 Mar 1818 in Marysville, Blount Co, TN. He was born on 08 Mar 1797 in Wythe Co, VA. He died on 06 Oct 1869 in, Dewitt Co, IL.

John B. Coppenbarger and Matilda "Mary" Shugart had the following children:

1. 1. NANCY⁴ COPPENBARGER was born on 11 Aug 1820. She died on 04 Mar 1878. She married AMOS "CHALKLEY" WRIGHT.
   2. JOAB COPPENBARGER was born on 05 Apr 1822 in Ill. He died on 03 Feb 1879 in DeWitt Co, Ill. He married ANN CANTRELL.
   3. ELIZABETH COPPENBARGER was born on 24 Jan 1824 in Ill. She died on 29 Nov 1901. She married NO ONE.
   4. EDOM COPPENBARGER was born on 12 Oct 1827 in Ill. He died in Mar 1901. He married ELIZABETH WRIGHT.
   5. JACOB COPPENBARGER was born on 04 Nov 1829 in, IL. He died on 26 Apr 1912. He married Mary Jane "Marg" Lane on 04 Dec 1861.
   6. CATHERINE COPPENBARGER was born on 13 Feb 1833 in Ill. She died on 25 Apr 1914. She married HENRY L. THOMPSON.
   7. WILLIAM A. COPPENBARGER was born on 23 Jun 1836. He died on 27 Mar 1853 in De Witt.
   8. JOHN COPPENBARGER was born on 16 Sep 1837. He died on 17 Mar 1853 in DeWitt.
   9. PERRY COPPENBARGER was born about 1840. He died after 1881.

10. EDOM³ SHUGART (Nathan², John (NC branch)¹) was born on 22 May 1810 in TN. He died on 06 Aug 1897 in NE. He married (1) ELIZABETH TROXEL on 19 May 1831 in IL. She was born on 03 May 1817 in KY. She died on 11 Jun 1852. He married (2) ELIZABETH ANN WINN on 27 May 1856. She died on 19 Dec 1868 in Fulton, IL. He married (3) ELLEN POOL about 1870. She was born on 13 Mar 1820. She died on 10 Jan 1889.

Edom Shugart and Elizabeth Troxel had the following children:

1. 1. i. ZION⁴ SHUGART was born on 14 Jul 1832 in IL. He died on 24 Dec 1832.
   19. ii. WILLIAM DAVENPORT SHUGART was born on 22 Feb 1834 in DeWitt, IL. He died on 19 Jun 1910. He married Louisa Dillon on 31 Dec 1856 in IL. She was born on 27 Jul 1840. She died on 14 Dec 1924.
   20. iii. LUCY SHUGART was born on 01 Dec 1835 in DeWitt, IL. She died on 05 Mar 1917. She married Albert Campbell on 05 Oct 1858. He was born on 03 Jun 1825. He died on 05 Oct 1858.
   21. iv. JOHN TROXEL SHUGART was born on 09 Feb 1838 in IL. He married (1) MATILDA J. on 15 Feb 1869. She was born about 1855 in IL. He married (2) JULIAN GRASS on 28 Feb 1857. She was born in, Fulton Co, IL.
   22. v. BRADLEY CARTER SHUGART was born on 01 Mar 1840 in IA. He died on 08 Oct 1906. He married Amanda Bowen on 01 Dec 1867 in, Henderson Co, IL. She was born in IL. She died in KS.
       vi. JAMES MONROE SHUGART was born on 17 Jun 1842 in IA. He married Lucy Grass on 07 Sep 1865.
       vii. JEREMIAH HOLLINGSMITH SHUGART was born on 14 Sep 1844 in IA. He died on 09 Nov 1844.
       viii. ROBERT WEBB SHUGART was born on 13 Dec 1845 in IA. He died on 01 Jan 1861.
   23. ix. SARAH SHUGART was born on 01 Jun 1848 in IA. She died on 02 May 1883. She married Emanuel Huffman on 22 Sep 1864. He was born on 23 Apr 1844.
       x. FREDERICK RILEY SHUGART was born on 24 Sep 1850 in IA. He died on 26 Jun 1852.

Edom Shugart and Elizabeth Ann Winn had the following child:

1. 24. xi. EDOM DAVID (CHARLIE) SHUGART was born on 18 Jan 1858. He died in 1954 in Plain, WA. He married Priscilla Reeder on 07 Aug 1884 in KS. She died in 1902.

11. JOHN³ SHUGART (Zachariah², John (NC branch)¹) was born on 09 Oct 1768 in PA. He died after 1840 in Clinton Co, KY. He married POSSIBLE WIFE.

John Shugart and possible wife had the following child:

POSSIBLE SON AND DAUGHTER⁴ SHUGART.

12. GEORGE³ SHUGART (Zachariah², John (NC branch)¹) was born on 30 Aug 1770 in, Chester Co, PA. He died on 10 Oct 1851 in, Grant Co, IN. He married Mary Davis, daughter of John Davis and Mary Chamness, on 10 Oct 1793 in Cane Creek MM, Surry Co, NC. She was born on 17 Jun 1775 in, Chatham, NC. She died on 15 Jul 1848 in, Grant, IN.

George Shugart and Mary Davis had the following children:

1. 25. i. JOHN4 SHUGART was born on 05 Dec 1794 in,Surry, NC. He died on 15 Sep 1853 in Mill Twp, Grant, IN. He married Sarah Ratliff on 28 Sep 1814 in Whitewater MM, IN. She was born on 27 May 1794 in, Randolph, NC. She died on 11 Jan 1873 in, Grant, IN.
   26. ii. SARAH SHUGART was born on 14 Dec 1797 in Surry Co, NC. She died on 13 Sep 1871 in Wayne Co, IN. She married (1) JOSEPH RATLIFF on 04 Jan 1816 in New Garden MM, IN. He was born on 06 Aug 1787 in Randolph Co, NC. He died about 1836 in Grant Co, IN. She married (2) DAVID M HARRIS on 21 Sep 1839 in Mississinewa MM, IN. He was born on 20 Dec 1798 in Guilford, NC. He died on 17 Mississinewa MM, IN. He was born on 20 Dec 1798 in Guilford, NC. He died on 17 Aug 1868 in Wayne, IN.
   27. iii. MARY KEYS SHUGART was born on 20 Jan 1799 in Surry Co, NC. She died on 23 Dec 1862 in Grant Co, IN. She married Thomas Harris on 19 Nov 1818 in New Garden MM, IN. He was born on 26 Sep 1796 in Guilford Co, NC. He died on 04 Oct 1870 in Grant Co, IN.
   28. iv. TAMER SHUGART was born on 14 Mar 1801 in Surry, NC. She died on 11 Nov 1857 in Randolph, IN. She married Simon Cox on 22 Apr 1819 in New Garden MM, IN. He was born on 15 Feb 1798 in Randolph, NC. He died on 08 Nov 1881 in Randolph, IN.
   29. v. GEORGE SHUGART JR. was born in Jul 1804 in Surry, NC. He died on 25 Jan 1891 in Fountain City, Wayne, IN. He married Ruth Marine on 22 Jan 1824 in New Garden MM, Wayne, IN. She was born on 13 Jun 1807 in Marlborough, SC. She died in 1889 in Fountain City, IN.
   30. vi. ZACHARIAH TAYLOR SHUGART was born on 27 Nov 1805 in ,Surry Co, NC. He died on 15 Jan 1881 in ,York Twp, Tama Co, IA. He married Susannah Harris on 04 Jan 1827 in Wayne Co, IN. She was born on 13 May 1805.
   31. vii. ISAIAH SHUGART was born on 14 Jun 1807 in Surry Co, NC. He died on 25 Jul 1857 in New Garden Twp, Wayne, IN. He married (1) ELIZABETH HUFF on 22 Jun 1826 in New Garden MM. She was born about 1809. She died before 1840. He married (2) CELAH FULGHAM on 09 Feb 1840 in Wayne, IN. She was born on 03 Oct 1805 in NC. She died on 31 Mar 1871 in Fountain City, IN.
   32. viii. CATHERINE SHUGART was born on 13 Mar 1812 in Grant, IN. She died on 30 Jul 1905 in Oranoque, KS. She married (1) DANIEL CHARLES on 08 Aug 1868 in Cherry Grove MM. He was born on 08 Oct 1799 in Randolph, NC. He died on 13 Nov 1894 in Spiceland, Henry, IN. She married (2) DANIEL HUFF on 29 Oct 1829 in New Garden MM. He was born on 08 May 1812 in Surry, NC. He died on 20 Sep 1859 in Wayne, IN.
   33. ix. GULIELMA SHUGART was born on 04 Jun 1814 in, Wayne Co, IN. She died on 29 May 1880 in Marion, Grant Co, IN. She married Nathan Coggeshall on 23 Aug 1831 in New Garden MM. He was born on 14 Feb 1813 in Surry, NC. He died on 08 Feb 1902 in Marion, IN.

13. LEONARD LEENOR³ SHUGART (Zachariah², John (NC branch)¹) was born on 02 Jul 1772 in PA. He died on 09 Mar 1858 in Yadkin Co. He married (1) NANCY before 1797. He married (2) MARY RUSSELL, daughter of Charles Russell and Elizabeth Catherine, on 09 Mar 1797 in Deep Creek MM, NC. She was born on 17 Jun 1775. She died in, GA.

Leonard Leenor Shugart and Mary Russell had the following children:

1. 34. i. RUSSELL⁴ SHUGART was born on 02 Dec 1797 in Surry Co, NC. He died in Mar 1841 in Surry Co, NC. He married Sylvania Williams on 05 Feb 1821 in Surry County, NC. She was born about 1802.
       ii. DAU? SHUGART was born about 1798 in, Surry Co, NC.
       iii. ELIZABETH SHUGART was born in 1799 in Surry Co, NC.
   35. iv. CATHERINE SHUGART was born on 02 Jul 1803 in NC. She died on 19 Feb 1856 in Hamilton, IN. She married John Davis on 02 Nov 1822 in Surry, NC. He was born on 23 Jul 1798 in Surry, NC. He died on 02 May 1878 in Hamilton, IN.
   36. v. ALFORD SHUGART was born on 12 Jan 1807 in Surry, NC. He died in 1884 in Gordon Co, GA. He married Pheraby York on 03 Nov 1830 in Gordon Co, GA. She was born on 16 Sep 1812 in NC. She died on 04 Apr 1898.
   37. vi. LEONARD L. SHUGART was born on 01 Jun 1810 in ,Surry Co, NC. He died on 07 Aug 1863. He married JENNETTA ZACHARY. She was born about 1815. She died on 11 Sep 1860.
   38. vii. ENOCH L. SHUGART was born about 1811 in, Surry Co, NC. He died about 1847 in Missouri. He married Carolina Davis on 01 Jan 1831 in Surry Co, NC. She was born about 1814 in Surry Co, NC. She died on 29 Sep 1873.
       viii. DAUGHTER SHUGART was born about 1812.
   39. ix. JOHN J SHUGART was born about 1815 in VA. He died on 08 Mar 1894 in Texas. He married (1) MARY REED. She was born about 1817 in, NC. He married (2) NANCY CAMPBELL in 1874 in Birmingham, AL.
   40. x. STOKLEY S. SHUGART was born about 1818 in, Surry Co, NC. He died after 1875 in, Milam Co, TX. He married (1) MARY DORINDA. She was born about 1825 in NC. She died date Unknown. He married (2) NANCY. She was born about 1840. She died about 1896.

14. SARAH³ SHUGART (Zachariah², John (NC branch)¹) was born on 12 Dec 1773 in Chester Co, PA. She died on 23 Sep 1856 in Providence Twp, Hardin Co, IA. She married Levi Reece, son of Abraham Reece and Mary Huff, in 1796 in Surry Co, NC. He was born on 30 Mar 1777 in Surry Co, NC. He died on 25 May 1860 in Providence Twp, Hardin, IA.

Levi Reece and Sarah Shugart had the following children:

• • MARY⁴ REECE was born on 10 Aug 1797 in Surry, NC. She died before 1900 in VA. She married Nimrod York on 20 Sep 1818 in Surry, NC. He died before 1900.
  • DANIEL REECE was born on 19 Nov 1798 in Surry, NC. He died in May 1887 in Nodaway Twp, Andrew, MO. He married Sarah York on 17 Oct 1819 in Surry, NC. She died before 2000.
  • ZACHARIAH REECE was born on 13 Feb 1800 in Surry, NC. He died on 05 Apr 1887 in Westfield, Hamilton, IN. He married (1) MARY DAVIS on 20 Jul 1821 in Surry Co, NC. She was born on 18 Aug 1797 in Surry Co, NC. She died on 16 Apr 1852 in Hamilton, IN. He married (2) LUZENA (PATTERSON) COOK on 08 Sep 1853.
  • ABRAHAM L. REECE was born on 16 Jan 1802 in Surry, NC. He died on 09 Apr 1874 in Providence Twp, Hardin, IA. He married (1) MARY A. DAVIS on 30 Sep 1831. She was born about 1800. He married (2) JANE YORK on 10 Dec 1822 in Surry, NC. She was born about 1798.
  • CATHERINE REECE was born on 25 Apr 1803 in Surry Co, NC. She died in 1834 in Blue River Twp, Henry, IN. She married James Duke in 1819 in Surry, NC. He was born in 1799 in, Orange Co, NC. He died in 1873 in ,Henry Co, IN.
  • ELI REECE was born on 04 Oct 1804 in Surry, NC. He died on 09 Jun 1891 in Lynn, Randolph, IN. He married (1) MATILDA GREENWOOD on 10 Oct 1825 in, Surry Co, NC. He married (2) CYNTHIA PICKERING. He married (3) ELIZABETH ARNOLD
  • LEVI REECE was born on 03 Jan 1807 in Surry, NC. He died on 29 Jun 1901 in New Providence, Hardin, IA. He married Ruth Dobbins in, Surry Co, NC. She was born about 1807. She died in Sep 1882 in Providence Twp, Hardin Co, IA.
  • JESSE REECE was born on 04 Oct 1808 in Surry, NC. He died in 1839 in Westfield, Hamilton, IN. He married Anna Ozbun on 05 Nov 1829 in, Wayne Co, IN. She was born about 1810. She died about 1896.
  • SARAH REECE was born on 18 Mar 1810 in Surry, NC. She died in Mar 1810 in Surry, NC. She married SIMON MARSHALL.
  • FRANKLIN REECE was born on 24 Aug 1811 in Surry, NC. He died on 02 Jul 1853 in Dekalb, GA. He married Matilda Hurt on 28 Sep 1835 in, Surry Co, NC.
  • MILES REECE was born on 22 Mar 1813 in Surry, NC. He died in TN. He married Rebecca Mackie on 12 Sep 1838 in, Surry Co, NC.
  • WILLIAM REECE was born on 16 Sep 1814 in Surry, NC. He died on 23 Sep 1895 in Providence Twp, Hardin, IA. He married Mary Ann Dobbins on 03 Sep 1839 in, Surry Co, NC.
  • KEZIAH REECE was born on 26 Apr 1819 in Surry, NC. She died on 06 Jan 1901 in Eldora, Hardin, IA. She married Levi W. Southard on 25 Sep 1838. He was born about 1813. He died about 1901 in Hardin County, Iowa.

15. ELI³ SHUGART (Zachariah², John (NC branch)¹) was born on 03 Oct 1778. He died on 01 Sep 1835 in Bear Creek, Cumberland Co, KY. He married Jean (or Jane) Harding, daughter of William Harding and Obedience Hutchins, on 05 May 1801 in Surry Co., NC. She was born on 10 Sep 1784 in VA. She died on 22 Mar 1854 in Bear Creek, Cumberland Co, KY.

Eli Shugart and Jean (or Jane) Harding had the following children:

• • OBEDIENCE H.4 SHUGART was born on 13 Mar 1802 in Surry Co., NC. She died on 06 Oct 1879 in KY. She married John P. Claywell on 06 Apr 1820 in KY. He was born between 1775-1802. He died between 1824-1867.
  • KESIAH B. SHUGART was born on 24 Nov 1803 in Surry Co, NC. She died between 1804-1897.

1. 41. iii. WILLIAM HARDING SHUGART was born on 20 May 1805 in Surry Co, NC. He died in 1869. He married (1) MARY COATS before 1843 in ,,KY. She was born before 1835. She died before 1850. He married (2) NANCY BROWN in 1849. She was born about 1821. She died between 1850-1943.
       iv. ELVIRA P. SHUGART was born on 25 Dec 1807 in Surry Co., NC. She died after 1854. She married Zachariah P. Russell between 1821-1846. He was born between 1790-1810. He died between 1822-1881.
   42. v. CATHERINE BEST SHUGART was born on 14 Dec 1809. She died on 11 Feb 1871 in IL. She married Levi Smith between 1828-1829. He was born on 09 Mar 1809 in Cumberland Co, KY. He died on 15 Apr 1849 in Chandlerville ?, Cass Co, Il.
   43. vi. ZACHARIAH SHUGART was born on 25 Sep 1811 in Cumberland Co, KY. He died about 1862 in AK. He married Matilda B. Bow between 1828-1863. She was born on 18 Jan 1812 in KY. She died on 30 Jun 1872 in AK.
       vii. SARAH R. P. SHUGART was born on 14 Dec 1813 in KY. She died between 1827-1907. She married Zebulon Norris between 1827-1860. He was born between 1796-1816. He died between 1828-1887.
   44. viii. WILLIAM LEVI SHUGART was born on 18 Nov 1815 in Cumberland Co., KY. He died on 13 Aug 1891. He married Elizabeth Morefield between 1831-1863. She was born on 10 Apr 1823 in TN. She died on 28 Feb 1899 in Roundmountain, Blanco Co, TX.
   45. 45. ix. THOMAS HARDING SHUGART was born on 27 Oct 1818 in Cumberland Co., KY. He died after 1880 in Burnet Co., TX. He married Sarah Ann O'Brien on 09 Nov 1854 in Knoxville, TN. She was born about 1830 in, TN. She died in 1904.
       x. MARY R. SHUGART was born on 13 Oct 1820 in Cumberland Co, KY. She died in TX. She married Shelley Anderson between 1834-1867. He was born between 1803-1823. He died between 1835-1894.
   46. xi. ELIZABETH W. SHUGART was born on 28 Sep 1822 in Cumberland Co, KY. She died on 20 Jul 1874 in Cumberland Co, KY. She married Lorenzo Dow Bow on 13 Feb 1842 in Cumberland Co, KY. He was born on 11 Mar 1818 in Cumberland, KY. He died on 19 Apr 1877 in KY.

16. JOSEPH BISHOP³ SHUGART (John (CHESTER JOHN)², John (NC branch)¹) was born on 18 Jul 1779 in, Chester Co, Pa. He died on 14 Nov 1853 in, Snyder Twp, Blair Co, Pa. He married (1) RACHEL PATTON about 1833. She was born on 04 May 1805. She died on 10 Dec 1866. He married (2) MARY MENDENHALL, daughter of Moses Mendenhall and Mary James, in 1802. She was born on 04 Nov 1782 in, Chester Co?, PA. She died on 13 Mar 1831.

Joseph Bishop Shugart and Rachel Patton had the following children:

1. 47. i. ELIZABETH4 SHUGART was born about 1841. She died about 1859. She married William C. Shives on 23 Dec 1858. He was born about 1833 in, Pa.
       ii. LLOYD JOSEPH SHUGART was born in Jul 1844 in Gettysburg, PA. He died on 25 May 1865 in Gettysburg, PA.

Joseph Bishop Shugart and Mary Mendenhall had the following children:

1. 48. iii. JOHN WILSON SHUGART was born on 14 Feb 1804 in ,Chester Co, Pa. He died about 1871. He married (1) CATHERINE MCCABE on 19 Apr 1826. She was born on 17 Jul 1810. She died on 01 Jul 1850. He married (2) CAROLINE E. BALSLEY on 03 Jun 1851 in Harrisburg, Dauphin Co, PA.
   49. iv. AARON JAMES SHUGART was born on 30 Mar 1805. He died on 14 Jan 1851 in Union Furnace, Huntingdon, Pa. He married (1) HANNAH WADDLE BRUCE on 28 Sep 1843. She was born about 1821. He married (2) ?.
   50. v. ELIZABETH KEITLEY SHUGART was born in 1808 in PA. She married ELIJAH MERRIMEN. He was born about 1808.
   51. vi. MARY ANN SHUGART was born in 1811 in PA. She married HUGH MULHOLLEN. He was born about 1811 in PA.
   52. vii. CALEB MENDENHALL SHUGART was born in 1812 in Bellefonte, PA. He died in 1896 in Titusville, PA. He married Ruth E. Meadville in 1838 in Antis Forge, PA. She was born about 1812 in Antis Twp, Blair, PA.
       viii. DELINDA H. SHUGART was born in 1817 in Bellefonte, PA. She died in 1909 in Corsica, Jefferson, PA.
   53. ix. WILLIAM B. SHUGART was born in 1818 in Bellefonte, PA. He died on 12 Feb 1866 in Titusville, PA. He married Elizabeth Irwin on 04 Sep 1845. She was born about 1821. She died about 1885.
   54. x. THOMAS B. SHUGART was born on 12 Dec 1820. He died on 07 Dec 1886 in Titusville, Pa. He married Joanna Lovell on 22 Sep 1853. She was born on 28 Sep 1827 in Titusville, PA. She died on 01 Mar 1910.
       xi. HANNAH WHITAKER SHUGART was born on 19 Jan 1823 in Bellefonte, PA. She died in 1889.
   55. xii. MOSES MENDENHALL SHUGART was born on 29 Oct 1805 in, Chester Co, Pa. He died on 20 Apr 1891 in Loveland, OH. He married MARY ANN DAVIS. She was born on 15 Sep 1812 in Pine Grove, PA. She died on 20 Dec 1876 in Loveland, OH.
   56. xiii. SAMUEL TOWNSEND SHUGART was born on 20 Feb 1809. He died on 21 Dec 1895 in Philipsburg, Clearfield Co, Pa. He married (1) DEBORAH MOORE DUNLOP, daughter of John Dunlop and Eliza Findlay, on 02 Sep 1836. She was born on 24 Feb 1812. She died on 08 Sep 1869 in Bellefonte, Centre Co, Pa. He married (2) FANNIE ALRICKS JOHNSON, daughter of Ovid Johnson and Jane Aldricks, on 26 Dec 1877 in Harrisburg, Dauphin Co, PA. She was born about 1837.

17. JOHN W.³ SHUGART (John (CHESTER JOHN)², John (NC branch)¹) was born about 1784 in, Chester Co, Pa. He died on 11 Jun 1859 in Gowanda, NY. He married Catherine Schwartzwalder on 29 Oct 1810. She was born in Pequea, Salisbury Twp, Lancaster Co, Pa. She died about 1852. John W. Shugart and Catherine Schwartzwalder had the following children:
    57. i. HANNAH4 SHUGART was born about 1812 in Elizabeth, Allegheny Co, Pa. She died about 1889 in Bloomington, Il. She married William Gellespie in 1837. He was born in 1811 in Bloomington, IL. He died about 1893. 58.
    58. ii. CHRISTIAN FLETCHER SHUGART was born in 1813 in Elizabeth, PA. He died in 1880 in Elizabeth, PA. He married Mary Stephens in 1837. She was born in 1819 in Elizabeth, PA. She died about 1861. 59.
    59. iii. FRANCIS ASBURY SHUGART was born on 27 Feb 1817 in Chambersburg, PA. He died on 17 Sep 1891 in Tidioute, , PA. He married Ellen Drayton Shugart, daughter of John Wilson Shugart and Catherine McCabe, on 06 Oct 1846 in Chambersburg, PA. She was born on 29 Dec 1829 in Chambersburg, PA. She died on 28 Jan 1892. 60.
    60. iv. JOHN SWARTZWELDER SHUGART was born in 1819 in Chambersburg, PA. He died in 1893 in Gowanda, PA. He married (1) ELIZABETH before 1850 in ,,Pa. She was born about 1829 in ,,Pa. He married (2) LUCIA DOROTHY HENRY in 1854. She was born on 08 Jul 1835 in Canajoharie, Montgomery, Ny. She died on 18 Jan 1922 in Gowanda, Cattaraugus, Ny. 61.
    61. v. PETER SWARTZWELDER SHUGART was born on 20 Aug 1828 in Chambersburg, PA. He died in 1908 in Denver, Co. He married Julia A. Shugart, daughter of John Wilson Shugart and Catherine McCabe, about 1854. She was born on 29 Jul 1832 in Chambersburg, PA. She died about 1900.
        vi. CAROLINE SHUGART was born after 1829.
18. ZACHARIAH³ SHUGART (John (CHESTER JOHN)², John (NC branch)¹) was born about 1789 in, Chester Co, Pa. He died on 30 May 1863 in Miles Twp, Centre Co, Pa. He married Catharine, Chester Co, Pa. He died on 30 May 1863 in Miles Twp, Centre Co, Pa. He married Catharine Boyer, daughter of Andrew Boyer and Elizabeth Kulp, in 1808. She was born about 1794 in, Chester Co, Pa. She died in, Centre Co, Pa.

Zachariah Shugart and Catharine Boyer had the following children:

1. 62. i. ELIZABETH4 SHUGART was born on 10 Mar 1812. She died on 25 Dec 1867 in Mexico, Audrain, Mo. She married William White on 19 Dec 1831. He was born on 10 Aug 1802. He died on 02 Nov 1865 in Mexico, Audrain, Mo.
       ii. LYDIA SHUGART was born in 1814 in , Centre, PA. She died in ,Centre, Pa.
   63. iii. ANDREW (ISAAC?) SHUGART was born on 14 Aug 1821. He died on 30 Apr 1886 in W. Clearfield, Clearfield Co, Pa. He married Mariah McClelland on 18 Aug 1842 in Clearfield, Clearfield, Pa. She was born about 1823.
   64. iv. JOHN W. SHUGART was born about 1823. He died on 04 Dec 1890. He married Mary Beyer on 07 Sep 1848 in , Clearfield Co, Pa. She was born in 1827.
       v. MARY ANN SHUGART was born in 1825 in , Centre, PA.
       vi. CATHERINE SHUGART was born in 1827 in , Centre, PA.
       vii. HANNAH SHUGART was born in 1829 in, Centre, PA.
       viii. DAUGHTER SHUGART was born in 1831 in, Centre, PA.
   65. ix. ZACHARIAH JOSEPH SHUGART was born in Mar 1834 in ,Centre, Pa. He died on 16 Dec 1904. He married Mary Goodlander, daughter of Henry Goodlander and Margaret Breon, on 28 Oct 1855 in , Clearfield Co, Pa. She was born on 01 May 1829. She died on 07 Mar 1919 in Luthersburg, Clearfield Co, Pa.
       x. MARTHA SHUGART was born in 1835 in, Centre, PA. She died in, Centre, PA.
   66. xi. AARON JAMES SHUGART was born in May 1836 in Bush Valley, Centre, PA. He died on 24 Aug 1902 in Wallaceton, Clearfield, Pa. He married Amanda Jane Flegal, daughter of David Flegal and Eliza Gearhart, on 05 Jul 1860. She was born on 18 Jun 1842 in, Clearfield, PA. She died on 01 Jul 1919 in Wallaceton Boro, Boggs Twp, Clearfield, Pa.

Generation 4

19. WILLIAM DAVENPORT⁴ SHUGART (Edom³, Nathan², John (NC branch)¹) was born on 22 Feb 1834 in DeWitt, IL. He died on 19 Jun 1910. He married Louisa Dillon on 31 Dec 1856 in IL. She was born on 27 Jul 1840. She died on 14 Dec 1924.

William Davenport Shugart and Louisa Dillon had the following children:

1. 1. ELIZABETH5 SHUGART was born between 1850-1880 in IL. She died before 2000. She married GEORGE N. EBBERTS. He died before 2000.
   2. NATHAN D. SHUGART was born in 1858 in IL.
   3. SARAH B. SHUGART was born on 01 Apr 1859 in IL. She died in 1907. She married FRANK JONES.
   4. MARY ALICE SHUGART was born on 09 Apr 1866 in IL. She died in 1903. She married JOHN PATRICK HALEY. He was born on 17 Sep 1859. He died in 1935.
   5. ALBERT SHUGART was born in 1869 in IL. He died on 02 Apr 1884.
   6. ELVA SHUGART was born in 1871 in IL. She died on 14 Jun 1965. She married GEORGE N. EBBERTS. He died before 2000.
   7. GEORGE SHUGART was born on 26 Nov 1873 in KS. He died on 30 Sep.
   8. DILLY SHUGART was born on 24 Oct 1875 in KS. She died on 28 Nov 1876.
   9. DAISY SHUGART was born on 02 Nov 1877 in KS. She died in Jul 1878.
   10. MAUDE (MAE) SHUGART was born in Jun 1880 in KS. She died before 2000. She married FINLEY.
   11. WALTER MARION SHUGART was born on 06 Feb 1884 in KS. He died on 28 Jan 1970. He married CORA HUNT. She was born on 12 Mar 1891. She died on 29 Aug 1959.
   12. LUCY SHUGART was born in 1886 in KS. She died before 2000.

20. LUCY⁴ SHUGART (Edom³, Nathan², John (NC branch)¹) was born on 01 Dec 1835 in DeWitt, IL. She died on 05 Mar 1917. She married Albert Campbell on 05 Oct 1858. He was born on 03 Jun 1825. He died on 05 Oct 1858.

Albert Campbell and Lucy Shugart had the following children:

1. 1. WILLIAM5 CAMPBELL was born on 19 Jun 1860. He died on 20 May 1920.
   2. ALBERT CAMPBELL was born on 30 Apr 1863. He married SARAH.
   3. THOMAS CAMPBELL was born on 19 Apr 1865. He died on 15 Jun 1868.
   4. HENRY CAMPBELL was born on 22 Aug 1868. He died on 14 Feb 1944. He married JENNIE M. She was born on 19 Sep 1869. She died on 05 Sep 1938.

21. JOHN TROXEL⁴ SHUGART (Edom³, Nathan², John (NC branch)¹) was born on 09 Feb 1838 in IL. He married (1) MATILDA J. on 15 Feb 1869. She was born about 1855 in IL. He married (2) JULIAN GRASS on 28 Feb 1857. She was born in, Fulton Co, IL.

John Troxel Shugart and Matilda J. had the following children:

1. 1. DAVID5 SHUGART was born about 1871 in IL.
   2. ELLA J. SHUGART was born about 1872 in IL.
   3. CHARLES SHUGART was born about 1874 in IL.
   4. THOMAS SHUGART was born about 1875 in IL.
   5. GEORGE SHUGART was born about 1879 in TX.
      John Troxel Shugart and Julian Grass had the following child:
   6. JAMES N. SHUGART was born about 1859. He married Maud Lowe on 10 Jul 1885 in, Tazewell Co, IL. She was born about 1865.

22. BRADLEY CARTER⁴ SHUGART (Edom³, Nathan², John (NC branch)¹) was born on 01 Mar 1840 in IA. He died on 08 Oct 1906. He married Amanda Bowen on 01 Dec 1867 in, Henderson Co, IL. She was born in IL. She died in KS.

Bradley Carter Shugart and Amanda Bowen had the following children:

1. 1. FRANK⁵ SHUGART.
   2. LEROY ELMER SHUGART was born on 25 Dec 1879 in Avoca, Wapaloo, IA. He died on 04 Aug 1963. He married Rachel D. Spiker on 25 Jul 1900 in IL.
   3. CLAUDE DANIEL SHUGART was born on 03 Mar 1882. He died on 26 Oct 1971 in Cheyenne, WY. He married Estella Eliza Spiker on 19 May 1902 in Illinois. She was born on 28 Feb 1884 in Illinois. She died in Mar 1986 in Cheyenne, WY.

23. SARAH⁴ SHUGART (Edom³, Nathan², John (NC branch)¹) was born on 01 Jun 1848 in IA. She died on 02 May 1883. She married Emanuel Huffman on 22 Sep 1864. He was born on 23 Apr 1844.

Emanuel Huffman and Sarah Shugart had the following children:

1. 1. ALBERT NELSON5 HUFFMAN was born on 21 Feb 1866.
   2. OLIVER E. HUFFMAN was born on 28 Dec 1867.
   3. WILLIAM HUFFMAN was born on 11 Feb 1870. He died on 11 Feb 1870.
   4. GEORGE W. HUFFMAN was born on 30 Mar 1871.
   5. ROSANNA HUFFMAN was born on 03 Aug 1873.
   6. HARRY HUFFMAN was born on 26 Sep 1875.
   7. CHARLES HUFFMAN was born on 20 Jul 1877.

24. EDOM DAVID (CHARLIE)⁴ SHUGART (Edom³, Nathan², John (NC branch)¹) was born on 18 Jan 1858. He died in 1954 in Plain, WA. He married Priscilla Reeder on 07 Aug 1884 in KS. She died in 1902. Edom David (Charlie) Shugart and Priscilla Reeder had the following children:

1. 1. ETHEL MAY⁵ SHUGART was born on 09 Sep 1885. She died on 04 May 1943.
   2. GEORGE EVERETT SHUGART was born on 05 Aug 1888. He died on 31 Aug 1931.
   3. OSCAR LEROY SHUGART was born on 28 Apr 1890. He died on 28 Sep 1938.
   4. ALMEDA SHUGART was born on 10 Apr 1899. She died before 2000. She married WEST. He died before 2000.

25. JOHN⁴ SHUGART (George³, Zachariah², John (NC branch)¹) was born on 05 Dec 1794 in ,Surry, NC. He died on 15 Sep 1853 in Mill Twp, Grant, IN. He married Sarah Ratliff on 28 Sep 1814 in Whitewater MM, IN. She was born on 27 May 1794 in, Randolph, NC. She died on 11 Jan 1873 in, Grant, IN.

John Shugart and Sarah Ratliff had the following children:

1. 1. HENRY5 SHUGART was born on 22 Aug 1815 in Wayne, IN. He died on 18 Oct 1886 in IN. He married (1) SUSANNAH SCHOOLEY on 22 Nov 1837 in Mississinawa MM, IN. She was born about 1816. He married (2) NANCY J. LOMAX in 1845. She was born on 10 May 1816 in IN. She died on 08 May 1894.
   2. ELIZABETH (BETSY) SHUGART was born on 11 Oct 1817. She died before 1904. She married REUBEN SMALL.
   3. CORNELIUS SHUGART was born on 09 Feb 1820. He died on 01 Jul 1884. He married Harriet Telitha. Coleman, daughter of Elias Coleman and Sarah "Sally' Peele, on 25 Oct 1848. She was born on 18 Dec 1823 in Wayne County, NC. She died on 27 Jul 1886 in Marion, Grant, Indiana.
   4. GEORGE SHUGART was born on 19 May 1823 in Wayne, IN. He died on 09 Feb 1904 in Grant Co, IN. He married (1) ABIGAIL OSBORNE on 24 Dec 1844. She was born on 08 Dec 1824. She died on 29 Sep 1867. He married (2) HARRIET HOLLINGSWORTH on 12 Nov 1868. He married (3) MARY THOMAS (SMITH), daughter of Jesse Thomas and Hannah, on 18 Jun 1873.
   5. MARY SHUGART was born on 04 Jun 1825 in Wayne, IN. She died before 1835.
   6. JOHN SHUGART JR. was born on 05 Sep 1827 in ,Wayne, IN. He died in 1910. He married Rebecca Guyer on 21 Dec 1847 in ,Miami Co, IN. She was born on 13 Sep 1825 in Palestine, Darke Co, OH. She died on 22 Apr 1886 in, Grant Co, IN.
   7. SARAH SHUGART was born on 16 Oct 1829 in Wayne, IN. She married Bennett B. Coleman in 1849.
   8. SALLY ABIGAIL SHUGART was born in 1832 in Wayne, IN. She died on 18 Dec 1898. She married Allen Coates on 28 Jun 1850.
   9. ISAIAH R. SHUGART was born on 16 Nov 1837 in Grant, IN. He died on 21 Jun 1892. He married Ann W. Whitson on 20 Oct 1859. She was born on 24 May 1836. She died on 16 Oct 1922.

26. SARAH⁴ SHUGART (George³, Zachariah², John (NC branch)¹) was born on 14 Dec 1797 in Surry Co, NC. She died on 13 Sep 1871 in Wayne Co, IN. She married (1) JOSEPH RATLIFF on 04 Jan 1816 in New Garden MM, IN. He was born on 06 Aug 1787 in Randolph Co, NC. He died about 1836 in Grant Co, IN. She married (2) DAVID M HARRIS on 21 Sep 1839 in Mississinewa MM, IN. He was born on 20 Dec 1798 in Guilford, NC. He died on 17 Aug 1868 in Wayne, IN.

Joseph Ratliff and Sarah Shugart had the following children:

1. 1. GEORGE5 RATLIFF was born on 13 Nov 1816.
   2. MILLICENT RATLIFF was born on 05 Feb 1819 in NC. She died on 09 Jan 1879. She married Jesse Small on 15 Dec 1836 in Highland Co.
   3. JOHN RATLIFF was born on 01 Mar 1822 in Wayne, IN. He died in Feb 1912 in Grant Co, IN. He married SARAH PEARSON.
   4. ELI RATLIFF was born on 06 Dec 1825.
   5. CORNELIUS RATLIFF was born on 11 May 1829 in Wayne, IN. He married SUSANNAH JAY.
   6. MARY RATLIFF was born on 18 Jul 1832 in NC. She married SOLOMON HUDDARD.

MARY KEYS⁴ SHUGART (George³, Zachariah², John (NC branch)¹) was born on 20 Jan 1799 in Surry Co, NC. She died on 23 Dec 1862 in Grant Co, IN. She married Thomas Harris on 19 Nov 1818 in New Garden MM, IN. He was born on 26 Sep 1796 in Guilford Co, NC. He died on 04 Oct 1870 in Grant Co, IN.

Thomas Harris and Mary Keys Shugart had the following children:

1. 1. JOHN S.⁵ HARRIS was born on 05 Oct 1819 in Randolph Co. He died on 19 Apr 1870. He married Sarah Osborne on 24 Dec 1840.
   2. MARIS HARRIS was born on 06 Sep 1821. She married Mahlon Neal on 21 May 1840 in Mississinewa, Grant Co., IN.
   3. NOAH HARRIS was born on 22 Jun 1823. He died in Aug 1913.
   4. GEORGE HARRIS was born on 26 Jan 1825. He died on 25 Sep 1846.
   5. MARY HARRIS was born on 02 Feb 1828 in Grant Co., IN.
   6. DAVIS HARRIS was born on 26 Nov 1829. He died on 09 Mar 1851.
   7. OBADIAH NOAH HARRIS was born on 04 Sep 1831. He died on 28 Nov 1910. He married Caroline Ladd on 16 Mar 1856 in Gas City, Grant Co, IN.
   8. ZACHARIAH HARRIS was born on 13 Sep 1835. He married Sarah A. Beatty on 01 Jul 1858.
   9. THOMAS J HARRIS was born on 27 Nov 1836 in IN. He married Mahala Van Horn on 01 Jan 1858.
   10. DAVID ZACHARIAH HARRIS was born on 21 Nov 1838. He died on 12 Sep 1924. He married Rachel Wiand on 15 Dec 1861. She was born on 29 Sep 1838. She died in 1910.
   11. SARAH HARRIS was born on 08 Jan 1842. She married Robert Knight on 26 Mar 1863 in Mississinewa, Grant Co., IN.
   12. NEWTON HARRIS was born on 22 Oct 1845. He died in Jun 1934. He married Elmina Bogue on 27 Feb 1869.

28. TAMER⁴ SHUGART (George³, Zachariah², John (NC branch)¹) was born on 14 Mar 1801 in Surry, NC. She died on 11 Nov 1857 in Randolph, IN. She married Simon Cox on 22 Apr 1819 in New Garden MM, IN. He was born on 15 Feb 1798 in Randolph, NC. He died on 08 Nov 1881 in Randolph, IN.

Simon Cox and Tamer Shugart had the following children:

1. 1. GEORGE⁵ COX was born on 06 Jan 1820 in Randolph Co, IN. He married ZURIAH TOMLINSON.
   2. HENRY COX was born on 07 Sep 1831 in Randolph Co, IN.
   3. ELISHA COX was born on 09 Nov 1835 in Randolph Co, IN. He married ELEANOR SMITH.
   4. SALLY COX was born on 02 Nov 1841 in Randolph Co, IN.

29. GEORGE⁴ SHUGART JR. (George³, Zachariah², John (NC branch)¹) was born in Jul 1804 in Surry, NC. He died on 25 Jan 1891 in Fountain City, Wayne, IN. He married Ruth Marine on 22 Jan 1824 in New Garden MM, Wayne, IN. She was born on 13 Jun 1807 in Marlborough, SC. She died in 1889 in Fountain City, IN.

George Shugart Jr. and Ruth Marine had the following children:

1. 1. BOY⁵ SHUGART was born between 1825-1830 in IN.
   2. LORENA OR LUZENA SHUGART was born in 1829. She married COMER.
   3. RILEY SHUGART was born about 1830 in IN. He married RACHEL OR SARAH. She was born about 1833 in IN.
   4. IRMA OR IRENA SHUGART was born about 1833 in IN.
   5. JONATHAN SHUGART was born on 29 Jun 1836.
   6. JANE SHUGART was born about 1838 in IN. She married PRICE.
   7. ANGELINA SHUGART was born about 1840 in IN. She married JOHN N. COX.
   8. CHARLES SHUGART was born about 1843 in IN.
   9. THOMAS CALVIN SHUGART was born on 11 Jun 1843 in Wayne, IN. He died on 03 Mar 1917 in Traverse City, MI. He married Catherine A Pierson on 17 Mar 1865 in New Garden, IN. She was born in 1845.
   10. WILLIAM SHUGART was born on 25 Aug 1846.
   11. HANNAH SHUGART was born about 1848 in IN. She married BENJAMIN F. CHENOWETH.
   12. RUTH ANN SHUGART was born about 1858 in IN. She died about 1860 in IN.

30. ZACHARIAH TAYLOR⁴ SHUGART (George³, Zachariah², John (NC branch)¹) was born on 27 Nov 1805 in Surry Co, NC. He died on 15 Jan 1881 in York Twp, Tama Co, IA. He married Susannah Harris on 04 Jan 1827 in Wayne Co, IN. She was born on 13 May 1805.

Zachariah Taylor Shugart and Susannah Harris had the following children:

1. 1. LEVI HARRIS⁵ SHUGART was born on 22 Oct 1827 in IN. He died in IA. He married (1) NANCY OVERTURF on 17 Feb 1859 in Tama Co, IA. She was born on 23 Feb 1829. She died on 02 Jul 1908 in IA. He married (2) CATHERINE ASHBY on 20 Sep 1867 in Tama Co, IA. She was born in Jul 1848 in IN.
   2. KELITA DAVIS SHUGART was born on 13 Apr 1829 in IN. He married MARTHA T. REAMS. She was born about 1834 in MI.
   3. MALINDA SHUGART was born in 1834 in IN. She married Joel S. Edwards on 17 Feb 1856 in Tama, IA.
   4. LUCINDA SHUGART was born about 1839 in IN. She married Simon Peter Overturf on 04 Oct 1860 in Tama, IA. He was born on 22 Jul 1838 in Delaware Co, OH. He died on 04 Jun 1893.
   5. JOSEPH SHERMAN SHUGART was born between 1842-1843 in MI.

31. ISAIAH⁴ SHUGART (George³, Zachariah², John (NC branch)¹) was born on 14 Jun 1807 in Surry Co, NC. He died on 25 Jul 1857 in New Garden Twp, Wayne, IN. He married (1) ELIZABETH HUFF on 22 Jun 1826 in New Garden MM. She was born about 1809. She died before 1840. He married (2) CELAH FULGHAM on 09 Feb 1840 in Wayne, IN. She was born on 03 Oct 1805 in NC. She died on 31 Mar 1871 in Fountain City, IN.

Isaiah Shugart and Elizabeth Huff had the following children:

1. 1. TAMER⁵ SHUGART was born about 1832 in IN. She died on 11 Oct 1849 in IN.
   2. JESSE SHUGART was born about 1834 in IN.
   3. EMMELINE SHUGART was born about 1837 in IN.

Isaiah Shugart and Celah Fulgham had the following children:

1. 4. ELAM M. SHUGART was born about 1841. He died on 30 Jun 1860 in IN.
   5. ELIZABETH SHUGART was born about 1843 in IN.
   6. CALVIN SHUGART was born about 1846 in IN.

Daniel Huff and Catherine Shugart had the following children:

1. 1. NATHAN LEVI⁵ HUFF was born on 18 Sep 1830 in Wayne, IN. He died on 15 Jan 1905 in KS. He married (1) LEILA ISADORA HEATH on 29 Dec 1864 in Toledo, IA. He married (2) ELIZABETH VAN ZANDT. She was born in 1829 in Wayne County, IN. She died on 05 May 1864 in Tama County, Iowa.
   2. JAMES HUFF was born on 25 Feb 1834.
   3. LEVI COGSHELL HUFF was born on 10 May 1844.

33. GULIELMA⁴ SHUGART (George³, Zachariah², John (NC branch)¹) was born on 04 Jun 1814 in Wayne Co, IN. She died on 29 May 1880 in Marion, Grant Co, IN. She married Nathan Coggeshall on 23 Aug 1831 in New Garden MM. He was born on 14 Feb 1813 in Surry, NC. He died on 08 Feb 1902 in Marion, IN.

Nathan Coggeshall and Gulielma Shugart had the following children:

1. 1. MARY⁵ COGGESHALL was born in 1832. She married Robert Jay on 04 Apr 1851 in Grant Co, IN.
   2. ANNA COGGESHALL was born on 27 Mar 1833. She died on 15 Nov 1910. She married Denny J. Jay on 31 Jul 1850. He was born on 28 May 1829. He died on 16 Jul 1895.
   3. HANNAH COGGESHALL was born on 27 Aug 1837. She died on 29 Jun 1918 in Marion, Grant Co, IN. She married (1) WILLIAM HENRY PRICE before 1869. He was born on 18 Feb 1832 in Baltimore, MD. He died on 10 Apr 1866 in Grant Co, IN. She married (2) HENRY MURRAY on 01 Nov 1869.
   4. ELI COGGESHALL was born on 20 Mar 1841. He died in 1916. He married (1) MARY E. PARKER after 1868. She was born on 23 Sep 1850. She died in 1923. He married (2) ANNA BOGUE on 31 Mar 1860. She was born on 07 Oct 1840. She died on 10 Jun 1880.
   5. ELIZABETH COGGESHALL was born in 1843.
   6. SARAH COGGESHALL was born in 1847. She married William Lenfesty on 20 Sep 1873 in Grant Co, IN.
   7. LUCY COGGESHALL was born on 20 Apr 1850 in Grant Co, IN. She died on 15 Sep 1861 in Grant Co, IN.
   8. MILLICENT COGGESHALL was born on 01 Mar 1852 in Marion, Grant Co, IN. She died in Nov 1934. She married Benjamin Abbot Helm on 18 Sep 1873 in Marion, Grant Co, IN.
   9. RHODA COGGESHALL was born on 31 Jul 1856 in Grant Co, IN. She died on 25 Dec 1861 in Grant Co, IN.

34. RUSSELL⁴ SHUGART (Leonard Leenor³, Zachariah², John (NC branch)¹) was born on 02 Dec 1797 in Surry Co, NC. He died in Mar 1841 in Surry Co, NC. He married Sylvania Williams on 05 Feb 1821 in Surry County, NC. She was born about 1802.

Russell Shugart and Sylvania Williams had the following children:

1. 1. LEONARD L.⁵ SHUGART was born about 1823 in NC. He married NANCY A. She was born about 1817 in NC.
   2. THOMAS SHUGART was born in 1824 in Surry Co, NC. He died about 1866 in Rome, GA. He married Lydia Mackie on 28 Dec 1845 in Surry Co, NC. She was born on 19 Mar 1821 in NC. She died on 07 Jul 1883 in Gorman, TX.
   3. SILVANA SHUGART was born about 1826 in NC.
   4. JENNETTA SHUGART was born about 1827 in NC. She married Jesse Allgood on 08 Nov 1846. He was born about 1825 in NC.
   5. SON SHUGART was born about 1827 in NC.
   6. PETER CLINGMAN SHUGART was born about 1828 in NC. He died on 28 Jul 1904 in Shugart Town, Yadkin, NC. He married MARY. She was born in 1830. She died on 26 Jun 1914.
   7. ISAAC DAYTON SHUGART was born about 1830 in NC. He married Phoebe Adams on 20 May 1852 in NC. She was born about 1828.
   8. MARY SHUGART was born about 1832 in NC.
   9. LEWIS SHUGART was born about 1835 in NC.
   10. ELI SHUGART was born about 1836. He died on 05 Sep 1905. He married Milly Adams on 09 Oct 1865 in Yadkin County, NC. She was born about 1836 in NC.
   11. LUCINDA SHUGART was born about 1837 in NC.
   12. RHODA SHUGART was born about 1838. She married Nathan Shore on 02 Apr 1857.
   13. RUSSELL SHUGART was born about 1840 in NC. He married Eliza Miller on 02 Apr 1857. She was born about 1839 in NC.

35. CATHERINE⁴ SHUGART (Leonard Leenor³, Zachariah², John (NC branch)¹) was born on 02 Jul 1803 in NC. She died on 19 Feb 1856 in Hamilton, IN. She married John Davis on 02 Nov 1822 in Surry, NC. He was born on 23 Jul 1798 in Surry, NC. He died on 02 May 1878 in Hamilton, IN.

John Davis and Catherine Shugart had the following children:

1. 1. ELIZABETH⁵ DAVIS was born on 16 Jul 1823 in Surry, NC.
   2. MARY DAVIS was born on 04 Nov 1824 in Surry, NC. She died about 1824.
   3. LEONARD L. DAVIS was born on 01 Jan 1826 in Surry, NC.
   4. DANIEL DAVIS was born on 15 Apr 1828 in Surry, NC.
   5. ISAAC D. DAVIS was born on 24 May 1830 in Surry, NC.
   6. WILSON D. DAVIS was born on 13 Feb 1833 in Surry, NC.
   7. ALEXANDER C. DAVIS was born on 30 Mar 1836 in Surry, NC.
   8. HANNAH DAVIS was born on 04 Mar 1838 in Hamilton, IN.
   9. MARTHA ANN DAVIS was born on 17 Apr 1840 in Hamilton, IN.
   10. CHARLES R. DAVIS was born on 11 Nov 1844 in Hamilton, IN.

36. ALFORD⁴ SHUGART (Leonard Leenor³, Zachariah², John (NC branch)¹) was born on 12 Jan 1807 in Surry, NC. He died in 1884 in Gordon Co, GA. He married Pheraby York on 03 Nov 1830 in Gordon Co, GA. She was born on 16 Sep 1812 in NC. She died on 04 Apr 1898.

Alford Shugart and Pheraby York had the following children:

1. 1. NANCY CAROLINE⁵ SHUGART was born on 14 Jan 1832.
   2. MARY ANN TERESSA SHUGART was born on 01 Dec 1835. She died on 21 Oct 1909 in GA. She married Joshua Lindsey Wade on 17 Sep 1852 in Rome, Floyd Co, GA. He was born on 08 Oct 1828. He died on 30 Sep 1893 in Rome, Floyd Co, GA.
   3. LOUISE ELIZABETH SHUGART was born on 04 Apr 1838. She died on 01 Jun 1924 in Kingston, Bartow Co, GA. She married (1) JAMES C. CARNES on 23 Sep 1858 in Rome, Floyd Co, GA. He was born about 1841 in GA. She married (2) PETTIT.
   4. NANCY INDIANA SHUGART was born on 25 Feb 1841. She married Elias G. Carnes on 23 Sep 1858 in Rome, Floyd Co, GA. He was born about 1838 in GA.
   5. LOUISIANA SHUGART was born on 26 Feb 1843.
   6. MARCUS SEWELL SHUGART was born in Jul 1846 in NC. He died on 03 Jan 1930 in Dalton, Whitfield Co, GA. He married Mary A. Kerce about 1870. She was born in Apr 1847 in SC.
   7. SARAH VIRGINIA SHUGART was born on 17 Feb 1848 in NC. She died on 03 Feb 1924 in Rome, Floyd Co, GA. She married James Oscar Winfrey, son of John Bradley Winfrey and Mary Mariah Lusar, on 25 May 1867 in Rome, Floyd Co, GA. He was born on 04 Mar 1847 in GA. He died on 29 Jan 1930 in Milledgeville, GA.
   8. ALFRED CANADAY SHUGART was born on 14 Jun 1853. He died on 14 Apr 1898. He married Mary Lucinda (Tennie) Stagg on 05 Sep 1875. She was born on 25 Mar 1850. She died on 15 May 1939.

37. LEONARD L.⁴ SHUGART (Leonard Leenor³, Zachariah², John (NC branch)¹) was born on 01 Jun 1810 in ,Surry Co, NC. He died on 07 Aug 1863. He married JENNETTA ZACHARY. She was born about 1815. She died on 11 Sep 1860.

Leonard L. Shugart and Jennetta Zachary had the following children:

1. 1. WILLIAM C.⁵ SHUGART was born on 21 Oct 1833 in Surry Co, NC. He died after 1909. He married Martha Jane Steed on 03 Jan 1858 in Yadkin Co, NC. She was born on 16 Oct 1832. She died on 10 Jul 1898.
   2. RUSSELL B. SHUGART was born about 1837. He died on 29 Aug 1860.
   3. ANNA SHUGART was born in 1841.
   4. LOUISA J. SHUGART was born on 10 Jan 1840.
   5. MARY E. SHUGART was born about 1842 in NC. She died on 27 Jun 1863.
   6. SARAH SHUGART was born about 1847 in NC.
   7. JOHN W. SHUGART was born on 29 Jun 1847 in NC.
   8. JULIA A. SHUGART was born on 25 Nov 1850. She married Willis P. Vernon on 26 Sep 1867 in Independence Co, AR.

38. ENOCH L.⁴ SHUGART (Leonard Leenor³, Zachariah², John (NC branch)¹) was born about 1811 in Surry Co, NC. He died about 1847 in Missouri. He married Carolina Davis on 01 Jan 1831 in Surry Co, NC. She was born about 1814 in Surry Co, NC. She died on 29 Sep 1873.

Enoch L. Shugart and Carolina Davis had the following children:

1. 1. ELIZABETH⁵ SHUGART was born in 1832 in Surry, NC. She died on 07 Feb 1899. She married Nathan S. Reece on 07 Mar 1854 in Yadkin Co, NC.
   2. CATHERINE CAROLINE SHUGART was born about 1834 in Surry, NC. She married Sandford Clingman (or Alexander C.) Reece on 12 Jul 1853. He was born on 01 Feb 1833 in NC. He died on 21 Aug 1861 in NC.
   3. DANIEL COWELL SHUGART was born in 1835. He married EMILY. She was born in TN.
   4. MARY A. SHUGART was born in 1836 in Surry, NC.
   5. LAFAYETTE D. (L. D.) SHUGART was born on 17 May 1838 in Surry, NC. He died on 06 May 1901 in Boonville, Yadkin, NC. He married Elizabeth Woodhouse on 03 Oct 1860. She was born on 19 Oct 1838. She died on 06 Mar 1916 in Boonville, Yadkin, NC.
   6. JAMES ALEXANDER SHUGART was born on 08 Jan 1840 in Surry Co, NC. He died on 03 Feb 1914 in Yadkin Co, NC. He married Martha Frances Reece on 31 Dec 1860 in Yadkin Co, NC. She was born on 14 Feb 1844. She died on 27 Mar 1919 in Boonville, Yadkin, NC.
   7. TENNESSEE SHUGART was born in 1842 in Surry, NC. She married John Albert Reece on 22 Nov 1860. He was born on 14 Apr 1839 in NC. He died on 31 Mar 1914 in NC.
   8. ENOCH B. SHUGART was born before 1843 in Surry, NC. He died after 1864.
   9. ISAAC L. SHUGART was born on 17 Mar 1843 in Surry, NC. He died on 17 Jan 1915. He married (1) RACHEL EMMA GREENWOOD. She was born on 16 Feb 1847. She died on 22 Mar 1923. He married (2) NANCY R. TURNER about 1860.

39. JOHN J⁴ SHUGART (Leonard Leenor³, Zachariah², John (NC branch)¹) was born about 1815 in VA. He died on 08 Mar 1894 in Texas. He married (1) MARY REED. She was born about 1817 in NC. He married (2) NANCY CAMPBELL in 1874 in Birmingham, AL.

He married (2) NANCY CAMPBELL in 1874 in Birmingham, AL. John J Shugart and Mary Reed had the following children:

1. 1. DORINDA⁵ SHUGART was born about 1837 in NC.
   2. SANDFORD SHUGART was born about 1839 in NC. He married Jennie L. Hughes on 31 Jul 1867 in Independence Co, AR.
   3. MARTHA SHUGART was born about 1841 in NC.
   4. CATHARINE SHUGART was born about 1843 in NC.
   5. ALMEDA SHUGART was born about 1845 in NC.
   6. JANE LAURA SHUGART was born about 1849 in NC.
   7. JOHN THOMAS SHUGART was born about 1851 in GA. He died in 1904. He married ALICE DESDEMONA MCDANIEL. She was born about 1862 in AL.
   8. ROENA SHUGART was born about 1857 in AL.
   9. 3 DAUGHTERS SHUGART.

40. STOKLEY S.⁴ SHUGART (Leonard Leenor³, Zachariah², John (NC branch)¹) was born about 1818 in Surry Co, NC. He died after 1875 in Milam Co, TX. He married (1) MARY DORINDA. She was born about 1825 in NC. She died date unknown. He married (2) NANCY. She was born about 1840. She died about 1896.

Stokley S. Shugart and Mary Dorinda had the following children:

1. 1. ANNIE LOU⁵ SHUGART was born between 1840-1870. She died date unknown in unknown. She married BROWN.
   2. WILLIAM F. SHUGART was born about 1842 in GA. He died before 1875. He married Sarah, date unknown. She was born about 1846 in IN. She died about 1873.
   3. LAFAYETTE CANADAY SHUGART was born on 27 Aug 1845 in probably GA. He died on 17 Jan 1918 in Limestone, TX. He married (1) MARTHA A. CARGILL, daughter of Dorastus Cargill and Martha, date unknown. She was born on 20 Jul 1843 in LA. She died on 28 Dec 1915. He married (2) MINNIE LULA DOVE, date unknown. She was born date unknown. She died date unknown.
   4. MARTHA SHUGART was born about 1848 in Georgia.
   5. DOROTHY SHUGART was born after 1850 in GA. She died between 1870-1875. She married (1) C. C. JACKSON, son of Gabriel Jackson and Virginia Ann Craddock, on 05 Feb 1864 in Jackson Co, TX. He died on 25 Dec 1869 in Burleson County, TX. She married (2) JESSE LEMUEL TEAFF on 06 Nov 1870 in Burleson County, TX. He was born on 13 Sep 1848. He died on 23 Dec 1889 in Gordon, Palo Pinto Co., TX.
   6. TEXANA SHUGART was born about 1856 in GA. She died date unknown. She married (1) GLENN. She married (2) GREEN.

   Stokley S. Shugart and Nancy had the following children:

   7. ARTITIA SHUGART was born about 1871. She died after 1920. She married (1) CHARLES TAYLOR. He was born and died date unknown. She married (2) W. P. HILL. He was born and died date unknown.
   8. LOUISA SHUGART was born about 1874. She died about 1915. She married JAMES SIMMS. He was born and died date unknown.

41. WILLIAM HARDING⁴ SHUGART (Eli³, Zachariah², John (NC branch)¹) was born on 20 May 1805 in Surry Co, NC. He died in 1869. He married (1) MARY COATS before 1843 in KY. She was born before 1835. She died before 1850. He married (2) NANCY BROWN in 1849. She was born about 1821. She died between 1850-1943.

William Harding Shugart and Mary Coats had the following child:

1. 1. THOMAS⁵ SHUGART was born about 1843 in TN.

William Harding Shugart and Nancy Brown had the following children:

1. 2. MARY SHUGART was born about 1852.
   3. JANE SHUGART was born about 1853.
   4. MARGARET SHUGART was born about 1855.
   5. LUCEY J. SHUGART was born about 1857.
   6. NAVADA C. SHUGART was born about 1859.

42. CATHERINE BEST⁴ SHUGART (Eli³, Zachariah², John (NC branch)¹) was born on 14 Dec 1809. She died on 11 Feb 1871 in IL. She married Levi Smith between 1828-1829. He was born on 09 Mar 1809 in Cumberland Co, KY. He died on 15 Apr 1849 in Chandlerville?, Cass Co, IL.

Levi Smith and Catherine Best Shugart had the following child:

1. 1. MARY OBEDIENCE⁵ SMITH was born on 01 Oct 1837. She died on 12 Jun 1904. She married James Peters on 28 Aug 1861.

43. ZACHARIAH⁴ SHUGART (Eli³, Zachariah², John (NC branch)¹) was born on 25 Sep 1811 in Cumberland Co, KY. He died about 1862 in AK. He married Matilda B. Bow between 1828-1863. She was born on 18 Jan 1812 in KY. She died on 30 Jun 1872 in AK.

    Zachariah Shugart and Matilda B. Bow had the following children:

    1. WILLIAM JASPER⁵ SHUGART was born on 13 Oct 1842 in Cumberland, KY. He died on 26 Oct 1880 in KY. He married Susan Mary Williams on 01 Feb 1866. She was born about 1837 in KY. She died on 22 Jun 1927.
    2. MARTHA J SHUGART was born on 23 Aug 1844.
    3. ELIZA JANE SHUGART was born on 14 Jun 1846 in Cumberland Co, KY. She died between 1864-1940. She married (1) SAM CHEATAM between 1860-1893. He was born between 1829-1849. He died between 1864-1920. She married (2) UNKNOWN CHRISTIE between 1860-1893. He was born between 1829-1849. He died between 1864-1920.
    4. GEORGE WASHINGTON SHUGART was born on 22 May 1848 in Cumberland Co., KY. He died between 1898-1940. He married Elizabeth Jane Pace on 05 Nov 1875 in KY?. She was born on 13 Apr 1856 in KY. She died on 27 Dec 1924.
    5. PERMELIA S SHUGART was born on 30 Dec 1850.
    6. MARIAN H SHUGART was born on 20 Jul 1852 in Cumberland Co, KY.
    7. JOHN L. SHUGART was born about 1857 in Cumberland Co, KY. He died between 1878-1947. He married Missie Pace between 1874-1907. She was born between 1853-1873. She died between 1878-1947.

44. WILLIAM LEVI⁴ SHUGART (Eli³, Zachariah², John (NC branch)¹) was born on 18 Nov 1815 in Cumberland Co., KY. He died on 13 Aug 1891. He married Elizabeth Morefield between 1831-1863. She was born on 10 Apr 1823 in TN. She died on 28 Feb 1899 in Roundmountain, Blanco Co, TX.

    William Levi Shugart and Elizabeth Morefield had the following children:

    1. NANCY JANE⁵ SHUGART was born about 1841 in TN. She died between 1857-1950.
    2. WILLIAM THOMAS SHUGART was born on 12 Dec 1843 in TN. He died on 11 Dec 1927 in Taft, Kern, CA. He married Mary (Martha) Jane Bird on 15 Oct 1856 in Round Rock, Williamson Co, TX. She was born on 16 Aug 1846 in Dallas Co, AR. She died on 17 Feb 1900 in Round Mountain, Blanco, TX.
    3. JOSEPH W. SHUGART was born about 1846 in TN. He died between 1859-1932. He married (1) MATTIE DAVIS in 1881. She was born between 1838-1858. She died between 1859-1932. He married (2) SALLIE J. PRICE between 1859-1892. She was born between 1838-1858. She died between 1859-1932.
    4. SARAH ANN SHUGART was born about 1848 in TN. She married HADDAMON.
    5. ELI ALEXANDER SHUGART was born about 1850 in TN.
    6. DAVID MILTON SHUGART was born in 1853 in TN. He died between 1870-1943. He married Nannie Snow in 1876. She was born about 1858 in TX. She died between 1870-1943.
    7. FLORENCE M. SHUGART was born in 1854 in TN. She died between 1868-1948. She married William W. Wedekind between 1868-1901. He was born between 1837-1857. He died between 1869-1928.
    8. NANCY SHUGART was born about 1856 in TN.
    9. ANNA (TENNESSEE) SHUGART was born in 1858 in Blanco, TX. She died between 1859-1952.
    10. JEFFERSON D. SHUGART was born in 1861 in Blanco, TX. He died after 1908 in TX?.
    11. WILLIAM LEVI SHUGART was born on 06 Apr 1864 in Blanco, TX. He died on 01 Mar 1942. He married (1) MOLLY PAYNE. She was born in 1868 in Hutto, TX. She died in 1896 in Round Mountain, Blanco, TX. He married (2) LIZZIE HAMMOND. She was born in 1877. She died in Mar 1964 in Lampassa, TX.

45. THOMAS HARDING⁴ SHUGART (Eli³, Zachariah², John (NC branch)¹) was born on 27 Oct 1818 in Cumberland Co., KY. He died after 1880 in Burnet Co., TX. He married Sarah Ann O'Brien on 09 Nov 1854 in Knoxville, TN. She was born about 1830 in TN. She died in 1904.

    Thomas Harding Shugart and Sarah Ann O'Brien had the following children:

    1. WILLIAM O'BRIEN⁵ SHUGART was born in 1855 in Blowout, TX. He died in 1928. He married Belle Vaught on 15 Apr 1879 in Williamson, TX. She was born on 09 Oct 1859 in Jasper Co, TX. She died on 13 Jan 1942.
    2. OLIVER TEMPLE SHUGART was born in 1858 in TX. He died between 1859–1948. He married Mattie E. Davis on 17 Apr 1878 in Burnet Co, TX.
    3. JOHN BELL SHUGART was born about 1861.
    4. FOWLER SHUGART was born in 1862. Fowler died in 1865.
    5. MARY ELLEN SHUGART was born in 1865.
    6. LILLY (VIVIAN?) SHUGART was born in 1867. She died in 1878.

46. ELIZABETH W.⁴ SHUGART (Eli³, Zachariah², John (NC branch)¹) was born on 28 Sep 1822 in Cumberland Co, KY. She died on 20 Jul 1874 in Cumberland Co, KY. She married Lorenzo Dow Bow on 13 Feb 1842 in Cumberland Co, KY. He was born on 11 Mar 1818 in Cumberland, KY. He died on 19 Apr 1877 in KY.

    Lorenzo Dow Bow and Elizabeth W. Shugart had the following children:

    1. ELIZA JANE⁵ BOW was born on 02 Dec 1842. She died on 03 Jun 1845.
    2. MARY SUSAN BOW was born on 22 Feb 1845. She died on 07 Aug 1856.
    3. NATHANIEL JESSE BOW was born on 18 May 1847. He died on 21 Jun 1911.
    4. ONEY P. BOW was born on 12 Nov 1850. She died on 29 Nov 1876. She married George Rush on 20 Feb 1873. He was born between 1827–1853. He died between 1877–1919.
    5. JUSTANY (JUSTINA?, JESS?) BOW was born on 16 Apr 1852 in Cumberland Co, KY. She died on 01 Aug 1909. She married Absalom Taylor Scott on 11 Feb 1869. He was born on 11 Mar 1847. He died on 29 Nov 1937.
    6. DIANY BOW was born on 16 Apr 1852. She died on 12 Jan 1853.
    7. JOHN T. BOW was born on 11 Mar 1855. He died on 25 Jun 1905. He married Mallisa Jones between 1872–1897. She was born between 1851–1870. She died between 1872–1945.
    8. WILLIAM W. BOW was born on 28 Jan 1862. He died on 27 Mar 1877.
    9. LELA E. BOW was born on 09 May 1866. She died on 16 Sep 1950. She married JOHN GOSMAN JONES. He was born on 27 May 1859. He died on 15 Apr 1943 in Burkesville, Cumberland Co., KY.

47. ELIZABETH⁴ SHUGART (Joseph Bishop³, John (CHESTER JOHN)², John (NC branch)¹) was born about 1841. She died about 1859. She married William C. Shives on 23 Dec 1858. He was born about 1833 in PA.

    William C. Shives and Elizabeth Shugart had the following child:

    1. CHARLES T.⁵ SHIVES was born about 1859.

48. JOHN WILSON⁴ SHUGART (Joseph Bishop³, John (CHESTER JOHN)², John (NC branch)¹) was born on 14 Feb 1804 in Chester Co, PA. He died about 1871. He married (1) CATHERINE MCCABE on 19 Apr 1826. She was born on 17 Jul 1810. She died on 01 Jul 1850. He married (2) CAROLINE E. BALSLEY on 03 Jun 1851 in Harrisburg, Dauphin Co, PA.

    John Wilson Shugart and Catherine McCabe had the following children:

    1. MARY M⁵ SHUGART was born on 09 Mar 1827. She died in Oct 1907 in Maple Shade, Venango Co, PA. She married George W. Carey, son of Nathaniel Carey and Mary Shupe, on 07 Sep 1848. He was born on 17 Apr 1824 in Franklin, Venango Co, PA. He died on 20 Feb 1898 in Maple Shade, Venango Co, PA.
    2. ELLEN DRAYTON SHUGART was born on 29 Dec 1829 in Chambersburg, PA. She died on 28 Jan 1892. She married Francis Asbury Shugart, son of John W. Shugart and Catherine Schwartzwalder, on 06 Oct 1846 in Chambersburg, PA. He was born on 27 Feb 1817 in Chambersburg, PA. He died on 17 Sep 1891 in Tidioute, PA.
    3. JULIA A. SHUGART was born on 29 Jul 1832 in Chambersburg, PA. She died about 1900. She married Peter Swartzwelder Shugart, son of John W. Shugart and Catherine Schwartzwalder, about 1854. He was born on 20 Aug 1828 in Chambersburg, PA. He died in 1908 in Denver, CO.
    4. ANNA MARIA SHUGART was born about 1834 in Chambersburg, PA. She died about 1835.
    5. GEORGE M. SHUGART was born in 1835 in Chambersburg, PA. He died in 1837.
    6. HENRIETTA L. SHUGART was born on 07 Nov 1838 in Chambersburg, PA. She died on 10 Nov 1881. She married James Parshall, son of Samuel Parshall and Elizabeth Groucher, on 25 Dec 1854 in Tidioute, PA. He was born about 1827 in Tidioute, PA. He died about 1896.
    7. FRANCES J. SHUGART was born about 1840. She died in 1909. She married LEANDER ROFF. He was born about 1835. He died about 1885.
    8. CLARA SHUGART was born about 1846.

49. AARON JAMES⁴ SHUGART (Joseph Bishop³, John (CHESTER JOHN)², John (NC branch)¹) was born on 30 Mar 1805. He died on 14 Jan 1851 in Union Furnace, Huntingdon, PA. He married (1) HANNAH WADDLE BRUCE on 28 Sep 1843. She was born about 1821. He married (2) ?.

    Aaron James Shugart and Hannah Waddle Bruce had the following child:

    1. AARON P.⁵ SHUGART was born on 28 Oct 1850. He died on 22 Apr 1852.

    Aaron James Shugart and ? had the following child:

    2. MARY ELIZABETH B. SHUGART was born on 14 Oct 1834 in Centre Co, PA. She died on 06 Oct 1910. She married Ezra Ale on 13 Dec 1854. He was born on 14 May 1829 in Antis Twp, Blair Co, PA. He died on 24 Sep 1887 in Altoona, Blair Co, PA.

50. ELIZABETH KEITLEY⁴ SHUGART (Joseph Bishop³, John (CHESTER JOHN)², John (NC branch)¹) was born in 1808 in PA. She married ELIJAH MERRIMEN. He was born about 1808.

    Elijah Merrimen and Elizabeth Keitley Shugart had the following children:

    1. 2 SONS⁵ MERRIMEN.
    2. 2 DAU'S MERRIMEN.

51. MARY ANN⁴ SHUGART (Joseph Bishop³, John (CHESTER JOHN)², John (NC branch)¹) was born in 1811 in PA. She married HUGH MULHOLLEN. He was born about 1811 in PA.

    Hugh Mulhollen and Mary Ann Shugart had the following children:

    1. JOSEPH S.⁵ MULHOLLEN was born on 06 Aug 1846. He died on 19 Feb 1920 in Bellwood, Blair, PA.
    2. ELIZA MULHOLLEN was born on 26 Dec 1847 in Fostoria, PA. She died on 02 Sep 1927 in Bellwood, Blair, PA.
    3. JAMES LLOYD MULHOLLEN was born on 27 Oct 1856 in Antis Twp, Blair, PA. He died on 29 Sep 1941 in Bellwood, Blair Co, PA.

52. CALEB MENDENHALL⁴ SHUGART (Joseph Bishop³, John (CHESTER JOHN)², John (NC branch)¹) was born in 1812 in Bellefonte, PA. He died in 1896 in Titusville, PA. He married Ruth E. Meadville in 1838 in Antis Forge, PA. She was born about 1812 in Antis Twp, Blair, PA.

    Caleb Mendenhall Shugart and Ruth E. Meadville had the following children:

    1. ANNA MARY⁵ SHUGART was born about 1839 in Antis Twp, Blair, PA. She died in 1914.
    2. SARAH SHUGART was born in 1841 in Antis Twp, Blair, PA. She married SAMUEL ROYER TRAUT.
    3. TEMPERANCE SHUGART was born about 1848 in Antis Twp, Blair, PA. She married Henry Taylor in Titusville, PA. He was born in 1844 in Titusville, PA.
    4. AUSTIN H. SHUGART was born in Apr 1849 in Antis Twp, Blair, PA. He died in 1915. He married Mary Richardson in Titusville, PA. She was born in 1853 in Titusville, PA.
    5. RUTH E. SHUGART was born about 1851 in Antis Twp, Blair, PA. She died about 1853.
    6. ADDIE BELLE SHUGART was born in 1851 in Antis Twp, Blair, PA. She died in Titusville.
    7. SUSAN EVELINE SHUGART was born between 1852–1853 in Antis Twp, Blair, PA. She died in Titusville.
    8. EDWARD SHUGART was born in 1853 in Antis Twp, Blair, PA.
    9. LUCINDA BARKER SHUGART was born about 1856 in Antis Twp, Blair, PA. She died about 1949.
    10. SAMUEL MCCAMONT SHUGART was born about 1858 in Antis Twp, Blair, PA. He died about 1908. He married Lin Valentine in Titusville, PA. She was born in 1862 in Titusville, PA.
    11. JAMES GRAHAM SHUGART was born about 1860 in Antis Twp, Blair, PA. He died in 1930. He married Clara Lupton in Titusville, PA. She was born in 1864 in Titusville, PA.

53. WILLIAM B.⁴ SHUGART (Joseph Bishop³, John (CHESTER JOHN)², John (NC branch)¹) was born in 1818 in Bellefonte, PA. He died on 12 Feb 1866 in Titusville, PA. He married Elizabeth Irwin on 04 Sep 1845. She was born about 1821. She died about 1885.

    William B. Shugart and Elizabeth Irwin had the following children:

    1. NINIAN IRWIN⁵ SHUGART was born about 1847 in Titusville, PA. He married (1) LEAH ABLE. He married (2) CAROLINE ADELAIDE SCHOFIELD about 1874. She was born about 1851 in Rochester, Beaver, Pa. She died about 1879.
    2. RICHARD J. SHUGART was born about 1849 in Titusville, PA. He married MARY A MILLER.
    3. AARON J. SHUGART was born about 1851 in Titusville, PA. He married LOUISE B PAYNE.
    4. JENNY E SHUGART was born about 1854 in Titusville, PA. She died about 1945. She married H. Herron about 1873. He was born in 1850.
    5. JOHN SHUGART was born in 1858 in Titusville, PA. He died in 1862.
    6. INFANT SHUGART was born in 1860 in Titusville, PA.

54. THOMAS B.⁴ SHUGART (Joseph Bishop³, John (CHESTER JOHN)², John (NC branch)¹) was born on 12 Dec 1820. He died on 07 Dec 1886 in Titusville, Pa. He married Joanna Lovell on 22 Sep 1853. She was born on 28 Sep 1827 in Titusville, PA. She died on 01 Mar 1910.

    Thomas B. Shugart and Joanna Lovell had the following children:

    1. FLORINE MENDENHALL⁵ SHUGART was born on 11 Feb 1857.
    2. LOTTA SHUGART was born on 20 Mar 1859 in Titusville, PA.
    3. ELMER B. SHUGART was born on 30 Jun 1861 in Titusville, PA.
    4. MINNEHAHA SHUGART was born on 12 Jun 1867 in Titusville, PA.

55. MOSES MENDENHALL⁴ SHUGART (Joseph Bishop³, John (CHESTER JOHN)², John (NC branch)¹) was born on 29 Oct 1805 in Chester Co, Pa. He died on 20 Apr 1891 in Loveland, OH. He married MARY ANN DAVIS. She was born on 15 Sep 1812 in Pine Grove, PA. She died on 20 Dec 1876 in Loveland, OH.

    Moses Mendenhall Shugart and Mary Ann Davis had the following children:

    1. DAVIS⁵ SHUGART was born in 1834 in PA.
    2. JOSEPH SHUGART was born in 1836 in PA.
    3. CAROLINE SHUGART was born in 1838 in PA.
    4. WILLIAM SHUGART was born in 1840 in PA.
    5. ALMIRA SHUGART was born in 1843 in PA.
    6. NANCY SHUGART was born in 1845 in IN.
    7. THOMAS SHUGART was born in 1849 in OH.
    8. ELIZA SHUGART was born about 1853.
    9. ALBERT SHUGART was born about 1855.
    10. FRANCIS SHUGART was born about 1858.

56. SAMUEL TOWNSEND⁴ SHUGART (Joseph Bishop³, John (CHESTER JOHN)², John (NC branch)¹) was born on 20 Feb 1809. He died on 21 Dec 1895 in Philipsburg, Clearfield Co, Pa. He married (1) DEBORAH MOORE DUNLOP, daughter of John Dunlop and Eliza Findlay, on 02 Sep 1836. She was born on 24 Feb 1812. She died on 08 Sep 1869 in Bellefonte, Centre Co, Pa. He married (2) FANNIE ALRICKS JOHNSON, daughter of Ovid Johnson and Jane Aldricks, on 26 Dec 1877 in Harrisburg, Dauphin Co, PA. She was born about 1837.

    Samuel Townsend Shugart and Deborah Moore Dunlop had the following children:

    1. JOHN DUNLOP⁵ SHUGART was born on 26 Jun 1837. He died about 1900 in Bellefonte, Centre Co, Pa. He married Mary Stewart McCoy, daughter of John McCoy and Jane Stewart, on 23 Dec 1869. She was born on 09 Jul 1849 in Bellefonte, PA. She died on 29 Sep 1883.
    2. MARY M. SHUGART was born about 1839. She died about 1922. She married William B Birchfield about 1876 in Philipsburg, Pa. He was born in 1835 in Philipsburg, PA.
    3. WILLIAM FINDLEY SHUGART was born on 31 Oct 1841 in Bellefonte, PA. He died on 01 Feb 1910 in Bellefonte, PA. He married Margaret Miller in 1885. She was born on 23 Jul 1854 in Bellefonte, PA. She died on 11 Aug 1927.
    4. ELIZA SHUGART was born about 1845 in Bellefonte, PA. She died in 1850.

    Samuel Townsend Shugart and Fannie Alricks Johnson had the following child:

    5. CHILD? SHUGART.

57. HANNAH⁴ SHUGART (John W.³, John (CHESTER JOHN)², John (NC branch)¹) was born about 1812 in Elizabeth, Allegheny Co, Pa. She died about 1889 in Bloomington, IL. She married William Gellespie in 1837. He was born in 1811 in Bloomington, IL. He died about 1893.

    William Gellespie and Hannah Shugart had the following children:

    1. ALONZO⁵ GELLESPIE was born about 1841 in Bloomington, IL. He died in 1843.
    2. ALBERT GELLESPIE was born about 1842 in Bloomington, IL. He died about 1843.
    3. CASSIUS GELLESPIE was born about 1844 in Bloomington, IL. He married Elizabeth Martin about 1876. She was born about 1854. She died about 1928.
    4. GEORGIANA GELLESPIE was born about 1847 in Bloomington, IL. She died about 1880. She married John H. Stout about 1871. He was born about 1847. He died about 1924.
    5. CAROLINE GELLESPIE was born about 1853 in Bloomington, IL. She died in 1924. She married J. K. Loudon in 1878. He was born in 1854. He died in 1926.

58. CHRISTIAN FLETCHER⁴ SHUGART (John W.³, John (CHESTER JOHN)², John (NC branch)¹) was born in 1813 in Elizabeth, PA. He died in 1880 in Elizabeth, PA. He married Mary Stephens in 1837. She was born in 1819 in Elizabeth, PA. She died about 1861.

    Christian Fletcher Shugart and Mary Stephens had the following children:

    1. JOHN⁵ SHUGART was born about 1838 in Elizabeth, PA.
    2. LEONORA SHUGART was born about 1839 in Elizabeth, PA. She died in 1914. She married H. Peterson in 1862. He was born about 1836. He died about 1909.
    3. CORNELIA SHUGART was born about 1843 in Elizabeth, PA. She died in 1939. She married Henry A. Waite in 1869. He was born about 1839 in Elizabeth, PA. He died about 1912.
    4. ALBERT SHUGART was born about 1845 in Elizabeth, PA. He died about 1847.
    5. MARY SHUGART was born about 1847 in Elizabeth, PA. She died about 1934. She married R. List about 1873. He was born in 1843.
    6. HARRIET SHUGART was born about 1849 in Elizabeth, PA. She died in 1876. She married R. Neillie in 1872. He was born about 1845. He died about 1883.
    7. EMMA D. SHUGART was born about 1851 in Elizabeth, PA. She died in 1941. She married Lewis J. Baker on 20 Jan 1876 in Belmont, OH. He was born about 1848 in Elizabeth, PA. He died about 1910.
    8. ALICE SHUGART was born about 1853. She died on 03 Sep 1911. She married Francis Sager, son of Joseph Sager and Ellen Ward, between 17 Apr–04 Jun 1880. He was born about 1849 in Elizabeth, PA. He died on 10 Oct 1910.
    9. CHARLES SHUGART was born about 1855 in Elizabeth, PA. He died in 1943.
    10. EVA SHUGART was born about 1858 in Elizabeth, PA. She died in 1920. She married F. Abbott in 1878. He was born about 1852.

59. FRANCIS ASBURY⁴ SHUGART (John W.³, John (CHESTER JOHN)², John (NC branch)¹) was born on 27 Feb 1817 in Chambersburg, PA. He died on 17 Sep 1891 in Tidioute, PA. He married Ellen Drayton Shugart, daughter of John Wilson Shugart and Catherine McCabe, on 06 Oct 1846 in Chambersburg, PA. She was born on 29 Dec 1829 in Chambersburg, PA. She died on 28 Jan 1892.

    Francis Asbury Shugart and Ellen Drayton Shugart had the following children:

    1. IDA SHUGART was born on 08 Sep 1847 in Cherry Tree, PA. She died on 18 Oct 1850.
    2. EVA SHUGART was born on 01 Apr 1849 in Cherry Tree, PA. She died on 08 Oct 1850.
    3. JOHN WILSON SHUGART was born on 26 Jun 1851 in Cherry Tree, PA. He died on 03 Nov 1853.
    4. FRANK HUESING SHUGART was born on 16 Sep 1853 in Cherry Tree, PA. He died on 24 Oct 1854.
    5. GERTRUDE HENRIETTA SHUGART was born on 11 Feb 1859 in Cherry Tree, PA. She died on 12 Jun 1941.
    6. NELSON WOODFORD SHUGART was born on 01 Aug 1860 in Cherry Tree, PA. He died on 02 Sep 1917.
    7. MARY LELLA SHUGART was born on 01 Oct 1864 in Cherry Tree, PA. She died on 24 Dec 1926.

60. JOHN SWARTZWELDER⁴ SHUGART (John W.³, John (CHESTER JOHN)², John (NC branch)¹) was born in 1819 in Chambersburg, PA. He died in 1893 in Gowanda, PA. He married (1) ELIZABETH before 1850 in PA. She was born about 1829 in PA. He married (2) LUCIA DOROTHY HENRY in 1854. She was born on 08 Jul 1835 in Canajoharie, Montgomery, NY. She died on 18 Jan 1922 in Gowanda, Cattaraugus, NY.

    John Swartzwelder Shugart and Lucia Dorothy Henry had the following children:

    1. KATHERINE E. SHUGART was born in Oct 1859 in Cattaraugus, NY.
    2. JOHN H. SHUGART was born in 1860 in Cattaraugus, NY.
    3. JESSIE A. SHUGART was born in Sep 1863 in Cattaraugus, NY. She died on 03 Nov 1948 in Gowanda, Cattaraugus, NY.

61. PETER SWARTZWELDER⁴ SHUGART (John W.³, John (CHESTER JOHN)², John (NC branch)¹) was born on 20 Aug 1828 in Chambersburg, PA. He died in 1908 in Denver, CO. He married Julia A. Shugart, daughter of John Wilson Shugart and Catherine McCabe, about 1854. She was born on 29 Jul 1832 in Chambersburg, PA. She died about 1900.

    Peter Swartzwelder Shugart and Julia A. Shugart had the following children:

    1. CATHERINE E. SHUGART was born on 08 Dec 1855 in Chambersburg, PA. She died in 1892. She married Edward Ingraham on 31 Aug 1874. He was born about 1848. He died about 1920.
    2. ENA SHUGART was born about 1857 in Chambersburg, PA. She married R? F? Johnson in 1876. He was born in 1853.
    3. MAY ZELIA SHUGART was born on 07 Apr 1861 in Chambersburg, PA. She married MOULTON.
    4. JAMES NEILL SHUGART was born on 28 Oct 1864 in Chambersburg, PA. He died in 1940. He married Maude Sinclair about 1887. She was born in 1868.
    5. ALBERT SHUGART was born about 1868 in Chambersburg, PA.
    6. JOHN SHUGART was born about 1881 in Chambersburg, PA. He died about 1939. He married DAISY. She was born about 1887. She died before 2000.

62. ELIZABETH⁴ SHUGART (Zachariah³, John (CHESTER JOHN)², John (NC branch)¹) was born on 10 Mar 1812. She died on 25 Dec 1867 in Mexico, Audrain, MO. She married William White on 19 Dec 1831. He was born on 10 Aug 1802. He died on 02 Nov 1865 in Mexico, Audrain, MO.

    William White and Elizabeth Shugart had the following children:

    1. WILLIAM HENRY WHITE was born on 09 Sep 1838 in Mexico, Audrain County, MO. He died on 28 Nov 1909 in Mexico, Audrain County, MO. He married (1) JULIET VIOLETTE on 07 Nov 1858. He married (2) MARY CLAY HOLIDAY on 22 Nov 1866.
    2. FANNIE WHITE was born about 1840 in Mexico, MO. She married JAMES H. WINSCOTT.
    3. MARTHA A WHITE was born about 1842. She married JOHN G STRODE.
    4. MARY ELLA WHITE was born on 03 Dec 1846. She died on 26 Oct 1911. She married James M Proctor in 1863. He was born in 1842. He died in 1912.

63. ANDREW (ISAAC?)⁴ SHUGART (Zachariah³, John (CHESTER JOHN)², John (NC branch)¹) was born on 14 Aug 1821. He died on 30 Apr 1886 in W. Clearfield, Clearfield Co, PA. He married Mariah McClelland on 18 Aug 1842 in Clearfield, Clearfield, PA. She was born about 1823.

    Andrew (Isaac?) Shugart and Mariah McClelland had the following children:

    1. MARY SHUGART was born about 1843 in Clearfield, PA.
    2. WILLIAM G. SHUGART was born about 1849 in Clearfield, PA. He died on 03 May 1897.
    3. MARTHA SHUGART was born about 1853 in Clearfield, PA.
    4. OLIVE JANE SHUGART was born about 1857 in Clearfield, PA. She married Hiram Fauzy on 26 Dec 1878.
    5. IDA MAY SHUGART was born about 1864 in Clearfield, PA.

64. JOHN W.⁴ SHUGART (Zachariah³, John (CHESTER JOHN)², John (NC branch)¹) was born about 1823. He died on 04 Dec 1890. He married Mary Beyer on 07 Sep 1848 in Clearfield Co, PA. She was born in 1827.

    John W. Shugart and Mary Beyer had the following children:

    1. LYDIA R. SHUGART was born about 1855.
    2. MILES C. SHUGART was born about 1858.
    3. JOHN FRANK SHUGART was born about 1859.

65. ZACHARIAH JOSEPH⁴ SHUGART (Zachariah³, John (CHESTER JOHN)², John (NC branch)¹) was born in Mar 1834 in Centre, PA. He died on 16 Dec 1904. He married Mary Goodlander, daughter of Henry Goodlander and Margaret Breon, on 28 Oct 1855 in Clearfield Co, PA. She was born on 01 May 1829. She died on 07 Mar 1919 in Luthersburg, Clearfield Co, PA.

    Zachariah Joseph Shugart and Mary Goodlander had the following children:

    1. GEORGE BREON SHUGART was born about 1856 in Lutherburg, PA. He died in 1935 in Brady Twp, Clearfield, PA. He married Etta B. Rishel on 21 Aug 1879 in Clearfield, PA. She was born about 1858 in Clearfield, PA. She died about 1928.
    2. EDITH S. SHUGART was born about 1859 in Lutherburg, PA. She died in Huston. She married Allen H. Rosenkrantz on 06 Apr 1878. He was born in 1855.
    3. CHARLES E. SHUGART was born about 1861 in Lutherburg, PA. He died in 1864 in Lutherburg, PA.
    4. CLARA A. SHUGART was born about 1864 in Lutherburg, PA.
    5. FRANK H. SHUGART was born about 1866 in Lutherburg, PA. He died in 1944 in Clearfield, PA.
    6. WILLIAM A. SHUGART was born on 10 Apr 1869 in Lutherburg, PA. He died on 08 Nov 1925 in Brady Twp, Clearfield, PA. He married (1) ELLA ZIEGLER. She was born in 1873 in Brady Twp, Clearfield, PA. She died before 1925. He married (2) BESSIE L. She was born about 1882 in PA. She died before 2000.
    7. JAMES E. SHUGART was born in 1871 in Lutherburg, PA. He died in 1871 in Lutherburg, PA.
    8. SARAH E. SHUGART was born on 12 Mar 1874 in Lutherburg, PA. She died on 18 Oct 1922 in Runxutawney, PA. She married Clement W. Biggs on 08 Aug 1900. He was born in 1870 in Punxutawney, PA.
    9. ALICE VIOLA SHUGART was born about 1876 in Lutherburg, PA. She died about 1956.

66. AARON JAMES⁴ SHUGART (Zachariah³, John (CHESTER JOHN)², John (NC branch)¹) was born in May 1836 in Bush Valley, Centre, PA. He died on 24 Aug 1902 in Wallaceton, Clearfield, PA. He married Amanda Jane Flegal, daughter of David Flegal and Eliza Gearhart, on 05 Jul 1860. She was born on 18 Jun 1842 in Clearfield, PA. She died on 01 Jul 1919 in Wallaceton Boro, Boggs Twp, Clearfield, PA.

    Aaron James Shugart and Amanda Jane Flegal had the following children:

    1. HARRY C. SHUGART was born about 1862 in Clearfield, PA. He married CARA H. She was born about 1870.
    2. CARRIE B. SHUGART was born about 1865 in Blue Ball, PA. She married William S. Bressler on 16 Apr 1884 in Philipsburg, PA. He was born in 1861 in Philipsburg, PA.
    3. ELIZA MAE (OR LYDIA) SHUGART was born on 14 Jun 1867 in Blue Ball, PA. She married (1) CHARLES FRANCIS (?) IGOU after 1894. He was born in 1863. She married (2) WILLIAM GUTHRIE before 1893. He was born in 1863.
    4. DAVID F. SHUGART was born on 12 Apr 1872 in Blue Ball, PA. He died on 08 Aug 1946 in Blair Co, PA. He married MARY (OR MAE) MARTIN. She was born in 1876 in Blue Ball, PA.
    5. AARON JAMES SHUGARTS was born on 06 May 1874 in Decatur Twp, Clearfield, PA. He died on 08 Jan 1945 in Altoona, Blair, PA. He married Sarah Alice Baker, daughter of William Baker and Lauretta Wesley, on 10 Oct 1894 in Bellwood, Blair Co, PA. She was born on 09 Jul 1875 in Hensheytown, PA. She died on 12 Oct 1957 in Altoona, Blair, PA.
    6. WILLIAM WALLACE SHUGART was born in Apr 1877 in Clearfield, PA. He died on 16 Jan 1947 in Warren St. Hosp., Warren, PA. He married MINNIE ALICE. She was born in 1878 in Clearfield, PA. She died in 1940.
    7. WALTER R. SHUGART was born about 1878 in Clearfield, PA. He married GERTRUDE. She was born about 1872 in PA.
    8. CHARLES B. SHUGART was born about 1879 in Clearfield, PA. He married JENNIE A. She was born in 1879 in PA.
    9. RUTH SHUGART was born in 1881 in Clearfield, PA. She died before 2000. She married WILLIAM G. ENGLISH. He was born in 1884. He died before 2000.

Appendix E1

Zachariah, possibly the first immigrant

Notes from William Shugarts

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!READ ME: In case they'll be of some use in the future, the four-digit number references to my notes have been left in. My records will likely wind up at the Chester County Historical Society Library, 225 North High street, West Chester, PA 19380. Wililiam W. Shugarts, Jr.

!TAX LISTS: Chester Co PA Microfilm Chester Co Hist Soc

Ref 0949, 5504.

!CHURCH RECORDS: As member of the 1st Reformed Church of Philadelphia Zacharias Schuckert signed a call to Rev Mr Boehm dated 24 MAR 1734. From Dorterer's Historical Notes on the Reformed Church, Vol 1/66. Ref 0526.

!COURT DOCKET: Lancaster Co (PA) Quarter Sessions Abstracts Zachary Shugar pg 57 3 MAY 1737. John Thomas to appear at next court and be of good behaviour. Zachary Shugar for the appearance of said Thomas. Ref 3458.

!CHURCH RECORDS: Holy Trinity Evang. Lutheran Church, Lancaster PA At least two versions of translated records of this church have been printed. Baptism of Anna Maria Bentz, d/o Philip Bentz, witnessed by Zacharias Schuecker and wife (one version) and wife Anna Maria (another version), also Anna Thomas as another witness. Bapt 2 DEC 1738. One version of this record indicates that the baptism might have taken place in York, not Lancaster. Last conclusion was Lancaster. The name Anna Maria for Zach's wife was different from the Anna Margaret and Elizabeth for the names of the Zachariah later in York. Ref 2118, 4631, 4698, 6930.

!WILL: Copies of original Bond and Inventory for the estate of Zachary Shugart. Letters of Administration granted on 29 SEP 1739 to John and Mary Shugart of Chester County and John Thomas and George Saur(?) of Lancaster County. Inventory showed shoemakers tools. Ref 0836, 3904.

!FAMILY: Connected? Hist of Lanc Co, Part 2, 1883, pg 983, Neffsville, Manheim Twp, village laid out about 1807. Brick house, many years a tavern by _____ Shugart. Ref 0197. Lanc Co Will Abstracts, Will, George M Shreiner, probated 13 OCT 1812, dau Elizabeth w/o John Shugert. Eli's son. Ref 2129. Possible sister? "Pennsylvania German Marriages" comp. by Donna R. Irish, pg 474, Nicholas App m Hannah Schuggert, 7 Nov 1775, by Rev Daniel Wagner, First (Trinity) Reformed Church, York, York Co PA. Ref 2509.

!GENEALOGY: This is the oldest Zachariah, in fact the oldest Shugart, thus far found in Pennsylvania. Could very likely be the immigrant whose descendants include (1) the John in Chester County who moved to upstate PA, (2) the Zachariah in York County who went on to VA, (3) the Peter in York County who went on to Hagerstown MD and (4) the John in Chester County who went on to NC. Analysis as of Dec 1999

Appendix E2

Notes on John who moved to North Carolina, possible son of the first(?) immigrant Zach.

Notes from William Shugarts

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!MARRIAGE: The granting of Letters of Administration to John and Mary for Zach's estate indicates that Mary was either John's wife or his sister.
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!REFERENCE: ADDITIONAL DATA ARE AVAILABLE, WITH SOME WORK REQUIRED. An alphabetical list, pr epared by Henry Gerald Shugart, of Roswell, GA, in 1985, contains 1330 entries. A quick comp arison of that list against this file showed about 340 matches. There probably are more. Ho wever, several hundred are new to this file, if someone wants to take the trouble to extrac t them. Ref 3023 to 3053.

!ANCESTRAL FILE: James C Baird, 38 N 100 W, Manti, UT 84642, submitted AF95-101612, from John /Zachariah on just George's line. I'll adopt the AFN for the people he covers in his file . Ref 7837a. I wrote to him in February 1997 pointing out that Zachariah was born in PA, n ot IN, and that Zach's children were born in PA, not NC. No reply as of March 1999.

!FAMILY: The actual connection of the second family of John Shugart is not well documented . Conjecture by Henry G (Gerry) Shugart: It is possible that John and Susannah Talkington ha d Zachariah in 1747, then Susannah died and John married Hannah ____ and had William, Isaac, Nathan and Rachel. This f irst appeared in a letter to me, dated 29 Feb 1984, when Gerry learned from Thomas D Hamm tha t Rachel Shugart, who died in Parke Co IN in January 1834, names her brothers Zachariah, Will iam, Nathan and Isaac Shugart. Ref 2671.

!FAMILY: Possible in this family? LDS IGI Elizabeth Suggert b 11 OCT 1768, d/o John Suggert a nd Hannah, North Farnum, Richmond, VA. Also, she md Thomas Marriott 14 DEC 1785 in Brunswic k VA. Films 1553348 and 1553636. Ref 6926.

!CENSUS: John Sugart 1790 NC Orange p184 2m > 16,1m < 16,2f Could be that William had left hom e by then. Ref 1059 and 1003.

!CENSUS: John Sugart 1790 NC Surry p516, 21200, John Sugars 1790 NC Orange p095, census not e xisting, data taken from tax list showing no details of family members Ref 3927, 5116. P robably lived Surry Co, owned property in Orange Co.

!MARRIAGE: Marriage bonds Surry & Yadkin Cos, NC:
Eli Shugart & Jean Hardin, 092 (S. Co), 5 MAY 1801, B: Thomas Harding
Eli Shugart & Mitly Adams, 106 (Y. Co), 9 OCT 1865, B: Peter C Shugart
Isaac D Shugart & Pheeby Adams, 106 (Y. Co), 20 MAY 1852
James A Shugart & Martha F Reece, 106 (Y. Co), 30 DEC 1860
Russell Shugart & Silva Williams, 092 (S. Co), 5 FEB 1821
Thomas Shugart & Lyda Mackie, 092 (S. Co), 28 DEC 1845
William Shugart & Ruth Bond, 092 (S. Co), 20 FEB 1814
Wm. C Shugart & Martha Jane Steed, 106 (Y. Co), 2 JAN 1858
Russell Shughart & Nancy Spillman, 106 (Y. Co), 2 NOV 1861
L. D. Sugart & Elizabeth Woodhouse, 106 (Y. Co), 4 OCT 1860 Ref 6200

!GENEALOGY:
Tax Lists(Ref 0949, 3113)
John ShugartChester Co, PA, Concord Twp 1740
John ShugarsChester Co, PA, W. Bradford Twp 1747
John ShugarsChester Co, PA, W. BradfordTwp 1749
Pennsylvania Archives Series Three (Ref 4382, 5273, 5613)
XI 17Sugars, Jno.InmateConcord 1765
435Sugars, ZacariusInmateW. Marlborough Twp 1768
629Sugars, Zacra.InmateW. Marlborough 1769
692Shugars, Zach'hInmateE. MarlboroughTwp 1771
XII 101Sugars, ZachariahInmateKennett Twp 1774
197Shugars, JohnInmateW. Bradford 1779
331Sugars, JohnInmateW. Bradford 1780
374Shugar,John(smith)InmateW. Bradford 1781
558Shugar, JohnTax 2.0.0W. Bradford 1781
677Shugars, JohnAsmt Tax 7.6 W. Bradford 1785
Inmate means married but not owning land

!TAX LIST: LDS Film 1449182, Tax Assessment Lists, York Co PA, Vol 1, 1758-1769, more than el even Twps. York Twp, 1769, Schugart, Zacharias 50 acres, 0 serv, 1 cow, 2 horses, 0 sheep . Windsor Twp,
1774, Shugart, Zacharia Rate 3, Tax 4.6 (maybe 0.4.6), York Town, 1775, no Shugarts. NOTE: M anallen Twp 1772 Shugart, John 9.1.6. Ref 7639.

!ARCHIVES: "Shugart" names from Indexes at Chester County Archives. TAXES, County: 1730 Suga r Zachariah, Concord Twp, 54 pence; 1740 Shugert John, Concord twp, 72 pence, 1750 Sugars Joh n, Newlin Twp, 24 pence; 1765 Sugars Jno, Concord Twp, 36 pence; 1765 Sugart Thomas, E. Marlb orough Twp, 144 pence; 1775 Shugars John, W. Bradford Twp, 180 pence; 1775 Sugars Thomas, E . Marlborough Twp, 144 pence; 1785 Shugar John, W. Bradford Twp, 90 pence; 1785 Eli, Newlin T wp, 120 pence; 1799 Shugart Eli, W. Caln Twp, assessed 468; 1799 Shugart John, Westtown Twp , assessed 1074; 1799 Sugar John, W. Bradford Twp, assessed 50; 1799 Sugar Thomas, W. Bradfor d Twp, assessed 1632; 1768 Sugar Thomas, E. Marlborough 40 acres; 1768 Sugars Zacharius, Inm ate. ORPHANS COURT: Shugart, Elizabeth Tredyffrin Twp, 1845, Dkt 19, Accts 487. TAXES: 179 9 Eli Shugart, West Caln Twp, 112 acres, log house, etc., $468; 1799 John Sugert, Westtown Tw p, Inmate, 1 horse, 4 cattle, $116; 1802 John Shugert, Westtown Twp, 22 acres, bldgs, etc., $ 1330; 1796 John Shugert, Westtown Twp, 40 acres, log bldgs, etc., $1692; 1796 Eli Shugars, We st Caln Twp, 160 acres, horses, cows, 188.10.0; 1802 Eli Shugars, West Caln, 112 acres, hous e barn, shop, Inkeeper (sic) $50, total $698; 1765 Jno Sugars, Concord Twp, Inmate, 3.0. TA XES: 1780 all
West Bradford, Thomas Shuart 100.0.0; Thomas Shugart 44.0; Widow Shuart 12.0; John Shugars In mate 20.0.0; James Shuart Freeman 20.0.0. 1783 all West Bradford, Thomas Shugart 100+2 acres , house, barn, etc.; Thomas Shuart 250+2 acres, houses, barn, etc.; John Shugars, Smith, 2 ac res, cattle, sheep; James Shuart, Jobber, 1 acre, 1 cattle. 1796 all West Bradford, Thomas S ugar, 116 acres, horses, sheep; Thomas Shuart, 150 acres, horses; John Sugar, Freeman; Thoma s Shuart, Freeman. 1799 Thomas Sugar, West Bradford Twp, 116 acres, frame house, log barn, new brick house in building, horses, cows, $ 1632. 1799
John Sugar, West Bradford Twp, Freeman, wheelmaker, 1 horse, $40. 1802 John Sugar, West Brad ford Twp, Freeman, wheelmaker, $120. Many Whitaker names among all these. Ref 8084-8090.

!MARRIAGE: Record of Holy Trinity (Old Swedes) Church, Wilmington, DE, marriage of John Shugg art and Susanna Talkinton, FEB 1746. Ref 4461.

!QUAKER: early John? Concord MM Marriage Certificates 1679-1808, Gwen Boyer Bjorkman, MM pg 1 57, John Shugert, witn at marriage of Thomas Marshall and Ann Ferris, 14, 10m, 1743, at Conco rd Meeting House. Ref 6090, 6716. Concord MM pg 340-1 1744-3-7 John Sugert recrq; [rq cu c = req come under the care of] pg 346-1 1745-2-4 John Shugert gct Bradford MM. Ref 1450, 3 373. Bradford MM 2m-17d-1746 John Shugart con for mou [PA/NC line] Ref 1454. Newar k MM (until 1760, then Kennett MM), Hamorton Chester Co PA, 1753-11-3 Shugart, John rocf Brad ford MM dtd 3-15-1753 Ref 1427. Bradford Index to Surnames, pg 99 Bradford 16 d 3m 1745 John Sugart rcf Concord MM; pg 100 Caln 17d 2m 1746 John Shugart md to woman not o f society by priest; pg 112 Caln 21d 12m 1752 John Sugart removed to Newark. Ref 6904.

!QUAKER: New review. Bradford MM Minutes 1737-42 (Swarthmore MR Ph 34) No Shugart. Bradfor d MM Minutes 1743-1755 pg 15, at Bradford, 18d 5m 1745 John Shugart produced to this meetin g a certificate from Concord monthly meeting which is accepted; pg 20, at Caln, 17d 2m 1746 B radford preparative meeting complains that John Shugart is married by a priest to a woman no t of our Society, therefore this meeting appoints John Freeman and Evan Jones to treat with h im and make report at next meeting; pg 21, at Bradford, 15d 3m 1746 John Shugart appeared her e and desires another month to prepare something in order to satisfy this meeting; pg 21, a t Caln, 19d 4m 1746 Thomas Worth informs this meeting that John Sugart desires another mont h which is alowd(sic); pg 22, at Bradford, 17d 5m 1746 John Shugart appeared here and promise d to this meeting a testimony against his outgoing in marriage fully condemning thereof and d esiring friends to continue their care over him which is accepted and Thomas Worth is appoint ed to publish it in a first day meeting in Bradford and return to next meeting; pg 22, at Cal n, 21d 6m 1746 Thomas Worth reports that the testimony given by John Shugart against himsel f was published as ordered by Caln meeting and hath returned to this ___; pg 71, at Bradfor d 15d 2m 1753 Request being made to this meeting for a Certificate for John Shugert in orde r to be Joyned(sic) to Newark Monthly Meeting Thos Stubbs and Iam Marshall is to Make if (sic ) Needful Inquiry & if they find Nothing to Obstruct to prepare one & ?once it to next meetin g; pg 72, at Bradford 15d 3m 1753 The ?? appointed having prepared a certificate for John Shu gert it was read here approved & signed. Bradford Minutes 1755-1764 No Shugart, Sugart. Bradford Minutes 1765-1781 pg 182, a t Caln 15d 3m 1776 Caln Preparative Meeting informs this that John Sugart and Hannah his wif e and Elizabeth Brown request to be taken under the care of friends - [comm, apptd]; pg 183 , at Bradford, 12d 4m 1776 . . . comm, reported . . . the case of John Sugart and his wife r eports that they had a Satisfactory opportunity with them, but as the friends appointed dot h not appear to have fully Performed that Service they are continued . . . report next meeting; pg 184, at Caln 17d 5m 1776 Three of the friends appointed in the Cas e of John Sugart & his wife report . . . some reason to believe that their request was fro m a light foundation . . . they may attend next meeting in order that their case may be furth er considered; pg 186, at Bradford 14d 6m 1776 John Sugart and his wife appeared and . . . s o long as their . . .[they adhere to our Principles] they and young child Ann may be admitted . Bradford Minutes 1781-88 [a lot about Thomas, ignored] pg 33, at Caln, 17d 5m 1782 John Sug art on committee to inspect into the request of John Ballin for his children to be taken unde r care of friends. Bradford Minutes 1788-1800 pg 13, at Caln, 13d 3m 1789 John Sugar recf Con cord with wife Hannah, children Ann, Joseph, Hannah, John & Zachariah. Ref 7928-7930.

!QUAKER: Bradford MM 2-15-1753 John Shugart reqct Kennett(Newark) MM Ref1454 Ke nnett MM Minutes 1739-1791: pg 159 10-13-1760 John Shugart complained of by Center MM for rem oving a considerable distance several years ago and neglecting to request a certificate and now bein g in debt is removed again to the damage of his creditors, he being spoke to for his neglect . Joseph Dixon and William Gregg to prepare testimony. Ref 1481. Newark MM (until 1760, then Kennett MM), Ha morton Chester Co PA, 1763-12-15 Sugart, John dis npjd. Ref 1427. Kennett MM 12-15-1763 te stimony against John Shugart. Ref 1454. Kennett MM Minutes 1739-1791: pg 160 12-15-1763 Te stimony signed against John Sugart whereabouts unknown. Thomas Carleton to send copy to Ceci l Meeting being near where he resided of late and get testimony read at Hockessin Meeting, De l. Ref 1481.

!QUAKER: Bradford Index to Surnames pg 154 15d 3m 1776 John Sugart and wife Hannah and Elizab eth Brown desire to become members. Ref 6904. Bradford MM, Caln Prep Mtg 12d-4m-177 6 John Sugart and Hannah his wife and Elizabeth Brown request to be taken under care of frien ds. Committee app'td to report. 12d-4m-1776 Comm. apptd in case of John Sugart and his wife , not finished, rept at next mtg. Also, comm. apptd had mtg with Elizabeth Brown, needs mor e time. 17d-5m-1776 Comm. met with John Sugart and wife, to rpt at next mtg. Comm. met wit h Elizabeth Brown, to rpt at next mtg. 14d-6m-1776 John Sugart and his wife appeared, mtg ag reed to their rquest for them and daughter Ann "so long as their lives correspond with our Principles" Case of Elizabeth Brown continued. 12d-7m-1776 Case of Eliz abeth Brown cont. 13d-9m-1776 (at Caln) Comm. found no obstruction in case of Elizabeth Brown . 18d-10m-1776 Elizabeth Brown appeared and was accepted "so long as her life of conversatio (?) corresponds with our Principles." Bradford MM 17d-5m-1782 John Sugart apptd to investig r equest of John Ballin. Ref 2623, 6901, 6902.

!QUAKER: At Caln, 13d-3m-1789 John Sugar requests cert. for self, Hannah, his wife, and ch. A nn, Joseph, Hannah, John and Zachariah to Concord MM. 17d-4m-1789 Cert. for John Shugart, wi fe and children produced, approved and signed. Ref 6902. Concord MM pg 445-3 1789-5-6 John Shugart w Hanna h and 5 ch Ann, Joseph, Hannah, John and Zachariah rocf Bradford MM. Ref 1370. Concord MM M inutes 5/6/1789, John Shugart prod. cert. for himself, w Hanna and Ann, Joseph, Hannah, Joh n and Zachariah from Bradford MM 4/17/1789. Ref Arch Street Records. Concord MM pg 201-2 1 808-7-8 John Shugart, w Hannah and Zachariah gct Muncy MM. Ref 1370. Muncy MM Minutes (R S 243) pg 210, cert. from Concord MM dated 7/6/1808, John Shugart, w Hannah, minor son Zachar iah accepted 9/21/1808. Ref Arch Street Records. Ref 0652. Muncy MM Minutes (RS 243) p 4 09 Essay(?) of certificate for Hannah Shugart to Center MM approved 11/20/1816. Centre MM (F ishing Creek) Ref 0652. Center MM 10-18-1817 Hannah Shugarts Senr produced certificate fro m Muncy MM dated 11mo,20,1816. Ref 0412. Center MM 10mo-18-1817 Hannah Shugarts Senr roc f Muncy MM. Ref 1429. Center MM also called Half Moon and Bald Eagle located Warrington nea r Port Matilda Centre Co PA, Centre MM 1813-1918 South Spring Street, Bellefonte Boro, Centre Co PA.

!QUAKER: In Chester Co PA:
    Bradford MM, 18d-5m-1745, John Shugart produced certificate from Concord MM ---- acce pted. Bradford (Prep) Mtg 17d-2m-1746 Complaint that John Sugart was married by a priest t o a woman not of our Society, apptd 2 to treat with him and report. 15d-3m-1746 John Sugart appeared, desire s another month to prepare something to satisfy this meeting. 19d-4m-1746 John Sugart via Th omas Worth requests another month. 17d-5m-1746 John Shugart appeared here, produced testimon y against his marriage, desires Friends
to continue care over him --- accepted. 15d-2m-1753 (Held at Caln) Request certificate fo r John Shugert to join Newark MM. 15d-3m-1753 Cert. for John Shugert read, approved and sign ed. Ref 6900, 6901.
    Kennett MM, 16th day, 12th month 1763, a copy of testimony against John Shugart was s ent to Cecill Meeting . . . . (moved away without settling with his creditors and applying fo r a certificate). Concord MM, 10-3-1787, Hannah Shugart, now in NC, sent acknowledgement fo r which she was criticized years ago. Ref 2624.

!QUAKER: Chester Co Hist Soc, Concord MM Extracts, Vol 1, loose-leaf binder. pg 55, V. 1-340 , 1744-3-7 Sugert, John rqcuc Rq accptd ( req to come under the care, request accepted) p g 62, V. 1-368, 1748-2-4, Talkington, Samuel and Susanan West, rm at Concord MH. pg 18 V. 1-200, 1721-6-7, Wood, Na than and Hannah Whitaker, rm at Chichester MH, 1721-6-2. Ref 3373.

!LAND TRANSACTIONS: Surry Co NC Deeds 1788-1819 partial list
1789/0 W Moore John Sugart McAfee's 100 D 458
witnesses Wm Sugart
1793/4 John Shugart William Shugart McAfee's 100 F 147
witnesses Zach Shugart/Farmer
1793/5 John Sugart Isaac Sugart(Org)McAfee's 100 F 249
witnesses Zach Shugart/Farmer
1804 Grant NC (#2359) John Shugart N Fk Dp C 130 K 436
witnesses ----------
1806 Sheriff J Fitzgerald John Shugart nr T Spen 87 L 89
witnesses Jo Williams
(1809) J Fitzgerald John Shugart nr T Spen 50 M 116
witnesses ----------
(1809) J Fitzgerald John Shugart Bvrdm Cr 175 M 117
witnesses ----------
1806/9 Wm Russell John Shugart Haw brch 12 M 126
witnesses Leonard Shugart
1809 John Shugart Nathan Chaffin N Fk Dp C 130 M 127
witnesses E Chaffin/D Cook
1809 John Shugart Nathan Chaffin N Fk Dp C 12 M 127
witnesses E Chaffin/D Cook
1811/12John Shugart Jesse Lester Bvrdm Cr 175 M 471
witnesses George Shugart/Leonard Shugart
1807/12John Shugart Jesse Lester nr T Spen 50 M 472
witnesses George Shugart/Leonard Shugart Ref 1018-1032, 6188, 6557.

!LAND TRANSACTIONS: Grant of land, 90 acres, probably by State of NC, to William Sugirt (sic) , on McAfee's Crk, adj's land of John Sugirt and Zachariah Sugirt. Surveyed 1793, Grant No . 1624, dated 9 Jul 1794. Later mentions William Sugert and Zachariah Sugarts. Transcribe d from original by Henry G Shugart. Ref 1027.

!RECORD: Family Tree Maker's World Family Tree, Disk 6, n 1453, shows John Shugart, born 1696 -1725, died 1750-1810, married Susannah _____, 1722-1765, then the descendants in a direct li ne to sixth generation Jesse Clifford Huff, born 9 May 1878 in Tama Co, IA. Have entered th e new individuals here based on this record.
[Z Shugart 1.GED.FTW]

From http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/s/h/u/Eric-/Shugart

The actual connection of the second family of John Shugart is not well documented. Conjecture by Henry G. (Gerry) Shugart: It is possible that John and Susannah Talkington had Zachariah in 1747, then Susannah died and John married Hannah ___and had William, Isaac, Nathan and Rachel. Rachel Shugart who died in Parke Co IN in January 1834 names her brothers Zachariah, William, Nathan and Isaac Shugart.

Following information from Wm. Shugarts not part of our line that we know of:

"SCHUCKER, SCHUCKERT, SHUGART, SHUGARTS, SHUGHART, SUGAR, ETC.

"I have been following Shugart lines for about 40 years. There are many branches of the Shugart family and it doesn't take much to get them confused. Undoubtedly there are more, but I have turned up, with the help of many other people, the following lines:

"LINE 1 is just the Zachariah who was on a Chester Co PA tax list in 1724 and died in Lancaster Co PA in 1739, estate being handled by his son John and wife Mary of Chester Co.
"LINE 2 is a family of at least two Zachariahs, one a Rev War soldier, a Martin and Eli, both in Rev War. Martin died, others moved to VA except Eli.
"LINE 3 is Peter, very probably brother to the older Zachariah in York
"LINE 4 is the John, in Chester Co PA, who fathered the Zachariah who moved to NC
"LINE 5 is John , a Quaker, who moved from Chester Co PA into central PA
"LINE 6 is a Sugar family from Ireland who died out.
"LINE 7 is a Hartman who probably was an immigrant. Many in this line changed their name to Shughart.
"LINE 8 is a Johann Heinrich Schucker, an immigrant, who came to NY state around 1710 and later moved to Berks Co PA
"LINE 9 is a Henry Schucker, probably an immigrant, to Schuylkill Co PA then to Clearfield Co PA
"LINE 10 is a Michael Schucker, alleged son of a George Schucker born in Germany. From Berks Co or Schuylkill Co PA to Clearfield Co and Centre Co PA.
"LINE 11 is one person (a Rev War soldier)
"LINE 12 IS ONE MAN WITH THREE DAUGHTERS.
"LINE 13 is a line allegedly from NY found in CA in 1900, with births in IA.

Appendix E3

Notes on Zachariah, possible son of the first(?) immigrant Zach and possible brother to our John and/or brother to Peter

Notes from William Shugarts

!ANCESTRAL FILE: C Hays Glover (Jr), 24 Forest Drive, College Station, TX 77840 submitted AF9 5-101940 from Zachariah on. I'll adopt his AFN for these people. Ref 7837c. I wrote to hi m in March 1997 and received an unsigned note from Lakeland, FL that he had died 12 Feb 199 7 after a 12-month battle with cancer. The writer, probably his wife, said their daughter, J ean Fitz Gerald, has his records and will likely answer my letter. No answer by October 1999 .

!ERRONEOUS REFERENCE: Many errors were made in a section on the SHUGART family (pgs 489-492 ) in a book entitled "West Virginia and Its People", authored by Thomas Condit Miller & ___ M axwell (1913), Lewis Historical Publishing Co., New York. It starts out by discussing brothe rs Zachariah, Martin and Eli, all serving in the Rev War. Picking up on Zachariah, it lays o ut his career in York PA, Sheriff, Innkeeper, Church member, etc., then relates his Rev War r ecord, Lieutenant in the Flying Camp, taken prisoner at the Battle of Ft. Washington, etc. I t then states that he married Mary Elizabeth Mulholland, had three sons: John Wilson, Josep h B. and Zachariah. The son Zachariah, supposedly born 25 Mar 1754, married Eva Grimm on 1 9 Apr 1785 and had children: Peter, John, Zachariah, William, Mary, Sapphira, Jesse, Hezekia h and Elizabeth. There is much confusion among the offspring of Zachariah of York, Peter o f York and one of the Johns of Chester Co PA. To my knowledge, each of these men had a son Z achariah and none of them married a Mary Elizabeth Mulholland. York Zachariah's son, Zachari ah, moved to Virginia, York Peter's son, Zachariah, moved to Maryland and Chester Co John's s on, Zachariah, moved to Centre Co, PA. I believe that some of the mistakes might have been i gnorance, but that some of them were due to a lady trying to shape events so that her Zachari ah was the Rev War Lieutenant, and she could be in the DAR. York Peter's son, Zachariah, wa s shown in a Bible as being born 25 Mar 1764, but the entry was altered to read 1754, accordi ng to Prof. Stanley P. Shugart. I've accepted the data on the later generations, but rejec t the earlier confusion. William W. Shugarts, Jr.

!DEED: Took option to buy lot #77, York PA, 11 MAR 1746 (b 1720-25?). Bought lot #92, York P A, 31 OCT 1752. From 1752 to 1784, bought and sold land, York Co., 26 transactions. Taxed 1 783, $1,360 (4 males, 2 females), Ref 0003.

!DEED: Special Publication No. 47, January 1992, of South Central Pennsylvania Genealogical S ociety,
York, PA, "Notes & Documents Concerning the Manorial History of the Town of York," comp. H S
Young, pgs 4, 6, 7, 8, 23, Zacharias Shugart held Lot 36 from 1750 to 1752; obtained ticket t o Lot 77 in
1746/7, assigned to William Morgan same year; obtained ticket to Lot 92 in 1741, warrant 175 2, patent
1752, sold in 1760; obtained ticket to Lot 112 in 1753, but forfeited; signed petition to L t Gov of PA to incorporate the town of York into a borough, April 14, 1762.
Expanding on the entry for Lot 92: It reads: "92. Zacharias Shugart obtained ticket, Nov. 4 , 1741 (Bair 82). Warrant to him, Oct. 30, 1752; return and patent, Oct. 31, 1752 (Bk.A:18:9 9); quitrent 7s. sterling. Survey copied C:206:16. He and wife convey to Conrad Holtzbaum, Dec. 8, 1760 (Deeds A,490). (Bern hard
Holtzinger also obtained warrant, Oct. 26, 1752, return Oct. 31, probably a mistake.) Holtz baum by
Sheriff conveyed eastern part to John Schultz, Jan. 30, 1767 (Deeds C,233). Quitrents relea sed to George
Barnitz, April 26, 1809 (Deeds 2T,423)." Also Ref 0552.
Book "The Manor of Springettsbury York Co PA" Original land records Vol 6 Neal Otto Hively 19 93, York Town First Lot Owners, pg 36, Lot #92, Zachariah Shughart; pg 90 4 Sep 1753 Swoope s old the rights to Zachariah Shughart; pg 136 Warrant 30 Jul 1766 150 acres to Zachariah Shugh art. Map shows lot #92 as a corner lot, SE corner of Market and Beaver, extends all along Be aver to the alley. Ref 7995

!DEED: Another corner lot. January 14, 1768
The Pennsylvania Gazetter York Town, Dec. 31, 1767.
BY virtue of several writs of Venditioni Exponas to me directed, on Monday, the 15th day of J anuary next, will be exposed, by way of public vendue, at the courthouse in York Town, at 1 2 o'clock of the same day, a corner lot of ground on the public square of said town, on whic h lot is erected one two story dwelling house, and two smaller tenement, stable &c. taken i n execution as the estate of Zechariah Shugart. And also the same day and place, at two o'cl ock in the afternoon, by virtue of a writ of Venditioni Exponas to me directed, will be expos ed to sale, by way of public venue, a messuage, and half lot of ground, situate on the sout h side of High street, in the said town, adjoining Philip Entler and John Emigh, with a two s tory brick house, kitchen, stables, &c. taken in execution as the estate of Thomas Davis dece ased, and to be sold by
     DAVID McCONAUGHY, Sheriff. Ref 8772, 9075.

!DEED: Martin, deeds 1775, bought two lots in Bottstown in trust for father Zachariah and Za chariah's wife Elizabeth (11 MAY 1775) Ref 0615-0617.

!WILL: Will, drafted 15 SEP 1795, probated 13 SEP 1796, left all real and personal property t o sons Zach Jr, Michael and Frederick Henry. Apptd Zach Jr of Rockingham Co and Michael of S henandoah Co as executors. H H Stout conjectures that Frederick Henry born to Zach and firs t wife, Margaret. With second wife Elizabeth dead by 1784 Will of her father, Michael Ebert , and census data showing Frederick Henry born ca1787 in VA, it appears that Zachariah marrie d a third time. Ref 0005. Complete wording of will, but with date proven of 13 Apr 1796 . Ref 0548, 2200. From The Library of Virginia, 30 Jun 2000, received a copy (11 x 17) o f Zachariah's Will, shown on the invoice as from Shenandoah County Will Book E, 1796-1802, Re el 35, p. 40, proved 13 Apr 1796. Probably copied by a clerk, it starts off " In the Name o f God Amen I Zacharia Shugart . . .; names the three sons as heirs and two as co-executors, s pelling their names Sugart . . .; winding up with: In Witness I the said Zacharia Sugart hav e hereunto . . .; and a signature that is: Za (his mark) Shugart. Later spellings for the tw o sons in proving the will were Sugart.

!RESIDED: Zachariah Sugars appears in the 1787 Virginia Census at the Town of Alexandria. N o other Shugarts are in the counties covered (which included Rockingham and Shenandoah counti es). Assume that Zach Jr and Michael were still in York. Ref 6427. Zach Sr granted Po wer of Atty to George Leffler in York in 1789. [Michael granted P of A to Zach Jr in York i n 1810, as if Zach Jr were still in York, but old Zach's will has both of the sons in VA in 1 795, confusing!] Ref 0573, 2055.

!GENEALOGY: H H Stout makes a point to distinguish this Zach from one that was Sheriff as wel l as Overseer of the Poor, Coroner, Constable and Assessor in York Co from 1752 to 1776, Re f 0006.

!GENEALOGY: H H Stout also distinguishes this Zach from a "Sponsor Zach." A Zachariah and wif e Catherine were sponsors at bapt of Anna Margaret Weigle (parents George and Catherine Weigl e) in Christ Lutheran Church (York) 27 APR 1760. Sponsor Zach could be the son of an earlie r John or Zach, Ref 0008.

!MILITARY: H H Stout also distinguishes this Zach from a "Lt Zach" with the following militar y history:
3 NOV 1775 Elected member of Committee of Correspondence, York Co
22 AUG 1776 Comm'd 1st Lt Michael Snyder's Co, PA Flying Camp
16 NOV 1776 Captured Battle of Ft Washington, L I, imprisoned there.
15 AUG 1778 On parole in Flatlands
4 SEP 1778? Wife Elizabeth granted permission by British, to visit Zach
31 DEC 1780 Exchanged and returned to York
01 MAR 1781 In York, interviewed by Wm Atlee on his imprisonment
6 SEP 1783 Supreme Executive Council of PA granted back pay, interest
18 NOV 1783 Joined, testimonial letter to B Gen Armand, Marquis de la Rouarie, Ref 0014.

!GENEALOGY: A copy of H. H. Stout's work found its way into "Footprints" of August 1983. App arently Charles O. Shugart sent to Walter Shugart this 3 pages of Stout's stuff that Charli e says his sister Helen passed on to him. Ref 8312.

!PEDIGREE: A set of charts, sort of reverse pedigree chart or sidewise descendants charts, w as made up by Col. H. H. Stout. The better copy is from Mrs. Corbin. Ref 0807.

!CHURCH: Zachariah Shugart, member of First Reformed Church (before 1754). Had Jacob Lisch y as pastor for awhile, then he broke away in 1760 and organized another church in Codorus Tw p. Prowell, History of York Co., 1907, Ref 2047.

!CHURCH: Christ Lutheran Church records of Births, 1733-1875, LDS Film 1002592, Batch C506861 , page 702, shows b & bp of John Martin, Z w/ wife Anna Margaret, then b & bp of Maria Elizab eth, Zacharias and John, Z w/ wife Elizabeth or Maria Elizabeth. Couldn't find other childre n. Ref 8232. Repeat search of this film. Have noted that these have been translated and a re listed in alphabetical order. Still didn't see some of the children who, from other sourc es, are thought to be part of these successive families of Zachariah. Ref 8789.

!CHURCH: Index items from "York Co PA Records 18th Century" by Bates FLP 20-30 Shugarts. Re f 7930.

!POLITICS: Penna. Archives 2:IX:797 York Co, PA, Sheriff, OCT 1760 to OCT 1761; Coroner, OC T 1755 to OCT 1756. Also, 6:XI:416 Coroner, OCT 1756. (Two terms?) Peter Shugart on Co mmittee of Freeholders that chose, OCT 1757, Zachariah as Coroner for the ensuing year. Als o, 6:XIV:284, mentioned in a court case as under Sheriff. Ref 0613, 4385, 5918, 5919, 592 0. Also, in an election for Commissioner of York County, held on October 14, 1783, Zacharia h Shugart lost to Benjamin Tyson. The former received 662 votes, the latter 932 votes (Penna . Archives, Sixth Series, Vol XI, p 439), in a letter from the State Libray in 1937 to Hele n Shugart, 204 Central Avenue, Cleveland TN. Ref 8247.

!TAX LIST: York County Tax List 1769, Zacharias Schugert, York Twp, 50 acres, 0 serv, 1 cow , 2 horses, 0 sheep, Grain 3(?), Rate 30, Tax 0-4-6. York County Tax List 1783, pg 5, Zachar y Sugars of York Town, innkeeper, 1 house, 1/2 lot, plate valued at 9.10.0, 1 horse, 1 cow, 4 males, 2 females, valu ation 272.10.0, tax 3.13.6; pg 11, Zachary Sugart 160 acres in York Twp, 90, Tax 1.15.9. R ef 2016. "Census York Co 1762" York boro Zachary Shucher 300.4.6. Ref 0552.

!TAX LIST: LDS Film 1449182, Tax Assessment Lists, York Co PA, Vol 1, 1758-1769, more than el even Twps. York Twp, 1769, Schugart, Zacharias 50 acres, 0 serv, 1 cow, 2 horses, 0 sheep . Windsor Twp, 1774, Shugart, Zacharia Rate 3, Tax 4.6 (maybe 0.4.6), York Town, 1775, n o Shugarts. NOTE: Manallen Twp 1772 Shugart, John 9.1.6. Ref 7639.

!TAX LIST: Book, PA in 1780, Tax List, Harrisburg State Library Ref 3501:

!TAX LISTS: Penna Archives Series 3, vol XXI, all York County: Ref 5679

!TAX LISTS: In newspaper, PA Herald & York General Advertiser, the Commissioner's Office, Yor k Co: tracts of land where owners neglected to pay taxes, many are non-residents, 1763-1789 . Windsor Twp, Zachariah SHUGART, Warrington Twp, Peter SHUGART. South Central PA New paper s, v1, 1785-1790; v2, 1791-1795, this citation v2, pg 79, Wed. 12 Sep 1792. 929.3/A1645 at L anc Co Hist Soc. Ref 4600.

!DEED: Zachariah Deeds and Mortgages, York Co., 1752-1791, Ref 0615-0617.

!MILITARY: Zachariah Shugart, military pay vouchers, etc., 1st LT PA Flying Camp, notes not w ell documented, Ref 0132a and 0135. From DAR Patriot Index 1966, pg 615, Shugart, Zacha riah b c 1738 d p 1790 m Mary Elizabeth Mulholland Lt PA. [Mulholland NOT CORRECT] Ref 6004 . In DAR Patriot Index of 1990, shows same entry [still not correct]. Ref 8009. Appear s as Zacharias Shug. in Penna. Archives, 6:II:0609, York County Associators and Militia, Cap t Hoover's Co, Codorus Twp, need year?

!MILITARY: Beers' "History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania" 1886,shows Zachari ah on the Committee of Correpondence and later in the Flying Camp Battalion. Ref 8054-8058.

!MILITARY: News articles in the Penna Gazette (a CD at Chester Co Hist Soc Library): Item #21 317, 22 Nov 1775, on 3 Nov 1775, Committee for York Co included Zachariah Shugart; Item # 322 68, 10 Dec 1773, General Washington arrived from New York, also letter to Brig Gen'l Arman d as he departs for France from York Town inhabitants, included Zaccheus Shugart, George Stak e. Ref 8770.

!MILITARY: Minutes of the SUPREME EXECUTIVE COUNCIL of PENNSYLVANIA, Vol XI, pg 567, "The Cou ncil met Philadelphia, Friday Sept 4, 1778 . . . . .On Application, Ordered, That a Pass int o the City of New York be granted to Elizabeth Shugart, wife of Lieu. Zachary Shugart, of th e Pennsylvania flying camp, now a prisoner on Long Island." Ref 8764.

!TAX LIST: Zacharias Sugart appears in PA 1780 Tax List, York, MR(Manch.?), REF 3501.

!TAX LIST: Notes possibly made either by Rev E A Shugart or Prof Stanley P Shugart at Penna H ist Soc 13 Nov 1941, State of Accounts - Excise Tax, Outstanding to May 1, 1784, Zachariah Sh ugart 11.12.6, Martin Shugart 4.2.6; Outstanding May 1, 1784 to may 1, 1785, Z. S. 1.4.2, M . S. 0.2.6; Received Excise Z. G. 17.18.2, May 1, 1785 - Dec 24, 1780, Excise outstanding Z . S. and M. S. Ref 0552.

!TAX LIST: Personal Property Tax List of 1787 for Alexandria, VA shows Zachariah has havin g a tavern license, and the following: 0 white males 16-21, 1 black >16, 0 black < 16, 1 horse , 1 cattle (no mention of wife or children under 16). Ref 3476.

!LAND TRANSACTION: Fairfax County (VA) Deeds, 1783-85, p 230-234, 16 JUL 1784, Zachariah Shug art signs a lease to rent from Samuel Montgomery Brown and his wife Mary, a lot of ground o n the west side of Water Street, south of Wolfe Street, lot No. 96 in the town plan [25 ft by 80 ft, with acc ess at back to a 12 ft alley having access to Wolfe Street] Rent to be 19.7.6 on 1st of Jul y each year. Could (presumably) purchase the lot in nineteen years for 387.10.0. [Lot surv ey starts on west side of Water Street, 100 ft south of Wolfe Street, southward along Water S treet for 25 ft, westward parallel to Wolfe Street for 80 ft, northward for 25 ft and eastwar d for 80 ft] Ref 6954-6958.

!LAND TRANSACTION: News article in the Penna Gazette of 14 Jan 1768: Public Auction (took pla ce) in York Town on 31 Dec 1767, corner lot and buildings, estate of Zechariah Shugart, by Sh eriff. Item # 4564 in a CD at Chester Co Hist Soc Library. Ref 8772.

!COUNTY COURT: Cases in Court of Common Pleas: Apr 1757, Cases 88, 91; Jul 1757, Cases 18, 4 9, 50, 84; Oct 1757, Cases 45, 49; Jan 1758, Cases 29, 99, 100; Apr 1758, Cases 46, 61; Jul 1 758, Cases 37, 56; Oct 1758, Case 8; Jan 1759, Cases 51, 68; Apr 1759, Cases 5, 51; Jul 1759 , Cases 13, 54; Oct 1759, Cases 1, 11, 17; Jan 1760, Cases 23, 29; Apr 1760, Cases 4, 10, 12 ; Oct 1760, Case 39; Jan 1761, Cases 5, 17, 40; Apr 1761, Cases 15, 18, 19, 24, 39; Jul 1761 , Case 53. Many seemed to involve Zachariah in his capacity as Sheriff. From Special Publica tion No. 46, Abstracts from Common Pleas Docket, York Co PA, Apr 1757 through Jul 1761; SCPGS , 1991.

!OCCUPATION: Zacharias Shugart granted Tavern Licenses in York Town for the years 1750-58, 17 61, 1781-83; in York Twp for years 1767-69, 1771-73 and in Manchester Twp for years 1774-75 , Special Publication No. 48, pg 29, April 1992, Index of Tavern Licenses Allowed by York Co unty PA 1749-1806, compiled by John R McGrew, South Central Genealogical Society, P O Box 182 4, York PA. Ref 5705.

!GENEALOGY: In "This Was the Life" by Millard M Rice 1979, Judgement Records of Frederick C o MD, 1748-1765, March Court 1754, Henry Feer/Fehr/Fuhr is sued by Zachariah Shugart on a pro missory note. The case is dropped as Henry was under age. Henry Fuhr, "late of Fred'k Co MD, carpenter, otherw ise called Henry Fehr of York Town, Lancaster Co PA" Ref 3305.

!GENEALOGY: Notes from Rev. E. A Shugart, Pastor, Morristown?, TN via Mrs. Besse H Pearce, 11 32 N 4th St., Abilene, TX: The children of the York PA Tavern Keeper, Zachariah Shugart, wh o died in Woodstock, Shenandoah Co, VA, came to VA with, before, or after their father. Zac h Sr purchased land in Smyth & Washington Cos VA, sold out his tavern business in York and mo ved to Woodstock, Shenandoah Co VA about 1786. He died in 1795/6. His will was probated in 1 796. He left his property to Henry in Marion VA, Zach Jr living in Glade Springs and Michae l living in Abingdon VA. [Some of this probably is conjecture, in light of old Zach being i n Alexandria before his death]. Ref 0803.

!CHILDREN: A York record "from Cathcart's Private Register, 1st Presbyt Church, shows Hanah ( sic) Shugart married David Effingham 20 Feb 1820. Ref 2100+.

!LOOSE ENDS: In Register of First Presbyterian Church, York, PA, transcript in Hist Soc of Yo rk: 20 Feb 1820, David Effingham married Hannah Shugart (p. 10). Ref 0613. Register of Firs t Reformed Church, York PA, 7 Nov 1775, Nicholas Opp married Sarah Schuggart (P. 309). Ref 0 612.

!ORPHANS COURT: Five cases involving Zachariah Shugart, two involving Francis Worley and fou r involving Peter Shugart. Appointed as guardians and, as guardians, setting up apprenticesh ips for some of the orphans. Covers the years 1752 to 1758 for Zachariah, 1756, 1757 for Fra nces and 1760 to 1762 for Peter. Ref 6520 to 6530.

!CIVIL COURT: CODORUS CHRONICALS, The History and Genealogy of York County PA, SWPa Gen Servi ces, Laughlintown, Vol I, nos 1-4 (Gen Ctr Libr No. 1,655,106) listed five cases involving Za chariah Shugart in 1766 and 1767. Ref 5079. Betty Brown, expert Genealogical Librarian, s earched the actual court dockets and extracted details of each case. In her opinion, Zachari ah owed money to four men. The cases apparently kept being extended, to 1769. Don't know th e outcome. Extracts at Ref 5110, 5111.

Appendix E4

Peter Shugart who remained in Pennsylvania and was a sheriff, possible brother to our John and/or brother Zachariah who was also a Sheriff

Notes from William Shugarts

!READ ME: In case they'll be of some use in the future, the four-digit number references t o my notes have been left in. My records will likely wind up at the Chester County Historica l Society Library, 225 North High Street, West Chester, PA 19380. William W. Shugarts, Jr.

!NOTES: Unorganized notes by Prof. Stanley P. Shugart, U of Penna., provide much informatio n on this line. Some of it documented, mostly not. For remarks under Peter, "somebody" wrot e : Peter S. was in York as late as 1771 (Deputy Constable & Assessor, York Town, 1770-1771) . It was in this period that Zachariah S. of Hagerstown was born. He was in Washington Co M D by April 30, 1779, when he enlisted in the Sixth Maryland Regiment (Source: probably Maryland Archives). There is a probability that Peter wa s the father of Zachariah as Z's oldest son was named Peter. Since only the last five of Z' s children were baptized at the Reformed Church in Hagerstown (then) he was living elsewhere before 1795. Reminders: Searc h Wash Co Records for P. S. and Grimm, Read Francis D. Worley's Will in York Co, Look up Fran cis D. W. Orphan Court records. Ref 0576. Further notes: Maryland Archives, Wm Shugars , Prince George Co, enrolled by Wm Dewalt, Passed July 18, 1776 by Jno Addison Lieut Col of L owes Battalion, Wm Sugars Pt, Apr 25, 78 to Sept ? Also, on same slip of paper, Peter Shuge rt Pt, Apr 30, 1779 - Nov 1 178X (off the page), Present 6th Maryland Reg, Peter Shugart, Co rp. Ref 0594. Notes covering the Mary Kountz Shugart descendants Ref 0576-0585.

!ERRONEOUS REFERENCE: Many errors were made in a section on the SHUGART family (pgs 489-492 ) in a book entitled "West Virginia and Its People", authored by Thomas Condit Miller & ___ M axwell (1913), Lewis Historical Publishing Co., New York. It starts out by discussing brothe rs Zachariah, Martin and Eli, all serving in the Rev War. Picking up on Zachariah, it lays o ut his career in York PA, Sheriff, Innkeeper, Church member, etc., then relates his Rev War r ecord, Lieutenant in the Flying Camp, taken prisoner at the Battle of Ft. Washington, etc. I t then states that he married Mary Elizabeth Mulholland, had three sons: John Wilson, Josep h B. and Zachariah. The son Zachariah, supposedly born 25 Mar 1754, married Eva Grimm on 1 9 Apr 1785 and had children: Peter, John, 1754, married Eva Grimm on 1 9 Apr 1785 and had children: Peter, John, Zachariah, William, Mary, Sapphira, Jesse, Hezekia h and Elizabeth. There is much confusion among the offspring of Zachariah of York, Peter o f York and one of the Johns of Chester Co PA. To my knowledge, each of these men had a son Z achariah and none of them married a Mary Elizabeth Mulholland. York Zachariah's son, Zachari ah, moved to Virginia, York Peter's son, Zachariah, moved to Maryland and Chester Co John's s on, Zachariah, moved to Centre Co, PA. I believe that some of the mistakes might have been i gnorance, but that some of them were due to a lady trying to shape events so that her Zachari ah was the Rev War Lieutenant, and she could be in the DAR. York Peter's son, Zachariah, wa s shown in a Bible as being born 25 Mar 1764, but the entry was altered to read 1754, accordi ng to Prof. Stanley P. Shugart. I've accepted the data on the later generations, but rejec t the earlier confusion. William W. Shugarts, Jr.

!GENEALOGY: Another line? In Tepper's "Passengers to America" 1988 GPC: Port of London, 17t h to 24th Jan 1775, William Sugars, age 21, Clk & Bkkpr, London, Ship Wren, MD, Indented Serv ant. Ref 7652.

!BIRTH: Based on Mary's age at death of 68 (in 1794), will presume that Peter was born abou t 1724. In a letter from William F. Shughart in 1985, he states "Peter Shugart, born about 1 705 in Hesse Cassel, Germany, and came to Hagerstown, MD. About 1725, married his first wif e there and later moved to York Co, where he married his second wife. Peter Shugart's childre n: By his first wife a son, Zachariah, born 1732. By his second wife, a daughter, Anna, bor n 1759 at Yorktown, PA." Then it goes on to confuse this Zachariah with the other ones in Yo rk, and further confuse it all by bringing in the children of my Chester Co John, Joseph B. a nd John. He attributes this to the 1941 records of H. H. Stout. Ref 2971. 2982. I believ e that this is mostly conjecture. I suspect that Peter was in York (as early as 1746) and la ter moved to Hagerstown. It's not clear to me whether he had two wives or not.

!DEATH: Newspaper account, Peter Shugert d 24 JAN 1794. Ref 3601. But the History of Wester n Maryland, Vol II, Regional Publ Co, J Thomas Scharf, pg 1045, shows: following is a list o f persons either born in or at some time resident of Washington Co who have died since 1791 , pg 1055, Aug 5, 1794, Peter Shugert, of Hagerstown, at an advanced age. At one time he wa s Sheriff of York Co PA and held several other offices of trust. Ref 4092.

!OCCUPATION: Peter was Sheriff as well as Deputy Co. Comm, Deputy Constable and Assessor in Y ork Co., PA from 1754-1771/2. Ref 0006, 0613. Further confirmation of the role of Deputy Co nstable: A listing of Justices of the Peace and of Constables from the York County Oyer and Terminer Court recor ds shows Peter Shugart as Deputy or Assistant Constable. While undated, the list is believed to be ab out 1770. Cited in "Our Name's the Game," newsletter of the South Central Pennsylvania Genealogical Society , Feb 2000.

!GENEALOGY: Mary Worley's sister, Lydia, married George Eichelberger (see will of Francis D . Worley, probated 20 AUG 1768, York Co. Ref 0007. !DEED: Land transactions, York Co, PA: Peter Shugart 1 APR 1751given warrant for 90 acres in Berwick Twp 9 MAY 1760purch. lot #67 in York for 100 from Martin Ebert 8 JAN 1763bought two lots in Bottstown from Herman Botts 21 MAY1763sold 90 acres in Berwick Twp to Henry Mohler for 100 2 AUG 1766 Sheriff sold Peter's lot # 67 to Adam Lightner for 115 Ref 0007, York Co. deeds, 1760-1766. Ref 0615.

Notes:

!LAND TRANSACTION: News article in the Penna Gazette of 28 May 1783: Sale of land for unpai d taxes, Peter Shugart - Warrington Twp. Item #31417 in a CD at Chester Co Hist Soc Library . Ref 8770.

!DEED: Special Publication No. 47, January 1992, of South Central Pennsylvania Genealogical S ociety, York, PA, "Notes & Documents Concerning the Manorial History of the Town of York," co mp. H S Young, pgs 4, 6, 23, Peter Shugart obtained ticket to Lot 23 in 1746/7, later assigne d to Elizabeth Messerschmidt in 1751; bought Lot 67 from Martin Ebert on May 9, 1760 (Deeds A , 409); signed petition to Lt Gov of PA to incorporate the town of York into a borough, Apri l 14, 1762.

!TAX LISTS: In newspaper, PA Herald & York General Advertiser, the Commissioner's Office, Yor k Co: tracts of land where owners neglected to pay taxes, many are non-residents, 1763-1789 . Windsor Twp, Zachariah SHUGART, Warrington Twp, Peter SHUGART. South Central PA Newspaper s, v1, 1785-1790; v2, 1791-1795, this citation v2, pg 79, Wed. 12 Sep 1792. 929.3/A1645 at L anc Co Hist Soc. Ref 4600.

!TAX LIST: LDS Film 1449182, Tax Assessment Lists, York Co PA, Vol 1, 1758-1769, more than el even Twps. York Twp, 1769, Schugart, Zacharias 50 acres, 0 serv, 1 cow, 2 horses, 0 sheep . Windsor Twp, 1774, Shugart, Zacharia Rate 3, Tax 4.6 (maybe 0.4.6), York Town, 1775, n o Shugarts. NOTE: Manallen Twp 1772 Shugart, John 9.1.6. Ref 7639.

!OCCUPATION: Peter Shugart obtained Tavern License in York Town for the years 1764/1765 and i n York Twp for the year 1774, Special Publ. No. 48, April 1992, Index of Tavern Licenses Allo wed by York County, PA 1749-1806, Compiled by John R McGrew, South Central Genealogical Socie ty, P O Box 1824, York, PA. Ref 5705.

!COUNTY COURT: Cases in Court of Common Pleas: Jan 1758, Case 14; Apr 1759, Cases 5, 51; Ju l 1759, Case 32; Jul 1760, Cases 22, 23; Jan 1761, Cases 2, 40; Apr 1761, Case 53. Many seeme d to involve Peter in his capacity as Sheriff. From Special Publication No. 46, Abstracts fr om Common Pleas Docket, York Co PA, Apr 1757 through Jul 1761; SCPGS, 1991.

!ORPHANS COURT: Five cases involving Zachariah Shugart, two involving Francis Worley and fou r involving Peter Shugart. Appointed as guardians and, as guardians, setting up apprenticesh ips for some of the orphans. Covers the years 1752 to 1758 for Zachariah, 1756, 1757 for Fra nces and 1760 to 1762 for Peter. Ref 6520 to 6530.

!FAMILY: On 6 JAN 1993, I added Benjamin as a probable child of this marriage, based on locat ion of Benjamin, probable age in 1820 census and marriage of daughter in 1807 in Shenandoah C o VA. On 13 Jan 2000, I dug out all I could find on old Peter. Eric Shugart pointed out tha t Mary probably couldn't have had children later than the son Peter, yet she was said, at he r death, to have had nine children, so the four unnamed children have been put first. As Eri c pointed out, there's the possibility of her having the first four to some other man befor e Peter.

!POLITICS: Penna. Archives 2:IX:797 York Co, PA, Commissioner 1st Class, OCT 1754 to OCT 17 55; Sheriff, OCT 1759 to OCT 1760; Sheriff OCT 1761 to OCT 1762. Also, 6:XI:416 Peter S hugart on Committee of Freeholders that chose, OCT 1757, Zachariah as Coroner for the ensuin g year. Ref 0613, 4385, 5920.

Notes:

!MILITARY: Could a son William have been in the Rev War from VA? A book "Virginians in the R evolution" shows "Shugars, William in 3rd and 4th Regiments, Continental Line (Alternate spel ling shown: Shuggers). Ref 2201. From above-mentioned notes of Stanley P. Shugart: Al so, on same slip of paper, Peter Shugert Pt, Apr 30, 1779 - Nov 1 178X (off the page), Prese nt 6th Maryland Reg, Shugars in NJ(4th), VA(3rd, 4th, 7th) and MD(3rd) regiments from 1777-1779 are summarize d. Ref 7937.

!CHURCH:York PA Christ Lutheran Church records of Births, 1733-1875, LDS Film 1002592, Batc h C506861, page 763, shows b 24 Oct 1759, bp 26 Apr 1761, of Anna, dau of Peter and Anna Mari a. Note said see Burial or death entry 28 Apr (1761?). Couldn't find other children. Re f 8232.

Appendix E5

John Shugart, born in 1758, who was probably a son of North Carolina John, and who remained in Pennsylvania

Notes from William Shugarts

Comments by Eric Shugart - 8/30/2000

There is no documented evidence regarding who this John's parents are. It is most likely that this John is either a son of the John, who with his son Zachariah, moved to North Carolina OR that this John is the son of Sheriff Peter who was in York, PA. It is possible, of course, that this John could have been the offspring of some unknown Shugart who was running around in Pennsylvania, but this seems unlikely. It is also UNLIKELY that this John is the son the Tavernkeeper Zachariah who resided in York; Tavernkeeper Zach already had two sons named John; a third would be a bit overkill (also, comments immediately following under Sheriff Peter apply to Tavernkeeper Zach) .

The case for Sheriff Peter being his father is fairly weak...Whereas John seems to have spent his life principally in Chester County, PA; Peter was over in York, PA acting as Sheriff, and buying land...It also seems that Peter's religious affiliation is tied to the Lutherans, at least about the time that this John was born. Peter also is known to have a son named John (not this John). This John also seems to have had a Quaker influence which was passed onto many of his children. In fact, the only reason that I have debated (with myself) that this John was somehow connected to Sheriff Peter is due to a reference found in the Stout document.

In that document a granddaughter of this John made the assertion that her grandfather was a Sheriff of York County. When she made this statement (in an interview) she was in excess of 90 years old and I felt, due to her age, could easily have been off by a generation. Hence, I looked to see how there could be a connection to Peter (or Zachariah, for that matter). As of this writing, I believe that this granddaughter made the statement and although she may have believed that it was true, in my opinion, the facts and circumstances would not seem to bear it's validity out.

The case that the John who moved out to NC is this John's father is circumstantial, but it seems to hold together, given the facts we have....We know that the NC John (and his son Zachariah) was in Chester before and after John's birth; we also see the Quaker influence on NC John and his known son Zachariah.....Hamm, in a biography, has written that NC John and Zachariah moved to NC after the Revolutionary War; if so, this John would have reached an age of majority and it would not be unreasonable to believe he remained in Chester...

Will seek Bill Shugarts views on whether or not to attach this John as a child of NC John, and as a brother to Zachariah, at this time.... Eric Shugart 12/28/2000

2/17/01: Comments by Bill Shugart

Old Zachariah's son John (assumed to be NC John - Eric) in Concord Twp in 1739, moved to Bradford in 1745. Let's say that he and Susannah went to Wilmington DE and got married in 1746 and had Zachariah in 1747. He or some John moved from Bradford MM to Kennett MM in 1753. At Kennett MM, we see complaints in 1760 and 1763 that John moved away without paying his debts. The Kennett Meeting sent complaints to the Cecil Meeting and maybe the Hockessin Meeting about John. We now know that he signed a Deed for property in Cecil Co, MD in 1759. If we're right about this John being your John (NC John - Eric), we have absolutely no knowlege of him from 1763 to 1790 (NC Census). Actually, he probably was in NC as early as 1787 since Hannah wrote back to Concord Meeting to acknowledge her criticism of "years ago". The chances are that John was a disowned Quaker at that time.

My John (Chester John) apparently joined the Quakers at Bradford MM in 1776 (wife Hannah and daughter Ann) Moved to Concord MM in 1789 with wife and children. It appears that he pai taxes in West Bradford Twp from 1779 to 1785. He owned land in Westtown TWP 1796, 1802. In 1808 he, Hannah and son Zachariah moved to Muncy MM in central PA.

Your Zachariah (son of NC John - Eric) paid taxes in West Marlborough Twp 1767-1771 and in Kennett Twp in 1774. He and Catherine settled the estate of Enoch Woodward in 1771 charging expenses for the upkeep of Enoch's daughter Hannah for the period 1767-771. Question: If Zachariah's Catherine had been Enoch's wife, does it make sense that Zachariah would mary her and yet 4 years later charge her for keeping Catherine's and Enoch's daughter? At any rate, we don't hear from Zachariah until he applies to join the QQuakers in NC in 1787. The way he joined implies that he was never a Quaker before.

Question: If my John was a son of your John and brother to my Zachariah, why didn't Rachel's Will (1834) mention my John as a brother. Also, no mention of my John in Hannah's Will in 1811. Now, I realize that my John had moved to central PA, somewhat removed from the NC family and died in 1814. I guess we could come up with a scenario that your John and Susannah had Zachariah and my John. Susannah died. your John married Hannah and had William, Isaac, Rachel and Nathan.

In view if the gaps in the lives of your John (24-27 years) and your Zachariah (13 years) I don't see joining the two branches at this time.

5/29/1997 : Note from Jackie Cutler to Eric Shugart:

I think John, b 1758 married to Hannah is also a son of John and Susannah.

2002 DNA testing of Eric and Bill shows a 24 out of 25 marker match,indicating a high liklihood that Bill's John and my ZAch were brothers..

From some source, I had an Elizabeth born in 1782 to John and Hannah; Elizabeth is not listed as a child, however, at the recommendation of Bill Shugarts

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Notes by William Shugarts:

!NOTE: This John and Hannah are the beginning of a Shugart family line that, for the most par t, remained in Pennsylvania for many generations.

!GENEALOGY: This John is almost certainly connected to the earlier Johns in the Quaker record s (see below) and is likely a grandson of the Zachariah Shugart who died in Lancaster Count y PA in 1739, and at least a cousin to the John Shugart who, with his son Zachariah, moved t o NC and to the Zachariah Shugart and Peter Shugart in York County PA who moved to VA and M D respectively.

!ERRONEOUS REFERENCE: Many errors were made in a section on the SHUGART family (pgs 489-492 ) in a book entitled "West Virginia and Its People", authored by Thomas Condit Miller & ___ M axwell (1913), Lewis Historical Publishing Co., New York. It starts out by discussing brothe rs Zachariah, Martin and Eli, all serving in the Rev War. Picking up on Zachariah, it lays o ut his career in York PA, Sheriff, Innkeeper, Church member, etc., then relates his Rev War r ecord, Lieutenant in the Flying Camp, taken prisoner at the Battle of Ft. Washington, etc. I t then states that he married Mary Elizabeth Mulholland, had three sons: John Wilson, Josep h B. and Zachariah. The son Zachariah, supposedly born 25 Mar 1754, married Eva Grimm on 1 9 Apr 1785 and had children: Peter, John, Zachariah, William, Mary, Sapphira, Jesse, Hezekia h and Elizabeth. There is much confusion among the offspring of Zachariah of York, Peter o f York and one of the Johns of Chester Co PA. To my knowledge, each of these men had a son Z achariah and none of them married a Mary Elizabeth Mulholland. York Zachariah's son, Zachari ah, moved to Virginia, York Peter's son, Zachariah, moved to Maryland and Chester Co John's s on, Zachariah, moved to Centre Co, PA. I believe that some of the mistakes might have been i gnorance, but that some of them were due to a lady trying to shape events so that her Zachari ah was the Rev War Lieutenant, and she could be in the DAR. York Peter's son, Zachariah, wa s shown in a Bible as being born 25 Mar 1764, but the entry was altered to read 1754, accordi ng to Prof. Stanley P. Shugart. I've accepted the data on the later generations, but rejec t the earlier confusion. William W. Shugarts, Jr.

!DEATH: Date of Letters of Administration (145/A35) was 6 APR 1814, No. 4252, Will Index, Wil l Book A, p 35, Centre Co PA, Bald Eagle Twp, includes renunciation by Hanna in favor of so n Joseph. Letters were issued to Joseph B Shugart and Patrick Cambridge of Centre Co and Andrew Irvine of Lycoming C o possibly meaning that John died in Lycoming Co or that Bald Eagle Twp was in Lycoming Co? ? Ref 0213-0215. Copy of originals --- Ref 4649-51. [Bald Eagle Twp was in Northumberla nd Co in 1785 and 1790, in Lycoming Co in 1798, in Centre Co in 1800, 1810 and 1820, and in C linton Co in 1840]

!DEEDS: Chester County Deeds, J P Norris et ux to John Shugars, Blacksmith, Westtown Twp, 603 .15, 18 FEB 1795 (I-2,33,362) 40 acres 40 perches; John Shugart et Hannah, Yoeman, Westtown T wp to Amos Carter, 225, 28 JAN 1797 (O-2, 38, 75) 10 acres; John Shugart (Sugars), Blacksmith , et Hannah, Westtown Twp to Samuel Jones, 375, 7 FEB 1798 (Q-2, 40, 1) 30 acres 40 perches ; Thomas Woodward to John Shugart, Blacksmith, Westtown Twp, 475, 1 APR 1799, (R-2, 41, 244 ) 22 acres. Ref 0475, 1805, 1806.

!MILITARY: Certificate from PA Historical and Museum Commission, dated 24 OCT 1991, showing J ohn Shugars, Pvt 6th Class, Chester Co 3rd Bn, West Bradford 1st Company under Capt Thoma s Carpenter, shows Muster Fines of 2.12.0. Form printed with notations: Inactive Duty Milit ia, THE BASIC RECORD DOES NOT PROVE ACTIVE DUTY. Marked Township of Residence, West Bradford . Ref 5197. Confirms citation in PA Archives Series 5, Vol V, p 581: John Shugars, Associ ators & Militia, West Bradford Twp, Pvt 6th class. Ref 4589, 5500. Also, John Shugart i n Chester Co PA Muster Roll 1778-1786, John Shugart in Philadelphia Militia 1788. [Unconfirm ed] Ref 0061.

!CENSUS: 1790 Chester Co PA Westtown Twp p 074 John Shuggard, 1m>16, 3m<16, 3f Refs 1061 , 2150. 1810 Lycoming Co PA pg 798 Muncy Twp PA John Shugart 10001-10011. 1800 Chester C o PA pg 745 Westtown Twp John Shugart 01201-12001. Ref 1205, 5116.

!QUAKER: early John? Concord MM Marriage Certificates 1679-1808, Gwen Boyer Bjorkman, MM pg 1 57, John Shugert, witn at marriage of Thomas Marshall and Ann Ferris, 14, 10m, 1743, at Conco rd Meeting House. Ref 6090, 6716. Concord MM pg 340-1 1744-3-7 John Sugert recrq ; [rq cuc = req come under the care of] pg 346-1 1745-2-4 John Shugert gct Bradford MM. Re f 1450, 3373. Bradford MM 2m-17d-1746 John Shugart con for mou [PA/NC line] Ref 1454 . Newark MM (until 1760, then Kennett MM), Hamorton Chester Co PA, 1753-11-3 Shuga rt, John rocf Bradford MM dtd 3-15-1753 Ref 1427. Bradford Index to Surnames , pg 99 Bradford 16d 3m 1745 John Sugart rocf Concord MM; pg 100 Caln 17d 2m 1746 John Shugar t md to woman not of society by priest; pg 112 Caln 21d 12m 1752 John Sugart removed to Newar k. Ref 6904.

!QUAKER: New review. Bradford MM Minutes 1737-42 (Swarthmore MR Ph 34) No Shugart. Bradfor d MM Minutes 1743-1755 pg 15, at Bradford, 18d 5m 1745 John Shugart produced to this meetin g a certificate from Concord monthly meeting which is accepted; pg 20, at Caln, 17d 2m 1746 B radford preparative meeting complains that John Shugart is married by a priest to a woman no t of our Society, therefore this meeting appoints John Freeman and Evan Jones to treat with h im and make report at next meeting; pg 21, at Bradford, 15d 3m 1746 John Shugart appeared her e and desires another month to prepare something in order to satisfy this meeting; pg 21, a t Caln, 19d 4m 1746 Thomas Worth informs this meeting that John Sugart desires another mont h which is alowd(sic); pg 22, at Bradford, 17d 5m 1746 John Shugart appeared here and promise d to this meeting a testimony against his outgoing in marriage fully condemning thereof and d esiring friends to continue their care over him which is accepted and Thomas Worht is appoint ed to publish it in a first day meeting in Bradford and return to next meeting; pg 22, at Cal n, 21d 6m 1746 Thomas Worth reports that the testimony given by John Shugart against himsel f was published as ordered by Caln meeting and hath returned to this ___; pg 71, at Bradfor d 15d 2m 1753 Request being made to this meeting for a Certificate for John Shugert in orde r to be Joyned(sic) to Newark Monthly Meeting Thos Stubbs and Iam Marshall is to Make if (sic ) Needful Inquiry & if they find Nothing to Obstruct to prepare one & ?once it to next meetin g; pg 72, at Bradford 15d 3m 1753 The ?? appointed having prepared a certificate for John Shu gert it was read here approved & signed. Bradford Minutes 1755-1764 No Shugart, Sugart. Bra dford Minutes 1765-1781 pg 182, at Caln 15d 3m 1776 Caln Preparative Meeting informs this tha t John Sugart and Hannah his wife and Elizabeth Brown request to be taken under the care of f riends - [comm, apptd]; pg 183, at Bradford, 12d 4m 1776 . . . comm, reported . . . the cas e of John Sugart and his wife reports that they had a Satisfactory opportunity with them, bu t as the friends appointed doth not appear to have fully Performed that Service they are cont inued . . . report next meeting; pg 184, at Caln 17d 5m 1776 Three of the friends appointed i n the Case of John Sugart & his wife report . . . some reason to believe that their request w as from a light foundation . . . they may attend next meeting in order that their case may b e further considered; pg 186, at Bradford 14d 6m 1776 John Sugart and his wife appeared an d . . . so long as their . . . [they adhere to our Principles] they and young child Ann may b e admitted. Bradford Minutes 1781-88 [a lot about Thomas, ignored] pg 33, at Caln, 17d 5m 178 2 John Sugart on committee to inspect into the request of John Ballin for his children to b e taken under care of friends. Bradford Minutes 1788-1800 pg 13, at Caln, 13d 3m 1789 John S ugar recf Concord with wife Hannah, children Ann, Joseph, Hannah, John & Zachariah. Ref 792 8-7930.

!QUAKER: Bradford MM 2-15-1753 John Shugart reqct Kennett(Newark) MM Ref1454 Ke nnett MM Minutes 1739-1791: pg 159 10-13-1760 John Shugart complained of by Center MM for rem oving a considerable distance several years ago and neglecting to request a certificate and n ow being in debt is removed again to the damage of his creditors, he being spoke to for his n eglect. Joseph Dixon and William Gregg to prepare testimony. Ref 1481. Newark M M (until 1760, then Kennett MM), Hamorton Chester Co PA, 1763-12-15 Sugart, John dis npjd . Ref 1427. Kennett MM 12-15-1763 test. against John Shugart Ref 1454. Kennett MM Minu tes 1739-1791: pg 160 12-15-1763 Testimony signed against John Sugart whereabouts unknown. T homas Carleton to send copy to Cecil Meeting being near where he resided of late and get test imony read at Hockessin Meeting, Del. Ref 1481.

!QUAKER: Bradford Index to Surnames pg 154 15d 3m 1776 John Sugart and wife Hannah and Elizab eth Brown desire to become members. Ref 6904. Bradford MM, Caln Prep Mtg 12d-4m-177 6 John Sugart and Hannah his wife and Elizabeth Brown request to be taken under care of frien ds. Committee app'td to report. 12d-4m-1776 Comm. apptd in case of John Sugart and his wife , not finished, rept at next mtg. Also, comm. apptd had mtg with Elizabeth Brown, needs mor e time. 17d-5m-1776 Comm. met with john Sugart and wife, to rpt at next mtg. Comm. met wit h Elizabeth Brown, to rpt at next mtg. 14d-6m-1776 John Sugart and his wife appeared, mtg ag reed to their rquest for them and daughter Ann "so long as their lives correspond with our Pr inciples" Case of Elizabeth Brown continued. 12d-7m-1776 Case of Elizabeth Brown cont. 13d- 9m-1776 (at Caln) Comm. found no obstruction in case of Elizabeth Brown. 18d-10m-1776 Eliza beth Brown appeared and was accepted "so long as her life of conversatio(?) corresponds wit h our Principles." Bradford MM 17d-5m-1782 John Sugart apptd to investig request of John Bal lin. Ref 2623, 6901, 6902.

!QUAKER: At Caln, 13d-3m-1789 John Sugar requests cert. for self, Hannah, his wife, and ch. A nn, Joseph, Hannah, John and Zachariah to Concord MM. 17d-4m-1789 Cert. for John Shugart, wi fe and children produced, approved and signed. Ref 6902. Concord MM pg 445-3 1789-5- 6 John Shugart w Hannah and 5 ch Ann, Joseph, Hannah, John and Zachariah rocf Bradford MM . Ref 1370. Concord MM Minutes 5/6/1789, John Shugart prod. cert. for himself, w Hanna an d Ann, Joseph, Hannah, John and Zachariah from Bradford MM 4/17/1789. Ref Arch Street Reco rds. Concord MM pg 201-2 1808-7-8 John Shugart, w Hannah and Zachariah gct Muncy MM . Ref 1370. Muncy MM Minutes (RS 243) pg 210, cert. from Concord MM dated 7/6/1808, J ohn Shugart, w Hannah, minor son Zachariah accepted 9/21/1808. Ref Arch Street Records. R ef 0652. Muncy MM Minutes (RS 243) p 409 Essay(?) of certificate for Hannah Shugart to Cent er MM approved 11/20/1816. Centre MM (Fishing Creek) Ref 0652. Center MM, also calle d Half Moon, and Bald Eagle, located Warrington near Port Matilda, Centre Co PA. Centre MM , 1813 to 1918, South Spring Street, Bellefonte Boro, Centre Co PA. Center MM 10m-18d-1817 H annah Shugarts Senr produced certificate from Muncy MM dated 11mo,20,1816. [Another source , William Laimbeer, recorded that Hannah Shugar removed from Muncy to center MM 3-18-1818. Me eting held at Fishing Creek. Ref 0941.] Hannah Shugarts Junr produced certificate from M uncy MM dataed 10m 18d 1817. Hannah & Mary Shugarts appear serving on various committees o f discipline and inquiry into marriage proposals. 1818 to 1828. Womens minutes mention Mar y Shugarts, Hannah Shugart 1819. Mary Shugart appears on a committee 1823-9-13. Complain t made of Hannah Scot, formerly Shugarts, for marrying a man not in membership, by the assist ance of a magistrate. As she did not wish to make satisfaction a testimony was produced agai nst her and she was disowned 9m-4d 1828. Hannah Shugart appears on a committee 1828-10-?- . [Looked at 1885 plan of Centre Burying Ground apparently from 1795 or 1800 to 1885. No S hugart graves. Ref 0412, 1429.

!MISC: Witness to will of Edward McCloskey Westtown (Chester Co PA) 28 MAR 1804 John Shuger t Ref 2922.

!RESIDENCE: In Centre Co PA, Elizabeth A Dutton concludes that John probably lived on land o f James Crawford. Joseph B Shugart administered estate of J Crawford. Land in Howard Twp. A lso, E A Dutton shows deed of land Joseph and Mary purchased from John and Susanna Spencer in 1812 being sol d to Hannah Shugart Senior in ___?, Deed Book F/45. Ref 3206.

!MAPS: Of Centre County 1810 and 1840, Twp boundaries, etc. Bald Eagle Twp was in Centre Co i n 1810, in Clinton Co in 1840. Ref 3196,7. [Bald Eagle Twp appears to be in Centre and/or Ly coming Cos in 1820 and 1830 per Thorndale and Dollarhide Maps]

!TAX LISTS: Chester County PA, (early Johns?) John Shugars1748 W. Bradford Inmate (married m an not owning land), John Shugers 1749/50 W Bradford Inmate, John Suggars 1751 Newlin, John S ugars 1775 W Bradford Free man (unmarried man, not a landowner), John Sugars 1776 W Caln, (th is John) John Shugars 1782A W Bradford Inmate. Ref 2916. 1799 Tax Transcripts CCHS Librar y microfilm R/C7/C71/Reel 1, 23-44, Westtown Inmates John Sugert, 1 horse, 4 cattle $116, als o at CCArchives. Ref 5504, 8088.

!TAX LIST: Book, PA in 1780, Tax List, Harrisburg State Library Ref 3501:

!ARCHIVES: "Shugart" names from Indexes at Chester County Archives. TAXES, County: 1730 Suga r Zachariah, Concord Twp, 54 pence; 1740 Shugert John, Concord twp, 72 pence, 1750 Sugars Joh n, Newlin Twp, 24 pence; 1765 Sugars Jno, Concord Twp, 36 pence; 1765 Sugart Thomas, E. Marlb orough Twp, 144 pence; 1775 Shugars John, W. Bradford Twp, 180 pence; 1775 Sugars Thomas, E . Marlborough Twp, 144 pence; 1785 Shugar John, W. Bradford Twp, 90 pence; 1785 Eli, Newlin T wp, 120 pence; 1799 Shugart Eli, W. Caln Twp, assessed 468; 1799 Shugart John, Westtown Twp , assessed 1074; 1799 Sugar John, W. Bradford Twp, assessed 50; 1799 Sugar Thomas, W. Bradfor d Twp, assessed 1632; 1768 Sugar Thomas, E. Marlborough 40 acres; 1768 Sugars Zacharius, Inma te. ORPHANS COURT: Shugart, Elizabeth Tredyffrin Twp, 1845, Dkt 19, Accts 487. TAXES: 179 9 Eli Shugart, West Caln Twp, 112 acres, log house, etc., $468; 1799 John Sugert, Westtown T wp, Inmate, 1 horse, 4 cattle, $116; 1802 John Shugert, Westtown Twp, 22 acres, bldgs, etc. , $1330; 1796 John Shugert, Westtown Twp, 40 acres, log bldgs, etc., $1692; 1796 Eli Shugars , West Caln Twp, 160 acres, horses, cows, 188.10.0; 1802 Eli Shugars, West Caln, 112 acres, h ouse barn, shop, Inkeeper (sic) $50, total $698; 1765 Jno Sugars, Concord Twp, Inmate, 3.0 . TAXES: 1780 all West Bradford, Thomas Shuart 100.0.0; Thomas Shugart 44.0; Widow Shuar t 12.0; John Shugars Inmate 20.0.0; James Shuart Freeman 20.0.0. 1783 all West Bradford, Th omas Shugart 100+2 acres, house, barn, etc.; Thomas Shuart 250+2 acres, houses, barn, etc. ; John Shugars, Smith, 2 acres, cattle, sheep; James Shuart, Jobber, 1 acre, 1 cattle. 1796 all West Bradford, Thomas Sugar, 116 acres, hor ses, sheep; Thomas Shuart, 150 acres, horses; John Sugar, Freeman; Thomas Shuart, Freeman. 1 799 Thomas Sugar, West Bradford Twp, 116 acres, frame house, log barn, new brick house in bui lding, horses, cows, $1632. 1799 John Sugar, West Bradford Twp, Freeman, wheelmaker, 1 hors e, $40. 1802 John Sugar, West Bradford Twp, Freeman, wheelmaker, $120. Many Whitaker name s among all these. Ref 8084-8090.

!TAX LIST: LDS Film 1449182, Tax Assessment Lists, York Co PA, Vol 1, 1758-1769, more than el even Twps. York Twp, 1769, Schugart, Zacharias 50 acres, 0 serv, 1 cow, 2 horses, 0 sheep . Windsor Twp, 1774, Shugart, Zacharia Rate 3, Tax 4.6 (maybe 0.4.6), York Town, 1775, n o Shugarts. NOTE: Manallen Twp 1772 Shugart, John 9.1.6. Ref 7639.

!TAX LIST: Folders at CCArch, copies of tax records, 1796 Westtown John Shugert 40 acres & lo g house, log barn, @ 35 Doll per acre $1400, 5 horses $250, 3 cows $42, total $1692, also no ted 740.12 (pounds/shillings?). 1802 Westtown John Shugert 22 acres land @ 40 Dolls $880 , buildings $350, 1 horse $60, 2 cattle at 20 Doll per head $40, total $1330. Ref 8088.

!WILLS: Abstracts of Wills and Administrations, Chester County PA, Vol IV, pg 76, Will of Edw ard McCloskey, Westtown, d Mar 28, 1804, p May 4, 1804, Witness John Shugert. Ref 2922.

!PA ARCHIVES: Citations of Tax list entries, Series 3, Vol XII, pages 197, 331, 374, 558, 677 . Ref 4382. Also in book at Hbg State Library, PA in 1780, Sugars, John CHST WB. Ref 35 01.