Our American Family - Person Sheet
Our American Family - Person Sheet
NameAlexander SHOCK 
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529Birth Date9 Mar 1815
Birth PlaceNicholas, Braxton, West Virginia
Death Date10 Aug 1892 Age: 77
Death PlaceGilmer County, West Virginia
FatherJacob SHOCK Sr. (1789-1876)
MotherMary E. GREEN (1792-1854)
Spouses
Birth Date17 Jan 1822
Birth PlaceLewis County, Virginia, West Virginia
Death Date30 Aug 1914 Age: 92
Death PlaceGilmer County, West Virginia
FatherAbsolom STUMP Sr. (?-)
Mother_____ _____ (?-)
Family ID7028
Marr Dateabt 1840
Notes for Alexander SHOCK
Alexander Shock, a son of Jacob and Mary (Green) Shock, was born in Nicholas County VA (WV) March 9, 1815 and died in Gilmer County, VA (WV) August 10, 1892. He married Eliza Stump about 1840. Eliza, a daughter of Absalom and Margaret (Bush) Stump, as born in Lewis County VA (WV) January 17, 1822 and died in Gilmer County, WV August 30, 1914. They located on the Right Fork of Steer Creek in Gilmer County where Tanners Fork joins.
Eliza used to tell about first coming to the area. She said that her father Absolom Stump lived near Rosedale. But, she and Alexander moved downstream built a shed, covered with brush on three sides, with one end open. A fire outside the open end front warmed the place. They lived there until they built the log house. The house was made of hewn poplar logs.
About 1940, children at Shock school were able to read the date “1840” on the top chimney stones. Coy and Boyd Norman, sons of Andrew and Mary Catherine Norman, often visited “Aunt Lizey.” Their parents lived in a house a couple of hundred yards from the log house. Boyd was born in December 1899 and Coy in July 1901. Their mother sent them to check on Aunt Lizey in the years around 1912 and perform any small chores she needed. She told them stories of her early life there and how Alexander used to go deer hunting in the morning while she was preparing breakfast. She told them that when the house was built, the chimney “didn’t draw right.” Thast is, the draft was inadequate and the fire was poor. Another course of stone was added to the top and the date was cut into one of the stones.
Alexander Shock's grandson, Newton Boone, was responsible for the naming of the post office. Newton circulated a petition in 1912, asserting that the new post office should be named Shock after his grandfather, Alexander Shock. At the time, Newton ran a store there and hoped to be the first postmaster. Taft was President at the time. When the post office opened in 1913, Woodrow Wilson was President. Since Wilson was a Democrat and Newton was a Republican, Newton did not become the first postmaster.529
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I will now give my recollection of Jacob Shock, who married Mary, a daughter of Benjamin Green, who lived about the mouth of Laurel creek on Elk river above Sutton. Jacob Shock came to Steer Creek and settled at the mouth of what is known as Shock's Mill run, where Rosedale now is, about the year of 1825, whose children were Robert who married Margaret Stump a daughter of Michael Stump Jr., Elizabeth, Sarah who married Archie Boggs, a son of James Boggs of Elk river, a son of the old original Charley Boggs, referred to in the onset of this narration. Alexander, whore wife was Eliza Stamp, a daughter of Absolom Stump Sr. Mary married Miller Jake Stump, a son of Absolom Stump Sr. Rachael who was Melville Stump's second wife, he being a son of Jacob Stump Sr. Eli whose wife was Suzannar, Jacob Stump Sr's second (daughter. Mariah married Alexander Meadows. Jacob who married Jemima Boggs, a sister to my first wife. Talitha who married Warren Bourn and Perry who married Druzilla Stout, a daughter of Samuel Stout of Harrison County.
From page 25 of D.S. Dewees’ “Recollections of a Life Time” 1974 reprint of 1904 original0 showing family of Jacob & Mary (Green) Shock. Posted on Ancestry by sgtrauf.
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Eliza used to tell about first coming to the area. She said that her father Absolom Stump lived near Rosedale. But, she and Alexander moved downstream built a shed, covered with brush on three sides, with one end open. A fire outside the open end front warmed the place. They lived there until they built the log house. The house was made of hewn poplar logs.
About 1940, children at Shock school were able to read the date “1840” on the top chimney stones. Coy and Boyd Norman, sons of Andrew and Mary Catherine Norman, often visited “Aunt Lizey.” Their parents lived in a house a couple of hundred yards from the log house. Boyd was born in December 1899 and Coy in July 1901. Their mother sent them to check on Aunt Lizey in the years around 1912 and perform any small chores she needed. She told them stories of her early life there and how Alexander used to go deer hunting in the morning while she was preparing breakfast. She told them that when the house was built, the chimney “didn’t draw right.” Thast is, the draft was inadequate and the fire was poor. Another course of stone was added to the top and the date was cut into one of the stones.
Alexander Shock's grandson, Newton Boone, was responsible for the naming of the post office. Newton circulated a petition in 1912, asserting that the new post office should be named Shock after his grandfather, Alexander Shock. At the time, Newton ran a store there and hoped to be the first postmaster. Taft was President at the time. When the post office opened in 1913, Woodrow Wilson was President. Since Wilson was a Democrat and Newton was a Republican, Newton did not become the first postmaster.529
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I will now give my recollection of Jacob Shock, who married Mary, a daughter of Benjamin Green, who lived about the mouth of Laurel creek on Elk river above Sutton. Jacob Shock came to Steer Creek and settled at the mouth of what is known as Shock's Mill run, where Rosedale now is, about the year of 1825, whose children were Robert who married Margaret Stump a daughter of Michael Stump Jr., Elizabeth, Sarah who married Archie Boggs, a son of James Boggs of Elk river, a son of the old original Charley Boggs, referred to in the onset of this narration. Alexander, whore wife was Eliza Stamp, a daughter of Absolom Stump Sr. Mary married Miller Jake Stump, a son of Absolom Stump Sr. Rachael who was Melville Stump's second wife, he being a son of Jacob Stump Sr. Eli whose wife was Suzannar, Jacob Stump Sr's second (daughter. Mariah married Alexander Meadows. Jacob who married Jemima Boggs, a sister to my first wife. Talitha who married Warren Bourn and Perry who married Druzilla Stout, a daughter of Samuel Stout of Harrison County.
From page 25 of D.S. Dewees’ “Recollections of a Life Time” 1974 reprint of 1904 original0 showing family of Jacob & Mary (Green) Shock. Posted on Ancestry by sgtrauf.
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Notes for Eliza (Spouse 1)
I will now give my recollection of Jacob Shock, who married Mary, a daughter of Benjamin Green, who lived about the mouth of Laurel creek on Elk river above Sutton. Jacob Shock came to Steer Creek and settled at the mouth of what is known as Shock's Mill run, where Rosedale now is, about the year of 1825, whose children were Robert who married Margaret Stump a daughter of Michael Stump Jr., Elizabeth, Sarah who married Archie Boggs, a son of James Boggs of Elk river, a son of the old original Charley Boggs, referred to in the onset of this narration. Alexander, whore wife was Eliza Stamp, a daughter of Absolom Stump Sr. Mary married Miller Jake Stump, a son of Absolom Stump Sr. Rachael who was Melville Stump's second wife, he being a son of Jacob Stump Sr. Eli whose wife was Suzannar, Jacob Stump Sr's second (daughter. Mariah married Alexander Meadows. Jacob who married Jemima Boggs, a sister to my first wife. Talitha who married Warren Bourn and Perry who married Druzilla Stout, a daughter of Samuel Stout of Harrison County.
From page 25 of D.S. Dewees’ “Recollections of a Life Time” 1974 reprint of 1904 original0 showing family of Jacob & Mary (Green) Shock. Posted on Ancestry by sgtrauf.
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From page 25 of D.S. Dewees’ “Recollections of a Life Time” 1974 reprint of 1904 original0 showing family of Jacob & Mary (Green) Shock. Posted on Ancestry by sgtrauf.
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