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Giles/Maury/Lawrence Co, TN, Boshears/Brashears?
Posted by: Charles Brashear (ID *****0446) Date: September 08, 2004 at 08:19:39
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Can anyone help me unravel these Boshears/Brashears in Giles/Maury/Lawrence Co,
TN?

a.x. _______ Sullivan/Sullivant
       b.1. Samuel West Sullivan; m.1. Sarah Bell; m.2. Mary Osbum
              c.1. Mary “Polly” Sullivan, d/o Sarah Bell, m. 1833, Thomas Brashear
              c.2. John A. Sullivan, s/o Mary Osbum, m. Mary Reddell
              c.3. James H. Sullivan, s/o Mary Osbum; m. Mary “Polly” Smith
                     d.1. Samuel Sullivan; m. Frances Louise Shelton, daughter of Mary
Elizabeth Boshers and Edmund M. Shelton
       b.2. Martha Sullivan; m. John A. Hail

Mary Elizabeth Boshers/Brashears/Beshires, (unidentified), b. c1815, NC; m. 30 Jan
1833, in Maury Co, TN, Edmund M. Shelton, Bondsman: John Boshers. Edmund, the
husband, drowned in 1850, before the census, in Giles Co, TN. Elizabeth Shelton is in
the 1850 Census, Giles Co, TN with five children. (From: "Judy Sulephen"
(cdjudy2@mvtel.net) and/or Judy (gladys@mvtel.net)
1. William Shelton,
2. Wesley Shelton,
3. Mary A. Shelton,
4. James F. Shelton,
5. Louis Shelton,

       Her mother, Mary Boshears, b. c1793, age 67, is in Elizabeth Shelton’s household
in 1860, Lawrence Co, TN, and “Pollie” Brashier, 77, is in her household in 1870,
Lawrence Co, TN. Mary Boshears/Brashears, the mother, died in 1879, and Elizabeth
Shelton moved to Izard Co, AR, to live with her daughter, Frances Louise Shelton
Sullivan and her husband Samuel Sullivan.

Cheers,
Charles Brashear
1718 Arroyo Sierra Circle
Santa Rosa, CA 95405-7762
707/545-3903
<brashear@mail.sdsu.edu>

September 8, 2004




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