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KANAWHA COUNTY WEST VIRGINIA - BIOS: HANSHAW, Francis
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Submitted to the West Virginia Biographies Project by:
Sandy Spradling
SSpradling@AOL.com
September 26, 1999
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History of Charleston and Kanawha County, West Virginia and Representative
Citizens
W.S. Laidley
Richmond Arnold Publishing Co., Chicago, ILL.
1911
p. 465
FRANCIS HANSHAW, whose excellent farm of sixty-eight acres lies in Union
District, Kanawba County, W. Va., six miles north of the city of Charleston,
is a native of this state, born July ii, 1831, on Elk River, in Clay County.
Until he was twenty years of age, Mr. Hanshaw had few business
responsibilities, attending school the greater part of this time. He then
became interested in farm-ing and when the Civil War broke out he enlisted in
Clay County, as a private in Co. F, 45th W. Va. Vol. Inf., under Captain
Newberry. While in the Virginia Valley he was taken sick and resigned, being
confined three months at Fort Lookout, and was then paroled and returned
home, the war closing soon afterward. In 1866 he was married and for fifteen
years afterward lived in Clay County, thirty-eight miles above Charleston,
and then moved to the mouth of Cupper Creek, in Kanawha District, Kanawha
County, afterward living three years in Texas. Mr. Hanshaw and family then
returned to Kanawha County and he has occupied the present farm ever since,
which he owns in association with his two sons, Amos and George Hanshaw. Mr.
Hanshaw has done a large amount of work on this place, clearing and fencing
it and has made many improvements. GeneTal agriculture is carried on and
cattle and hogs are raised.
On January ii, i866, Mr. Hanshaw was married to Miss Polly Ann Bloomer, who
was born November 12, 1845, in Owen County, Ky., a daughter of Capt.
Christo-pher and Mary Jane (Williams) Bloomer, the former of whom was
commander of ves-sels on the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers dur-ing the greater
part of his life. Mrs. Han-shaw is one of a family of nine children and is
the only one living in Kanawha County.. her one sister and two brothers being
residents of Texas. To Mr. and Mrs. Hanshaw the following children were born:
Mary, who is the wife of William Tellie, of Point Pleasant; David, who lives
on the home farm; Josephine, now deceased, who was the wife of Clinton Copen;
Eddie, who operates a meat market in the city of Charles-ton; Annie, who is
deceased; Amos, part owner of the home farm, who lives on Chandler's Branch,
Union District, married Myrtle Daniels; Maggie, who lives in Union District,
is the wife of Alfred Rodgers; William, who lives at Charleston, married
Annie Gay; George, who is a resident of Charleston, married Minnie Hubner;
Bertha, who lives at home; and Robert and an infant son, both of whom are
deceased. Mrs. Hanshaw is a member of the Baptist church. In politics Mr.
Hanshaw and sons are Republicans but none have ever desired to hold office.
All are good citizens, honest and industrious, self respecting and law
abiding. The family is well known all through this section.
Sandy Spradling
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