April 22, 2008 - Pension File Request Classified as "Servicing"

My request for the pension file is classified as "Servicing" which means they are trying to locate the file.

Everyone was very pleased to see the pictures of Wm and Jane, Jane Heath and her husband.

In reviewing the census records - when Jane Shay was living with her mother - did you happen to notice the income/assets the person had -- not much by today's standards but quite a bit compared to the others on the census report.

I wonder if Jane Shay Peal inherited some of this money and that is how she came to own a hotel.

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I am hoping the pension files reveal a lot. They would probably reveal the whereabouts of his daughters since they too could have a claim for the pension being that they were minor children when he died. We know the whereabouts of Nancy & Jane...but not sure about Mary.

Also if James Shay was truely the son of David Shay & Sarah Worden, then there is a chance that he had money growing up. James Shay purchased land around the age of 23, therefore he must have already had some money he came into or was given. Perhaps, James was also a successful farmer in Scott Co., MO which afforded his family a nice homestead.

The 1870 census lists his wife, 3 daughters, wife's mother, wife's sister and wife's brother all living at the homestead in additional to a laborer.

The house had to be large enough 8 persons or more.

I am trying to trace out the Mayberry branch. According to the census, Frederick Mayberry was born in VA in 1788. I cannot find any info on his early life or who his parents were. There is another Frederick Mayberry born around 1781 but he is not of the same line. I will talk to you later.