His son Simon Shew, born in 1789 was his fifth child.
Five of Phillip's eleven children moved to Vigo County,
Indiana in the mid 1820's. Simon served with the North
Carolina Militia under Capt. Ambrose Carlton during the
War of 1812. After the war he returned to Wilkes County
and lived out his life as a farmer. He married Mary
Suites(Sutes or Soots) on March 13, 1817 and they had
six children. He died in 1878. Mary was still alive in the
1880 Census at the age of 86 and outlived Simon by
many years.
26 May 1778 Guilford County, NC
(Land Entry #97 entered 26 May 1778),
Land Grant #235 issued 29 Feb 1780,
book 33, pg. 279, to William Dent....363
acres...South side of Stinking
Quarter...Phillip Shue
...McCulloch...Glass.
5 Dec 1778 Guilford County, NC
(Land Entry #906 entered 5 Dec 1778),
Land Grant #644 issued to Phillip Shue
on 22 Oct 1782, book 48, page 146, for
300 acres on the waters of Stinking
Quarter Creek adjacent to the lands of
Glass, Suller, Ingol, and Oneal.
22 Feb 1780 Guilford Co. NC Land
Entry #2027 James ONeal enters 640
acres in Guilford Co
on Stinking Quarter Creek; Border:
entry of William Dent on West, Frances
Linsbery on East, and Philip Show on
North.
1790 Federal Census Guilford Co.
NC Philip Shoe 1 free white male 16 or
older (himself)
4 free white males under 16 (Henry,
Daniel, Jacob, & Simon)
4 free white females (Susannah, Eve
Anna, Johanna, & unknown)
29 Mar 1793 Guilford Co. NC Land
Entry #2734 Benjamin Morgan enters
100 acres in Guilford Co on waters of
Stinking Quarter Creek; border: on East
& West by Philip Shew, on North by
George Limebury, & on South by James
ONeal.
1 May 1793 Guilford Co. NC Land
Entry #2735 Philip Shew (or Shaw)
enters 40 acres in Guilford Co on
watres of Stinkin Quarter Creek; border:
George Clap on South, George
Shoffner on West, John Coble, & on
East by Orange County line.
24 Dec 1799 Wilkes County Land
Entry Between James Cargile and
Phillip Shoe, Guilford County,
NC...$250...100 ac both sides middle
fork Fishers Creek.. John Currys
line...Henry Carters line...David
Thornbergh James x Cargill William
Chambers Peter Good
28 Jul 1803 Wilkes County
Between William Johnson and Phillip
Shoe 150.00...100ac.. Mare Branch..N.
Corner William Johnsons tract...New
Road...
David Thornbergh William Johnson
Daniel x Shoe
11 Aug 1803 Wilkes County Deed
Book F-1 Between John Alexander and
Philip Shew...$200...140 ac Bryer
Creek..William Alexander John
Alexander Job Cole Jacob Lues (Lewis)
14 Jul 1806 Wilkes County Deed
Book F-1 Between William Sebastian
and Philip Shew...$131...105 ac waters
Fishers Creek...John Currys
field..James Cargiles line..Mill Road..
Henry Lovelace William Sebastian
David Thorbergh James x Cargile
23 March 1829 Wilkes County
Deed Book 23 Between Phillip and
Simon Shew with Boston Shew 100
dollars for 30 acres more or less along
the middle fork of Fishing Creek
beginning at the mouth of the 2nd
branch and the north side of said creek
and also bordered by a parcel owned
by Jacob Shew. (view a photo of the
transaction here - shared by Elsie
Arcun from her personal reserach)
Schuh
German and Jewish
(Ashkenazic): metonymic
occupational name for a maker
or repairer of shoes, from Middle
High German schuoch, German
Schuh ‘shoe’; sometimes from a
house name.
Dictionary of American Family
Names, Oxford University Press,
ISBN 0-19-508137-4
Nathanael Greene reports to
Governor Abner Nash of North
Carolina Camp near the Iron
Works, March 18th, 9 a.m., 1781:
“Time will not permit me to be very
particular, and therefore I shall only
Confirm the account of there having
been an action on the 15th. The
battle was fought near Guilford
Court House. It was long and
severe. We gave up the ground and
were obliged to leave our artillery,
all the horses being killed. We
retreated in good order....The
Enemy loss is very great, much
more than ours. We ought to have
had a victory, and had your Militia
stood by their officers it was
certain. However the enemy have
gained no advantage, except the
ground and field pieces. Their
operating force is diminished in
such a manner, that I am not
without hope of turning their victory
into defeat, if the Militia don’t leave
me....”
Quoted from Richard K. Showman
and Dennis M. Conrad, eds., The
Papers of General Nathanael
Greene, vol. VII (Chapel Hill, N.C.:
University of North Carolina Press,
1994), 448.
You can look up records for Wiley
and others at Civil War records
A list of 1883 Pensioners (view here) of the War of 1812
lists Mary as receiving 8 dollars a month from a pension
for Simon filed in October 1878 in Dellaplane, Wilkes
County, NC. It lists her as his widow. A copy of the
request for pension can be seen here, although most of
the details of his service are not listed.
The American Dream throughout the centuries has always
been worth fighting for.
Shew
Veterans
Union
Confederate
Allegience
Civil War
Total Veterans
Combined
22
49
71
1,050,000
2,213,363
3,263,363
the militia in1781 with the Continental Army under Gen.
Nahanael Greene at the Battle of Guilford Courthouse
against General Cornwalis. (visit the Battleground site)
and click here to view a YouTube
video of the battle. It was the largest
battle of the Revolutionary War’s
Southern Campaign and proved to
be a turning point for British military
operations in the war. Greene was
the great-great-great-great
grandson of our direct Greene
familiy ancestor Richard ‘of
Stanfford Ryvere” Greene.
Hans Ulrich Schuh was born in Iggelheim, Ludwigshafen, Rheinland-Pfatz, Germany
in 1685. (click here for a pop up of earlier generations) On January 9, 1709 he married
Anna Elisabetha Kissling, born August 22, 1691, daughter of Peter Kissling, also from
Iggleheim, Rheinland-Pfstz, Germany. On August27, 1733 Ulrich left Rotterdam at the
age of 48 aboard the ship Elizabeth captained by Edward Lee, bound for the new world.
With him were his wife Anna, daughters Eva Elisabetha 17,
Anna Elisabetha 13 and Maria Christina 10, and one son Johann Jacob
20. The family arrived in Philadelphia and settled in nearby Ephrata, PA.
The family lived in the Ephrata Cloister until around 1746. Research is on
going to determine if Ulrich’s last child was in deed John Phillip born the
year Ulrich died in 1750. Most accounts support this. Anna Elisabetha
lived until her death November 4, 1772.
Wiley Sampson Shew was Simon’s
son born November of 1825. He married
Judith Stone on May 22, 1853. He was a
soldier in the Confederate Army. Two
different internet research sites give
different enlistment dates for him. The
first has him joining his regiment soon
after it was formed in 1861 and the other
has him not joining until March 1, 1864.
He served in the 2nd Regiment North
Carolina Infantry Company F. His
younger brother by a year, Constant, was
a Civil War casualty. Constant died on
September 18, 1864 while a prisoner of
war and is buried in Woodlawn Cemetery,
Elmira, NY. Wiley and Judith had seven
children. He died Jul 10, 1914
Click here to see a photocopy of Wiley’s
death certificate.
John Phillip (Shuh)Schuh, who
went by Phillip, left his home in
Pennsylvania and settled in Guilford
County, North Carolina where around
1770 he met and married Suzanna
York(1750). Phillip built a farm along
Stinking Quarter Creek at the Orange
County line. Most
accounts show in
the 1790 Guilford County census, it
was the census taker who misspelled
the name Shoe. View the original
census here. Unconfirmed report lists
Phillip as having fougt along side
View Tom’s 1941 voter registration
Allen Shew was the fifth child
of Wiley and was born in June of
1861. He married Nancy Cornelia
"Nina" Holland on May 10, 1889.
Together they had six children.
He remained in Wilkes until his
death in 1932 and is buried in
Fairview Baptist Church. A 1910
census lists Allen and his family.
View it here.
The American Dream throughout the centuries has always
been worth fighting for.
Clyde Millard Shew,
known to all who knew him
as “Tom” was the fourth
child of Allen. He was born
on March 4, 1902. For a
time Tom worked in the coal
mines of West Virginia. He
died May 13, 1987. He is
today survived by his two
youngest children as well as
numerous great-great-
great-grandchildren.
Tom married Emma
Pennell in 1923 and
together they had ten
children. They lived most
of their married years in
North Carolina and both
are buried at Moravian
Falls Cemetery in Wilkes
County, NC
