General Notes

The youngest sister married John Shaw and located in Huntington County, Pennsylvania. Mrs. Shaw paid her Clarion county relatives a visit more that seventy years ago (Mrs. Jane Stewart states that she distinctly remembers this incident.) A few years later a son of Mrs. Shaw and a son-in-law by the name of Eakly paid a visit to their Uncle Robert McCall. No communication has been had with the Shaw family for many years and all trace of them has been lost.
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Sarah McCall Biography
by Garry and Carol Cundiff

    From Jane McCall's rememberances, she related that there were four McCall children, Robert, William, Sarah and Nellie. The youngest sister married John Shaw and located in Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania. Mrs. Shaw, Sarah, paid her Clarion county relatives a visit more that seventy years ago (Abt 1840) (Mrs. Jane Stewart states that she distinctly remembers this incident.) A few years later a son of Mrs. Shaw and a son-in-law by the name of Eakly paid a visit to their Uncle Robert McCall. No communication has been had with the Shaw family for many years and all trace of them has been lost.

    John Shaw was first located in the 1840 Census of Huntingdon County. Listed next door was Daniel Akely. This would seem to match the son-in-law by the name of Eakly of whom Jane spoke. In 1850, John Shaw and his wife Sarah were located in Blair County, Pennsylvania and again Daniel Akely and his family were next door. Blair County is west of Huntingdon. Blair was created at a later date and a portion of it was taken from Huntingdon County. John Shaw was also tentatively identified in the 1820 and 1830 census in Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania.

    From the above, we find that Sarah McCall was born about 1790 in Maryland. This would have been shortly after her parents reached the United States. The four identified children all reached Pennsylvania and we know that Robert, Nellie and Sarah reached Huntingdon County in the early 1800s. Nellie was married in Huntingdon in 1801. Sarah would have only been 11 years old and it is not known who the other families associated with the McCall children were. If their parents died as related, they must have had some type of social support structure since they all were able to remain close.

    Sarah apparently married John Shaw about 1813. One of the older children, Elizabeth, was born about 1815 in Pennsylvania. It is not know whether John was a farmer early on but he is listed as a laborer in the 1850 census. His son Alexander was a Carpenter and his son-in-law Daniel Akely was a Forgeman. This would indicate that the family probably lived in or around settlements.

    From the census information we can tentatively identify that John and Sarah's family consisted of four males and two females. The four that we have assigned names to are Elizabeth "Akley" born about 1815, Sarah A. born about 1820, Alexander born about 1822, and Robert born about 1833. Robert was separated in age from the other children and Sarah would have been 43 or 44 when he was born but he does show up with the family in 1840. He appears to be a late addition. There are two remaining older males that have not been identified.

    We plan some additional research and hopefully more can be added to the story of Sarah "McCall" Shaw.
    References

       1. 1820 Census, Woodbury Township, Huntingdong County, Pennsylvania
       2. 1830 Census, Morris Township, Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania
       3. 1840 Census, Morris Township, Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania
       4. 1850 Census, Catherine Township, Blair County, Pennsylvania
       5. History of Clarion County McCalls by Bert McCall (Rememberances by Jane McCall)