Isaac Francis Shelby (1798 - 1858)

Born 8 Nov 1798 in Ohio

Ancestors

Husband of Jane (Boggs) Shelby — married 26 Dec 1826 in Pickaway, Ohio

Descendants

Died 11 Jul 1858 at age 59 in Tippencanoe County, Indiana, USA

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Biography

Isaac was born in 1798. He passed away in 1858.

Sources

• Shelby Family Cemetery, Tippecanoe County, Indiana

JOHN B. SHELBY BIOGRAPHY, SON OF ISAAC. [Biographical History of Tippecanoe, White, Jasper,Newton, Benton, Warren and Pulaski Counties, Indiana. 1899, page 236] .

This substantial farmer and citizen of Jackson township, Tippecanoe county, is the head of one of the prominent pioneer families of this section of Indiana. His father, Isaac Shelby, was a pioneer here who became a prominent landholder, owning at one time three thousand acres. He was born in Pickaway county, Ohio, about 1798, a son of David Shelby, who was a representative of the old Virginia family of that name, prominent in colonial times and in the Revolutionary war.

Isaac Shelby received a common school education, but, having an acute intellect for matters of study, he attained an education rather superior to the average and became a school-teacher, in Pickaway county, Ohio, in which county he married Jane Boggs, a daughter of John and Sarah (McMicken) Boggs.

Mr. Boggs was a pioneer farmer and a large land-owner there, who afterward entered land in this county. He was a soldier in the war of 1812. His children were William, John, Moses, James, Jane, Lydia and Sydney. He died in Ohio, at an advanced age.

About a year after marriage Isaac Shelby emigrated to the vicinity of Terre Haute, Indiana, about 1828, and a short time thereafter removed to Covington, this state, where he bought land and resided about ten years. About 1838 he moved to Tippecanoe county, settling on land where John B.,' our subject, now resides. He entered a part of this land and bought more of a Mr. Ellsworth, at five dollars per acre. In Indiana he owned altogether about three thousand acres. He improved his home farm and became a practical farmer, enjoying marked success. He had a good pioneer home. His children were John, David, Moses, Minerva and Sarah, living, and James, who died at about thirty five years of age.

When Mr. Shelby first settled on this land he built a pioneer log cabin, but at length he was able to erect a large and substantial frame house, on nearly the same plan as that of the domicile now occupied by the subject of this sketch, but of greater dimensions. In politics he was an old line Whig, was a member of the Indiana state legislature several times, and was a man of prominence and extensive influence. Both he and his wife were exemplary members of the Methodist church, and in early days he assisted liberally in the erection of church edifices at various points in the county. He had two sons in the civil war, David and James, in the Seventy second Indiana Cavalry. David served four years and was in many battles. Mr. Shelby was a man of tireless industry, a large stock raiser and dealer in live stock, and handled many cattle, being a shrewd, practical business man. He left to each of his children a respectable patrimony, and died aged about sixty years, July n, 1858..