+-- Jacob Hanshew
                                                    |   c1795-c1833
                          +-- Adam J. Hanshew ------+
                          |   c1826-1883            |
                          |                         +-- Mary "Mina" Cameron
                          |                              1797-1873 
Jacob Samuel Hanshew -----+
B: 1878                   |                         +-- John Smales
D: 1926                   |                         |
                          +-- Elizabeth J. Smales --+
                               1848-?               |
                                                    +-- I.J. (Smales)
M: Mary Jane Garfield Cox
   +-- Adam Hanshew,  1900-1982 
   +-- Ray Houston Hanshew,  1911-1990 

Jacob Samuel Hanshew     [ID 14678]

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Born Jan 17 1878, Fayette County, West Virginia.^a,b,c,d

He married Mary Jane Garfield Cox, Dec 21 1899, Fayette County, West Virginia.^b,e,c    Mary, daughter of E. W. + Martha E. Cox, was born about 1880, Summers County, West Virginia.^b,f

On Sep 12 1918 Jacob Samuel Hanshew, age 40, registered for the World War I draft in Fayette County, West Virginia.    He declared he was born Jan 17 1878, and he was then living in Springdale, Fayette County, West Virginia.    He declared his nearest relative was Mary Jane Hanshew of the same address.    His occupation was mining, employed by the Greenbrier Calliery Co. of Sevy, Fayette County, West Virginia.    He was recorded as tall, medium build, blue eyes, dark hair.^c

Jacob Samuel Hanshew died Mar 2 1926, Springdale, Fayette County, West Virginia; age 48y 1m 15d; buried Mar 4 1926, Springdale, West Virginia.^d    Medical: Jacob died from "labor pneumonia"^d [coal miner's lung disease??].

Mary died Jan 23 1965, Springdale, Fayette County, West Virginia; age 84.^f

Photo: Jacob Samuel Hanshew / Mary Jane Cox marriage record Fayette County, West Virginia ^b

Photo: Jacob Samuel Hanshew death certificate ^d

Photo: Mary Jane Cox death record Fayette County, West Virginia ^f

SOURCES

(a) 1880 census, Sewell Mountain, Fayette County, West Virginia; roll T9-1402, ED 29, page 86A, line #44, dwelling #365, family #381.

(b) Jacob Samuel Hanshew / Mary Jane Cox marriage record; West Virginia Division of Culture and History:
http://www.wvculture.org/vrr/va_view.aspx?Id=12088120&Type=Marriage.

(c) World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918; http://www.ancestry.com.

(d) Jacob Samuel Hanshew death certificate; West Virginia Division of Culture and History:
http://www.wvculture.org/vrr/va_view.aspx?Id=177263&Type=Death.

(e) Contribution from Adam Cory Hanshew.

(f) Mary Jane Cox death record; West Virginia Division of Culture and History:
http://www.wvculture.org/vrr/va_view.aspx?Id=5371627&Type=Death.

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