This page contains the names and known info of my genealogy "brick walls," the people about whom I can't find ancestor info. Please email me if you have any information - or even hunches - to share about these individuals.   Thanks!
 
 
Biggard, Samuel   Shelley's 3rd Great-Grandfather
b. Abt. 1823 in PA
d. Aft. 1870 in PA(?)		 Spouse: Jane E
 
Children: Hannah Biggard, Elizabeth Biggard, Samuel S Biggard, Sarah M Biggard, William R Biggard, George Biggard, Elizabeth Harriet "Eliza" Biggard, Jane Biggard.
 
Notes: Samuel Biggard was a shoemaker in Philadelphia, listed in 1850 & 1870 census there. Daughter Elizabeth Harriet "Eliza" Biggard married Harold Coffman Piper.
 
 
Fuller, Electa C   Shelley's 3rd Great-Grandmother
b. December 1827 in NY
d. 1916 in Locke, Cayuga, NY		 Spouse: William E Miles (1824-1911)
 
Children: Elafora Roselle Miles, Diantha Rosetta Miles, Ephraim Edgar Miles, Lillian A Miles, Ana or Arna Miles, Walter Miles.
 
Notes: Electa C Fuller's parents possibly Silas Fuller & Betsy. Lived in Cayuga County, NY her entire life? First in Summerhill, NY and later in Locke, NY.
 
 
Livaudais, John Emile   Frank's 3rd Great-Grandfather
b. Abt. 1834 in LA
d. Aug. 22, 1891 in NOLA		 Spouse: Marie Aurore Villars
 
Children: Anais Livaudais, Georges Livaudais, Gustave Livaudais, Adolphe Dugue Livaudais, Marie Emilie Livaudais, Arthur Joseph Livaudais, Walter Dugue Livaudais, Noemie Livaudais, John Emile Livaudais, Wilmer Shields Livaudais
 
Notes: John Emile Livaudais was a clerk in New Orleans, listed in 1860-1880 census there. Appears in painting "A Cotton Office in New Orleans" by Degas. Son Gustave Livaudais married Marie Victoria Villars.
 
 
Miles, Ephraim   Shelley's 4th Great-Grandfather
b. abt. 1793 in PA or VT or MA or NY
d. Bet. 1850 - 1870 in NY		 Spouse: Lovina Skeel or Batchelor (c1793 - aft 1870)
 
Children: Unknown Daughter Miles, William E Miles, Mary Miles, Hiram Miles.
 
Notes: WEphraim miles was a farmer in Cayuga County, NY. Birthplace unknown.
 
 
Pemberton, William D   Shelley's 3rd Great-Grandfather
. 1843 in VA
d. Aft. 1880		 Spouse:Elizabeth (Lizzie or Ella) McCullock (c1841 - aft 1880)
 
Children: Ora May Pemberton, Clara Pemberton, Clarence A Pemberton, Ada M.C. Pemberton, Laura Anna Pemberton.
 
Notes: William D Pemberton was a schoolteacher (1870 census) & a farmer (1880 census) in IL and NE.
 
 
Piper, George J   Shelley's 3rd Great-Grandfather
b. Abt. 1823 in PA
d. Aft. 1870 in PA(?)		 Spouse: Mary Jones (d. bef. 1850), Lydia A (b. abt 1823, PA)
 
Children: Emma J Piper, William Piper, Almira Piper, Harry Coffman Piper, George S Piper, Keziah "Kizzie" Piper, Edward W Piper
 
Notes: George J Piper was a tailor in Philadelphia, listed in 1870 census there. Son Harry Coffman Piper married Elizabeth Harriet "Eliza" Biggard.
 
 
Skeel, Lovina (or Lavinia)   Shelley's 4th Great-Grandmother
b. abt. 1793 in PA or VT or MA or NY
d. Bet. 1850 - 1870 in NY		 Spouse: Ephraim Miles (c1793 - 1850-1870)
 
Children: Unknown Daughter Miles, William E Miles, Mary Miles, Hiram Miles.
 
Notes: Virtually no info on Lovina/Lavinia Skeel. Maiden name might have been Batchelor.
 
 
Smith, Kingman   Shelley's 3rd Great-Grandfather
b. Bet. 1816 - 1817 in ME
d. 1877 in Whitneyville, Washington, ME		 Spouse: Mary Ann Hanscom (1818-1903)
 
Children: Edwin Kingman Smith, George H Smith, Laura Ella Smith, Amelia Longfellow Smith, Oscar W Smith, Mary A Smith.
 
Notes: Kingman Smith was a millwright in Whitneyville, Maine. Appears in census there in 1850-1870 and died there in 1877. Daughter Laura Ella Smith married Henry Robert Taylor. Kingman name carries down through generations of descendants.
 
 
Thompson, William Lawrence   Shelley's 3rd Great-Grandfather
b. January 1821 in Philadelphia, PA
d. November 16, 1900 in Meridian, Ada, ID		 Spouse: Ellen Hayes (c1842-1900)
 
Children: Chesterfield M or H Thompson, Louis Thompson, Melville Thompson, Lillian E. Thompson, Lafayette "Lafe" F Thompson, Walter Hayes "Dude" Thompson.
 
Notes: William Lawrence Thompson acted as medical doctor in frontier Idaho, but no record of him attending medical school. (Jefferson medical college in Philadelphia, where he claimed to have graduated, has no record of him). Married Ellen Hayes, a British-born typhoid fever patient. "Doc" Thompson owned much of present-day Boise and ran a ferry across the river for outrageous fees. Son Louis Thompson married Stella Eunice "Pam" Walker.
 
 
Walker, James   Shelley's 3rd Great-Grandfather
b. March 21, 1832 in PA
d. Abt. 1895 in CA or ID		 Spouse: Mary Jane Yerian (1837-1925)
 
Children: Ellie Walker, Hettie E Walker, Deleskie or Deloskey E Walker, Hester Florence Walker, Rachel Frances "Fannie" Walker, John V Walker, Carrie Walker, Cora Aurilla Walker, Stella "Pam" Eunice Walker, Edith "Edie" Walker.
 
Notes: James Walker was a carpenter by trade and a wanderer by nature. Born in PA, but also lived in MO, KS, SD and possibly more. Owned mining claims near Custer, SD. Probably had a brother or relative named John Walker, a cabinet-maker living with James' family in 1860. Daughter Stella Eunice "Pam" Walker married Louis Thompson in ID.
 



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