Though I am interested in all of my family, my favorite branch is the Shockeys. The main reason for this is my great-great-great-grandfather, Thomas Jefferson Shockey. No one seems to know where he is buried. We have been searching for his grave all of my life. Any information we can find about his family could help, so we are always trying to find more details. Another reason I like the Shockeys most is that we have two seven-hundred-page published books of history. I have learned many interesting stories about my ancestors this way.
The first Shockey we have knowledge of is Johann Christophel Schacke. He was born in the Palatinate area of Germany and moved to America when he was twenty-three. In America he went by the name of Christopher. In our book it says, “Christopher arrived in America aboard the ship “Molly” which had sailed from the port in Amsterdam, Holland, by way of Dover, England…. [He] landed in Philadelphia on ten September 1837” (D. Shockey, T. Shockey 2).
This was during the time when a large number of Germans came to America. It is said that some of the best farmers in Germany were from Palatinate. This makes sense because up until my parents, most of the Shockeys were farmers. Christopher owned land in a lot of Pennsylvania. I found that, “[m]uch of the population which we know as Pennsylvania German today, came from a section of Germany called the Palatinate” (Aurand).
It appears that my family was the typical German family but later, the Shockeys decided that rules didn’t apply to them.
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Christopher’s son Valentine was the first to cause trouble. He was the leader of a gang and a counterfeiter. He and his cohorts made their money and hid from the law in a cave that came to be known as Shockey’s Cave. During one of his many encounters with the law, Valentine escaped to the cave while the police set fire to his house. They figured that would be enough to lure Valentine out of the woods. Valentine, instead, sat in the mouth of his cave and watched while his house was destroyed. He was said to have been one of the most daring and the boldest of the counterfeiters of his time. All of this eventually caught up with Valentine in 1803 when the door to his blacksmith shop was broken down by law enforcements. When the police entered, they found Valentine making silver dollars. Three other men were said to have been with Valentine at the time. Two of these three men were given minor charges while the third was found not guilty. Valentine was sentenced to six years in prison. Valentine’s counterfeiting also led to trouble for his sons.
Christian Shockey was the son of Valentine and a soldier in the Revolutionary War. In 1778 he was charged with deserting the army twice and stealing two horses. In court it was said that he was associated with counterfeiters and he was sentenced to death. He was then pardoned by George Washington. George Washington pardoned only “16 [persons] in 8 years. Leaders of the 1794 Whiskey Rebellion, a Pennsylvania protest against federal taxes on “spirits,” were among those pardoned by the first president” (A History of Pardons).
The only presidents to have pardoned fewer people did not live long enough to pardon anyone. Christian denied stealing the horses saying that his brother stole them. Yet, another of Christian’s brothers was not welcomed by his neighbors. He and his family lived as social pariahs simply because no one liked him. This is just proof that Valentine’s family would not win any awards for their conduct.
This was not the only encounter my family has had with a president. John Shockey was the founder of Elkhart, Illinois where he built a large frame hotel. My book shows that, “Abraham Lincoln was said to be a frequent visitor at the hotel owned by John Shockey. Records… show that Lincoln had served as John’s attorney on several occasions” (Shockey 553).
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The last case in which he served as John’s attorney ended in 1861 due to John’s death. Lincoln was elected president in 1861.Abraham Lincoln lived in Springfield, Illinois which was seventeen miles from Elkhart.
Six generations later, the family decided they should try the decent path. Robert Vinton Spencer Shockey became the second mayor of Hastings, Nebraska. I don’t know if this was a big accomplishment at the time, but his home is now the site of the country club. Then, Houstin Shockey co-founded the McCauley and Shockey law firm in Washington D.C. All of these law stories may have something to do with why I want to become a lawyer. One of Houstin’s cousins, Robert Jacob, was “[T]he sculptor who carved the likenesses of the presidents in the mountains at Mount Rushmore National Monument” (Shockey 120).
When I went to Mount Rushmore I was unaware that he was of relation and I now have a new respect for the mountain. These were all very distant relatives to me. If I go straight back, the story is a little boring, that is until I come to Bazil Shockey. Bazil served in the war of 1812 and was at the bombardment of Fort McHenry when Francis Scott Key wrote “The Star Spangled Banner.” He was also at the burning of the Capitol and the White House. I found when “British troops… arrived at the US Capitol; [it] was still unfinished. According to later accounts, the British were impressed by the fine architecture of the building, and some of the officers had qualms about burning it” (McNamara).
It was also said that, “The fires burned so brightly that observers many miles away recalled seeing a glow in the night sky” (McNamara).
Bazil’s son, Thomas Jefferson Shockey, is my favorite ancestor though.
As I mentioned before, Thomas Jefferson Shockey was my great-great-great grandfather. We know that he was married to Sarah E. Robbins and lived a majority of his life in southern Ohio. We know that he taught French, and we know the majority of the places he lived and taught. What we don’t know is where he’s buried. For as long as I can remember, we have been looking for his grave. My grandma, my mom, my mom’s friend Judy, and I have spent endless amounts of time driving around in search of cemeteries. My great-aunt Nettibel was under the impression that he was buried in the cemetery at Sicily. All that is left of Sicily now is the road, but it used to be a town. We have driven all around Sicily and could not find a cemetery anywhere. One day, as we were driving down the Tri-county Highway, we went down a hill and I just happened to look at a road sign. The sign said Sicily Road, but there was also a sign that said no outlet. I practically screamed as we drove up the other side of the hill. At the top of the hill we were going to turn around when we saw that the road we turned onto was Robbins Road. We decided to drive down the lane, and when we got to the end, there was someone outside. We asked if they knew of any cemeteries around and we were told that Robbins Road used to continue into Wardlow. Off of Wardlow there was an old family cemetery. So we drove down Wardlow to the end where we met Duane. My mom describes Duane as “The type of man that would know the woods and back roads from outmaneuvering the law, but he was extremely nice” (Rhodus).
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He told us where to go, but the only name we could find was Wardlow. So, we went back to Sicily Road. When we got to the end of that road we discovered that 32 is on the other side of two feet worth of grass. We did not see a cemetery though. As we were driving back out, we saw a headstone in a woman’s yard. She told us that Tommy Tucker owned a cemetery in the field down the road, and he wouldn’t care if we went back and looked around. We found a Mary M. Shockey whose maiden name was Vance, the name of the cemetery. There were also at least ten Robbins buried in this cemetery, one of which was most likely Sarah’s brother’s grave. We have no record of it, but it seemed like we also found Sarah’s father’s grave. In all the times we’ve been back, I could never find his grave though. We later learned that Amos Robbins’ (Sarah’s brother) farm was in between Sicily Road and Bean Road. We then reported what we found at the family reunion. There, we learned that we are related by marriage to Tommy Tucker. We finally met Tommy just two weeks ago. He told us that there were many headstones that had been knocked over that he wants to try and find. We plan to work together and try to fix the cemetery and restore all the headstones.
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Someday, I hope that we can finally solve the mystery of Thomas Jefferson Shockey’s gravesite. Not only did the Shockey’s have interesting lives, they also had three towns named after them. There’s Shockey, Kentucky which was just a post office. I have tried to find out more about this town, but there seems to be nothing to find. There is also Shockey, Kansas which was named after William Shockey. Thomas Jefferson had a son named William Wesley and it is believed that they lived in Kansas for approximately four years. I wonder if this is the same William who founded Shockey, Kansas. I looked online and Shockey no longer in existance. I found that it was established in 1886 and Grant County, which is where Shockey was located, was not founded until 1887. I wonder if this is one of the reasons that this town no longer exists. There is one other town named after the Shockey’s, and that is Shockeyville, Virginia.
“In the early 1900’s [Shockeyville] had a grist mill, a store, a church, a grainery and three houses. Most of the town was destroyed by a fire in 1904. The church [is all that] remains” (Shockey II).
Shockeyville was in Fredericksburg, Virginia, which is now part of Morgan County, West Virginia. We have been to Shockeyville, and it was quite a trip. We had to stop and ask a real estate agent for directions. The road it is off of is called Pack Horse and we soon learned why. Shockeyville is on top of a mountain and Pack Horse is a gravel road that winds its way up through the woods until it dead ends into Shockeyville Road. We found the graves of our relatives, which includes the minister of the church in Shockeyville. We know that this is where the main Shockey Family Reunion is, but we do not know when it is. I hope to someday be able to go to this reunion and learn more about my family. Maybe I can even learn where Thomas Jefferson Shockey is buried. Towns are not all that is named after the Shockey’s, though. We also have a road. It is called Shockeys Station Road and is located near Waynesboro, Pennsylvania. Just as I was writing this paper I learned a lot more about my family. I now have to go to Kansas and Kentucky in search of the towns Shockey. I may even be able to find a distant relative that knows more about my family than I do. I also need to find the second volume of “The Shockey Chronicles” and read it. My mom is going to get a subscription to “Ansestory.com”. This will help us to piece together all of the unknown about my ancestors’ lives. Then, Thomas Jefferson Shockey will finally be able to rest in peace.
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