My Genealogy Hound

ANDREW SHANE, farmer, post office Sturgeon, was born in South Fayette township, in 1827. Samuel Shane, Sr., a native of County Down, Ireland, married Elizabeth Campbell, and had two children born to them in Ireland: Catharine and Andrew; they immigrated to America in 1801, their son Andrew dying on the ocean. In this country they had born two more sons: Henry, in 1803, and Samuel, Jr., in 1807. They settled first on Brice’s farm, one mile south of Miller’s run, purchasing seventy-eight acres of land from David Winters, situated between Miller’s and Robinson’s runs. Of above named, Samuel, Jr., married Mary Patterson, and died in 1873, the father of four children, Andrew, the subject of this memoir, being the eldest. He was reared in South Fayette township, and educated at the common schools. He has always been a farmer, and now owns one hundred acres of land, acquired by his own industry. He married, in 1851, Elizabeth, daughter of Richard and Mary Ann (Ramsey) Miller, and five children have been born to them, viz.: Richard M., Samuel, Thomas R., John P. and Anna Mary. Mr. Shane is a member of the U. P. Church; politically he is a republican.