MAJOR JOHN SHAWHAN, deceased. The subject of this sketch was born Oct. 2, 1811, in Harrison County, Ky.; was a son of Joseph Shawhan and Miss Ewalt; Joseph being a son of Daniel Shawhan.
The Shawhans came here from Maryland about the year 1795 [1] and settled near the Harrison and Bourbon County line.
To Daniel Shawhan were born eight children.
- Joseph and John settled in this county and were large landholders;
- Joseph served in the war of 1812; he died in 1872 [sic] in his ninety-third year; he was a farmer and breeder of thoroughbred horses; his children are as follows: Betsey, Henry, Daniel, John, Margaret, Rebecca and William. Betsey, now Mrs. Lail, of Harrison County; Margaret, Mrs. Pugh Miller, also of Harrison County. Rebecca married Wesley Hoggins, of Bourbon County, Ky. All his sons settled in this State; Henry, in Cynthiana, Harrison County; Daniel, in Bourbon County; ...
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[1] Incorrect date. The Shawhans arrived in Bourbon County in the summer of 1788. [Filson Club Publication No. 27:121, petition No. 57: a request of the inhabitants of Bourbon Co. for the establishment of a town at Bourbon C.H. lists the names of Daniel Shawhan, Daniel Shawhan, Jr., and John Shawhan, July 1788. [The Kentuckian-Citizen (Paris, KY), 28 Mar 1944, 2]
