Person:Wellington McShan (1)

OCCU LawyerWELLINGTON O.5 MCSHAN (FRANCIS ASBURY4, JOHN3, NEHEMIAH2 MCASHAN, RICHARD1) was born April 14, 1850 in Carthage, Mississippi, and died November 05, 1926 in Austin, Travis Co., Texas. He married (1) NEPHONIA MARTHA SCOTT 1872. He married (2) AMELIA ELLEN MCSHAN 1895, daughter of GREENE MCSHAN and PAMELIA SEALY. He married (3) AMELIA ELLEN MCSHAN April 27, 1904 in Brady McCulloch County,Texas, daughter of GREENE MCSHAN and PAMELIA SEALY. Notes for WELLINGTON O. MCSHAN: 1900 Census, Texas, McCulloch Co., ED 107 sh 2 line 94 McShan Wellington head m 50 Apr 1850 wd lawyer Ms KyKy B. M. son f 11 Jan 1889 Tx Ms Tx 1920 Census, Texas, McCulloch Co., ED 157 sheet 17 line 69 McShan Wellington m 69 Miss Handbook of McCulloch County History, p.245 Wellington McShan was 2 years of age when brought to Texas by his father in 1852. Following his education in public schools of Texas, he attended Soule Uiversity at Chapel Hill, Texas. Moving to Brady from Brenham in 1881, he taught school for a time, then turned to the study of law under the 'preceptorship' of Walter P. Anderson, and was admitted to the Bar in 1892. Wellington McShan was made a Mason in Camp San Saba Lodge in 1883, and became a charter member of Brady Masonic Lodge in 1886. He was appointed county and district clerk on October 14, 1882, and was elected in November, an office in which he served continuously through the term ending with the year 1892. He then served one term as county attorney in McCulloch, 1901-1902. Wellington McShan had married in 1872 Miss N. M. Scott of Burleson County, daughter of Jefferson Scott. She died in July 1894, and he married in 1895 Mrs. Ellen Brown of Ward County, Texas. Two children were born to Mr. McShan by his first marriage, but both were deceased by 1914. Notes for AMELIA ELLEN MCSHAN: In 1900 she was a census taker in McCulloch County, Texas 1900 Census, Texas, McCulloch Co., ED 107 sh 10 line 5 McShan, Ellen head f 49 Sept 1850 m 4 3-2 Al Al Al Allen uncle m 87 Mar 1813 Al Ky Ky Brown Marion son m 13 Sept 1886 Tx Tx Al Annie dau f 11 Feb 1889 Tx Tx Al Children of WELLINGTON MCSHAN and NEPHONIA SCOTT are:

THOMAS JEFFERSON6 MCSHAN, b. 1876; d. Bef. 1914; m. LILLIE N. WOOTEN, February 27, 1905, Brady, McCulloch County, Texas. BEN MARION MCSHAN, b. January 1889; d. August 22, 1907, McCulloch County, Texas. DATE 28 May 2003

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