Robert Shaw ^{2 3 4}

   Ancestral File Number: 1GNB-44.

   General Notes:

!BIRTH PLACE-possibly Garnkirk,Lanark,Scotland but the Church Records say
!BIRTH place is Myremailing,Calder,Lanark,Scotland

History of Robert Shaw and Flora Jane Smith

Robert was born in Garnkirk, Lanark, Scotland, just a few miles out of Glasgow
on December 6,1852. Just a year or so before his family had moved to Garnkirk. They
had been contacted by the Mormon missionaries and had accepted the Gospel of Jesus
Christ and had been baptized. He had four older siblings, Jane, Elizabeth, Christina and
James F. (It would have been five but Agnes died as a baby in 1850).
During the next few years, they endured lots of persecution from relatives, old
friends and neighbors. Then on January 29, 1859, his father Alexander was involved in an
accident and died in Kilsyth. He was nearly 53 years old. Then not four years later, his
sister Christina died in 1863. Then in 1864, he got his turn to be baptized. He was twelve
years old and was happy to join the true church. They did not have very much. But they
did survive. Jane, the oldest had to go to work at an early age to help the family budget.
They wanted to go to Zion(Utah), but did not have the money. Because they were thrifty
they were able to save some money. Finally in 1868, because of their own thrift and also
generosity within the church and the push from the church to help the poor saint of
Europe, they were able to go to Utah.
This trip started with the long journey to Liverpool, England. They were given
passage on the packet ship "Constitution". William Hatten was the Captain of the ship.
He was easy to get along with and thus made the trip fairly enjoyable. He even went out
of his way to help the Saints celebrate July 24th. This was the last sailing ship to bring a
large Mormon emigrant company across the Atlantic. There were 457 Saints on board.
Elder Harvey H. Cluff was the President of the company. Some were from Switzerland,
Bavaria, Wurttemberg, the Netherlands and of course the British Isles. It took 42 days to
cross the Atlantic. No one died on the journey, but some were sick. The food wasn't
exactly the best. Some tell about the "hardtack" they had to eat rather than good old
bread. Elizabeth's son especially makes comments. He was so seasick, that he promised
the Lord if He wouldn't ask him to go across the ocean again, he would do all he could to
further the cause of the gospel and live its laws. He was 21 years old at this time. The
records verify that he fulfilled this promise.
They arrived in New York on August 6, 1868. The next leg of the journey was by
rail. Immigrants traveling west set up housekeeping in crowded railroad cars, sometimes
called "Zulu cars". They travel by rail to Benton, Wyoming. In Benton, they were
assigned to Capt. John Gillespie's ox train of 54 wagons. They left Benton on August
15th. Many appreciated Elizabeth because she was always cheerful and happy. They
arrived in Salt Lake on August 24th.
They first settled in Coalville. They lived there eight years. During these years his
older brothers and sisters married. Agnes married Leaviett Munson November 24, 1868.
Also the young Elizabeth married Samuel Fletcher on October 31, 1870. Jane became the
plural wife of John Allan. Also James F. fell in love with Margaret Robertson. They went
to Salt Lake and were married in the Endowment House. His mother Elizabeth came with
them also. She was able receive her endowments. This occurred on September 5,1870.
This was a very special occasion.
In 1876, Elizabeth, James F and his family and of course Robert moved to
Richfield, Utah. While they were there they lived the United Order.

Flora Jane Smith was born 29 May 1860 in Springville, Utah, the daughter of
William Smith and Polly Marie Perry. She was the fifth child of eleven. Her father had
built the first adobe house with a board floor in Springville and her brother William Riley
Smith was the first child born in Springville. Her parents had no stove so they cooked
over a fireplace. They rarely had matches in those days, so at night they would cover the
coals with ashes to hold them until morning. But if the coals went out in the night, they
would have to watch to see whose house had smoke coming from the chimney, then the
children would be sent to borrow some live coals to start the fire again. Their home had
two rooms on the main floor and one on the second or in the attic. Their chairs were
made by her Uncle Stephen Perry. They had a table, cubboard, three beds and a wash
stand made out of a box, a lounge they had bought from Jane Packard and a sewing
machine which they had bought on an installment plan. To pay for the machine they took
in washings and hired out to wash and do house cleaning for those who could afford these
services. They money they earned went to pay for the machine and other important items
for the family. Flora says that she remembered picking wool from fences and washing it,
then her mother would card it and make her a dress out of it. As soon as Flora was old
enough, she hired out for work to help support herself and her family. Others in the
family did the same.
Her first school teacher was Aaron Johnson, who was also her Bishop. They
attended school in one room of his house. They used slates to write their lesions on and
only the teacher had books. They were taught reading, writing, spelling and arithmetic. If
anyone got into trouble on the school grounds or in the classroom the teacher would take
us on his lap and cut our fingernails with his pocketknife.
Their dresses were mostly made out of calico and their stockings were mostly
cotton or hand knit out of wool yarn that her mother used to spin after the children had
been put to bed. Their shoes were very course and only one pair per year. They went
barefoot during the summer. Her father made her first pair of shoes.
One year they had a fire. They lost the house and hay. They managed to save a
1/2 load of hay. Her older brothers and sisters worked for hay the rest of the fall to feed
their two cows and two horses. The younger children (this included Flora Jane), who
were able, gleaned wheat and grain in the fields. They did this while herding cows. One
day her and her sister Lucy were gleaning grain. They wore oil cloth aprons and when
they got these full, they would empty them into a seamless sack and carry it back home.
Then they would wait for a windy day, then they would tromp the grain and let the wind
blow the chaff away. Also this the winter that the house burned down, they lived on
cornbread and molasses and peach preserves made with molasses and some milk.
Lucy, Joe and Flora Jane gathered potwattmy plubs and took them to Heber City,
Utah by Wagon to sell them for twenty five cents a peck. They sold enough to buy
shingles for their house. They slept on the road going to and from Heber City. The girls
slept in the wagon and Joe slept on the ground under the wagon.
Also they shucked corn for a neighbor and he gave them the shucks to make ticks
for their beds. Another time they gathered milk weeds for the ticks for the beds. Another
thing they did to help out was to gather ground cherries and scald them in lye, then they
were ready to be sold.
What did they do for light at night. Flora explains that they would dip a rag in
tallow and place it on a tin dish. This kind of light was called a bitch light. Flora related
that many a night she held this light till twelve and one o'clock in the morning so that her
mother could see to quilt. Her mother did this to get cloth to make the children clothes.
How happy they were when they could afford candles for light. Her mother had bought
these candles after she had made a quilt and sold it. Flora tells the story, "This is the way
we got the third light. I helped an old lady, one of our neighbors take her cows to the
pasture and when we returned back home, we stopped at her house. She ask me to come
in . She said that her mother and sent her a present and she wanted me to have it. When
she gave it to me (it was a coal oil lamp), I cried and cried because I was so happy to get
such a gift." From that time until the time this sweet neighbor died, Flora's mother let her
take a loaf of homemade bread to her every week.
When Flora was sixteen years old, she went to work for her Uncle Andrew Ross.
She lived with them for several years. It was here that Robert Shaw and Flora Jane Smith
met. After a wonderful courtship they decided to get married. They drove from Kanosh
to Springville to tell her parents. Her Uncle Andrew and Aunt Sack Ross went with them.
In Springville her parents joined them and they went all the way to Salt Lake City where
they were married in the Endowment house on December 27, 1876. What a thrilling
Christmas that must have been.
This young couple moved with the Shaw relative to Elsinore, Utah. They
homesteaded a farm just across the Sevier River from Elsinore. Soon, they had a ranch in
the mountains between Elsinore and Kanosh. Robert loved ranching. They raised horse
and cattle. His oldest son, Robert William would often help him on the Ranch, in fact he
grew up riding the range with his father. This union was blessed with seven children.
However two children died in the same night from Diphtheria, Alexander and Henrieta.
Robert was a good father, but about 1897, he separated from his sweetheart and
went to live in Kanosh. Flora, in order to support her family took care of the sick and
traveled many miles to take care of a mother and baby. She helped many a baby to come
into the world. She also took in washing and ironing and cleaned houses for fifty cents a
day. Robert died in Salt Lake City on November 2, 1902.
Flora went on with her life, and on December 21, 1910 she married her husbands
brother James Ferguson Shaw in the Manti Temple. They lived in Elsinore for several
years, then they moved to Joseph to take care of her Uncle Andrew Ross at his home.
When he passed away, they continued to live at his home until James took a stoke and for
twelve years was unable to work until he died. A year after James died, Flora fell and
broke her arm, some ribs and the collar bone. After this happened, she went to live with
her youngest daughter, Ora Warnock in Idaho Falls. She also made some visits to her
oldest daughter who lived in Victor. She lived with Ora for eight years. She complained
of being tired and wanted to lie down. She passed away in her sleep at the age of eighty
one January 3, 1941 at her daughter Ora's home in Idaho Falls, Idaho.


Compiled by John Shaw, 4589 W. 1650 N. Ogden, Utah 84404, 801-731-7674
Credit must be given to Ora Shaw Warnock who took Care of her mother during those
eight years, during which time she was able to gain lots of information and history.
Thanks Ora...!BIRTH PLACE-possibly Garnkirk,Lanark,Scotland but the Church Records say
!BIRTH place is Myremailing,Calder,Lanark,Scotland

!BIRTH PLACE-possibly Garnkirk,Lanark,Scotland but the Church Records say
!BIRTH place is Myremailing,Calder,Lanark,Scotland

History of Robert Shaw and Flora Jane Smith

Robert was born in Garnkirk, Lanark, Scotland, just a few miles out of Glasgow
on December 6,1852. Just a year or so before his family had moved to Garnkirk. They
had been contacted by the Mormon missionaries and had accepted the Gospel of Jesus
Christ and had been baptized. He had four older siblings, Jane, Elizabeth, Christina and
James F. (It would have been five but Agnes died as a baby in 1850).
During the next few years, they endured lots of persecution from relatives, old
friends and neighbors. Then on January 29, 1859, his father Alexander was involved in an
accident and died in Kilsyth. He was nearly 53 years old. Then not four years later, his
sister Christina died in 1863. Then in 1864, he got his turn to be baptized. He was twelve
years old and was happy to join the true church. They did not have very much. But they
did survive. Jane, the oldest had to go to work at an early age to help the family budget.
They wanted to go to Zion(Utah), but did not have the money. Because they were thrifty
they were able to save some money. Finally in 1868, because of their own thrift and also
generosity within the church and the push from the church to help the poor saint of
Europe, they were able to go to Utah.
This trip started with the long journey to Liverpool, England. They were given
passage on the packet ship "Constitution". William Hatten was the Captain of the ship.
He was easy to get along with and thus made the trip fairly enjoyable. He even went out
of his way to help the Saints celebrate July 24th. This was the last sailing ship to bring a
large Mormon emigrant company across the Atlantic. There were 457 Saints on board.
Elder Harvey H. Cluff was the President of the company. Some were from Switzerland,
Bavaria, Wurttemberg, the Netherlands and of course the British Isles. It took 42 days to
cross the Atlantic. No one died on the journey, but some were sick. The food wasn't
exactly the best. Some tell about the "hardtack" they had to eat rather than good old
bread. Elizabeth's son especially makes comments. He was so seasick, that he promised
the Lord if He wouldn't ask him to go across the ocean again, he would do all he could to
further the cause of the gospel and live its laws. He was 21 years old at this time. The
records verify that he fulfilled this promise.
They arrived in New York on August 6, 1868. The next leg of the journey was by
rail. Immigrants traveling west set up housekeeping in crowded railroad cars, sometimes
called "Zulu cars". They travel by rail to Benton, Wyoming. In Benton, they were
assigned to Capt. John Gillespie's ox train of 54 wagons. They left Benton on August
15th. Many appreciated Elizabeth because she was always cheerful and happy. They
arrived in Salt Lake on August 24th.
They first settled in Coalville. They lived there eight years. During these years his
older brothers and sisters married. Agnes married Leaviett Munson November 24, 1868.
Also the young Elizabeth married Samuel Fletcher on October 31, 1870. Jane became the
plural wife of John Allan. Also James F. fell in love with Margaret Robertson. They went
to Salt Lake and were married in the Endowment House. His mother Elizabeth came with
them also. She was able receive her endowments. This occurred on September 5,1870.
This was a very special occasion.
In 1876, Elizabeth, James F and his family and of course Robert moved to
Richfield, Utah. While they were there they lived the United Order.

Flora Jane Smith was born 29 May 1860 in Springville, Utah, the daughter of
William Smith and Polly Marie Perry. She was the fifth child of eleven. Her father had
built the first adobe house with a board floor in Springville and her brother William Riley
Smith was the first child born in Springville. Her parents had no stove so they cooked
over a fireplace. They rarely had matches in those days, so at night they would cover the
coals with ashes to hold them until morning. But if the coals went out in the night, they
would have to watch to see whose house had smoke coming from the chimney, then the
children would be sent to borrow some live coals to start the fire again. Their home had
two rooms on the main floor and one on the second or in the attic. Their chairs were
made by her Uncle Stephen Perry. They had a table, cubboard, three beds and a wash
stand made out of a box, a lounge they had bought from Jane Packard and a sewing
machine which they had bought on an installment plan. To pay for the machine they took
in washings and hired out to wash and do house cleaning for those who could afford these
services. They money they earned went to pay for the machine and other important items
for the family. Flora says that she remembered picking wool from fences and washing it,
then her mother would card it and make her a dress out of it. As soon as Flora was old
enough, she hired out for work to help support herself and her family. Others in the
family did the same.
Her first school teacher was Aaron Johnson, who was also her Bishop. They
attended school in one room of his house. They used slates to write their lesions on and
only the teacher had books. They were taught reading, writing, spelling and arithmetic. If
anyone got into trouble on the school grounds or in the classroom the teacher would take
us on his lap and cut our fingernails with his pocketknife.
Their dresses were mostly made out of calico and their stockings were mostly
cotton or hand knit out of wool yarn that her mother used to spin after the children had
been put to bed. Their shoes were very course and only one pair per year. They went
barefoot during the summer. Her father made her first pair of shoes.
One year they had a fire. They lost the house and hay. They managed to save a
1/2 load of hay. Her older brothers and sisters worked for hay the rest of the fall to feed
their two cows and two horses. The younger children (this included Flora Jane), who
were able, gleaned wheat and grain in the fields. They did this while herding cows. One
day her and her sister Lucy were gleaning grain. They wore oil cloth aprons and when
they got these full, they would empty them into a seamless sack and carry it back home.
Then they would wait for a windy day, then they would tromp the grain and let the wind
blow the chaff away. Also this the winter that the house burned down, they lived on
cornbread and molasses and peach preserves made with molasses and some milk.
Lucy, Joe and Flora Jane gathered potwattmy plubs and took them to Heber City,
Utah by Wagon to sell them for twenty five cents a peck. They sold enough to buy
shingles for their house. They slept on the road going to and from Heber City. The girls
slept in the wagon and Joe slept on the ground under the wagon.
Also they shucked corn for a neighbor and he gave them the shucks to make ticks
for their beds. Another time they gathered milk weeds for the ticks for the beds. Another
thing they did to help out was to gather ground cherries and scald them in lye, then they
were ready to be sold.
What did they do for light at night. Flora explains that they would dip a rag in
tallow and place it on a tin dish. This kind of light was called a bitch light. Flora related
that many a night she held this light till twelve and one o'clock in the morning so that her
mother could see to quilt. Her mother did this to get cloth to make the children clothes.
How happy they were when they could afford candles for light. Her mother had bought
these candles after she had made a quilt and sold it. Flora tells the story, "This is the way
we got the third light. I helped an old lady, one of our neighbors take her cows to the
pasture and when we returned back home, we stopped at her house. She ask me to come
in . She said that her mother and sent her a present and she wanted me to have it. When
she gave it to me (it was a coal oil lamp), I cried and cried because I was so happy to get
such a gift." From that time until the time this sweet neighbor died, Flora's mother let her
take a loaf of homemade bread to her every week.
When Flora was sixteen years old, she went to work for her Uncle Andrew Ross.
She lived with them for several years. It was here that Robert Shaw and Flora Jane Smith
met. After a wonderful courtship they decided to get married. They drove from Kanosh
to Springville to tell her parents. Her Uncle Andrew and Aunt Sack Ross went with them.
In Springville her parents joined them and they went all the way to Salt Lake City where
they were married in the Endowment house on December 27, 1876. What a thrilling
Christmas that must have been.
This young couple moved with the Shaw relative to Elsinore, Utah. They
homesteaded a farm just across the Sevier River from Elsinore. Soon, they had a ranch in
the mountains between Elsinore and Kanosh. Robert loved ranching. They raised horse
and cattle. His oldest son, Robert William would often help him on the Ranch, in fact he
grew up riding the range with his father. This union was blessed with seven children.
However two children died in the same night from Diphtheria, Alexander and Henrieta.
Robert was a good father, but about 1897, he separated from his sweetheart and
went to live in Kanosh. Flora, in order to support her family took care of the sick and
traveled many miles to take care of a mother and baby. She helped many a baby to come
into the world. She also took in washing and ironing and cleaned houses for fifty cents a
day. Robert died in Salt Lake City on November 2, 1902.
Flora went on with her life, and on December 21, 1910 she married her husbands
brother James Ferguson Shaw in the Manti Temple. They lived in Elsinore for several
years, then they moved to Joseph to take care of her Uncle Andrew Ross at his home.
When he passed away, they continued to live at his home until James took a stoke and for
twelve years was unable to work until he died. A year after James died, Flora fell and
broke her arm, some ribs and the collar bone. After this happened, she went to live with
her youngest daughter, Ora Warnock in Idaho Falls. She also made some visits to her
oldest daughter who lived in Victor. She lived with Ora for eight years. She complained
of being tired and wanted to lie down. She passed away in her sleep at the age of eighty
one January 3, 1941 at her daughter Ora's home in Idaho Falls, Idaho.


Compiled by John Shaw, 4589 W. 1650 N. Ogden, Utah 84404, 801-731-7674
Credit must be given to Ora Shaw Warnock who took Care of her mother during those
eight years, during which time she was able to gain lots of information and history.
Thanks Ora...!BIRTH PLACE-possibly Garnkirk,Lanark,Scotland but the Church Records say
!BIRTH place is Myremailing,Calder,Lanark,Scotland

!BIRTH PLACE-possibly Garnkirk,Lanark,Scotland but the Church Records say
!BIRTH place is Myremailing,Calder,Lanark,Scotland

History of Robert Shaw and Flora Jane Smith

Robert was born in Garnkirk, Lanark, Scotland, just a few miles out of Glasgow
on December 6,1852. Just a year or so before his family had moved to Garnkirk. They
had been contacted by the Mormon missionaries and had accepted the Gospel of Jesus
Christ and had been baptized. He had four older siblings, Jane, Elizabeth, Christina and
James F. (It would have been five but Agnes died as a baby in 1850).
During the next few years, they endured lots of persecution from relatives, old
friends and neighbors. Then on January 29, 1859, his father Alexander was involved in an
accident and died in Kilsyth. He was nearly 53 years old. Then not four years later, his
sister Christina died in 1863. Then in 1864, he got his turn to be baptized. He was twelve
years old and was happy to join the true church. They did not have very much. But they
did survive. Jane, the oldest had to go to work at an early age to help the family budget.
They wanted to go to Zion(Utah), but did not have the money. Because they were thrifty
they were able to save some money. Finally in 1868, because of their own thrift and also
generosity within the church and the push from the church to help the poor saint of
Europe, they were able to go to Utah.
This trip started with the long journey to Liverpool, England. They were given
passage on the packet ship "Constitution". William Hatten was the Captain of the ship.
He was easy to get along with and thus made the trip fairly enjoyable. He even went out
of his way to help the Saints celebrate July 24th. This was the last sailing ship to bring a
large Mormon emigrant company across the Atlantic. There were 457 Saints on board.
Elder Harvey H. Cluff was the President of the company. Some were from Switzerland,
Bavaria, Wurttemberg, the Netherlands and of course the British Isles. It took 42 days to
cross the Atlantic. No one died on the journey, but some were sick. The food wasn't
exactly the best. Some tell about the "hardtack" they had to eat rather than good old
bread. Elizabeth's son especially makes comments. He was so seasick, that he promised
the Lord if He wouldn't ask him to go across the ocean again, he would do all he could to
further the cause of the gospel and live its laws. He was 21 years old at this time. The
records verify that he fulfilled this promise.
They arrived in New York on August 6, 1868. The next leg of the journey was by
rail. Immigrants traveling west set up housekeeping in crowded railroad cars, sometimes
called "Zulu cars". They travel by rail to Benton, Wyoming. In Benton, they were
assigned to Capt. John Gillespie's ox train of 54 wagons. They left Benton on August
15th. Many appreciated Elizabeth because she was always cheerful and happy. They
arrived in Salt Lake on August 24th.
They first settled in Coalville. They lived there eight years. During these years his
older brothers and sisters married. Agnes married Leaviett Munson November 24, 1868.
Also the young Elizabeth married Samuel Fletcher on October 31, 1870. Jane became the
plural wife of John Allan. Also James F. fell in love with Margaret Robertson. They went
to Salt Lake and were married in the Endowment House. His mother Elizabeth came with
them also. She was able receive her endowments. This occurred on September 5,1870.
This was a very special occasion.
In 1876, Elizabeth, James F and his family and of course Robert moved to
Richfield, Utah. While they were there they lived the United Order.

Flora Jane Smith was born 29 May 1860 in Springville, Utah, the daughter of
William Smith and Polly Marie Perry. She was the fifth child of eleven. Her father had
built the first adobe house with a board floor in Springville and her brother William Riley
Smith was the first child born in Springville. Her parents had no stove so they cooked
over a fireplace. They rarely had matches in those days, so at night they would cover the
coals with ashes to hold them until morning. But if the coals went out in the night, they
would have to watch to see whose house had smoke coming from the chimney, then the
children would be sent to borrow some live coals to start the fire again. Their home had
two rooms on the main floor and one on the second or in the attic. Their chairs were
made by her Uncle Stephen Perry. They had a table, cubboard, three beds and a wash
stand made out of a box, a lounge they had bought from Jane Packard and a sewing
machine which they had bought on an installment plan. To pay for the machine they took
in washings and hired out to wash and do house cleaning for those who could afford these
services. They money they earned went to pay for the machine and other important items
for the family. Flora says that she remembered picking wool from fences and washing it,
then her mother would card it and make her a dress out of it. As soon as Flora was old
enough, she hired out for work to help support herself and her family. Others in the
family did the same.
Her first school teacher was Aaron Johnson, who was also her Bishop. They
attended school in one room of his house. They used slates to write their lesions on and
only the teacher had books. They were taught reading, writing, spelling and arithmetic. If
anyone got into trouble on the school grounds or in the classroom the teacher would take
us on his lap and cut our fingernails with his pocketknife.
Their dresses were mostly made out of calico and their stockings were mostly
cotton or hand knit out of wool yarn that her mother used to spin after the children had
been put to bed. Their shoes were very course and only one pair per year. They went
barefoot during the summer. Her father made her first pair of shoes.
One year they had a fire. They lost the house and hay. They managed to save a
1/2 load of hay. Her older brothers and sisters worked for hay the rest of the fall to feed
their two cows and two horses. The younger children (this included Flora Jane), who
were able, gleaned wheat and grain in the fields. They did this while herding cows. One
day her and her sister Lucy were gleaning grain. They wore oil cloth aprons and when
they got these full, they would empty them into a seamless sack and carry it back home.
Then they would wait for a windy day, then they would tromp the grain and let the wind
blow the chaff away. Also this the winter that the house burned down, they lived on
cornbread and molasses and peach preserves made with molasses and some milk.
Lucy, Joe and Flora Jane gathered potwattmy plubs and took them to Heber City,
Utah by Wagon to sell them for twenty five cents a peck. They sold enough to buy
shingles for their house. They slept on the road going to and from Heber City. The girls
slept in the wagon and Joe slept on the ground under the wagon.
Also they shucked corn for a neighbor and he gave them the shucks to make ticks
for their beds. Another time they gathered milk weeds for the ticks for the beds. Another
thing they did to help out was to gather ground cherries and scald them in lye, then they
were ready to be sold.
What did they do for light at night. Flora explains that they would dip a rag in
tallow and place it on a tin dish. This kind of light was called a bitch light. Flora related
that many a night she held this light till twelve and one o'clock in the morning so that her
mother could see to quilt. Her mother did this to get cloth to make the children clothes.
How happy they were when they could afford candles for light. Her mother had bought
these candles after she had made a quilt and sold it. Flora tells the story, "This is the way
we got the third light. I helped an old lady, one of our neighbors take her cows to the
pasture and when we returned back home, we stopped at her house. She ask me to come
in . She said that her mother and sent her a present and she wanted me to have it. When
she gave it to me (it was a coal oil lamp), I cried and cried because I was so happy to get
such a gift." From that time until the time this sweet neighbor died, Flora's mother let her
take a loaf of homemade bread to her every week.
When Flora was sixteen years old, she went to work for her Uncle Andrew Ross.
She lived with them for several years. It was here that Robert Shaw and Flora Jane Smith
met. After a wonderful courtship they decided to get married. They drove from Kanosh
to Springville to tell her parents. Her Uncle Andrew and Aunt Sack Ross went with them.
In Springville her parents joined them and they went all the way to Salt Lake City where
they were married in the Endowment house on December 27, 1876. What a thrilling
Christmas that must have been.
This young couple moved with the Shaw relative to Elsinore, Utah. They
homesteaded a farm just across the Sevier River from Elsinore. Soon, they had a ranch in
the mountains between Elsinore and Kanosh. Robert loved ranching. They raised horse
and cattle. His oldest son, Robert William would often help him on the Ranch, in fact he
grew up riding the range with his father. This union was blessed with seven children.
However two children died in the same night from Diphtheria, Alexander and Henrieta.
Robert was a good father, but about 1897, he separated from his sweetheart and
went to live in Kanosh. Flora, in order to support her family took care of the sick and
traveled many miles to take care of a mother and baby. She helped many a baby to come
into the world. She also took in washing and ironing and cleaned houses for fifty cents a
day. Robert died in Salt Lake City on November 2, 1902.
Flora went on with her life, and on December 21, 1910 she married her husbands
brother James Ferguson Shaw in the Manti Temple. They lived in Elsinore for several
years, then they moved to Joseph to take care of her Uncle Andrew Ross at his home.
When he passed away, they continued to live at his home until James took a stoke and for
twelve years was unable to work until he died. A year after James died, Flora fell and
broke her arm, some ribs and the collar bone. After this happened, she went to live with
her youngest daughter, Ora Warnock in Idaho Falls. She also made some visits to her
oldest daughter who lived in Victor. She lived with Ora for eight years. She complained
of being tired and wanted to lie down. She passed away in her sleep at the age of eighty
one January 3, 1941 at her daughter Ora's home in Idaho Falls, Idaho.


Compiled by John Shaw, 4589 W. 1650 N. Ogden, Utah 84404, 801-731-7674
Credit must be given to Ora Shaw Warnock who took Care of her mother during those
eight years, during which time she was able to gain lots of information and history.
Thanks Ora...!BIRTH PLACE-possibly Garnkirk,Lanark,Scotland but the Church Records say
!BIRTH place is Myremailing,Calder,Lanark,Scotland
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Robert married Flora Jane Smith, daughter of William D. Smith and Polly Marie Perry, on 27 Dec 1877 in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah. (Flora Jane Smith was born on 29 May 1860 in Springville, UT., Utah, died on 3 Jan 1941 in Idaho Falls, Bonneville, ID and was buried on 8 Jan 1941 in Springville, Utah, UT.)

Robert also married Margret Ann Hall on 26 Jul 1901 in Salt Lake ¹. (Margret Ann Hall was born on 11 May 1851 in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, UT, died on 9 May 1933 in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, UT and was buried in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, UT.)