Hey Stephen,
I'm excited about going back out to Frances Shiflett's property for another hike. Have you tried contacting anyone that was a part of the documented hike to the Hill/Shiflett/Powell cemetery back in 2000 (per the H/S/P web site: http://www.mycemeterysite.com/hsp/hsp2index.htm)? I'd bet those people could provide some tremendous insight into the property and its history.
I was just looking through the list of burials in the Evergreen Church Cemetery here: http://www.mycemeterysite.com/evergreen/evrgrnindex.htm, and I found an interesting name on one of the stones. Take a look: http://www.mycemeterysite.com/evergreen/images/shiflet/floyd_mildred.JPG.
What do you think the chances are that Floyd Allen Shiflett could have been named after Floyd Allen of Carroll County (executed in 1913)? Based on the birth date of Floyd Allen Shiflett's wife, I'd put him being born right around 1900...Floyd Allen of Carroll would have been close to 50 years old at that time. I know it's a stretch, but could there have been some kind of connection between the Carroll County Allen's and the folks in the mountains of Rockingham and Greene Counties back in those days? Is it possible that they were running alcohol up and down the mountains of western Virginia? It is known that illegal distillers were very common around the turn of the century in Carroll County, VA. And it is suspected that the Allen family...particularly Sidna Allen...earned a pretty good living producing and distributing illegal alcohol.
Could this 'trade route' be the link to why/how Frances Shiflett ended up going from Carroll County "back to" Rockingham County, as George Allen's account states?
Just a thought. Let me know yours.
--Russ
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From: Russ Shaw
ReplyDeleteSubject: Re: Evergreen Cemetery
To: "Stephen Shaw"
Date: Friday, September 3, 2010, 12:04 PM
Whoa! That's weird! Just so you know, Claude Allen was the son of Floyd Allen and he was born in 1889. Both were executed in Richmond in 1913.
So now we've got a Floyd Allen born in 1856 in Carroll County and a Floyd Shiflett born in 1908 in Rockingham County.
And we have a Claude Allen, son of Floyd Allen, born in 1889 in Carroll County and a Floyd Shiflett, brother of Claude Shifflet, born in Rockingham County abt. 1912 or 1913...the year Claude Allen was executed (found him on Ancestry.com).
I think we've got a connection here! What do you think?
---Russ
From: Stephen Shaw
To: Russ Shaw
Sent: Fri, September 3, 2010 10:44:44 AM
Subject: Re: Evergreen Cemetery
I did a couple Google searches and found an obit that states that Floyd Allen Shifflett was born around 1908. He was the son of Daniel T Shifflett. An interesting note...Floyd Shifflett had a brother named Claude. Coincidence?