Looking for info on Shove family and Shove homestead
Our property off of Town Hill Road contains an old foundation referred to on the survey map at the “Shove Homestead”.
I’d appreciate any info on this old Warren family and details regarding the family’s home (now just a cellar hole, well, and enclosed “yard” surrounded by stonewalls).
Thanks,
Jed Struckus
March 11th, 2006 at 9:30 pm
Tom Paul - Oct 20, 2003
From Warren Vital Records:
Samuel Shove, 23, married Jenet M. Barnum, 18 on 15 April 1849. He listed his occupation as peddler.
From the Warren Church register:
Dr. Seth Shove married Irene Pulford 17 Nove. 1829
These are the children of Heman and Olive Shove:
Henry Ervin bapt. 4 Aug 1833
Seth Bapt. 10 Nov. 1829
Thelos Sanford Bapt. 23 Sept. 1828
Garwood W. Shove
Dec. 2, 1869 – Nov. 30, 1912
and his wife
Louise M. Buhrer
June 22, 1874
are buried at St. Bridget Cemetery in Cornwall Bridge
August 2nd, 2006 at 3:53 pm
I am looking for the parents of Laura Shove, said to have been born about 1804 in Warren, Litchfield Co., Connecticut. Said to be daughter of Seth Shove and Patience Barber, but I have not found confirmation of that. Her surname is also sometimes given as “Shovelshoaf” and I would like to know why? She married Julius C. Swift abt 1821 at Warren, CT.
Have you any record of her? and can you account for the name “Shovelshoaf”? It is a real puzzler.
Thanks from Elizabeth Engle
Edmonds, Washington
March 24th, 2007 at 12:35 am
Probably a confusion of pronunciation, written as “SHOVE / SHOAF” but misread somewhere along the line. In our Shove family the name has always been pronounced to rhyme with drove”, not “love”.