John Wesley Sheally

GEDCOM Note

David Starke Perry's baby book shows John's last name spelled Shelly. Raleigh Crumbliss thinks it is spelled with an "a". I'm not sure if Meriwether was Lucy's middle name or her married name.

According to Ronald Sheally, a nephew of "Aunt Pink", there were 4 sons belonging to John Wesley...and I obviously don't have them all listed.

Quote from R.L. Sheally: "According to John Wesley's will, he gave each of his daughters $500.00 cash when they were married and $500.00 to each son when they turned 21. I don't know where Pink was born but I do know that none were born in Eufaula and I also feel very sure all eight of John Wesley's children were born in Alabama. The only census I haven't been able to find on the whole life of John Wesley is the 1870 census and am not sure where they were living then but it was probably in Macon Co. or Barbour Co.. I thank you for the information you sent to me. Nobody in the Sheally line that I know of has a picture of Tom nor of Pink. Does any exist? By the way, do you know what happened to Lucille? Sheally Road is in Lee Co. and your niece, Susan, lives just about 40 miles west of that Road on which lives a Mrs. Denise (Roy Daniel) Shealy interested in the family history and has aided my search greatly". Naturally I have a number of questions I would like to ask of you and hope you won't mind if I ask one here. Pink had three sisters. One, Mollie married a William F. Perry. Do you know if there was any relation between John Starke Perry and William F. Perry? Two, does anyone in your line know of any descendants of the three sisters? I know who they married and the names of their children but thats all I know."

Sources include: Rev. George B. Sheally 201 W. S. Boundary Street Walhalla, SC 29691

John Windell Shealy was the first of the name that came from the old country to this. A man named John Adam Epting brought over a small colony from the city of Heidelberg, consisting of Shealy, Leitzey, Setzler, Cromer and Myer, in the year 1763. They were all Lutherans, and were among the founders of the present St. John's Church. John Windell Shealy married Miss Epting, daughter of Mr. Epting, the pioneer of the colony, in the year 1770, and settIed near where W. C. Shealy now lives. The fruits of this union were twelve sons and one daughter. I can give the names of only eight of these sons; the others I have never learned. Windell, William, Adam, John, Henry, Matthias, David and Andrew. Of these, William, Windell and David married Wertses; Andrew married a Miss Sawyer, and the daughter a Mr. Quattlebaum. Whom the other sons married, if they ever married, I am unable to say. Mr. Shealy, the pioneer, died in the year 1814, and was buried near the place where he first settled. He lived long enough to see all his sons fully grown; and they were all strong, robust men. They stood six feet in height, and the least and lightest one of them weighed 175 pounds. In those days, when men defended themselves, on all ordinary occasions, with the weapons given them by nature, these twelve brothers, if they felt their rights assailed, could have given any other twelve, or more, a lively tussle. Mr. Shealy owned all the lands in and around Little Mountain at that time, and settled not a few of his children on them; hence this is tbe Mecca of the Shealys. Within a few hundred yards of the residence of Mr. W. C. Shealy is the spring of fresh, cool, clear, bubbling water used by the original John Windell Shealy, and it still has in it a portion of the gum placed there by Mr. Shealy over one hundred and twenty years ago. The men of this family, like others who are the salt of the earth, are farmers, cultivators of the soil, and attend to tbeir own business and let others alone. Some of them are preachers of the gospel, ministers in the Lutheran Church - they are all Lutherans - and one is a teacher of youth, whom I have heard mentioned as a man of large brain and heart, but of small body, like my friend Squire Padgett of Edgefield. This part of Newberry before, and even after, the war was regarded as the poor portion of the county; but it has been made to bloom as the rose, and is now regarded as the most independent portion. This result has been brought about by hard and strenuous labor. There are Shealys who started after the war without means, who are now independent. Could the original Shealy rise from the grave, and from the tops of the highest hills look over the surrounding country, no doubt he would be filled with wonder at the great and beneficent change The forests have given place to well cultivated fields; schools flourish; churches are established, and the 'Word is dispensed to waiting and willing souls; the country is prosperous and happy; and much of this good is due, under divine Providence, to the Shealys and to the example set by them.

GEDCOM Note

David Starke Perry's baby book shows John's last name spelled Shelly. Raleigh Crumbliss thinks it is spelled with an "a". I'm not sure if Meriwether was Lucy's middle name or her married name.

According to Ronald Sheally, a nephew of "Aunt Pink", there were 4 sons belonging to John Wesley...and I obviously don't have them all listed.

Quote from R.L. Sheally: "According to John Wesley's will, he gave each of his daughters $500.00 cash when they were married and $500.00 to each son when they turned 21. I don't know where Pink was born but I do know that none were born in Eufaula and I also feel very sure all eight of John Wesley's children were born in Alabama. The only census I haven't been able to find on the whole life of John Wesley is the 1870 census and am not sure where they were living then but it was probably in Macon Co. or Barbour Co.. I thank you for the information you sent to me. Nobody in the Sheally line that I know of has a picture of Tom nor of Pink. Does any exist? By the way, do you know what happened to Lucille? Sheally Road is in Lee Co. and your niece, Susan, lives just about 40 miles west of that Road on which lives a Mrs. Denise (Roy Daniel) Shealy interested in the family history and has aided my search greatly". Naturally I have a number of questions I would like to ask of you and hope you won't mind if I ask one here. Pink had three sisters. One, Mollie married a William F. Perry. Do you know if there was any relation between John Starke Perry and William F. Perry? Two, does anyone in your line know of any descendants of the three sisters? I know who they married and the names of their children but thats all I know."

Sources include: Rev. George B. Sheally 201 W. S. Boundary Street Walhalla, SC 29691

John Windell Shealy was the first of the name that came from the old country to this. A man named John Adam Epting brought over a small colony from the city of Heidelberg, consisting of Shealy, Leitzey, Setzler, Cromer and Myer, in the year 1763. They were all Lutherans, and were among the founders of the present St. John's Church. John Windell Shealy married Miss Epting, daughter of Mr. Epting, the pioneer of the colony, in the year 1770, and settIed near where W. C. Shealy now lives.
The fruits of this union were twelve sons and one daughter. I can give the names of only eight of these sons; the others I have never learned. Windell, William, Adam, John, Henry, Matthias, David and Andrew. Of these, William, Windell and David married Wertses; Andrew married a Miss Sawyer, and the daughter a Mr. Quattlebaum. Whom the other sons married, if they ever married, I am unable to say.
Mr. Shealy, the pioneer, died in the year 1814, and was
buried near the place where he first settled. He lived long enough to see all his sons fully grown; and they were all strong, robust men. They stood six feet in height, and the least and lightest one of them weighed 175 pounds. In those days, when men defended themselves, on all ordinary occasions, with the weapons given them by nature, these twelve brothers, if they felt their rights assailed, could have given any other twelve, or more, a lively tussle.
Mr. Shealy owned all the lands in and around Little Mountain at that time, and settled not a few of his children on them; hence this is tbe Mecca of the Shealys. Within a few hundred yards of the residence of Mr. W. C. Shealy is the spring of fresh, cool, clear, bubbling water used by the original John Windell Shealy, and it still has in it a portion of the gum placed there by Mr. Shealy over one hundred and twenty years ago. The men of this family, like others who are the salt of the earth, are farmers, cultivators of the soil, and attend to tbeir own business and let others alone. Some of them are preachers of the gospel, ministers in the Lutheran Church - they are all Lutherans - and one is a teacher of youth, whom I have heard mentioned as a man of large brain and heart, but of small body, like my friend Squire Padgett of Edgefield.
This part of Newberry before, and even after, the war was regarded as the poor portion of the county; but it has been made to bloom as the rose, and is now regarded as the most independent portion. This result has been brought about by
hard and strenuous labor. There are Shealys who started after the war without means, who are now independent. Could the original Shealy rise from the grave, and from the tops of the
highest hills look over the surrounding country, no doubt he would be filled with wonder at the great and beneficent change
The forests have given place to well cultivated fields; schools flourish; churches are established, and the 'Word is dispensed to waiting and willing souls; the country is prosperous and happy; and much of this good is due, under divine Providence, to the Shealys and to the example set by them.