b. October 1833, d. 1915
| Birth | Oct 1833 | Frank John Shaver was born in Oct 1833 in Virginia.2 |
| Childhood | | Frank spent his youth in Smyth County, Virginia. About 1853 he left home and spent several years working in Nebraska.3 |
| Military | | He returned to Virginia in 1860 and in the spring of 1861 enlisted in Company "B", 29th Virginia Infantry. Frank served until he was discharged after Lee's surrender. At that time he was sent to Washington DC, and was in the city on April 14th, 1865 - the night President Lincoln was shot. When the Confederate prisoners left Washington they had to be guarded until they were several miles outside of the city as some of the population believed they were behind the assasination. Many years later Frank expressed the opinion that slavery was detrimental to the best interests of the country and that many of the soldiers in the confederate army fought just because they had faith in their leaders.3 |
| Marriage | 2 Feb 1870 | He married Elizabeth Scott, daughter of Robert Scott and Martha Scott, on 2 Feb 1870 in Washington County, Virginia.4 |
| | Frank was a resident of Atchison County, Missouri at the time of the couple's marriage and they returned there to settle on a farm in Tarkio township. Elizabeth gave birth to 4 children, 3 of whom were alive in 1880. The couple also provided a home for Charles Scott [the son of Elizabeth's deceased brother William].4,5 |
| Legatee | 1885 | Elizabeth's father wrote his will in 1885, leaving her 1/6 of his estate after specific gifts were made (including $200 to Elizabeth's daughter Mattie to be used for her education). The will also included the following, "Bettie Shaver is to be charged with $54 without interest which her husband got of my money from Wyndham & Frank Robertson... in no event is it to be paid to her husband or to be in any way liable for his debts."6 |
| | Frank and Elizabeth crossed the nearby Iowa border prior to 1900 and settled in Fremont County. There the couple owned their own home in the community of Hamburg where Frank was employed as a driver for the Star Route [a postal delivery route served by a private contractor]. As late as 1910 their two youngest daughters (Myrtle and Mattie) were single and living at home. Myrtle worked in a dry goods store and Mattie taught school.2,1 |
| Death | 1915 | Frank died in 1915.7 |
| Burial | | He was buried in Hamburg Cemetery. His stone notes that he was a Confederate veteran and a member of Pickett's Division.7 |