Tallapoosa County AlArchives Photo person.....Mary Elizabeth Shockley, Wife of John Ezekial "Zeke" Abbott/Abbett 1890-1895
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Sandra S. Wilson earlwilson1@charter.net June 1, 2004, 6:17 pm

Source: Abbott/Abbett Family Records
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Mary Elizabeth Shockley, daughter of John Shockley and Lurilla Smith, was born 
January 1835, probably in Pike County, Georgia, since the Shockley’s were 
early settlers in that county. Mary Elizabeth is the granddaughter of a 
veteran of the War of 1812, Michael Leonard Shockley, who married Frances 
O’Rear, in December 1808, Greene County, Georgia. She is also the great-
granddaughter of Revolutionary War soldier, Jonathan Shockley of the Richard 
Shockley and Ann Boyden lineage of Somerset, Maryland.

It is interesting that Mary Elizabeth Shockley is also the great-granddaughter 
of Revolutionary War soldier Daniel O’Rear of the John O’Rear, (Stafford 
County, Virginia) lineage, and Susan Gouch/Gooch, a daughter of the prominent 
Gouch/Gooch family of Virginia and North Carolina.  Daniel O’Rear served in 
Colonel Patrick Henry’s Virginia Regiment, and a son, Robert O’Rear, was in 
the Battle of the Horse-Shoe (Horseshoe Bend, Dadeville, Alabama), and the 
Battle of New Orleans in January 1815.  

Mary Elizabeth Shockley married John Ezekial “Zeke” Abbott/Abbett, March 5, 
1856, in Pike County, Georgia, and sometime between 1856-1860 they moved to 
Tallapoosa County, Alabama, and raised a large family. Mary Elizabeth Shockley 
died April 6, 1912, and is buried beside her husband in an unmarked grave at 
Eagle Creek Baptist Church Cemetery, Dadeville, Alabama.





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