Ionia-Eaton County MI Archives Biographies.....SHAY, Ephraim ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/mi/mifiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: LaVonne Bennett lib@dogsbark.com February 12, 2007, 12:32 pm Author: THE SEBEWA RECOLLECTOR, August 1976, Volume 12, Number 1; submitted with written permission of current Editor Grayden D. Slowins THE SHAY MARKERS: As noted in these pages previously there is a State Historical Marker at Harbor Springs devoted to Ephraim Shay and his activities there. A few years ago when I visited the Harbor Springs cemetery there was a large boulder with the Shay name inscribed to mark the Shay lot. There was also a government issue marker for Ephraim Shay that gave his Civil War rank. Recently the Slowins family visited the Cadillac park where there is a Shay Locomotive on display. They also went to Haring immediately north of Cadillac where Shay once was in the lumbering business and developed his ideas for the locomotive. Then they visited the Harbor Springs cemetery and took photos of the new stone markers on the Shay lot. The stones show that Ephraim died in 1916. His wife, Jane (Henderson) Shay, was born in 1841 and died in 1912. Their son, Lette Shay, was born in 1870 and died in 1934. His wife, Kathryn (Roe) Shay was born in 1872 and died in 1934. Their daughter, Kathryn (Shay) Morrill was born in 1894 and died in 1975. Her husband, Donald M. Morrill was born in 1894 and died in 1964. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/ionia/bios/shay489gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/mifiles/ File size: 1.8 Kb