BIO: David H. SHIVERY, Centre County, PA Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by JRB Copyright 2009. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/centre/ http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/centre/1picts/commbios/comm-bios.htm _____________________________________________________________________ Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania: Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion: Containing Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens, Etc. Chicago: J. H. Beers, 1898. _____________________________________________________________________ DAVID H. SHIVERY, of Benner township, Centre county, was born in 1859, on the farm on which be now makes his home, a son of Andrew J. and Jane (Wilson) Shivery, both of whom were of German descent. The father, also a native of Centre county, was born in 1828, and spent his entire life here engaged in agricultural pursuits. He was called to the home beyond in 1893, at the age of sixty-five years, but his wife, who was born in 1828, is still living. They had a family of four children, namely: David H.; George B., a practicing physician of Woodland, Clearfield Co., Penn., who married Bessie Dale, and has two children; and Margaret E. and Sallie E., who reside with their mother in Bellefonte. The boyhood days of David H. Shivery passed quietly and uneventfully. He remained under the parental roof and assisted his father in the development of the home farm during the summer months, while in the winter season he attended the public schools, completing his education in an academy in Bellefonte. The occupation to which he was reared, he has made his life work, and his early experience well fitted him for his present duties. His landed possessions aggregate 140 acres, the greater part of which is under a high state of cultivation. The latest improved machinery is used in planting and caring for his crops, substantial outbuildings shelter his grain and stock, and a comfortable residence forms the hospitable home of his family. He is progressive in his methods of farming, systematic in the management of his affairs, and energetic in the prosecution of his business. Enterprise and industry are the predominant traits in his character, and have been the stepping stones on which he has risen to a place among the substantial citizens of the community. He has only been once beyond the boundaries of Pennsylvania, in the summer of 1893 visiting the World's Columbian Exposition at Chicago. A man of intelligence and genuine worth, he is recognized as a valued citizen of the community. On February 16, 1882, Mr. Shivery was united in marriage with Miss Mary Etta Marshall, a native of Centre county, as were also her parents. They had three children: Joseph Lawrence, Andrew J. and Russell Burton. The last named died February 11, 1895 (at the age of four years), of congestion of the brain caused by an attack of measles. On November 23, 1897, Joseph Lawrence, the elder of the other two, had climbed a tree in pursuit of squirrels, but while standing on a decayed limb it broke, and he was precipitated to the ground, a distance of some forty feet, whereby his neck was broken, death ensuing instantly. He was born August 30, 1884, and was consequently thirteen years, two months and twenty-four days old at the time of the fatal accident. 258 COMMEMORATIVE BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. IN MEMORY OF JOSEPH LAWRENCE SHIVERY. The autumn leaves were gold and red, The summer birds had flown, When Lawrence's spirit took its flight To worlds of joy unknown. He was dashed down so cruelly; We gathered by his side - In agony we stood about When we found that he had died. When smoothing down his glossy locks, We laid his hands to rest, From all the cares and toils of earth, Upon his manly breast. His voice, his step, no more we hear, At morning's early gleam; But on his face a farewell smile, As if in pleasant dream. His body sleeps upon a hill, Beside his little brother, And may his spirit rest in peace Forever and forever. We miss thee from our home, dear - We miss thee from thy place; A shadow o'er our life is cast - We miss the sunshine of thy face. We miss thy kind and willing hand, Thy fond and earnest care; Our home is dark without thee - We miss thee everywhere.