1     Adeline "Addie" Jickling (1848-1919)

Addie was born to Robert and Julia on 1 Oct 1848, just ten months after they were married. The Census of 1870 lists her as a school teacher, age 22. On 1 May 1883 she married Frederick "Fred" Shay.

Fred Shay had been born 10 Apr 1844 in Allegan County, Michigan where his father had settled after coming from New York State to Michigan in the 1830s. His mother Mary Patterson had come from Virginia. On 8 Aug 1862, Fred enlisted at age 18 in Company D of the 17th Michigan Infantry. He fought at South Mountain and Antietam in Maryland and at Fredericksburg in Virginia. He was then transferred to Kentucky where he fought with Grant at Vicksburg and later at Knoxville. He also fought at the Battle of the Wilderness and Spottsylvania Courthouse in Virginia again, where he was taken prisoner on 12 May 1864 and sent to the infamous Andersonville prison. Later he was transferred to prisons at Florence, Wilmington and Goldsboro, N.C. He was exchanged on 2 Feb 1865, weighing only 100 lbs. He was hospitalized for a month and mustered out in June 1865. Fred then worked 12 years for the Nichols and Shepard Threshing Co. of Battle Creek.

Fred and Addie bought a farm in sections 31 and 32 of Richland township in 1886. In 1906 their 80 acres were valued at $3,500. Fred also served as postmaster and as school assessor. They had one son: Harry.

Addie died on 1 Jan 1919 and was buried near her parents in the Riverside Cemetery, Kalamazoo.

1-1     Harry Shay (1885-1905)

Harry Shay was born 26 Jan 1885 to Fred and Addie Jickling Shay. He died of tuberculosis about 1905.