Miss Martha Medford

Miss Martha Medford

Women

Martha Elenore Medford Shook (1878-1919) is the first wife of Cephus Fanning Shook (1875-1957). Cephus is the son of Henry Clay Shook and Eugenia Evans Shook, and the great, great grandson of Jacob Shook (1749-1839) and Isabella Weitzell Shook (1749-1834). After serving in the American Revolutionary War, Jacob Shook and his wife bought land and settled along the Pigeon River in what is now Clyde, N.C. Shook built the earliest known frame dwelling in the area which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Shook-Welch-Smathers House.

Shook Family Photographs

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64131

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Haywood County (N.C.)

5.25" x 3.5"(dimension)

Picturing Appalachia