The Shrader Family   

        Genealogy 

Information researched and compiled and received from Don Shrader with additional information added by  Peggy Hurst. 

Thanks Don!

    The numbers are the generation numbers - #1 is as far back as we can go back at this time. 

      2. Shrader, George, born abt 1750’s; md  22 June 1797  

          in Amherst Co., VA.,  Aggy Logan.

     2.  Shrader, Anna Maria “Mary”, born about 1765 in/of     

          Amherst Co., VA., md John Hager, Sr., served in American  

          Revolution. 

      2.   Shrader, Daniel, II born 1771

           3. Shrader, Daniel born 24 Mar 1798 in VA;, 

3  Shrader, Daniel, Sr. born 24 Mar 1798 in VA; (His great  

    grandparents were from Germany) died 7 July 1887 at 89 

    years of age; md Martha Patricia “Patsy” Blancett, b 12 

    Oct/Nov 1800 in KY; dau of Peter and Lucy Blancett. d 4 

    July  1884 in Jackson Co., AL  

       Daniel Shrader,  on December  12,  1816,  sold his farm 

    and land, 107 acres of  land & 91 acres and 6 acres. to Philip     

    Thurmond of Bluefield, VA. This is when Daniel and his brother 

    Henry decided to leave Amherst   Co., VA which now is Bluefield, 

    VA, to move to AL.   

       There was also a man named George Shrader which was on the  

   census report of 1810, who remained in Bluefield, VA because he   

   was listed on the next Census report taken 1820 after they  

   had departed.

        When they reached TN they had to settle there for several  

    years, because of the birth of his two sons.  Henry was the name 

    of his first son of which I am a descendent and he was born in 

    Bell Buckle,  TN on 2 Oct 1821, and he was named after his  

    father’s brother Henry, who was traveling with him and who

    settled there, in that part of  TN.  A lot of his descendents still 

    live in that area today.   

    There are as many Shraders that live in that part of TN and are  

    buried there as there are in Alabama today, which is where my   

    ancestors came to.    

   When  Henry grew up and got married and had children, he named  

   his first son George  (born 19 May 1843) which leads one to  

   conclude the George in VA was his Dad’s brother because Daniel, 

   Jr. (his 2^nd  son that was born Sept 1822 ) also named one of 

   his son’s George, born in 1875.

   On 8 Oct 1822 Daniel bought 390 acres from Thomas Hopkins  

   registered 20 Oct 1823 (Warren Co. TN Deed Book pg 398).   

   Daniel decided to move to AL where the land was plentiful because  

   they were moving or (forcing) the Indians off their land, and  

   about 1/3 of  Alabama was still an Indian reservation.  This was  

   when the Trail of Tears happened.   

      They crossed the Tennessee river into AL and stopped in      

     Huntsville,   AL for supplies and directions as to where the 

     land that was coming available was located.  So they set out in 

     that direction and started looking for a suitable home with 

     plenty of water.  Daniel Shrader, Sr. was the first to  find water, 

     so he fired his gun up into the air to  signal to the others he 

     found water, as they had agreed to do.  His gun shot led the 

     others to the spring at New Hope, AL. He was the first white 

     man to drink from that spring.  They came back later to settle  

     there close to New Hope near where Bob Barrentine barn   

     now stands.  On Sept 1, 1848 he  acquired 39.68 ¼ acres of 

     land in  Jackson County, AL.,  Certificate or  warrant #10663.

     4.  Shrader, Henry, born 2 Oct 1822, son of the above Daniel,  

        1 in Bell Buckle, Warren Co.,TN; died 28 Aug 1908 at age  

        85.He was a  Justice of Peace.  He was known as “Peacemaker  

        of the County” in 1836.  He married (1) America Armelda  

        Runnels Shoffett*, a full blooded Cherokee Indian, which  

        states that fact on her gravestone; born 17 Mar 1823; died  

        25 Feb 1862 in Jackson Co.,  AL., at the age of 39 years, 21  

        days after the birth of her 10^th child,  America T. "Merikie"  

        She is buried on the farm of  Marion Wilks near New Hope  

        Cemetery.  Henry married (2) Nancy York, born 19 July  

        1826; d 3 Dec 1897; buried at New Hope Baptist Church  

        Cemetery, Jackson Co., AL.  She was from East TN.  They had  

        two sons: making a total of twelve children for Henry. 

            Henry donated the land to the community for the Church 

        and Cemetery  where four generations of my Shrader's  

        Genealogy are buried.

            In 1996 they put up a monument at the church honoring  

        him for donating the land to the community. The Church 

        was first named “Rehobia” around 1892.  It was organized 

        in 1896 and changed to“New Hope”.  Those signing the  

        papers for reorganization were:  J. M. T. Shrader and his 

        wife, C. Shrader, and C. E. Shrader. 

        Henry's children  are as follows: 

         5.  Shrader, Martha Ellen, born 5 Feb 1842; md Wm Thos Johnston. 

         5.  Shrader, George L., b 19 May 1843;md Mary Eliz.Ledbetter.  He

            is buried at Price Cemetery beside Lakeview Church near Mud 

            Creek.. He served in the Civil War as Cpl in 9th Calvary Co L, 

            formerly 2nd/19th Battalion. 

       5.  Shrader, William Herbert “Bill”, b 27 Dec 1844; md June Gray. 

         5.  Shrader, Sara Caroline, b 16 Dec 1846; md Henry Clay Ott.

        5   Shrader,  Margaret E. b 17 Apr 1849; md Jim Smith.

       5.  Shrader, John Martin Thomas, Sr., b 5 Dec 1850; md Martha

             Armelda Gregory. 

       5.  SHRADER, Samuel A., b 18 Jan 1853; md Mary Cornella "Sis" Cathy. 

       5. SHRADER, Frances Ara, b 26 Aug 1855; md  James Allen Craze.

       5  SHRADER, James Daniel, b 20 Feb 1858; md Margaret Hester Cathy. 

       5.  SHRADER, Americus Tennessee “Merikie”,  b 5 Feb 1862;  md Henry

           Anderson Dover.

     5. SHRADER, Archibald Dickerson “Archie”, b 30 Dec 1865.md Martha  

          Emmaline Kirby. 

      5. SHRADER, Enock M., b 4 Feb 1869; md Ellen Elizabeth “Lizzie” Huskey. 

 4.  Shrader, Daniel, Jr., born Sept 1822 in Bell Buckle, Warren  

      Co., TN; son of Daniel, Sr and brother of Henry, died 28 Aug  

      1908 at age 85; md 1828 in KY Elizabeth Blancett.  . He  

      settled in Rosale,  AL   

      On 1 July 1890 he acquired 160.67 acres of land according

      to Jackson Co., AL Land Records Certificate # 6953 which was  

      then  called “The Daniel Shrader Settlement.”.  He then 

      moved to Spring Hill, AL where he ran a water mill on  

      the Creek. Daniel, Jr and Elizabeth had six children:  

      5.  SHRADER, Ellen A. b 1854 in AL.

       5.  SHRADER, Jane, b 1856 in AL

      5.  SHRADER, Amanda Macklin, b 1858 in AL.

      5.  SHRADER, Martha A., 14 May 1860 in AL

      5.  SHRADER, Missourie Alice, b 1866 in AL.

      5.  SHRADER, John Charles “Red John”, b June 1869

* America Armelda Runnels Shoffett*  (Wife of Henry)  

                           (Received E-mail saying that

"Americus Runnels was not a Shoffet, that was a different 

wife. There are actual records of the time stating that she was 

NOT Indian. The gravestone was placed in the 1970s or 80s, by well-meaning but uninformed descendants.") 

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