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My Great Grandfather is Marshall so this takes me back to the Civil War as far as the Shutts side.
The History of West Virginia,
Old and NewPublished 1923, T
he American Historical Society, Inc.,
Chicago and New York, Volume II,page 226
HERMAN A. SHUTTS, principal of the Valley District High School at Masontown,began teaching when a youth, and has continued to devote his time either toteaching or the prosecution of his own studies through State Normal Schooland university.
He is member of a family that was established in West Virginiaabout the time of the Civil war, and his father has been a successfulcabinetmaker and carpenter.
Herman A. Shutts was born in Jackson County, West Virginia, July 31, 1889.The founder of the family in this state was his grandfather, James Shutts,who came from Ohio. He was a Union soldier in the Civil war, and he finallyleft West Virginia and moved to Missouri and died at Browning in that state.He was a member of the Christian Church and a democrat. By his marriage toMiss Eaton he was the father of the following children: Hannah, Mrs. C. H.Collins, who died in Missouri; David, a resident of Oklahoma; Isaiah; Lillie,wife of James H. Boyce, of Jackson County, West Virginia; George, who went toMissouri and then to Colorado; Peter, of Texas; Libbie, wife of William Sauser,of Sherman, West Virginia; Bankey, who married and went to Missouri; Western,a farmer in Missouri; and Willard, who died in Missouri.Isaiah Shutts was born in Noble County, Ohio, in 1864, and was an infant whenthe family came to West Virginia. He acquired a country school education, andfor a number of years was a skilled carpenter, a contractor and builder, butnow for a long time farming on the old homestead has claimed his energies.He takes a citizen's interest in politics as a democrat, and is a member ofthe United Brethren Church. In Jackson County,
Isaiah Shutts married IcalonaPeters, who was born in Noble County, Ohio, in 1870.*** She became the mother ofnine children: Herman A.; **Marshall, formerly a teacher, now in the employ ofthe Baltimore & Ohio Railway Company at Parkersburg; Sylvia, Mrs. Fisher Lester,a teacher in the Crete grade school in Wayne County, West Virginia; Creed, nowassociated with his brother at Parkersburg; Harold, a farmer at home; Artie,wife of Ray Williams, of Jackson County; Claude, who died when twelve years old;Mary and Dorothy, both at home.
The son Creed enlisted in the regular army before America became a participantin the World War, and during the war period he was an instructor of soldiersat Camp Shelby, Hattiesburg, Mississippi. He went to Europe in the summer of1918, and was an observation officer at the front during the last eleven daysof the war.
Herman A. Shutts graduated from the Grafton High School. He completed most ofthe work required of graduation from the Fairmont State Normal School, and thencontinued in the State University of Morgantown, where he ranked as a junior.In the meantime he taught ten years in the country schools of Jackson County.For four years he was grade principal at Grafton and from Grafton came to hispresent responsibilities as principal of the Valley District High School atMasontown, where he succeeded Mr. Luzader, now district superintendent. Mr.Shutts is a well educated young man, enthusiastic in his work, and hasdemonstrated his ability as a school administrator.Unlike his ancestors, he is a republican in politics and cast his first presidentialvote for William Howard Taft, He has served on party committees and as a delegateto conventions. He is active in the Methodist Church, especially in the Sundayschool, and is a Bible teacher, having a diploma from the InterdenominationalSunday School of Chicago.In Jackson County, November 26, 1909, Mr. Shutts married Miss Nellie Archer, whowas born in that county, daughter of Rev. Alfred L. and Miranda (Weekley) Archer.Her father was a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mrs. Shutts diedeight years after her marriage, on Eastern morning, leaving two children, Noeland Nolda, At Grafton Mr. Shutts married Miss Ethel Bartlett, a native of TaylorCounty and formerly a teacher in the Grafton schools. She is a daughter of Josephand Laura (Smith) Bartlett, of Bridgeport, West Virginia. Mrs. Shutts was, oneof a large family of children and she completed her education in the State NormalSchool at Fairmont and the University of West Virginia, and is still active ineducational work, being primary supervisor in the Masontown schools, Mr. Shuttsis affiliated with Grafton Lodge No. 75, F. and A. M., and is also a member ofthe Modern Wooden of America.
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