William S Shaw
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 1827 - Maine
Baptism:
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Captain William Holder Shaw (1774-1856)
Mother: Abigail Baker (1790-1867)
Notes
General:
m. Almeda Sheldon
Frank Xavier Shay
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 8 Apr 1888 - East Orange, New Jersey
Baptism:
Death: 14 Jan 1954 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts 2
Burial: in Snow cemetery, Truro
Cause of Death:
Events
• Military 1
Spouses and Children
1. *Edith Jeanette Foley (29 Nov 1893 - 17 Dec 1961) 1
Marriage: 6 Dec 1930 - Provincetown, Massachusetts
Status:
Notes
General:
Shay, FrankMarriage Notes (Edith Jeanette Foley)
(1888-1954) Book merchant, author. b. East Orange, New Jersey, April 8, 1888; educated in public and night schools; m. Fern Forrester, January 2, 1918; m. 2nd Edith Foley, December 6, 1930. In book business, Brooklyn, NY, 1908-11, and from 1916; book auctioneer, 1911-12; mgr. book store, lumber jack and at sea until 1916; proprietor Frank Shay's Bookshops, New York and Provincetown, Mass., also proprietor of the Frank Shay's Travelling Bookshop. Served as sergeant, Headquarters Co., 312th Inf. of U.S. Army, World War I; participated in battles of St. Mihiel, Limey sector, Argonne Forest. Author: "Iron Men and Wooden Ships," 1924; "Here's Audacity!" 1930; "Incredible Pizarro, Conqueror of Peru," 1932; "Judge Lynch, His First Hundred Years," 1938; "American Sea Songs and Chanties," 1948; "Sand in their Shoes," 1951; "A Sailor's Treasury," 1951. Resident of Wellfleet, Cape Cod. Died January 14, 1954; buried at Snow Cemetery, Truro, Cape Cod.
Source:
Who Was Who in America, 1951-60.
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After Lewis Wharf collapsed in 1922, the barn at 27A Bradford St. became home to the Barnstormers theater troupe. Writer Frank Shay, formerly of New York City, owned the barn. Shay’s house at 29A Bradford is east of the theater, which was called The Barn. In The Barn, Shay staged the premiere of Eugene O’Neill’s S.S. Glencairn, a cycle of three sea plays: Bound East for Cardiff, Moon of the Caribbees and The Long Voyage Home. The success of the S.S. Glencairn cycle led to its subsequent production in New York City.
source: Literary Provincetown, http://www.capecodtravelguide.com/literay-provincetown.php
CHAPTER XXXII, Provincetown Profiles, 1958
Edith Shay
LIVING alone these days on Cape Cod with a wealth of wonderful memories is Edith Shay, the writer.
I call on her periodically and I've spent some delightful hours talking over her 30-odd years on the Cape and her interesting associations and experiences.
She lives in an attractive cottage on Mill Hill road in Wellfleet and she's frequently working on literary projects. I hope one of these days she'll decide to write her memoirs. I'd love to read them.
Mrs. Shay and her late husband, Frank Shay, compiled a fascinating anthology of Cape Cod memorabilia which was brought out by Houghton Mifflin in 1951 under the title "Sand in Their Shoes: A Cape Cod Reader". It proved highly successful.
Frank Shay, who was a rollicking personality, was a pretty versatile fellow. He was an author, culinary expert and, at various times, a book seller, book publisher, editor, play director, lumberjack and sailor. He wrote novels, biographies, short stories, plays, and compiled anthologies \emdash more than 35 published works in all.
He was a gourmet and he loved to cook. His cookbook, "The Best Men are Cooks", published in 1941, is a collector's item today and second-hand copies bring a good price. His bookshop in New York was a celebrated rendezvous for writers just after World War I.
While he was running his bookshop he published some of the earliest works of Eugene O'Neill, Edna St. Vincent Millay and other young writers now known to fame. He was by nature an avid bookseller as well as a writer and he always interested himself passionately in the promotion of his own works, the works of his friends and the works of any writer he found interesting.
"Iren Men and Wooden Ships', illustrated by Edward Wilson; "Here's
Audacity! American Legendary Heroes", illustrated by Eben Given, and "Incredible Pizarro: Conqueror of Peru" v/ere among his own books he liked best.
Mrs. Shay says: "Perhaps his most successful book financially was 'My Pious Friends and Drunken Companions,' published in 1927. It was an anthology of convivial songs, illustrated by John Held, Jr. It really bother-ed Frank that this book was so much more successful than any of his others as he was fundamentally a serious person."
Frank Shay went to Provincetown in the early 1920's, attracted by the town's reputation as an exciting center of theatrical experiment. There he met and formed a lifelong friendship with Eugene O'Neill. Frank Shay ultimately had his own theatre which was called "The Barn". Nobody who was in the audience will ever forget his production of O'Neill's "Emperor Jones" in 1924, according to Mrs. Shay. Other short plays by O'Neill and other writers were also given on the primitive little stage.
Frank Shay and Edith Foley met in Provincetown. They were mar-ried there in 1930 and lived there until 1934 Then came a four-year absence from the Cape, save for short visits. In 1938 they returned to Cape Cod to stay and bought the house in Wellfleet where Mrs. Shay is living now. Frank Shay died in January, 1954.
Mrs. Shay was born in Manistique, Mich., "long enough ago to remember when lumber schooners sailed the Great Lakes." Her parents were Reuben Pratt and Edith (Jones) Foley, who had five other children. When she was very young the family moved to Winter Park, Fla., and until she became a Cape Codder she called Florida her home. But the summers were always spent in Michigan.
At Charlevoix, a long established summer resort, she met Katharine Smith, daughter of the eminent scholar William Benjamin Smith. The girls became lifelong friends. Katharine Smith was married to John Dos Passos, the writer, in 1929. The Dos Passos traveled widely but made Provincetown their home until September, 1947, when Mrs. Dos Passos was killed in an automobile accident near Wareham.
Edith Shay and Katharine Dos Passos worked together for many years. They collaborated on two successful books: "Down Cape Cod" (1936), a guidebook, and a novel, "The Private Adventure of Captain Shaw" (1945), the story of a young Cape Cod captain who got mixed up in the French Revolution. The guidebook was revised and enlarged in 1946.
Mrs. Shay, a graduate of Wellesley College, says she has been writing "something or other" all her life. Her first published book was written in collaboration with the late Elizabeth (Mrs. Coulton) Waugh, daughter-in-law of the late marine painter Frederick Judd Waugh. It is called "Collect-ing Hooked Rugs" and was published in 1927. Mrs. Waugh was an expert on hooked rugs and regarded the old ones as examples of an original American folk art.
Mrs. Shay has some beautiful pictures in her home, many of them gifts of friends. There is an aquatint of an old shipwreck on the back shore of Provincetown by the late Richard Miller. Outstanding is a water color of the Old Truro Meetinghouse by Charles Kaeselau of Provincetown.
She puts a very high regard on the friendships she has formed on Cape Cod. Harking back, she recalls the Frederick Judd Waughs, the Rich-ard Millers, the Hutchins Hapgoods, the Oscar Gieberichs, Susan Glaspell and many more.
Asked about her friends of today in the artists' and writers' colony, she mentioned particularly Mary Heaton Vorsc and William F. Boogar in Pro-vincetown; the Edmund Wilsons, Lucy L'Engle and the Eben Givens \emdash he is the painter and she is Phyllis Duganne, the writer, \emdash in Truro; the Charles R. Walkers, the Paul Chavchavadzes, the Edward Wilsons and Clare Leighton in Wellfleet.
She has a sister, Mrs. J. Robert Whelan, who lives in Provincetown. Another sister, Mrs. Edwin Dickinson, wife of the painter, makes Wellfleet her summer home. Other members of her family visit Cape Cod frequently.
Mrs. Shay reads a lot but has no favorite author, although she thinks William Faulkner is America's greatest living writer.
As I was departing from the Shay home on my last visit, I said: "Well, now that I'm leaving, Mrs. Shay, I suppose you'll be getting back to one of your literary projects?"
She laughed.
"Literary project nothing!" she said. "I'll be getting back to my house-work." 3
George Shay
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 1871
Baptism:
Death: 3 Feb 1938 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts 4
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Jean Shay
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: Est 1925
Baptism:
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Spouses and Children
1. *John Hughes Hall (Est 1920 - )
Marriage: 28 Aug 1947 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts 5
Status:
2. Robert Lesser (Est 1920 - )
Marriage: 5 Jul 1955 - Chatham, Massachusetts 6
Status:
Notes
General:
of New York City, 1947
of Wellfleet, 1955
Alfred Dennis Shea
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: Est 1900 - Boston, Massachusetts
Baptism:
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Spouses and Children
1. *Helen Quigley (Est 1900 - )
Marriage: 7 Sep 1922 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts 7
Status:
George Henry Shea
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 14 Mar 1886 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts 8
Baptism:
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: John Henry Shea (1863-1938)
Mother: Lilla Parker Wyer (1864-1952)
John Henry Shea
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 1863 - Boston, Massachusetts
Baptism:
Death: 1938
Burial: in Oak Dale Cemetery, Wellfleet 9
Cause of Death:
Spouses and Children
1. *Lilla Parker Wyer (4 May 1864 - 1952)
Marriage: 8 Apr 1885 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts
Status:
Children:
1. George Henry Shea (1886- )
Notes
General:
1885 salesman, BostonMarriage Notes (Lilla Parker Wyer)
1886 clothier, Boston
parents John & Elizabeth
1932 of Winthrop
Frances Sheafe
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 1861 - Boston, Massachusetts
Baptism:
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Spouses and Children
1. *Charles Rumford Walker M.D. (13 Feb 1852 - )
Marriage: 18 Jan 1888 - Boston, Massachusetts 10
Status:
Children:
1. Charles Rumford Walker (1893-1974)
Elizabeth Sheaff
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 1876
Baptism:
Death: 1941
Burial: in Oak Dale Cemetery, Wellfleet
Cause of Death:
Spouses and Children
1. *Edgar Doane Crowell (14 Dec 1871 - 26 Mar 1958) 11
Marriage:
Status:
Daniel Shearman
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: Est 1670 - of Dartmouth, Massachusetts
Baptism:
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Spouses and Children
1. *Sarah Jenney (21 May 1672 - )
Marriage: 18 Apr 1693 - Dartmouth, Massachusetts 12
Status:
Charles S Shedd
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 24 May 1856 - (Truro, Massachusetts)
Baptism:
Death: 11 Sep 1856 - (Truro, Massachusetts)
Burial: in Pine Grove Cemetery, South Truro
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Jedediah Shedd (1816-1885)
Mother: Sally Baker Hamblen (1820-1904) 13
Notes
General:
CHARLES S.
Son of J. Jr. &
S. B. Shedd
Died Sept. 11, 1856
AEt. 3 mo's. 18 da's.
He is not dead but
sleepeth. 14
Ebenezer Atkins Shedd
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 14 Dec 1836 - Provincetown, Massachusetts 15
Baptism:
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: William M Shedd (1810-1892)
Mother: Evelina Hopkins Small (1810-1892) 16
Elmira Shedd
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 11 Apr 1805 - Truro, Massachusetts 17
Baptism:
Death: 26 Jul 1837 - Truro, Massachusetts 18
Burial: in Pine Grove Cemetery, South Truro
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Jedediah Shedd (1784-1862)
Mother: Jemima Lombard (1782-1867)
Spouses and Children
1. *John Mayo (1 Jun 1802 - 18 Aug 1855) 19
Marriage: 1824 - Truro, Massachusetts
Status:
Children:
1. Elmira Mayo (1825-1826)
2. Richard Lombard Mayo (1828-1913)
3. Captain John Mayo (1829-1887)
4. Mayo (1832-1833) 14
Notes
General:
In memory of
Mrs. ELMIRA
wife of
Mr. John Mayo Jr.
who died
July 26, 1837
AEt. 32
Yes thou art gone we feel thy loss
But know thou this is gain to thee
For earth indeed is counted dross
Compar'd with heaven eternally. 14
Emily Jane Shedd
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 27 Dec 1838 - Provincetown, Massachusetts 15
Baptism:
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: William M Shedd (1810-1892)
Mother: Evelina Hopkins Small (1810-1892) 16
Spouses and Children
1. *Ghen (Est 1835 - Bef 1880)
Marriage:
Status:
Notes
Marriage Notes (Ghen)
1880 US census, Boston
with parents and daughters Addie and Clara
Esther Shedd
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: Est 1653
Baptism:
Death: 1726 - Sandwich, Massachusetts
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Spouses and Children
1. *John Nye (29 Jun 1650 - 6 Nov 1722)
Marriage: Cir 1672
Status:
Children:
1. Benjamin Nye (1673-1750) 20
2. Abigail Nye (1678-1720)
3. Experience Nye (1682- )
4. Hannah Nye (1685- )
5. Ebenezer Nye (1687- )
6. Joseph Nye (1694-1775) 21
Isaac Shedd
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 18 Sep 1781 - Tewksbury, Massachusetts 22
Baptism:
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Nathan Shedd (1755- )
Mother: Hester Sanders (1748-1804)
Jedediah Shedd
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 27 Oct 1816 - Truro, Massachusetts 23
Baptism:
Death: 13 Apr 1885 - Boston, Massachusetts 10
Burial: in Pine Grove Cemetery, South Truro 24
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Jedediah Shedd (1784-1862)
Mother: Jemima Lombard (1782-1867)
Spouses and Children
1. *Sally Baker Hamblen (5 May 1820 - 11 Nov 1904) 13
Marriage: 25 Jul 1844 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts 25
Status:
Children:
1. Warren Emerson Shedd (1847-1869) 26
2. Lewis H Shedd (1851-1852)
3. Sarah A Shedd (1852-1853)
4. Lewis H Shedd (1854-1855)
5. Charles S Shedd (1856-1856)
6. Lewis H Shedd (1857-1862)
Notes
General:
stone:
JEDEDIAH SHEDD JR.
Born Oct. 27, 1816
Died Apr. 13, 1885
AT REST. 14
Jedediah Shedd
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth:
Baptism: 12 Dec 1784 - Tewksbury, Massachusetts 22
Death: 10 Jan 1862 - Truro, Massachusetts 27
Burial: in Pine Grove Cemetery, South Truro 24
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Nathan Shedd (1755- )
Mother: Hester Sanders (1748-1804)
Spouses and Children
1. *Jemima Lombard (17 Feb 1782 - 13 Dec 1867)
Marriage: 6 Mar 1804 - Truro, Massachusetts 28
Status:
Children:
1. Elmira Shedd (1805-1837)
2. Jedediah Shedd (1816-1885)
3. Richard Lombard Shedd (1818- )
4. Sally Lombard Shedd (1822-1903)
5. Jemima Shedd (1825-1905)
Notes
General:
stone:
JEDEDIAH SHEDD
Died
Jan'y 10th 1862
Æt. 78 yrs.
I know that my Redeemer liveth. 14
Jemima Shedd
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 26 Aug 1825 - Truro, Massachusetts
Baptism:
Death: 24 Oct 1905 - Melrose, Massachusetts 29
Burial: in Oak Dale Cemetery, Wellfleet
Cause of Death:
Events
• Alt Birth, , Truro, Massachusetts in Truro, Massachusetts
Parents
Father: Jedediah Shedd (1784-1862)
Mother: Jemima Lombard (1782-1867)
Spouses and Children
1. *Anthony Atwood Rich (25 Aug 1822 - 10 Dec 1891)
Marriage: 11 Jan 1846 - Truro, Massachusetts 30
Status:
Children:
1. Sarah A Rich (1846-1897) 31
2. Mary E Rich (1851-1931) 31
3. Maria F Rich (1854-1898)
4. Charles Sumner Rich (1856-1900)
5. Emma Shedd Rich (1858-1912)
6. Elmira Louise Rich (1862-1884)
7. Eddie B Rich (1863-1868)
8. Addie B Rich (1869-1872) 32
Notes
Marriage Notes (Anthony Atwood Rich)
Anthony's and Jemima's death are not recorded in Wellfleet.
Lewis H Shedd
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 30 Apr 1851 - Truro, Massachusetts
Baptism:
Death: 28 Jul 1852 - Truro, Massachusetts
Burial: in Pine Grove Cemetery, South Truro
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Jedediah Shedd (1816-1885)
Mother: Sally Baker Hamblen (1820-1904) 13
Notes
General:
stone:
LEWIS H.
son of
Jediediah & Sarah B.
Shedd
died July 28, 1852
aged 1 y'r. 2 mo's.
& 28 days.
He shall gather the lambs in his arms,
and carry them in his bosom. 14
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