• General Notes

  [The George Shutters Family.GED]
  A school for boys was built in Speedwell, Claiborne County, Tennessee.
  The school building was completed in 1827 and is reliably reported to have been built by George Shetters. The school is still standing and is used now as museum. There is a cemetery nearby called "The Shetters Cemetery".
  
  According to Joyce Shutters there are many sandstone type markers in the
  cemetery with no names. There is a large memorial marker erected to the
  memory of George Shetters. No dates are given.
  
  There is only one census record of a George Shetters having lived in
  Claiborne County and that is the one for 1830. It is almost an absolute
  certainty that all of the George Shetters mentioned herein, are one and
  the same person.
  
  According to Mr. Patrick Homer Jackson, 8681 Valley View Highway,
  Whitwell, Tennessee, Telephone # (423) 658-5747, Whose great grandmother
  was Elizabeth Shetters, Daughter of George Shetters, the following events occured in the early 1800s: One of George's sons and his wife became the parents of tripletts named Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego. About three weeks after the babies were born, the wife ran away with another man leaving George's son to raise the children. The father of the children soon remarried and his new wife gave birth to a male child. George, due to religious beliefs, would not accept the new wife nor the child, apparently his other children became involved and he disowned all of them.
  
  Mr. Jackson wrote a book entitled "A History of Victoria, Tennessee and
  most of the Pioneer Families of this Area". Mr. Jackson's reputation in
  the Whitwell area is impeccable. There is one known record which
  connects George with at least one of his children. The Abraham Coffelt
  family history states that Abraham was married to Elizabeth Shelters,
  daughter of George Shelters of Claiborne County, Tennessee. There were no known persons or families with the name of Shelters in Claiborne County.
  
  There is a record of George Shetters in Claiborne County. The Shelters
  entry in the census must have been an error. The 1830 US Census for
  Tennessee on page 265 lists Shutter, Elijah on page CL 137 and Shutters,
  George on Page CL 138 in Claiborne County. The families compositions are
  as follows: (Both families are listed here for purposes of clarification)
  Shutter, Elijah 1001-0000101, This means one male under 5, one male under 20, one female 20 to 30 and one female 40 to 50. Shutter, George
  000010001-000100001, this means one male 20 to 30, one male 60 to 70 and
  one female 15 to 20, one female 60 to 70. The young man and woman listed
  with George are presumed to be the Heath Children over whom George had
  been appointed by the Court as Guardian.
  
  All of this proves that George and Elijah both lived in Claiborne County, probably near each other, in 1830. It also proves that Elijah was married before the 1830 census was taken and had one male child. (Possibly William Carter).
  .There is an LDS Record that supples the following: George
  Shetter, Christened 8 August 1762, Christ Lutheran Church, York, York, PN.
  Father: Jacob Shetter and Mother, Catherine.
  There is a listing in "EARLY TENNESSEE TAXPAYERS", compiled by Pollyanna
  Creekmore, 1980;
  "The lists which are to follow were returned to the Anderson County Court on June 16, 1802.....The following lists give the names of the first residents of Anderson County, together with a few men who owned land, but lived elsewhere....
  On page 18, Shetters, George 640 acres ( 1 Section) Hidns Ck 1
  free poll.
  On page 224 Shetters, Martin 1 black poll.
  Shetter, George 100 acres
  (Note the above entry: There have been many George and Martin Shetters
  in Father-Son and sibling relationships throughout the recorded existence of this family. The relationship of the George and Martin in this record has not been established.
  
  Source:  The Shetter Family
  http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:493197&id=I22262010

Details of George 's family with Margaret  UNKNOWN