Kate Estelle Shahan
b. October 1881
- Father: John Shahan b. December 1849, d. 7 September 1911
- Mother: Evelyn Hopper b. circa 1858, d. 16 March 1936
- Kate Estelle Shahan was born in October 1881 in Alabama.
- John Shahan and Evelyn Hopper appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1900 in Faunsdale, Marengo County, Alabama. Other members of the household included Kate Estelle Shahan, John Clifton Shahan, Elizabeth Hopper Shahan, James Alfred Shahan, Nancy Westmoreland Shahan, Evelyn Shahan, John Edward Shahan and Nell Shahan. Also in the household was one young female house servant.
- She married George Coleman Nixon circa 9 June 1909 in Marengo County, Alabama.
- George Coleman Nixon and Kate Estelle Shahan appeared in the US federal census of 15 April 1910 in East Orange, Essex County, New Jersey, at Sussex Avenue.
- The following appeared on 10 September 1911 in The Montgomery Advertiser: (Uniontown, Sept. 9) Mr. John Shahan of Faunsdale, died Thursday, after an illness of about a week. Interment was at St. Michaels Cemetery.
Mr. Shahan was a prominent farmer of Marento and leaves a wife and eight children, Mrs. George Nixon of East Orange, N. J., Miss Elizabeth Shahan of Nashville, Tenn., Clifton Shahan of Mississippi and Mrs. R. D. Drake, Misses Evelyn and Nell Shahan of Faunsdale. He was about 65 years old.
- Last Edited: 3 Oct 2012