Sources: Thyrsa Shuff Baker
"United States Census, 1900" Name: Henry Shuff Event Place: ED 67 Triadelphia district, Logan, West Virginia, U.S. Birth Date: Jun 1882 Birthplace: West Virginia Relationship to Head of Household: Head Father's Birthplace: Ohio Mother's Birthplace: Kentucky Race: White Gender: Male Marital Status: Single Page: 7 Sheet Letter: B Family Number: 113 Reference ID: 57 GS Film number: 1241763 Digital Folder Number: 004123457 Image Number: 00813 Household Gender Age Birthplace Head Henry Shuff M 18 West Virginia Partner Lelbert Farley M 19 West Virginia
"West Virginia, Marriages, 1853-1970" Name: Henry S Shuff Spouse's Name: Sarah Mccllen Event Date: 1902 Event Place: Wayne, West Virginia, United States GS Film number: 583493 Digital Folder Number: 4228395 Image Number: 00404 Affiliate Repository Type: County Records
"United States Census, 1910" Name: Henry F Shuff Event Place: Laurel Hill, Lincoln, West Virginia Gender: Male Marital Status: Married Race: White Relationship to Head of Household: Self Birthplace: West Virginia Father's Birthplace: Ohio Mother's Birthplace: Ohio Household ID: 79 Page: 5 Household Gender Age Birthplace SELF Henry F Shuff M 27y West Virginia WIFE Sarah V Shuff F 32y West Virginia DAU Thyesa Shuff F 2y West Virginia DAU Texie Shuff F 1y West Virginia
"United States, World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918" Name: Henry Smith Shuff Event Type: Draft Registration Event Date: 1917-1918 Event Place: Lincoln County, West Virginia, United States Gender: Male Birth Date: 28 Jun 1882 Birthplace: , , United States Nationality: United States Affiliate Publication Title: World War I Selective Service System Draft Registration Cards Affiliate Publication Number: M1509 GS Film number: 1992562 Digital Folder Number: 005153772 Image Number: 04008
"United States Census, 1920" Name: Henry S Shuff Event Place: , Lincoln, West Virginia Gender: Male Age: 37 Marital Status: Married Race: White Birthplace: West Virginia Birth Year (Estimated): 1883 Relationship to Head of Household: Self Father's Birthplace: Ohio Mother's Birthplace: Ohio Household ID: 30 Sheet Number: 2 GS Film number: 1821961 Digital Folder Number: 4392035 Image Number: 00100 Household Gender Age Birthplace SELF Henry S Shuff M 37y West Virginia WIFE Sarah V E Shuff F 41y West Virginia DAU Thyrsa M Shuff F 12y West Virginia DAU Texie G Shuff F 10y West Virginia DAU Iva D Shuff F 8y West Virginia DAU Bula L E Shuff F 6y West Virginia Walter J Hauldren M 23y West Virginia
"United States, World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942" Name: Henry S Shuff Event Type: Draft Registration Event Date: 1942 Event Place: Four Mile, , West Virginia Gender: Male Birth Date: 28 Jun 1882 Affiliate Publication Title: World War II Draft Cards (4th Registration) for the State of West Virginia Affiliate Publication Number: M1937 Affiliate ARC Identifier: 563733 GS Film number: 2240288 Digital Folder Number: 004135378 Image Number: 02540
"West Virginia, Deaths, 1853-1970"
Name: Henry Smith Shuff
Event Date: 27 Nov 1962
Event Place: Lincoln, West Virginia
Father's Name: James Shuff
Mother's Name: Virginia Clair
GS Film number: 2074175
Digital Folder Number: 4258568
Image Number: 2792
Affiliate Repository Type: County Records
Reference ID: 15777
He loved to tell jokes. They would sit in front of the fireplace and Grandpa Shuff would get his popcorn popper with the long handle and pop corn in the fireplace while he entertained them.
Maybe later, he would take a big bowl and go out to the cellar, and bring it back full of apples. He'd sit down and peel them all apples. He always peeled the pealing off in one big piece. They were amazed by that.
Grandma Shuff was real quiet. Sometimes she'd say, "Smith, doesn't your tongue ever get tired?"
One joke Aunt Palmaneda remembered him telling went something like this: An Irishman had a big rope. One day, someone weaved the ends of his rope together. When the Irishman wanted to use his rope, he couldn't find the end. He said 'Faith and me jamber, someone cut off both ends of me rope.'
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He had a little chair he liked to sit in. When it was cold, he'd sit in it, over the floor furnace. I loved to sit on his lap, while he told me jokes, stories, and sang songs. He taught me to sing "I'll Fly Away."
Sometimes when it was warm outside, we would sit together on the front porch swing, looking out at the Shuff Hill. It was a hill right across the road from Grandma's house, covered with Hemlock pine trees.
Grandpa Shuff owned a good portion of the hill. That's how it got it's name. His house set up almost at the top of the hill. He donated some land at the top of the hill for a cemetery. It is now known as the Sanders/Shuff Cemetery.
Granpa Shuff now rests there with Grandma Shuff and many other relatives.