US Shaw, Anna Kneeland Haggerty

Anna Kneeland Haggerty Shaw

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Shaw, Annie K. Haggerty, Courtesy of the Lenox Library Association


Born: July 9, 1835

Birthplace: New York City, New York

Father: Ogden Haggerty 1808 – 1875
(Buried: Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York)​

Mother: Elizabeth Sedgwick Kneeland 1813 – 1888
(Buried: Church of the Hill Cemetery, Lenox, Massachusetts)​

Husband: Colonel Robert Gould Shaw 1837 – 1863
(Buried: Battery Wagner Mass Union Grave, Charleston, South Carolina)​

Married: May 2, 1863 at Church of the Ascension in New York City, New York

Antebellum Events:

1837: Birth of her brother Ogden Haggerty Jr.​
1841: Birth of her sister Clemence Haggerty Crafts​
1844: Death of her brother Ogden Haggerty Jr.​

Civil War Life Events:

1861: She met Robert Gould Shaw​
1863: She married Colonel Robert Gould Shaw in New York City.​
1863: Her husband was Commander of 54th ​Massachusetts Infantry.​

1863: Her husband was killed in Battle of Fort Wagner leading his troops.
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1863 – 1907: Widow of Union Army Colonel Robert G. Shaw.​
1863: She watched New York’s first Colored regiment march off to war in Broadway, New York.​
1864: Death of her brother – in – law Brig. General Charles R. Lowell.​

Postbellum Events:

1863 – 1907: Widow of Union Army Colonel Robert G. Shaw.​
1875: Death of her father Ogden Haggerty Sr.​
She traveled to France and Switzerland with her aging mother.​
She corresponded with her sister – in – law Josephine Shaw Lowell.​
She became invalid due to an infirmity at middle age of her life.​
1882: Death of her father – in – law Francis George Shaw.​
1888: Death of her mother Elizabeth Sedgwick Kneeland Haggerty​
1889: Death of her brother – in – law Robert Browne Minturn​
1892: Death of her brother – in – law George William Curtis.​
1896: Death of her brother – in – law Brig. General Francis C. Barlow.​
1902: Death of her mother – in – law Sarah Blake Sturgis Shaw.​
1905: Death of her sister – in – law Josephine Shaw Lowell.
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1906: Spent the last summer of her life at old family home in Lenox.​
1907: She Died after the dedication of the monument to her husband and the 54th​ Massachusetts Infantry Regiment by Boston Commons.​

Died: March 17, 1907

Place of Death: Boston, Massachusetts

Age at time of Death: 71 years old

Burial Place: Church of the Hill Cemetery, Lenox, Massachusetts
 
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