Anna Kneeland Haggerty Shaw
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.
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.
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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