John and Susan (Korns) Shearer

Introduction
Chapter VII of the 1949 book "The Genealogy of Michael Korns, Sr. of Somerset County Pennsylvania" indicates that Susanna Korns, daughter of Michael Korns, Sr., married John Shaver. Susannah (Korns) Shearer is buried at the Anderson Cemetery in Indianapolis, Indiana where a modern tombstone states, "SUSANNAH KORNS SHEARER WIFE OF JOHN BORN JAN. 15, 1788 PA DIED MAR. 11, 1860". An old, worn tombstone includes the text, "SUSANNAH, wife of JOHN SHEARER".

Shearer information from a 1908 book
The following excerpt from the 1908 book "Prominent and Representative Men of Indianapolis and Vicinity" indicates that Susan Korns, a native of Somerset County and a daughter of Michael Korns, Sr., married John Shearer. The excerpt provides a confused description of Susan's father Michael Korns, Sr., incorrectly stating that he was a physician in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. Whether right or wrong, the excerpt also indicates that Michael Korns "was for seven years a drummer in the Revolutionary War..." The most valuable part of the excerpt appears to be a list of the children of John and Susan (Korns) Shearer.

62-year-old Susana Shearer appears in the following John Shearer household listing in the 1850 census records of Warren township, Marion County, Indiana.

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