Permelia "Amelia" Rachel Shaw was born on December 19, 1842, in Madison, Indiana.
Her father, Veteran John William Shaw (1806–1863), was 36, and her mother, (P) (3) Lucy Raines Morrill (1811–1901), was 31.
She married James Parvin Sterner on August 8, 1861, in Appanoose, when she was 18 years old.
They had ten children in 20 years. She died on September 21, 1933, in Callaway, Nebraska, at the age of 90, and was buried there in Fairview Cemetery.

Wife of: James Parvin Sterner

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Birth: Apr. 11, 1837
Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio, USA
Death: Oct. 23, 1892
Callaway, Custer County, Nebraska, USA

James Parvin Sterner came to Nebraska with his wife and children via "over land and covered wagon." They carried all their possessions in the wagons and drove their stock. They made the trip in 1884, taking several weeks.

They homesteaded on West Table, Nebraska building a sod house to live in. They had to travel several miles in a wagon to get their water at Plum Creek. The children had a great deal of responsibility on the farm, particularly in the last years of James' life when he was blind.

James was born in Ohio and his wife was born in Indiana. In politics he was a Republican and his religious membership was in the United Brethren Church. He brought his family to Custer County, Nebraska in 1884 and died here in 1892 during surgery for appendicitis.

Family links:
Spouse:
Permelia "Amelia" Rachel Shaw Sterner (1842 - 1933) [http://findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=21492953]

Children:
Mary Ellen Sterner (1862 - 1863)* [http://findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=81666443]

Alice A. Sterner Irelan(d) (1863 - 1955) [http://findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=81666759]

Flora Cora Sterner Johnson (1865 - 1954)* [http://findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=38942124]

Etta Sterner Moses (1868 - 1910)* [http://findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=9398872]

Nevada Gertrude Sterner Daggett (1870 - 1945)* [http://findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=81667095]

Charles William Sterner (1873 - 1963)* [http://findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=39202631]

James Edward (Eddie) Sterner (1874 - 1893)* [http://findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=9398903]

George Clark Sterner (1879 - 1947)* [http://findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=39202693]

James Robert Sterner (1881 - 1939)* [http://findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=81889954]

Samuel Otto Sterner (1883 - 1966)* [http://findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=39202661]

*Calculated relationship

Burial:

Fairview Cemetery
Callaway, Custer County, Nebraska, USA