Surname	Morris
Given Name	Amanda Elizabeth (or Amanda Caroline)
Gender	Female
Born	10-JUN-1821 in Harris County, Texas
Died	26-JUL-1915 in Waco, McLennan County, Texas (Certificate 15967)
Buried	27-JUL-1915 Oakwood Cemetery (lot 32 b1 14) in Waco, McLennan County, Texas
Father	Unknown MORRIS; born: ~1800; died: before 1829
Mother	Rebecca PHIPPS (1805 - 1842)

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Surname

Amanda's step-father, George White, was one of the Old 300 (first 300 settlers in Texas - Austin's Colony).

Given Name

Later in life, Amanda changed her middle name from Elizabeth to Caroline.

Marriage

30-NOV-1844 in Harris County, Texas to Josiah Webster SHOOK (~1808 - 05-NOV-1889)

Children

• Rebecca Elizabeth "Sis" SHOOK (~1845 - bef. 1915)
• Napoleon SHOOK (~1846 - bef. 1915)
• Clarissa Amanda "Clara" SHOOK (~1849 - 27-MAY-1924)
• Saphronia Carolyn SHOOK (19-MAY-1851 - 13-MAY-1936)
• C SHOOK; born: 1854
• Hyrum Kingston SHOOK (17-NOV-1855 - 22-AUG-1885)
• Mary Ann SHOOK (~1856 - ?)
• Theodrick SHOOK (08-OCT-1853 - 05-OCT-1935)
• Margret Emily "Maggie" SHOOK (17-AUG-1867 - 25-AUG-1955)
• Pickney SHOOK; born: 1869 in Harris County, Texas (may have Pinckney T. Shook in 1900 US Census for MS)
• Peter Silas SHOOK (23-MAR-1870 - 09-MAR-1954)
• William Riley SHOOK (16-MAR-1874 - 20-MAY-1960)
• Ada SHOOK; 1875 in Harris County, Texas

Obituary

MRS. SHOOK DIED TODAY AT ADVANCED AGE OF 94 Was Native Texan and had Never Been Outside this State:

Born in Harris County on a farm, June 10, 1821. Mrs. Amanda C. Shook, aged 94 years, died here this morning at 11:15, at the home of her daughter, Mrs. M. E. Norris, 910 South Tenth street. The funeral will take place in the morning at 10 o'clock. Internment to be made at Oakwood. Rev. O.E. Bryan, Pastor at the Clay Street Baptist Church, will officiate.

Mrs. Shooks death was due to the infirmities incident to old age. She regained full possession of all her faculties up to the hour of her death. During the course of her lengthy lifetime of nearly a century, Mrs. Shook had never been outside the state. She was always perfectly happy and contented within the confines of the state where she had been born, and had never expressed a desire to visit any other state. Mrs. Shook was naturally acquainted with all the thrilling periods of early Texas history, and she could recall many interesting incidents which came under her personal observation with remarkable clearness.

She had lived in Waco for the past eight years, making her home with the daughter at whose residence she died. Besides Mrs. Norris, the other surviving children are: T. Shook, Waco; Mrs. I. McPhearson, Malone; W.R. Shook, Peggs, Okla; P.S. Shook, (????), Mrs. C. A. Hawkins, Dallas.

Other descendants include 114 grand and great-grandchildren and 14 great-great grandchildren.

-- Waco Times Herald -- July 26, 1915

Interment

Amanda is buried with her daughter, Saphronia Carolyn (Shook) Norris, and son-in-law, Michael Edwin Norris at Oakwood Cemetery in Waco, McLennan County, Texas. Although Saphronia and Michael have a headstone, Amanda's grave is unmarked (or no longer marked). I have visited the cemetery once (ca. 2005). It is a very, very large cemetery, but I was able to locate the gravesite. If I remember correctly, the location is somewhat to the back and the left of the cemetery (I hope I don't steer you wrong). It is sad that one of the first settelers in Texas is buried without a marker. I hope to remedy that someday.

Notes

Amanda changed her middle name from Elizabeth to Caroline. So her new middle initial is shown in her obituary as Amanda C. Shook. In the obituary, T. Shook is Theodoric Shook. Mrs. I. McPhearson is Mrs. Ike McPearson nee Margaret "Maggie". W.R. Shook is William Riley Shook. P.S. Shook is Peter Silas Shook. Mrs. C.A. Hawkins is nee Clarissa Amanda "Clara" Shook.