Belshaw

    George Belshaw came from England, with quite a large family, in 1834. The family located for a short time on Rolling Prairie in LaPorte County, where the older daughter, Mary, was married. The family soon came to the south part of Lake Prairie, that beauty of the Indiana prairie belt, and there settled on farms in this county of Lake. The sons were George, William, Henry, Charles and Samuel. The daughter who came to Lake Prairie was named Ann. She died in 1846, when eighteen years of age. Her memorial is in the "Lake of the Red Cedars."

    William Belshaw, who remained in this county, had visited England in 1846 to see once more his birthplace, and in 1847 had been married to Miss Harriet A. Jones, continuing to live on his Lake Prairie farm, died there in November, 1884, seventy-one years of age. Of his three sons, one, Edward Belshaw, now lives at Lowell. His daughters are, in number, also three, all married and well settled in life.

    Henry Belshaw, the other son remaining in this county, married Miss Mary Smith. He resided for many years on his pine grove farm and then removed to Lowell, where he died a few years ago. He had two sons and five daughters. One daughter is Mrs. Simeon Sanger, of Lowell, and the youngest, Candace, was married, October 22, 1884, to E. W. Dinwiddie, of Plum Grove.

SOURCE: Encyclopedia of Genealogy and Biography of Lake County, Indiana, with a compendium of History 1834-1904 . A record of the Achievements of its people in the Making of a Commonwealth and the Founding of a Nation. By Rev. T. H. Ball of Crown Point, Editor-in-chief. The Lewis Publishing Company, 1904, page 77.