"COUNTIES OF MORGAN, MONROE & BROWN, INDIANA. HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL."
CHARLES BLANCHARD, EDITOR. CHICAGO: F. A. BATTEY & CO. PUBLISHERS. 1884.
F. A. BATTEY. F. W. TEPPLE

MORGAN COUNTY
GREGG TOWNSHIP
PAGE 346

ELI P. SHAKE, farmer, was born in Gregg Township, Morgan County, Ind., May 21,
1841, and is the second child in a family of five children born to George W. and Cathe-
rine H. (Pruitt) Shake, the former a native of Jefferson, and the latter of Oldham County,
Ky.  They were of German-Scotch and German descent respectively.  George W. Shake
received his early education in his native State, and while yet a young man, in 1835,
came with his parents to Morgan County, Ind.  He was married at the age of eighteen,
and soon after bought 160 acres of wild land in Gregg Township, where he subsequently
improved the farm upon which he still resides.  He was once elected Commissioner of
Morgan County, but did not qualify.  He is an active member of the Masonic fraternity.
Eli P. Shake , the subject, received a limited common school education in youth, and
was employed on his father's farm until he was twenty-one years old.  He then leased
forty acres of wild land in Gregg Township for six years, which he cleared.  In the fall
of 1870, he removed to Bates County, Mo., where he settled on ninety acres of wild
prairie land deeded to him by his father.  Here he built a house, improved a farm and
resided three years.  He then sold this place and returned to Gregg Township, Morgan
Co., Ind., where he bought eighty acres of the old homestead, upon which he resided
until the fall of 1883, when he sold out and came to Adams Township, same county,
where he bought the farm of eighty acres upon which he now resides.  He was married,
July 24, 1862, to Miss Mary E. Yager, a native of Gregg Township, Morgan Co., Ind.,
and a daughter of William W. and Sarah A. (Hinkle) Yager, who were among the
pioneers of Gregg Township. Three children have blessed their union, of whom two sons
--William W. and Howard J. are yet living.  Both Mr. Shake and wife are and have been
from early youth devoted and consistent members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
In politics, Mr. Shake is a Democrat.

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