Rooney Family Tree

Julia was their first child to be born in Bangor Township.

Margaret and her sister Julia were home with their parents until they died. At the time they were all living in Sedan. In 1913 or 1914, they moved into the hotel building in Sedan, owned by William E. Martin, and ran it for two or three years. "The Martin girls," as they were referred to locally, then went off to be trained as Red Cross nurses in Helena, Montana. Julia was a Red Cross nurse during WWI. In 1920 they returned to Sedan for a vacation and homecoming. In June of that year Margaret married Chris Miller, a farmer, in Townsend, Montana.

After the "team" broke up with Margaret's marriage, Julia went to Chicago to work, and then to Ft. Worth, Texas to follow her nursing profession. It was there that she met John Shaw, whom she married in 1921. John was born in Montgomery, Indiana in 1877, but when they met he was a dairy farmer in Texas. He continue at that while she operated a rest home. They had three daughters, only one of whom married and had children. Millie assisted her mother in the rest home and Lillian worked as a bookkeeper for commercial employers until her untimely death from a stroke ("CVA") in 1974.

MRS. J. M. SHAW

During World War No. 1, Mrs. J. M. Shaw, manager of the Shaw sanitarium, 3132 Frazier was a nurse in the Letterman Military Hospital, San Fr ancisco. When the Armistice was signed Mrs. Shaw had her passport and overseas equipment ready to leave for Europe. She was glad becaus e the war came suddenly to a close but was disappointed that she could not make the trip abroad. Eight nurses, all graduates from St. John s, Helena, Montana had volunteered for overseas service and some of them where abroad when the armistice was signed.
Mrs. Shaw, whose maiden name was Julia E. Martin was married to J. M. Shaw in 1921. They are the parents of three charming daughters, Misses Nora Mae, a pre-medical student in O. L. V., Lillian, and Mildred, both in O. L. V. high school and both planning to train for registered nurses when they graduate.
The Shaw Sanitarium, like many other institutions, was planned around a family need. After her husband became ill and was a convalescent patient for three years, Mrs. Shaw was so busy with his care that she could not enter the business or professional world to supplement the family income which had become necessary at this time. Putting her nursing practice into profitable business was the solution to her problem. The Shaw Sanitarium designed to give proper care and nursing to invalids was established in 1935. Beginning in her home Mrs. Shaw now has five cottages equipped to take care of men and women whose children are so busy in their business and professional careers that they do not have time to give their parents proper care. The cottages situated on adjoining lots constitute a little community where the patients who are not confined to their beds may visit each other.
Mrs. Shaw employs a good cook. She personally supervises the planning and serving of well balanced meals. The bedrooms are neat and orderly at all times.
The buildings are equipped with furnace heat, all fire hazards removed .
Mr. and Mrs. Shaw own a farm where they raise chickens and where a flock of hens produce eggs for the Sanitarium and a surplus for the market.
Mr. Shaw's health has improved so much that he is able to assist his wife with flowers and to grow fresh vegetables for use of the sanitarium.
Passersby are attracted to the happy little group who play games on the lawns during the summer months.