Note: It is believed that the name Shook is derived from the name Shuck or Shuke. Maps of Gallia County for the year 1874 show William Shuck as owning property in Walnut Township, adjoining the Lawrence County Line. This was of Elizabeth Shuck Nida's father. Family records show her name to be Shuck. Records of Botetourt County, Virginia, Marriage Register #1 p. 256, give her name as "Eliza. Shuke." The marriage was "by banns."
German friends say that there is no such German name as Shuke. Another possibility is Schüke.
Note: It is believed that Elizabeth and Peter Niday died during the cholera epidemic of 1849. In the Drummond Graveyard, besides the grave of the wife of Lewis Nida (Jane Blankenship), there is a headstone of badly eroded sandstone from which may be read "Elizabeth" and "1779". It is probably the marker for Elizabeth Nida and indicates that she was born in 1779.
Note: According to two grandsons of Peter, both alive in 1932, both Peter and his wife Elizabeth died during the cholera epidemic which took many lives in Walnut Township during 1849. It is said that both died unattended as all of the family were sick and the neighbors were afraid to come near the house. Both were buried in the Drummond Graveyard, near the old Salem Church. Peter's grave is unmarked.
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