There are many spellings found for his name. The tombstone reads 'Shedrack' which is the spelling that I will use. NewFamilySearch and his military marker reads 'Shedrick'. Other places read Shedrach, Shadrick, and many other spellings. Some of the family documents read Shadrack. His grandson named after him was spelled 'Shadrach'. His wife called him, "Shaddy".

*Note: Marion Haws Holdaway is the only son of Shedrack and Eliza. He was born 28 Feb 1855. His mother died 5 Mar 1855 probably from complcations of childbirth.

Parents of Shedrack: Timothy Holdaway 1801-1835 and Mary Trent 1803-1873.
Married Dec. 24, 1848 Salt Lake City, UT to Lucinda Haws.

Short history:
Shadrack Holdaway was born October 15, 1822 in Rochester, Hawkins county, Tennessee. He was the son of Timothy Holdaway and Mary Elizabeth Trent. In 1883 he moved with his parents from Tennessee to Indiana, and it was there that he heard about the church.

Shadrack Holdaway was baptized by Jefferson Hunt on November 30th, 1843. He was the first member of his family to join the Church. He joined the saints in Nauvoo and was among the first groups that followed Brigham Young to Iowa in 1848. He was selected as one of the Mormon Battalion and placed in Company C where he served as Teamester for Company all the way to California. In California he was part of the group that discovered gold. He took the opportunity to prospect for gold and came away with $3,000 worth of gold dust. After rejoining the saints, he married Lucinda Haws and the two of them went back east with others to obtain wool carding equipment. He returned to Provo with the machinery and became very successful. His work kept him away from home a great deal building roads, canals and ditches, or up in the canyon working at the sawmill. His wife would complain about it from time to time.

It was in the fall of 1902 that Shadrack drove into the yard of the old home in Provo and announced he had come home to stay. He immediately began cutting down the big apple trees so that he could have room to build a shop. The last week of his life he cut down twelve of the big apple trees on his place, but he caught a cold which developed into pleura-pneumonia and in less than a week he passed away on December 24, 1902. The funeral was held Saturday, December 27, 1902 at 11:00 A.M. in the Provo Tabernacle and he was buried in the Provo City Cemetery.
(History by Bruce Crow)

(Quote from another life history using a different spelling.)
"About the middle of November 1852, Shedrick Holdaway married Lucinda's sister, Eliza Haws Pickup. Eliza had married George Pickup, a Mormon Battalion member. They had one son, George Pickup, Jr. On 3 September 1852 Eliza divorced George Pickup because he became intolerable to live with. He must have been mentally unbalanced as he imagined she was entertaining men and use to stand out behind trees at night watching. She became so frightened that she could stand it no longer and divorced him. Shedrick and Eliza had two children: Eliza born 15 April 1854; died an infant, and Marion Haws born 28 feb 1855. Lucinda's fourth child, Amos David, was born 23 Jan 1853 and on 30 April 1854 their fifth child, John Madison, was born. Eliza died when her son Marion was only five days old and Lucinda took him to raise. This made four children under four years of age for Lucinda to care for."

Family Photo:
Back row...left to right, Warren Haws, Andrew Nathan, Logan Gilbert, Levi Stewart, *Marion Haws, John Madison. Sitting...left to right, Mary Elizabeth, William Shedrack, Lucinda & Shedrack (Parents), Amos David, Amanda Lucinda.

Note: Other children not pictured as they died as babies:
George Bradford 1849-1850
Timothy 1850-1850
Eliza 1854-1855 [daughter of Eliza and Shedrack]
Cyntha Mary Mahala 1860-1861
Nancy Emmaline 1863-1866
Louisa Diantha 1866-1867

Note: Another sister, Matilda Haws, died young without being married. She was later sealed to him.