Shearer, brother of Jonathan C. Shearer who was also a student in 1852-1853, attended Emory and Henry College in 1854-1855 and was dismissed from that school. He then joined his brother Jonathan at the University of Virginia in 1856. He was a farmer in Appomattox County, VA in 1860. Shearer enlisted as a private in Co. B of the 2nd VA Cavalry on May 30, 1861 and was detailed to serve in Lynchburg but was listed as absent without leave by 1862 and may have never reported for duty. By 1864, several receipts from the CS Nitre and Mining Bureau indicate he was providing nails, horseshoes and other materials forged at Concord Deport in Campbell County, VA to the Confederate government.
After the war, Shearer was a hotel keeper in Lynchburg, VA in 1870. By 1880, he had moved to Tishomingo, MS where he is listed as an inventor and machinist. He died August 23, 1885 in Georgia.
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