The following is from a family history book. The dates contradict the Find a Grave dates by a year in each case.
JAMES SHIELDS was born in 1771. In 1784 he accompanied his mother, sister and four smaller brothers to the Yadkin Settlement in North Carolina, the next year bringing them on pack-animals to Shields Fort in Tennessee, via the Watauga and Traders Trail. In 1808 he settled in Indiana, building his own Shields Fort on the present site of Seymour. His wife was Penelope White, a niece of James White, the founder of Knoxville, and cousin of Congressman and one-time Presidential candidate, Hugh Lawson White. James was the ancestor of a large and prominent Indiana family. His son, Meedy White Shields, founded the city of Seymour. James died Feb. 2, 1847; is buried in Riverview Cemetery, Seymour.
From "Three Kansas Pioneer Families: Stalker-Shields-Martin" by John A. Shields, privately published in a limited edition of 200 copies, May, 1949.
The following is from a family history book. The dates contradict the Find a Grave dates by a year in each case.
JAMES SHIELDS was born in 1771. In 1784 he accompanied his mother, sister and four smaller brothers to the Yadkin Settlement in North Carolina, the next year bringing them on pack-animals to Shields Fort in Tennessee, via the Watauga and Traders Trail. In 1808 he settled in Indiana, building his own Shields Fort on the present site of Seymour. His wife was Penelope White, a niece of James White, the founder of Knoxville, and cousin of Congressman and one-time Presidential candidate, Hugh Lawson White. James was the ancestor of a large and prominent Indiana family. His son, Meedy White Shields, founded the city of Seymour. James died Feb. 2, 1847; is buried in Riverview Cemetery, Seymour.
From "Three Kansas Pioneer Families: Stalker-Shields-Martin" by John A. Shields, privately published in a limited edition of 200 copies, May, 1949.
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