Samuel Miller Shields and Bertha J. Speedy

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Husband Samuel Miller Shields ¹

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           Born: 4 Jan 1851 - Plumville, Indiana Co, PA 1
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         Father: James G. Shields (1820-1907) 1 2
         Mother: Mary Ann Miller (1829-1895) 1 2

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       Marriage: 23 Dec 1880 3

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Wife Bertha J. Speedy ³

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         Father: Hugh Speedy (      -      ) 3
         Mother: Margaret McCreary (      -      ) 4

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Children

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1 F Jennie May Shields ³

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           Born: 19 Sep 1882 3
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         Spouse: H. H. Charles (      -      ) 3

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2 M James Mark Shields ³

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3 F Pearl Margaret Shields ^{3 5}

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         Spouse: George H. Morford (1874-      ) 6
           Marr: 23 Sep 1909 5

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4 F Lizzie Bell Shields ³

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5 F Mary Olive Shields ³

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6 F Martha A. Shields ³

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General Notes: Husband - Samuel Miller Shields

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He was born in East Mahoning township, Indiana County, Pennsylvania, moved with his parents to Conemaugh township in boyhood, and settled at what was later known as Lewisville (then Ebenezer). There he attended common school, and early began to assist his father on the farm, continuing thus until 1880, when he went to work for Elder Leard at farming. For five years after that he "cropped" on the Smith Templeton farm, and then for two years cropped the John Irwin place, of 116½ acres, which he eventually purchased, this being the place where he thereafter made his home. He followed general farming and stock raising. Politically he was a stanch Republican. Like his father he was one of the reliable members of the Ebenezer Presbyterian Church, of which he was a trustee.

1 J. T. Stewart, Indiana County, Pennsylvania - Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1913), Pg 1234.

2 —, History of Indiana County, Pennsylvania (Newark, OH: J. A. Caldwell, 1880), Pg 437, 478.

3 J. T. Stewart, Indiana County, Pennsylvania - Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1913), Pg 1235.

4 —, History of Indiana County, Pennsylvania (Newark, OH: J. A. Caldwell, 1880), Pg 527.

5 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 814.

6 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 813.