Greene-Lawrence County IN Archives Biographies.....Shields, David 1831 - 
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Author: Goodspeed (1884)

   DAVID SHIELDS, one of the successful and thoroughgoing farmers of Stockton
Township, is a native of Lawrence County, Ind., his birth occurring in the year
1831. He was reared and educated in his native county, and there was united in
marriage with Miss Ellen Box, who was also born in Lawrence County in 1838, a
daughter of William and Jennie Box, and one of the following-named children:
Mary, Thomas, Joseph, Ellen and Fannie. To the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Shields
have been born this family: Arista R., Marshall B. (deceased), Thomas, Isis M.
(deceased), John B., Ida May, Jennie V. and Dollie E. Mr. Shields moved to
Stockton Township, this county, in 1855, and settled upon the old Pool place,
where he yet resides, the owner of one of the best farms in the county. His
father, Jacob Shields; was a native of Green County, Ky., born in 1799, of Irish
and German descent. He came to Lawrence County, Ind., when a young man, entered
land in Pleasant Township, and was there married to Jane Williams, who was born
in North Carolina in 1804, and who is still living. She was a daughter of Vinson
and Sallie (Carter) Williams, who were among the early pioneers of Lawrence
County, this State. By Jacob Shields, she became the mother of five children, as
follows: John, Vinson, Harvey, David and Sarah A. Mr. Shields died in Lawrence
County in 1874, an honored and esteemed citizen.

Additional Comments:
Stockton Township Biographies

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HISTORY OF GREENE AND SULLIVAN COUNTIES,
STATE OF INDIANA,
FROM THE EARLIEST TIME TO THE PRESENT; TOGETHER WITH INTERESTING BIOGRAPHICAL
SKETCHES, REMINISCENCES, NOTES, ETC.

ILLUSTRATED.

CHICAGO: GOODSPEED BROS. & CO., PUBLISHERS.
1884.

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