SHIELDS Genealogy
Descendants of Robert and Nancy Stockton Shields
Our traditional history of the Shields family is that our forefathers came from Scotland into
northern Ireland early in 1600, and the descendants were living in Londonderry during the siege
of 1685, which lasted 105 days, many died at starvation, and the war under James second lasted
until 1690.
Two traditional stories have come down to us from my grandmother Nancy Agnes Shields of how
her grandmother told for other terrible food conditions during the siege, that rats sold for onedollar apiece. Also the pathetic story a little Lad (living with the great grandmother) who had
discovered a bunch of "greens" near a wall, after gathering them he returned to the door and was
killed. While she grieved sorely for the child yet, "she was never so glad as anything in her life
has to have all the greens herself." From these traditions, our branch of the Shields could not
have come to America before 1690.
This Scotch ancestry is confirmed by another line of Shields at Bombay, New York whose
forefathers came from Scotland into Northern Ireland, County of Kaven, in early 1600
In "Shields History" by John A. Shields, we find from the records a Pennsylvania and Virginia, that
John, James and Thomas Shields came from Pennsylvania, Chester County, into Rockingham
County, VA.
Garret and Goodpasture History give the marriage of William Shields and Jeanette Parker in Kent
County, MD. in 1692 as the parents of James, Thomas and John mentioned by John A. Shields
from the "The Chalkley Records of Virginia," as "large landowners." The death of William, the
father in 1741 by a following log while helping to erect a house for John is traditional history in the
descendants of William Shields, one of the 10 brothers, and father of Nancy Agnes Shields, my
grandmother.
Garret and Goodpasture History also give James, Thomas and John, sons of William and
Jeanette Parker Shields as land holders in, at that time, Augusta County, VA. James died in
1749 leaving two sons: John and Robert. The later it is mentioned especially as serving as a
revolutionary officer all to the war. He married Nancy Stockton in 1761. They had twelve children
(1 died in infancy), 10 sounds and one daughter lived to maturity.
Stockton Genealogy
Davies Stockton and his wife Sarah came from the north part of Ireland in early 1700, settling first
in Lancaster County, PA. Later in 1734 they came into Rockingham County, now Albemarle
County, VA. He was given a grant of 400 acres, of land in that County on March 12, 1739. Their
children were Richard, William, Thomas and Hannah. The later married Adam Godylauch of
Albemarle. Davies Stockton died in 1769.
Richard Stockton, like his father obtained a grant of 400 acres of land on July 22, 1745 and later
other grants. His wife's name was either Anne or Agnes. They had five sons and 8 daughters:
David, Richard, Thomas, John and Robert; Mary, Sarah, Elizabeth, Deborah, and, Winifred,
Jemima and Nancy. Nancy married Robert Shields in 1761.
Descendants of Robert and Nancy Stockton Shields
Robert and Nancy Stockton Shields moved with their family to Sevier County, Tenn., then a part
of NC. Soon after the close of the war of 1783 or very early in 1784
Jeanette (or Janet) oldest child and only daughter of Robert and Nancy Stockton Shields was
born March 7, 1762. The family given in the order of their birth are as follows: Thomas, 1763;
Richard, 1764; David, 1766; William, 1768; John, 1769; James, 1771; Robert, 1772; Joseph,
1775; the missing brother in 1778; Jesse, 1782.
Jeanette married Joshua Tipton, son of General John Tipton. Their children were Rhoda, John
and Agnes. In April 1793 a call came for volunteers to put down a threatened raid of the Indians.
Among those responding were Joseph Shields then a lad of 18 and Joshua Tipton, his brotherin-law. After starting, Joshua rode back and requested Jeanette to name the expectant baby, if a
boy, for him if he failed to return. His premonitions were correct; they were ambushed by a band
of Cherokee Indians April 18, 1793. Joshua was killed and Joseph Shields was severely
wounded. The child was named Elizabeth. What trying days of anxiety were those, testing ones
faith and trust in God.
Of Jeanette's family, Rhoda married her cousin, Joshua Shields. Their four children were John
Tipton, Nancy, Thomas and Arnet. We have the name of only Nancy's children and those of
Arnet's. Nancy became the wife of John Lindsey, his second marriage. Agnes Tipton married
William Edwards in 1811; this may have been a relative of Susan Edwards, wife of David
Shields.
Elizabeth married John Denbo in 1818. Jeanette moved with her family and others of the Shields
relatives, among them her brother James Shields, into Southern IN in 1807, settling first in
Harrison County at Brindley Ferry later moving into Jackson County and establishing a fort near
the present city of Seymour Co., IN.
John Tipton, only son of Joshua and Jeanette Tipton, married his cousin Jeanette or Jennie
Shields, daughter of John Shields.
Descendants of Joshua and Jeanette Shields Tipton
1. John Shields Tipton
1. Rhoda Tipton married Joshua Shields
1. Agnes Tipton married William Edwards
1. Elizabeth Tipton born 1793 married John Denbo, 1818 paragraph
Descendants of Robert and Nancy Stockton Shields
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Janet, Thomas, Richard and David, children of Robert and Nancy Shields were married soon
after the family settled in the fort, as the dates of children born to them are given in 1784 in 1785.
Thomas Shields, oldest child of Robert and Nancy Stockton Shields was born in 1763 and
married Rhoda (last name not known). He was the only member of his family killed by the
Indians. The story as told by our line of the family says he was killed a while plowing corn on his
land near the fort. Tradition from those still living in the vicinity of the fort, is that he was shot from
ambush on Burch Creek while getting water in his sugar tree orchard with which to boil for sugar.
His two little boys, one of whom was named Joshua, saw their father fall and the Indians rush up
to scalp him. While the Indians were thus engaged, the boys, eight and ten years of age,
unhitched the old blind horse from the sled used for hauling the sugar water and mounted the
horse and started for the fort over some of the rougher country in Tennessee. Only by
Omnipotent power could this poor old blind horse have reached the fort without falling. Thus the
lives of these two brave the boys were saved, they moved to Indiana with Jeanette and family in
1807 or 1808.
Joshua, son of Thomas, one of these brave boys, married his cousin, Rhoda Tipton a daughter of
his Aunt Jeanette and Josh Tipton. Upon settling in Harrison County, Indiana, he enrolled in the
militia and served in the war of 1812. He was with General Harrison at Tippecanoe where he was
wounded in the arm. He died in Cass County, Indiana, Jan. 22, 1852. His wife Rhoda died July
4, 1837. Their children, John Tipton, Nancy, Agnes, Thomas and Arnet of whose descendants
we know nothing save of Nancy and Arnet. Nancy married John Lindsey in 1833. Arnet married
Jane Irwin, May 11, 1837. Their descendants will be found in the history written by J. A. Shields.
Descendants of Joshua and Rhoda Tipton Shields
1.Thomas Shields m. Rhoda, last name not known
2. Joshua Shields m. Rhoda Tipton
3. Nancy Shields m. John Lindsey, (2nd m.) in 1833
4. Rhoda Lindsey b. April 19, 1834 m. Samuel O'Hara
5. Phoebe O’Hara m. February 17, 1852 m. William Pratt went
to New York
5. Martha O’Hara m. a Mr. Crantz
5. John O’Hara, m. daughter of John Graham, Brock, Nebraska
5. Tipton O’Hara, Spokane Falls Washington.
5. Elizabeth O’Hara m. Mr. Berry, Union Mills, IN.
5. Etta O’Hara m. John Pranty, lives in Nebraska.
4. Elizabeth Lindsey. Dec. 14, 1836 m Charles Cole.
5. Adda Cole
5. Helen Cole m. R.C. Wills, Valprasio, Ind.
4. Jane Lindsey b. May 7,1839 m. Isaac Bascom (1st husband); Douglas
Edmonson (2nd husband)
5. Agnes Bascom m. Elmer Neudigate, Hoisington, Kansas
6. Fanny Neudigate
5. Charles Bascom
5. Jacob Bascom
5. John Bascom
4. Mary Lindsey b. May 7, 1840 m. Joseph Holmes, Sept. 1865
5. Calvin Milah Holmes b. Sept. 11, 1867 m. Ida. Wagner (1st
wife); Elizabeth Keys (2nd wife)
5. Charles Tipton Holmes b February 12, 1870 m. Elizabeth Grogan.
5. Sarah Caroline Ann Holmes b. June 27,1867 m. Elmer
Crawford Dec. 20, 1893 at Valley Center, Kansas.
6. Mary Malissa Crawford b. August 8, 1874 m. Jay L.
Johnson May 20, 1917, Alva, Oklahoma.
7. George Elmer Johnson b. March 13,1929
6. Edna Winnifred Crawford b. July 19, 1900 m. John Collier,
Dec.13, 1919, Alva, Oklahoma.
7. Lena Ruth Collier b. May 25, 1920
7. Eldon Dwight Collier b. June 20, 1921
7. Eula Marie Collier b. July 25, 1931
6. Paul Earnest Crawford b. Nov. 30, 1903 m. Clara
Crusinbery July 26, 1933, Alva Oklahoma.
6. Ida Bertha Crawford b. Nov. 30. 1905 m. George Collier,
Dec. 31, 1927, Enid, Oklahoma.
7. Jimmy Carl Collier b. Oct. 8, 1931
6. Ora Crawford b. Dec. 2, 1908, Augusta, Oklahoma.
6. Leona Alice Crawford b. Aug. 29, 1912 m. Harold
Stevens, April 14, 1931, Fairview, Oklahoma.
7. Billy Lynn Stevens b. July 26, 1931
7. Carolyn Ann Stevens b. Sept. 29,1933
6. Ruth Myrtle Crawford b. June 3,1915
6. Daisy Carrie Crawford b. Dec. 3,1918
4. Arnet Lindsey b. Dec. 15,1841 m. Josephine McLain, daughter of Joseph McLain who was
killed in the Battle of Antietam.
5. John McLain Lindsey
5. Charles Lindsey, North Platt Nebraska
5. Ada Lindsey m. Joseph Dunn, North Platt, Nebraska
6. Three children (names unknown).
4. Wingate Lindsey m Louise Campbell
4. Jesse Shields Lindsey m. Emma Shark
5. Arnet Lindsey, Los Angeles, California
DESCENDANTS of ROBERT and NANCY STOCKTON SHIELDS
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Richard, the second son was born in 1764. We have no record as to whom or when he was
married, but his son Robert's birth is given as Oct. 13, 1784, indicating that their marriage must
have taken place soon after the family settled in the fort. If there were other children we have no
record of them. Robert, son of Richard married Margaret Emmert, who is three years his senior
and survived him 12 years. Robert was a farmer and a justice of the peace. His death occurred
Jan. 11, 1850. Robert &. Margaret Emmert Shields resided at Cades Cove, Blount County, Tenn.
Eleven children were born to them. Arnett, the last surviving son died in 1915. Arnett and his
wife Elizabeth Kitchener or Shields had eight children. They resided, some at Ducktown, Tenn.
and others at Colberson, NC as given in J. A. Shields history.
David Shields, known for his size and physical strength, was commonly known as "Big David".
Many stories of his physical strength and prowess has come down to how he could hit as hard
and dexterously with his left as with his right. Most of the Shields men were six feet tall. David
was born about 1766. It is not known who his first wife was. To them was born one son, Joseph,
in the year 1785. The second wife was Susan Edwards, a daughter of Robert Edwards, formerly
of New York. They were married in 17866. Six children were born to this union.
David went to Kentucky in 1808 and settled near Louisville, engaged in freighting goods by flat
boat between Cincinnati and New Orleans. His later days were spent at Athens, Tenn. See John
A. Shields history for the descendants of David and Susan Edwards Shields.
From J. A. Shields history.
William Shields 4th son and 5th child of Robert and Nancy Stockton Shields was born about
1768. A youth of 15 or 16 years when they came to the new home across the mountains into NC.
William is described as having graven black hair and deep blue eyes, tall, rather slender, lithe and
strong. He was feared by the Indians, yet he did not make a practice of hunting them down;
neither did he have any deep-rooted haste for them, as did his nephew John Tipton. On one
occasion he did not hesitate to precede against them. When he did they gave him wide berth, for
he moved with calm, fearless determination. He was a man of highest courage and keen vision,
with a quickness of hearing and his skill in Wood's craft, exceptional even among pioneers of the
forest. It is said he excelled the Savage in this respect, on his own ground. He is credited with
being able to walk through the dry leaves and make no perceptible sound. He could trail an
Indian, even in the night and find his way about unerringly without moon or stars to guide him. An
adept at imitating the birds were other forest sounds. He could distinguish a Seminole or
Cherokee or a friendly Chickasaw as far as he could see him. In the understanding of the Indian
character he excelled all his brothers excepting John. David excelled him and physical strength.
William was hard working; he was neither better nor worse off then the average of his neighbors.
He was especially devoted to his family. He was married to Margaret Wilson in 1789. A daughter
of Samuel Wilson, a pioneer of East Tenn. Served in the Revolution and was prominent in the
campaigning against the Indians and one of the leaders of the Tipton faction in the Political feud
with John Seiver. William had taken up a claim, broken the sod, and improved it by fencing a few
acres and set out an orchard will still living at the fort. They had many thrilling experiences in
those days at the fort. One day William and Margaret went out to the claim to gathered peaches,
as they went through the gates they noticed moccasin tracks, also the queer actions of the dog.
Going further they saw Indians dodging from trees to tree, they of course made hasty retreat, yet
William did not fail to put up the bars. Knowing they could not reach the fort before the Indians
would over take them they went into a thicket. Margaret was tripped by a fine and fell with the
baby in her arms. To quiet the baby she quickly gave it the breast, William held the dogs quiet
with one hand while he had his hunting knife ready for action in the other. As he watched, 7
Indians passed by, "huh," he said, "had I known there were but 7, I would have let the dogs loose,
they would have handled 2, I could have taken two or three and the rest would haver run."
Another time when the hostile Indians were marauding in the vicinity, William was off guard, an
Indian crept within range and was preparing to shoot when one of dogs discovered his presence
and gave warning, enabling William to dodge behind a tree just in time.
William moved on his land about 1795, residing there until 1808, going first into Logan County,
Ohio and a year later they moved into southern Indiana, living in the fort.
There were nine children born to William and Margaret: Robert, 1790; William, 1792; James,
1794; Elizabeth, 1796; Nancy Agnes, 1798; Samuel, 1800; Rhoda, 1802; Rebecca, 1805; and
Jennie or Janet. Nette was born in 1808, all in severe County, Tenn., on Little Pigeon River.
About 1813, Margaret the wife and mother passed on. Elizabeth, the eldest, was married to John
Lindsey, June 14th, 1814.
John was the sixth child of Robert in Nancy Stockton Shields. He was born in VA about 1769.
He was associated with Samuel Wilson in a mill and also worked at blacksmithing and as a
gunsmith. John was best known to the 10 brothers, thus has more claim to a place in history of
this country. He was a member of the Lewis and Clark expeditions and highly spoken out of in
the reports of that expeditions as a scout and gunsmith. He is credited with saving the lives of the
members of his party during the first winter, which was spent near the present site of Mandan,
North Dakota. It is said that by diplomacy he kept the Mandan Indians in good humor through his
skill as a blacksmith by fashioning hatchets, knives and implements which were traded to them
for Corn and provisions so much needed when the little party found itself destitute and facing
starvation. His married, etc. will be given later.
James Shields, the seventh child of Robert and Nancy, was born in Rockingham County, VA in
1771. He married to Penelope White a sister of James White the founder of Knoxville and a
cousin of Hugh Lawson White who was a member of Congress and candidate for president
against Andrew Jackson. James and Penelope had two sons and three daughters born in Seiver
Cedar County, Tenn.
They moved into southern Indiana in 1808 settling in Jackson County. James with other
members of the family along with the Tipton family built a fort just north of the present city of
Seymore where they lived for protection against the Indians. James was in command of the fort
and won the title of Colonel in various Indian skirmishes in which he led the settlers. In time he
was owner of over 1200 acres of land in Jackson County. He was of a social being enjoyed
entertaining his friends.
Their oldest son, William, became a member of the Indiana Legislature. Meedy White Shields,
second son of this couple was a businessman, also owned large tracks of land and milling
interest.
The father, James, passed on Feb. 2nd, 1848; Penelope the wife and mother having preceded
him six years. Both were buried in the Riverview Cemetery near Seymour. The Shields
homestead is still an interesting Landmark in the vicinity of Seymour.
Robert seems to have been the 8th child of Robert and Nancy Stockton Shields. He was born in
VA 1772 and married Sabra White, sister of his brother James’ wife, Penelope. To them were
born 11 children. He kept his family to Floyd County, IN in 1808. Robert was a soldier in the war
of 1812 under General Harrison. In 1815 he removed to Sevier County, Tenn. where the Shields
family settled after coming from VA. Here he owned much valuable land.
Robert’s children were prominent, active citizens. Robert Shields Jr. and Meedy White Shields
married sisters,
Nan and Eliza Floyd. Nan is mentioned in the early history records for her bravery in and daring
courage. Robert Sr. died in Pigeon Forge.
Joseph was one of the younger children, 9th, born 1775. He was severely wounded by the
Cherokee Indians Apr. 18, 1793, near Sevierville, Tenn. at the time his brother-in-law Joshua
Tipton was killed.
He went north into Harrison County, IN with the family in 1808. Six sons are mentioned, the
oldest one being Nathan V. Shields, born June 1801 in Sevier Co., TN. Nathan married Pollie
Onion Aug. 6, 1827. After death he married Mary Kingery, March 1835. They moved to Fulton
County, IL in 1836. He, like William's son, Robert, was a wheel-wright by trade.
Other sons of Joseph were: Kinzie, Asa, Hiram, David and Jesse, Joseph died October 15th,
1856.
Jesse Shields, 10th son of Robert and Nancy Stockton Shields, born in VA, March 10, 1782. He
was with the family in the Aug. 1783 to Sevier County Tenn., where he lived until 1808. He
married Catherine Fox in 1803, she was born March 26, 1786. Jesse and his family settled at
Ripperdam, Valley, Harrison County, IN in 1808, 10 miles southwest of Corydon. This couple had
12 children all given in the John A. Shields history along with their married birth and death in
chronological order.
We find that Ellen M. Clark, who is a great to granddaughter of Jesse Shields, youngest son of
Robert and Nancy Shields, is now living in St. Paul, Minn. She has been one of the great helpers
in securing the names of the descendants of Jesse and Catherine Fox Shields, both of whom
died at Mauckport, IN and are buried in the old Shields plot in the old Cross Grove's cemetery on
the Pike between Corydon and Mauckport about two miles from the latter place.
This concludes the family of Robert and Nancy Stockton Shields with the exception of one son
whose name we have not been able to obtain or find any of his descendants willing to confess
they are relatives.
We feel this missing one might have had the name Ezekiel, Elijah of Perry since these names
frequently occur early in the descendants of the various lines. It would be a great pleasure to all
interested relatives if the missing ones relatives or descendants could be contacted.
Genealogy of Descendants of Robert and Nancy Stockton Shields
1. Jeanette, born March 7, 1762 married Joshua Tipton 1784.
1. Thomas Shields, born 1763 m. Rhoda
1. Richard Shields born in 1764
1. David Shields born 1766 m. Susan Edwards
1. William Shields, born 1768 m. Margaret Wilson
1. John Shields, born 1769
1. James Shields, born 1771 m. Penelope White
1. Robert Shields, born 1772 m. Sabra White1. Joseph Shields, born 17751. Ezekiel Shields,
born 1778
1. Jesse Shields, born 1782 m. Catherine Fox 1803
Wilson Genealogy
Ancestors of Margaret Wilson who married William Shields.
Robert Wilson and three brothers, Zacheus, Samuel, and David emigrated from Pennsylvania into NC,
settling near Hopewell church in Mecklenburg County in 1745. Samuel Wilson, Sr. died on March 13,
1778.
Robert Wilson married Eleanor Mitchell, daughter of William Mitchell of Pennsylvania. They had eleven
boys, 10 saw service in the Revolutionary War. David, Joseph, Robert, John, William, Josiah, Samuel,
Zacheus, James in Benjamin. David was a major and Robert was made a captain for his bravery at the
battle of Kings Mountain. Seven sons and the father enlisted in one day. When the mother was asked is
she did not hate to see all her sons enlisting in the war, she replied, "no indeed, I only wish I had 10 more to
put by their side to fight for liberty and Independence."
My grandmother to Nancy Shields Elliott has told me that she remembered her great grandmother, Eleanor
Mitchell Wilson relate incidents of the war.
Robert and Eleanor lived to a good old age, Robert passing away in 1810 in Eleanor in 1812.
From Garret and Goodpasture History
Robert Wilson, Sr. and son John, while bringing supplies for General Sumpter’ s army were captured by
the British, having been brutally threatened with hanging on the nearest tree. Among others captured were
Andrew Jackson, Colonel Isaacs and General Wilson Rutherford, all were placed in jail at Camden.
General Cornwallis in the left a lieutenant in command at Camden and he marched to Charlotte on Sept. 26,
1780, there he and Col. In camped on the Wilson plantation and occupied the house of Eleanor Wilson.
Finding her husband and sons were his prisoners in Camden; he tried to enlist her in the Kings cause. He
said "madam, your husband and sons are my prisoners and the fortunes of war may place all your sons and
kinsman in my power, if you would induce your family to leave the rebels and take up arms for their lawful
sovereign. If you will pledge yourself to induced them to do so I will immediately order their discharge
and they may hope for rank, honor and wealth." She replied, "I have seven sons who are now bearing arms,
indeed my eighth son, Zacheus, who is only 15 years old, I yesterday assisted to join his brothers in
General Sumpter’ s army. Rather than see one of my family turn back from the glorious enterprise for
liberty, I would take these three boys and would myself enlist them under General Sumpter’ s standard and
show my husband and sons how to fight and if necessary die for the freedom and liberty of an its my
country."
The story of Zacheus, who is captured the next day and brought to Cornwallis. On finding out his name,
Cornwallis took him along for a guide to the best ford in the river. The army entered at the point
designated by Zacheus, and seeming to find themselves in deep water and drawn downstream. Cornwallis
believing the boy had purposely led them into deep water, drew his sword and swore he would behead him
for his treachery. Zacheus replied, "You have the power do so as I have no arms, but sir, don't you think it
would be a cowardly act to strike an unarmed boy with your sword. If I had but half of your weapon it
wouldn’t be so cowardly, but hen it wouldn't be so safe either." Cornwallis was impressed by the boys cool
courage and told him he was a fine lad and that he wouldn’t hurt a hair of his head.
Having discovered the ford was shallow enough to cross safely, he dismissed Zacheus and told him to go
home and take care of his mother and tell her "to keep her boys at home," but Zacheus didn't go home.
Descendants of Joseph Wilson still have a British sword that Joseph won in a fight with a British soldier.
The Wilson's were Scotch Irish.
Descendants of William F. and Margaret Wilson Shields
Robert Shields, the first son and oldest child of William and Margaret was born in 1790 in the fort in Sevier
County, Tenn. He came with his parents to southern Indiana in 1808 or 1809. He served in the war of
1812. Robert married Elizabeth DAVIS about 1815. There were three daughters and three sons: Elizabeth,
Emily, Jeanette; William; Elijah born 1824 and Jonathan born Feb. 16, 1826, near Westport, Decatur, IN.
Robert, the father, was a wheel-wright and an artist in wood carving. The little spinning wheel which he
made and gave to his sister Nancy Elliott has as a wedding gift in 1815 and was brought to Kansas in 1860
and was still in use in 1875. Robert died in 1826. His wife Elizabeth outlive him 65 years, she passed
away in 1891.
1. William Shields them. Margret Wilson daughter of Samuel Wilson
2. Robert b. 1790 m. Elizabeth DAVIS in 1817
3. William Shields b. 1818 m. Matilda Brinker
4. William P. Shields, lived near Hayden, IN
5. Eliza Shields m. Thurston at Brewersville, IN
4. Martin Shields lived in Okla.
4. Henry Shields
4. Josiah Shields
3. Elizabeth Shields m. b.1820 m. Jacob Merriman
4. John Merriman
4. He Elijah Merriman
4. Sara Merriman
4. Elizabeth Merriman
4. Mary Merriman
4. Emma Jane Merriman
4. Katherine Merriman
4. Martha Merriman
3. Emily Shields b. 1822 m. John Holmes
4. Sara Holmes
4. Dee Holmes
4. Bird homes
4. Perry Holmes
3. Elijah Shields Dee. 1824 m. Catherine Morgan
4. Jeremiah Shields m. Urula Wileford 1866
5. Eli Jeff Shields Dee. 1868 m. Blanche Lowe
6. Glen Shields
6. Jetta Ann Shields
6. Monroe Shields
6. Forrest Shields
6. Roy Shields
6. Edna Shields
6. Ursula Shields
6. Harry Shields
5. Maryette Shields m. Johnson
5. Katherine Shields m. Levy
4. Mary Shields m. Dunnford
5. George Shields Dunnford
5. William Dunnford m. Mary Reynolds, Hollenberg, Kansas
6. Edna Dunnford m. Carlysle, Long Beach, CA
6. Mary Dunnford m. Watts, Ontario, CA
6. Amie Dunford m.
7. One daughter
6. Jessie Dunnford
4. Martha Shields m. William Hadley
5. Several children but do not have names
3. Jonathan Shields Dee. 1826 m. Elizabeth Fuel
4. William war she 10 Shields m. Martha Ann DAVIS
5. Many Shields m. George Anderson
6.
Bertha Anderson m. Sherman Michael, Ozawkie Kansas
7. Merle Michael m. at Washington, D.C
7.
Melvin Michael
7. Fred Bell Michael
7. Elmer Michael
7. Leladell Michael
6. Pearl of Anderson m. been in Chubbuck, Morrowville,
Kansas
7. Vineta Anderson
7. Esther Anderson
7. Vivian Anderson
6. Arthur Andersen m. Ethel Robbins Mooresville Kansas
7. Gerald H. Anderson m. Marie Mc Collough
8. Gale Anderson
8. Darlene Anderson
7. Verna Lucille Anderson m. Ray Massie to, June
1937 died June 1938 in a train car accidents.
7. Floor in Cecil Anderson m. Elizabeth Hammond
8. Ronald Lee Anderson
8. Dale Marion Anderson
8. Clinton Anderson
8. Robert Anderson
8. Paul Anderson
7. Glenn Woodrow Anderson m. Dorothy Campbell
8. Vernon Glenn Anderson
8. Phyllis Anderson
Married second Ruby Hiatt (Casey) of Omaha Nebraska
8. Joyce Jean Anderson m. Greg Ortman
9. Faye Ortman
9. Tammy Ortman
9. Gregory Ortman
9. Philip Ortman
8. Frederick Anderson died infant
8. Dale Fred Anderson m.
9. Shane Anderson
Dale married Shelley and had a bore a named Thor, later adopted by Shelley’s second husband. He then
had a girlfriend, Vickie Baird and had a boy named Brandon Anderson who is about the same age as
Susannah, my daughter. (Larry Anderson) He had another girlfriend, Marie, and had a daughter named
Savannah. She was living in Salt Lake City, UT
8. Larry Dean Anderson m. Tanya Jean
Livingston of Carter Lake, Iowa. We were married in Omaha Nebraska while I was in the army. We were
divorced, beginning 1994 and finalized December 1996. I gained custody of my children in June 1996.
9. Stephanie Jean Louise Anderson
9. Jonathan Glenn Allen Anderson
9. Sarah Mae Ellen Anderson
9. Susannah Marie Jeanette Anderson
9. Rebecca Elizabeth Goldie Anderson
9.
9.
Larry remarried to Ruth Malce Alo, from the Philippines.
9.
9.
9.
Jacob William Osten Anderson
Larry Daniel Benjamin Anderson
Laura Sophia Alo Anderson
Matthew James Alo Anderson
Rachel Ruby Alo Anderson
8. Duane Lee Anderson m. Jean Bird
Duane married second to Sandy Wilson
9. Lisa Marie Anderson
8. Bruce Martin Anderson
9.
Glenn and Ruby adopted their grandchild, Shane Anderson, daughter of Dale Anderson. In
7. Beulah Anderson m. Ronald Ray
8. Donna Jeanne
8. Robert Brown (Bobby)
Aunt Bea married second to Fred Clark and adopted 3 children
8. Lanny Clark
8. Johnnie Clark
8. Susan Clark
7. Duane Hubert Anderson m. Betty Haynes
8. Michael Duane Anderson
8. Jennie Anderson m. James Ware
Duane Hurbert married and had three other children
7. Geraldine Faye Anderson m. Gerald Macy, second Frank
Newman, and Gerald Christensen
7. Gerald or Jerry Macy
8.
8.
8.
8.
Kenneth
Karla
Jesse
Richard
7. Donald Eugene Anderson m. Wilma Keim
8. Pamela Anderson
8. Gary Anderson
8. Larry Anderson, d. In auto
accident while still in high school
6. Effie Anderson m. John Hewitt, Mayetta Kansas
7. Stella Hewitt
7. Zola Hewitt
7. John B. Hewitt
6. Virgil Anderson m. Mary Thayer, Topeka Kansas
7. Marguerite Anderson
7. Dorothy Anderson
6. Edgar Anderson m. Pearl Rogers
7. Fairbelle Anderson
7. Esther Faye Anderson
7. Everett Anderson
6. Frederick Anderson m. Gladys Woodward
7. Thaine Anderson
7. Keith Anderson
For Martha Ann DAVIS second m. C. Rebecca Shields Descendants
4. Amanda and Shields
4. Mary Jane Jane Shields m. Ami Dixon
5. Jonathan Ami Dixon
5. Ira Tipton Dixon
4. Jemima Shields m. Larkin Menefee
5. Note: Ira Davis page 25 and 71
5. Vada Menefee m. Wayne tends
5. Hettie Menefee m. Roy G. Derrick 1906
6. Lyle R. Derrick D. 1907 m. Esther Scholz, 1931
7. Joan Elaine Derrick D. 1932
5. Lucinda Menefee m. Clyde Roberts
6. Esther Roberts
5.
5.
5.
6.
Dora Menefee
Ursula Menefee
Off to Menefee m. Lewis Hall
Alvin Menefee
According to the chronology of naming the sons, William must have been the second son of
William and Margret, born in the fort in about 1792. He was twice married, first to Hannah Toothman,
whose children are given as: Mary, Janet or Jeanette, Mark, James and Samuel. His second wife was Aria
or Ariana Evans. Her children are said to have been: Hannah, Deliah, Jesse, Tipton, William and twins
Amanda and Ovanda who were born about 1845, one of which had one blue and one brown. There was
one, Rebecca, who was a cripple and lived to be 30 years of age. Another daughter named Alva, born Dec.
25, 1835, married her cousin William Toothman. Those names and dates may not be absolutely correct as
we have been unable to get in touch with the descendants of William and Aria Evans Shields, to our deep
regret. William and Maria moved to Wisconsin and settled in Bad ax County (now Vernon County) in
1857.
From J. A. Shields History
James, son of William and Margret, was commonly known as Colonel James, born in the fort in severe
County, Tenn. Aug. 1794, Deanie in his 15th year when the family came into IN, settling near
Brewersville. Later he entered the land and now known as the farm of James the Mc Cam in Hunts and
Creek before IN became estate. He gave his military title because of his activities in the war of 1812 and
the Indian campaign. He was married twice, first to Sarah J. Mc Causland, who died in 1834. William
Preston, Mary Ellen, John Tipton, Eliza J., Nancy Ann and James Seviere were their children. His second
wife was Martha Mc Castle and, in the he Wilson. The children were Charles, Sarah T., in Diana a less is,
generally caller Alice D. There were two other children, Harvey and Winnifred, who died young.
James with his cousin John Tipton took contract in early days of Indiana history to clear the trees and
stumps from what was to be the capital ground that Corydon. In fact it was the first territorial and later the
state capital. James was a Democrat and a Baptist. One of his daughters, Nancy Ann married Henry Wise
in 1843; he was killed at Chickamauga while fighting with the Union Army. She too was loyal to the
Union. In June 1864 James and Nancy Shields Elliott visited Colonel James Shields in Indiana after a
happy greeting, Nancy Ann, the daughter asked if they were loyal to the Union. Upon being assured that
they were, she arose with tears flowing, she said she wanted to shake hands with them again, as the she had
given the treasurer of her life, her husband, for the cause. With three sons in the Union Army, Nancy, sister
Col. James, took him aside and advised him not to mention politics or the war during the visit or Jimmy,
her husband, would not stay overnight in his home. Although a fiery-fighter, he took her advice. For other
descendants of Colonel James Shields, see history a of J. A. Shields.
The 4th child and first daughter of the above, named Elizabeth, was born January 23, 1796, being
the first child born outside the fort. She moved to southern IN with her father’s family in 1808, residing in
the Fort during the Indian troubles and the war of 1812. She married John Lindsey, June 14 th, 1814 near
Salem, IN. The Lindsey’s came to IN in 1798. John was the oldest son of Joshua and Elizabeth Lindsey.
John Lindsey moved with other relatives into Decatur Co., IN where they lived until early 1828,
when in company with other relatives of Elizabeth SHIELDS LINDSEY. They moved into Northern
Indiana, near the present town of Delphi, then Tippecanoe Co., IN which was later divided into Cass,
Carroll and White counties. Early in 1829, John Lindsey was given the contract as Indian Agent by the
Government to build a corn cracker mill to supply bread for the Pottawatomie Indians. In 1829 he sent for
his family who in company with William SHIELDS, brother of Elizabeth and James ELLIOT, whose wife
was a sister, and Joshua SHIELDS, a cousin moved their family moved their families into what is now
Fulton CO., IN near Lake Manitou.
They resided in Fulton Co., IN until the Pottawatomie Indians were moved west of the Missouri
River into the Kansas Territory in 1837. Their children were: William, born in 1816; Joshua, born in
1818; John born in 1820, married and lived in South Bend, IN where he was prominent in business; Mark,
born in 1822, died in 1843; Elizabeth was born in 1824; Tipton was born on May 21 st, 1829; Nathan was
born in 1831. Elizabeth died March 26, 1832. After an effort to preserve the burial place of Elizabeth, the
remains were reinterred in the Odd Fellows Cemetery and a marker placed by the D.A.R.s to her memory.
Sometime in 1833, John Lindsey married for the second wife, Nancy SHIELDS, second cousin of
Elizabeth and daughter of Joshua and Rhoda Tipton SHIELDS. General John Tipton gave Nancy a side
saddle and gay saddlebags as a wedding present. They are still preserved in the family of her descendents
at Valpariso, Indiana.
The following beautiful tribute written in memory of Elizabeth SHIELDS LINDSEY by the Editor
of the News-Sentinel of Rochester is here included as a memorial for her beautiful example as a pioneer
mother.
THE STORY OF ELIZABETH LINDSEY
The following account of a pioneer citizen was told to me by the late William A. Ward, probably
twenty years preceding this date March 27th, 1925. Mr. Ward came to Rochester, then a mere Indian
trading post, in 1831, and a few months thereafter, while a little child, attended the burial of Elizabeth
Lindsey.
John Lindsey, wife and two or three children came to Rochester in 1829, sent here by the United
States Government to build a “corn cracker” mill in compliance with a treaty entered into between the
government and the Pottawatomie tribe of Indiana. The Lindsey family journeyed hither from some point
in Ohio, their conveyance being a covered wagon. The good wife gently rebelled against coming to what
was then to her “way out west,” fearing Indians, the wild and undeveloped condition of the country, wild
animals, reptiles, swamps, miasma, etc., but persuasion of the husband induced her coming. A log cabin
home was built in the forest in which they resided only a short time until Mrs. Lindsey, by reason of
climatic conditions, surface water and unsanitary surroundings, took sick and, without a doctor in many
miles, died, notwithstanding all her loving husband and a few white friends could do.
At that time there was naught but a trail between Rochester and Akron, Indiana, which trail
crossed Mill Creek at a point a few rods from the place where Elizabeth Lindsey was buried. There was no
dam at Lake Manitou; hence Mill Creek was something like a river, quite deep, the only ford being near
Mrs. Lindsey’s grave, which is located due east of the Fulton County courthouse, just west of the present
city limit line and perhaps 200 feet north of Race Street.
On the day of her funeral her remains were lifted into a Conestoga wagon and, with a few friends,
was conveyed to the spot near said ford, in a little clearing in the underbrush, where a grave was dug, and
her form deposited therein, her husband, children, white settler associates and friendly Indians witnessing
the sad rite for the first white person to die in Fulton County. Later, John Lindsey placed a marble marker
at the grave of his wife, a slab approximately 16X30 inches, 2 inches thick, oval top, on which is carved
this brief inscription:
ELIZABETH
WIFE OF
JOHN LINDSEY
DIED MARCH 26, 1832
AGED 36 YEARS, 2 MONTHS
3 Days
Sometime after the relation of this story by Mr. Ward, the writer visited the spot, which was
surrounded by a garden, but the grave was unmolested. The head stone was found to be broken in twain,
criss cross thereof, and laid flat on the ground. In 1913, while editor of the Daily Republican, an effort was
made to interest the public to offer a subscription of repairing the stone and improving the site, but only the
meager sum of one dollar fifteen cents was received, which was quite insufficient, and that amount is still
held in my trust for the time when a shamed populace will consent to properly honor the memory of a
pioneer “Gold Star” mother, equally heroic with on who sent her son to France in defence of “Old Glory,”
for Elizabeth Lindsey volunteered and sacrificed her life in the development of our country from the wilds
of the woods to the beautiful City of Rochester, in which our children enjoy God’s blessing of free public
schools, spacious and comfortable buildings, splendid modern church edifices, fine architectural public
structures and the Court House, City hall, and lastly the new Federal building that will provide a handsome
home for the Rochester Post Office.
On May 30, 1913, Memorial Day, through the columns of the Daily republican, it was my part to
incite all citizens to meet at the grave of Elizabeth Lindsey, to revere her memory by holding Decoration
Day services. Only a comparatively small number of persons responded (perhaps thirty or forty) the office
force of the Daily Republican, immediate relatives of the writer and a few others. The line of march to the
rave formed in front of the newspaper office, 114 East Eighth street, opposite the court house north, Miss
Henrietta Ward, great grand daughter or William A. Ward afore mentioned then a school girl, now Mrs. J.
Murray McCarty, led the way bearing the U. S. Flag. Rev. S. A. Stewart, then pastor of the First
Presbyterian church, offered an appropriate eulogy. Service were opened by singing “America,” followed
by Rev. Stewart’s prayer and subject, then the depositing of flowers, singing, “God be With You Till We
Meet Again,” and dismissal with benediction. The service represents the only public recognition since the
1832 interment up to this present time.
During last May, 1914, the writer made personal appeal to Rochester City council to take some
favorable action looking to the possible purchase of the ground and erection of a suitable monument to
commemorate and honor this pioneer mother, but on account of demands on the city treasury, due to the
erection of a new city building, it was deemed best to defer the matter to a later date.
Wish to close this account with the hope that long before the contents of his corner stone box is
revealed to future generations, a grateful and respectful public will decree that the resting place of Elizabeth
Lindsey shall be beautified by the love of generous hearts in the form of a lasting monument.
(Signed) Albert W. Bitters, Rochester, Indiana. March 27, 1925.
John T. Lindsey, Jr., son of John and Elizabeth Shields Lindsey, was born 1818 in Decatur Co.,
IN., and married Kate Willis of South Bend, IN., in 1847. Their children were Charles, Edwin, Lelia who
married a Mr. Sisson and moved to California; Alma married a Mr. Huntsinger and lived at Point
Richmond, California. A daughter of Mrs. Huntsinger, Mrs. Louis Moore, resides at Santa Rosa,
California, R. R. I.
John T. Lindsey, came to this country when a mere lad, and was partially raised in the family of
T. W. Bray. In 1837 Mr. Bray was made country clerk and young Lindsey showing great aptitude for
business, was made deputy. In 1844, Mr. Lindsey was a candidate for the same office, was elected and
served until 1851. In 1850 he was appointed teller in the South Bend Branch of the State Bank of Indiana
and held this position until the organization of the First National bank of South Bend, when he was
tendered the position of cashier, which he accepted. Through the course of a long and useful life, it was the
food fortune of Mr. Lindsey to secure the confidence of every one with whom he had relations. It is not
much to say of him that he never knew how to follow a devious of dishonest course, and his name became
to those having dealing with hi the synonym of integrity. Mr. Lindsey was a member of the Presbyterian
Church and also of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He died loved and respected by all, Tuesday
November 16, 1869. (Chapman’s “History of St. Joseph county, IN.” Page 504.”
Mrs. Lindsey was born March 2, 1829 and died December 7, 1911. At the time of her death her
two daughters were living.
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTHES OF TIPTON LINDSEY, 1829-1894
In the notes of Kate Lindsey Frazier, his daughter, I find, in her handwriting, this statement:
dictated by him something after 1891: Indiana in 1798. He married Elizabeth Shields, the mother of
Tipton Lindsey, and as his second wife, her cousin, Nancy Shields.
Here follows the first few pages off the autobiography of Tipton Lindsey:
I was born May 21st, 1829, in Carroll County, in the valley of the Wabash, in the state of In., near
what was afterwards named Delphi.
My mother and her children were alone, my father having been appointed gunsmith and miller to
the Pottawatomie nation at lake Manitou, in territory that afterwards became Fulton County. This office he
held for seven years, until the office was abolished.
Three months after I was born, my mother, with her children were taken to my father, who had
prepared a residence for her in the midst of the warlike tribe of Indiana, twenty-three miles from a while
settlement.
My father and family resided here during the Black Hawk war of 183, but only a part of the
Pottawatomies took a hand in that war. A band of young men of that nation were hired by the French to go
to a point on the Fox fiver where some ten or twelve men (Frenchmen, Scotchmen and Americans) had
established a fur traders post. This post was located on the present site of the City of Chicago.
These traders, having received word that they were to be destroyed, escaped in the boats. The
young Indians, failing to find them, returned to the parties who had employed then and reported “Che-cago,” with in their language, meant “all gone.” They received their pay, and I have often heard of how they
laughed at the cunningly-worded report, which enabled them to collect their pay, thought they had no killed
the traders.
From this circumstances Chicago undoubtedly took its name.
At the close of my father’s term of office he moved onto a piece of land (with hi family) adjoining
what afterwards became the Town of Rochester, IN., and a few years later to Starke County.
From the time I was ten years old until fifteen years of age I worked regularly on the farm, and
after I was fifteen, would sometimes make trips of eighteen or twenty miles alone, driving an ox team, to
deliver produce and make necessary purchases for the farm.
I had reached my fifteenth year without any attention having been paid to my education there
being no schools in the county where my father lived. So I contracted with him to pay him one hundred
dollars for the time intervening before my coming of age. This was faithfully paid within a year.
I immediately “bound” myself out to an employer for that time. He was to pay the hundred dollars
and permit me to go to school for fie months in each year. The balance of my time to he is. During the
first year and a half I earned my board and lodging by working for the family with whom my employer
lived.
I immediately started to school but was in miserable health. Yet I made fair progress, studying
almost day and night.
After the first eighteen months I was put into a Legal Clerk’s office to do copying, with time
enough each day to recite two or three lessons, such as I had to study the night before. This was continued
for about six months. After this the work in the Clerk’s office was such that it required the whole of each
day. Then I began devoting my evenings to studying law with Judge Thomas S. Stanfield, he kindly
hearing and directing me after business hours. (George Frasier studied with me under Judge Stanfield).
I continued following this routine until February 1849, when I lacked a few months of being
twenty years old. But this confinement to the desk and my books had seriously impaired my health, so I
sought my employer’s consent to come to California, at the time of the gold discovery excitement. In view
of my ill health he reluctantly consented and on the 20 th day of February, 1849, I walked out of the Clerks
office, where the temperature was usually kept at 75 degrees, into the snow four inches deep, to begin the
journey which would consume many months, and during which time we must camp out every night.
I took up an ox-whip to drive an ox-team across the plains. This necessitated my walking the
entire distance, as it was against the rules for any but invalids to ride.
We arrived at Hangtown, near Placerville, Calif. On Sept. 5, 1849.
1) William and Margaret Wilson SHIELDs
2) Elizabeth SHIELDS m. John LINDSEY, June 14, 1814
3) William Shields LINDSEY b. Feb. 21 1816
3) John LINDSEY, Jr. b. 1818, d. 1869
3) Mark LINDSEY b. 1823
3) Tipton LINDSEY b. May 21, 1829 m. Elizabeth Fine
4) John LINDSEY, Jr. lived in San Francisco, CA.
4) Katherine LINDSEY m. George FRASIER
5) Charles Tipton Lindsey FRAISER. Professor of History in the University at
Berkley, Calif.
3) Nathan LINDSEY b. Oct. 4, 1831
The fifth child of William and Margaret Wilson SHIELDS was named Nancy Agnes for her
paternal grandmother, born Feb. 28, 1798, a 2nd edition of William her father in calm, self-poise,
fearlessness, aid undaunted courage and high sense of justice. While yet in Tenn. And she a child of ten,
her father was detained from home one night until quite late. Soon after dark a disturbance was heard
among the pigs. Nancy was sent to investigate, taking her gun along. Seeing a dark object near or in the
pen she shot at it, on her return to the house she exclaimed, “Oh mama, I am afraid I shot a man.
Something ran off in the woods and it sounded like it cried, “Oh me! Oh me!” The next morning her father
took the trail and soon came upon the carcasses of a bear.
After her family moved into southern Indiana, and while living in the fort in Jackson County, she
met James Elliott, a fine Christian man. They were married after the close of the war of 1812, on
December 7, 1815 in Salem, Indiana. They lived in Decatur County until 1827 when they, with other
relatives, moved to northern Indiana in what is now Carroll County near Delphi. In August of 1829 they
again moved, into Fulton County near Lake Manitou. James Elliott, owning the land on which Rochester is
now built, living in his vicinity, among the Pottawattomie Indians until 1837. They became well versed in
the language. James served through the War of 1812 under Capt. Bigger and Gen. Harrison at the Battle of
Tippecanoe.
James and Nancy SHIElDS ELLIOTT were the parents of thirteen children, ten of whom lived to
maturity. Their names and birthdates are: Elizabeth Ann, Feb. 23 1817; Margaret McClintoe, Feb. 13,
1819; Absalom, Aug. 27, 1821; James, 1823; Ruth Jane, Nov. 15, 1825; William, 1827; John Perry,
May 29, 1829; Mary, 1831; Jasper Newton, Jan. 9, 1833; Nancy McCaleb, Dec. 24, 1835; Isaac Tipton,
Feb. 6, 1837; Jesse Shields, June 10, 1840; Rebecca Ann, Jan. 3, 1843.
Nancy took up the study and practice of medicine with Drs. Sippe and Bracket, receiving her
diploma. Dr.. Gunn’s medical adviser and Remedies was the Standard works at that time. Her supply of
drugs was obtained from nature’s storehouse of roots and herbs. While a supply of oils, cream of tartar,
sulphur and rosin as well as brandy was always kept as hand. She was very successful in setting bones,
also in the use of the lance for bleeding, having perfect knowledge o the veins of the temple, arms and
ankles, and the result in lancing of either. One case in particular she was exact vein in the ankle to lance,
obtaining a spoonful or so of blood. This resulted in the relief from the convulsions and brought on labor
and saved both mother and babe. Lancing of a vein at the elbow, taking a pint or so of blood has saved
many a case from what is now termed uric poisoning. In her 40 years of practice, no other doctor was ever
employed by any of her descendents. In the diagnosing of contagious diseases, fevers, etc. she was adept,
always sympathetic, calm, and serene. She was a benediction to all she ever met. Loved and all revered by
all her children as well as all who knew her.
DESCENDANTS of JAMES and NANCY SHIELDS ELLIOTT
ALSO
CHILDREN of JOHN and ELIZABETH ELLIOTT DUNNUCK
Elizabeth Ann, the first child of the above, was born on Washington CO., Ind. Feb. 23, 1817. She
was known as “Betsey” and was ten years old when her parents moved to Fulton CO., Ind. Here she was
married to Isaac Kendall, Feb. 26, 1835. Their four children were: Nancy, b. 1836; Charlotte b. 1845.
Isaac Kendall died October 15, 1851. In 1854 Betsey married John Dunnuck, a widower with six children.
Thus increasing the home duties and cares from four to ten children, but their sorrows seemed to enlarge
their sympathies and increase their faith in Divine Providence.
Catherine Ann Dunnuck, born June 10, 1857, the first child of John and Betsy Elliott Dunnuck.
The second and youngest of their children, Samantha Jane was born July 22, 1860. Their home was a
refuge for many in later years. She was a great mother, as it proved by the stepchildren’s devotion, respect
and care in her last remaining years, and her love for them. The father, John Dunnuck, in his later years
was a licensed minister in the United Brethren Church.
With the exception of the one death, Margaret Kendall in 1857, the family remained the same until
the outbreak of the Civil War when John Adams Dunnuck and William Kendall enlisted early in 1861 and
both passed away in less than two years.
In 1863, Elizabeth and John brought their family to Washington Co., Kansas and bought a claim
of her brother John Elliott, joining her father’s homestead on the west. He passed away in April 1876, she
survived him two years, passing away in September 1878, both are buried in the family cemetery on the
mound west of Spence, on the Grand Island R. R.
Nancy was twice married, first to John Patchen. Their child Rose married Asa Andrew and to
them were both four children, one daughter married a man named Kyle of Hanover, Kansas (son of Dan
Kyle), they live in Lincoln, Nebraska. Nancy’s second marriage was to James Fielder.
Catherine Ann Dunnuck married Peter Peterson, a Dane, their children are: Clarence, born
November 16, 1876, married Mary Gauby in Washington, Kansas in 1906. Their two children are
Raymond, born April 18, 1908; Lloyd, born 1911. Clarence is one of the leading successful farmers of
Smith Co., Kansas near Portis.
Emory Esta, the second son of Catherine Ann and Peter Peterson, was born Feb. 23, 1878 in
Washington Co., Kansas. He married Mary Harvey near Forsyth, Mont., Nov. 11, 1904. Their one child,
Jessie Peterson as born October 18, 1906. Esta Peterson was a farmer and stockman and owner of a large
tract of land, he also handled a great many sheep near rosebud, Mont.
Dorothy Peterson was born in Smith Co., Kansas, January 23, 1881 and married Maurice Lance,
Jan. 7, 1901 at Forsyth Montana. Their three children are Earl Lance, born Feb. 18, 1902; Fredrick lane,
August 21, 1903; Milo Lance, Feb. 24, 1905. Their three boys are married, only Milo’s address in known;
Miles City, Mont.
Mrs. Maurice Lance lives at Jordan, Mont. Milo Lance her son is known far and near from his
patient kindness, integrity as well as honest industry. There are other children and grandchildren worthy of
mention but we do not have their names or addresses.
Fredrick Peterson, the third son of Peter and Catherine was born Feb. 2, 1884 and married Mabel
Westaby in 1911. Their two children are Leonard, born May 11, 1913 and Ernest born Sept. 27, 1916.
Fredrick Peterson is a professor. He graduated from Montana State Teachers College and also attended the
college at McPherson, Kansas. He is a well-known educator though out Montana.
Ernest Peterson, youngest son of Peter and Catherine, was born April 27, 1887and married Elsa
Mount. Their son Steven Peterson was born July 13, 1916. They live in South Dakota.
Rosella Peterson, youngest child of Peter and Catherine Ann, Dunnuck Peterson was born March
21, 1889. She was married twice the first time to Merle Sherman on August 16, 1912. He passed away in
1921. Two children were born to them: Wesley Sherman, born April 27, 1916 and a girl later. Rosella’s
second marriage was to Henry Hoelbein in 1931.
Ella taught at Twin Bridges, Mont., for two or three years. Her home since her last marriage is at
Three Forks, Mont., where she was a teacher for several years.
Peter Peterson was an honest, thrifty, industrious man with a fund of good kind common sense and
Catherine was always a student and deeply religious. They are buried at Forsyth, Mont., where they lived
many years.
A word about the Dunnuck’s. John Dunnuck was a son of John and Sarah Hughes Dunnuck. The
Dunnuck’s are pure English and the Hughes’ are Welch. They settled in Maryland, coming into Ohio and
settled near Circleville, Ohio.
Samantha Jane was born July 22, 1860 in Indiana, she married William Driscoll, Feb. 25, 1877
near Hanover, Kansas. Their children are Cora Alma born Nov. 26, 1877; Royal Edward, March 25, 1880;
Bertha Ellen, April 25, 1882; William roscoe, April 23, 1884 and died August 30, 1902; Sarah Catherine,
February 15, 1886; Harvey J,. May 2, 1888, married Edna Smock in 1914; Alvin Craig, December 29,
1893, married Edna Beamer in 1916.
Cora Alma married Harrison Fetter at Weston, Ore., bother were teachers. Wm., and Samantha
Dunnuck Driscoll kept the Weston Hotel many years. Both passed away and are buried near or in Weston,
Oregon.
DESCENDANTS OF JAMES ELLIOTT and NANCY A. SHIELDS
2) James Elliott, b. 1791, m. 1815 to Nancy Agnes Shields, b. 1789
3) Elizabeth Ann Elliott, b. 1817. m. 1835 to Isaac Kendall.
4) Nancy Kendall, b. 1837. m. William Patchen.
5) Rose Patchen b. 1867 m. Asa Andrews, 1880, Reynold, Neb.
6) Albert Andrews. Sally?, Havelock, Nebr.
7) Marvin Andrews
7) Phyllis Andrews
7) Lloyd Andrews
7) Le Roy Andrews
7) Wesley Andrews
6) William Andrews m. Minnie Brockman
7) Alwyn Andrews
7) Ardys Andrews
7) Wayne Andrews
7) Doyle Andrews
7) Clinton Andrews
6) Gladys Andrews m. Mr. Elison
7) Frances Elison
7) Gerald Elison
4) Margaret Kendall b. 1839, died 1857
4) William Kendall b. 1841, died 1862
4) Charlotte Kendall b. 1845, m. 1867 to James Davis
5) Iva Davis b. 1872, unmarried
3) Elizabeth Ann Kendall second married 1854 to John Dunnuck
4) Catherine Ann Dunnuck b. 1856 married 1876 to Peter Peterson
5) Clarence Peterson b. 1876 m. 1907 to Mary Gauby
6) Raymond Peterson b. 1908
6) Lloyd Peterson b. 1911
5) Emory E. Peterson b. 1878 m. 1904 to Mary Harvey
6) Jessie Peterson b. 1906
5) Dorothy Peterson b. 1881 m. 1901 to Maurice Lane
6) Earl Lane b. 1902
6) Frederick Lane b. 1903
6) Milo Lane b. 1905
5) Frederick Peterson b. 1884 m. to Mable Westaby
6) Leonard Peterson b. 1913
6) Earnest Peterson b. 1916
5) Earnest Peterson b. 1887 m. 1915 to Elsa Mount
6) Steven Peterson b. 1916
5) Rosella Peterson b. 1889 m. 1912 to Merle Sherman died in 1922
6) Wesley Sherman b. 1916
5) Rosella Peterson second marriage 1931 to Henry Hollbein
4) Samantha Jane Dunnuck b. 1860 m. 1877 to W. E. Driscoll
5) Cora Alma Driscoll b. 1877 m. 1904 to Harrison Fetter
6) Bernice C. Fetter b. 1908
6) Florence Cordelia Fetter b. 1910
6) Phyllis Fetter b. 1912
6) William Harrison Fetter b. 1915
6) Lawrence Heith Fetter b. 1917
5) Royal Edward Driscoll b. 1880
5) Bertha Ellen Driscoll b. 1882 m. 1904 to H. Sowers
6) Evelyn Hazel Sowers b. 1907
5) William Roscoe Driscoll b. 1884 d. 1902
5) Sarah Catherine Driscoll b. 1886
5) Harvey J. Driscoll b. 1888 m. 1914 to Edna Smock
6) Harvey Wayne Driscoll b. 1916
5) Mary Alice Driscoll b. 1889, m. 1911 to Gus Fountaine
6) Eldon Clark Fountaine b. 1915
5) Alvin Craig Driscoll b. 1893 m. 1916 to Edna Beamer
Three other children died in infancy
DESCENDANTS of JAMES and NANCY SHIELDS ELLIOTT
(Continued)
Margaret McClintoc, the second child of James and Nancy shields Elliott, was born Feb. 13, 1819.
She was named Margaret for the maternal grandmother and McClintoch for the married name of a favorite
cousin. She was distinctly of the mental and spiritual type and considered the fairest of the daughters in
looks. She married Alexander Asbury Miller, March 7, 1838. He was several years her senior. Miller was
a native of Kentucky, from near Louisville. His father and brother were very prominent in the ministry,
while Alexander was a fluent speaker and able in prayer.
They were married near Rochester, IN. After living in South Bend, IN some ten years they
returned to Fulton Co., where they lived in possibly adjoining counties, until 1863 when they moved to
Washington Co., Kansas taking the claim adjoining that of R. E. derrick on the East. They resided here
until the little town of Hollenberg, on the Grand Island R. R., was laid out.
They sold the farm and built a home in town in 1872 where Alexander passed away August 2,
1886, His wife Margaret survived him fourteen years, passing away September 1, 1900. They are buried in
the family cemetery of the Elliott’s on the Mound west of Spence (a shipping point on the Grand island R.
R.).
There were ten children, three died in infancy: Mary Jane, born May 7, 1839; Julia Oranda, Feb.
17, 1843; Harriet Ann, Jan. 27, 1848: James Perry Willis, August 29, 1850, died April 10, 1864; Charles
Wesley, April 4, 1852, died March 5, 1881; Deidamia Ellen, Nov. 21, 1857, died September 1887; Adda
Geraldine, October 8, 1860, died December 26, 1920 and is buried in Inglewood Cemetery California.
DESCENDANTS of ALEXANDER and MARGARET E. MILLER
The oldest child of Alexander and Margaret Elliott Miller, Mary Jane, was born May 7, 1838. She
had black curly hair and blue eyes, a lovely linger, refined and cultured, gentle, a patient, enduring, loving
wife and mother, is my memory her. She married Isaac Newton Hutto, March 6, 1855 in Fulton Co.,
Indiana. He was a farmer. It is said the name of Hutto is of Italian origin generations past. They were well
to do, industrious and frugal. They were musical, especially vocal, no sweeter voice was every heard in
Italy or elsewhere then that of Newton Hutto. There was a touch of divinity in the harmony and rhythm of
their tones, especially when heard singing together.
Newton served in the Civil War through part of 1864 and 1865 but was only in one engagement,
“the Battle of the Pawpaws.” In this battle they captured a thicket of Pawpaws they mistook for the enemy.
The family came to Washington Co., Kansas in June 1866 and homesteaded the farm on Joy
Creek 3 miles southwest of Hollenberg, known now as the Alexa Farm. He bought 40 acres of school land
making 200 acres in all. Later they sold the farm and moved to Manhattan, Kansas for better environment
and educational advantages for their children of which there were 10 who lived to maturity. The religious
and social atmosphere was of benediction to any community. The sweet music, the wit and fun was
cheering to all.
--------------- :: ---------------CHILDREN OF ISAAC NEWTON AND MARY MILLER HUTTO
Sarah Alice, born Jun 6 1856, married Lester Wimmer while her parents were on a prolonged visit
to Indiana near Kokomo, Jan. 11, 1875. They came to Kansas with the family in the Autumn of 1875;
Lester was an ordained minister in the United Brethren Church. Alice was of a cheerful, hopeful
temperament and a gifted singer, which made her a real helper in his life’s work. At times when he was
away she would walk and carry her baby 2 or more miles to superintend the Sabbath School.
Their oldest child, Cornelius, was born October 9, 1875 and married Mary Puterbaugh at
Ozawkie, Kansas, December 25, 1902. Their three children are Veta and Velma, twins, born November 6,
1903 at Lawrence, Kansas. Ina Maude, born 1905. He was an editor and real estate man at Eufaula,
Oklahoma.
William Newton commonly called William Wimmer, born Feb. 15, 1877, was twice married, first
to Appa Slade at Lecompton, Kansas in 1904. They went as missionaries to Africa. Their daughter,
Winnifred, born 1905. Sometime after the mother passed away he married Eva Thumman in 1910, at
Robinson, Kansas. Two children were born to them, Olive the oldest, was born July 25, 1911 at Ratifunk,
Africa. Harry Lester was born April 7, 1913 at Robinson, Kansas. Mrs. William Wimmer returned to
Africa later and they carried on the work as minister and teacher at Jaima Via Hanga-Sievia, Leone W.
Africa until their son Harry was 7 or 8 years old and had never seen a white child. They returned to the US
in Kansas in 1919. William Wimmer continued in the ministry until his death near St. George, Kansas in
1934.
Winnifred Wimmer married a William Thompson and lives at 3711 S. Avalon, Los Angeles,
California. Harry Lester Wimmer and Mrs. Wimmer were at Robinson, Kansa. Olive is with the sister,
Mrs. Thompson in Los Angeles.
Returning to the children of Lester and Alice HUTTO Wimmer. Charles Irvin Wimmer, born at
Harlan, Kansas, March 2, 1882, married Jessica Carmack at Checotah, Oklahoma. He is a railroad man at
Muskogee, Oklahoma. Melvina Gertrude born at Hardilee, Kansas, March 25, 1884 married H. E. Smith
February 12, 1905. Their four children are Pauline, born December 4, 1905 at Corning, Iowa. Jack
Wimmer Smith born February 7, 1907 at Stirling, Colorado. Glen Smith born July 25, 1908 at Stoneham,
Colorado. Constance SMITH born September 1910, died February 1917.
Harriett Belle Wimmer born at Alton, Kansas, March 21, 1887, married Archie Smith, June 1905
at Corning, Iowa. Their children are Roy Lester Smith; Haskel; Harold and Ray. All reside near
Locksburg, Arkansas.
Harvey Lester Wimmer, born Jan 28, 1889, married Mary Zion, June 3, 1915 at Inavale, Kansas.
One child, Viola may, was born July 25, 1916 at Harlan, Kansas. Harvey is a very successful teacher and is
now a superintendent of the Agra School. Home address is Alexander, Kansas.
Guy Halbert Wimmer, born at Hardilee, Kansas, December 8, 1890, married Edna Bailey, October
30, 1913 at Gypsum, Kansas. There were no children. By profession he was a Baptist Minister serving his
church very successfully at Ottawa and Salina, Kansas. His present work and address is at 8308 So. Justin
Street, Chicago, IL.
Sarah Alice Wimmer, the youngest child of Alice and Lester Wimmer, was born October 16, 1896
at Lecompton, Kansas. At the death of their mother she was brought up in the home of her grandparents,
Isaac and Mary Hutto at Stillwater, Oklahoma. Here she graduated from High School and also finished a
business course. She was married to Thomas Alfred Tripp; son of William Homer and Ada may Hunter
Tripp, March 28, 1919. He was born in Brookfield, Missouri, October 5, 1893. A graduate from
Oklahoma A & M College, also from the Yale Divinity School. He was a minister in a Christian Church
filling various appointments in Oklahoma and Illinois. He has been Pastor of the Congregational Church in
Mystive, Conn. the past four years while attending school at Yale.
He was chosen as National Director of Town and Country department of Education in the
Congregational and Christian Churches of the United States. His headquarters are in New York City.
Their four interesting children are Mabel Alyce, born Feb. 18, 1920 in Stillwater, Oklahoma. Homer
Alfred, born July 29, 1921 in Ketchum, Oklahoma. Marilyn Agnes, born July 6, 1924 in Oklahoma City.
Paul Arnold, born October 17, 1930 in Springfield, IL. Their parent’s address is Pawcatuck, Conn.
Alpheus Zellotees, oldest son of Newton and Mary Hutto was born June 5, 1858 near Kokomo,
Indiana. He grew to manhood on the farm on Joy Creek in Washington Co., Kansas. He went with his
parents to Oklahoma where he married Ida Edwards, February 21, 1884 at Stillwater, Oklahoma. Their
children are George Earl, born February 28, 1896, he was married twice. The first marriage was in 1916,
one son, George Eynart, was born 1917. The second marriage was to Beulah Craddock Simmons in 1926,
one son John Michel was born to them on April 23, 1932.
The home address is Pauls Valley, Oklahoma. He is Division Superintendent of Oklahoma Gas
and Electrical Company at the above address.
Lillian Hutto, the only daughter of Alpheus and Ida Hutto, was born 1905, married William Petty,
December 11, 1923. They had one son, William Earl, born July 14 th, 1926. William Petty Sr., is legal
advisor for the Sun Oil Company, Dallas, Texas.
Alpheus Z. Hutto passed away March 23, 1923 and is buried at Pauls Valley, Oklahoma.
Franklin Asbury, third child of Mary and Newton Hutto was born near Kokomo, Indiana February
10, 1859 and was reared on the homestead in Washington Co., Kansas some three miles southwest of
Hollenberg. He came with his parents to Manhattan, Kansas in 1880. He graduated from College in 1885,
studying law and was later admitted to the bar at Lecompton, Kansas. Later he was appointed by Governor
Martin to organize the country of Garfield. He served as county attorney for two years in Garfield county
where he met and married Lydia (last name unknown) who was a divorcée of a son of one of the Siamese
twins. Later they moved to Stillwater, Oklahoma where he taught for several years in the state college. He
was elected to the state legislature, serving one or two terms. Their two sons are Charles, born 1890; and
Clarence born 4 years later. Both boys are residing in California. Clarence is a well-known Radio singer
living in San Francisco.
After Lydia’s death, Frank married Martha Morris, May 31, 1917 in Durango, Colorado, where he
held a government position as head farmer at the south Ute Indian reservation for three years when he was
transferred to Klamath Indian Reservation in Oregon. As head foreman and stockman superintending the
buying and selling and branding of stock and issuing grazing permits and appraising the land and settling
disputes. His wife was a teacher and field matron at the Ute Agency almost ten years. Later they resigned
and bought Citrus Fruitlands near Rio Honde, Texas, where Frank passed away in 1935. The wife still
resides on the ranch and superintends the work.
Edgar Morton Hutto was born near Kokomo, IN. and grew up on the homestead in Kansas. He
attended K. S. A. C. two years or more, teaching school for a number of years afterwards. He was a deep
thinker, a man of wise conclusions. He married Mittie Woods, their two children are Mrs. Charles Lance
of Los Angeles, CA., and Floyd at home on the little far near St. George, Kansas, since the parsing of his
father two years ago.
Mell Hutto Lane is an accomplished musician. They have three children living, one the youngest,
passed on at the age of ten. The other children are: Marjorie, married a Brian Dunlevy of Hollywood, Jack
Hutto Lane and Robert, of Los Angeles.
Willis Wesley Hutto was born in Indiana, and raised on the farm in Kansas. He graduated from
the Kansas State College and was a teacher by profession. As a Hutto he was in demand for singing on all
occasions. He married Maude Parker, a daughter of Rev. R. D. Parker of Manhattan. She was an
accomplished musician. Their four children are: Louis Hutto, graduate of K. S. A. C., specializing in
physical training; Cathy married Elmer Wilson and lives in Kansas City; Mary Agnes and Myrtle Winona
Hutto Dodge. There are several grand children but have been unable to get the names.
The first child born to Newton and Mary Jane Miller Hutto on Kansas soil was Alvin Justin, the
sixth son, born July 28, 1867 on his grandfather Miller’s homestead. He had the calm even temperament of
his grandfather. He was accommodating, honest and obliging; almost too generous for his won financial
success. He learned the Bakers trade and followed it for sometime. He married Ellen Hilliard a very
successful teacher. Intelligent. Capable and Full of original ideas and wit, yet with all, deeply religious;
qualities that made an ideal home for the rearing of a family of four fine boys and two lovely fils that came
to bless their home. The oldest one of which passed on after a brief illness. Gladys was a beautiful
character and a very promising child.
The second daughter, Garnet Leona, born Aug. 28, 1895 graduated from high school and from
K. S. A. C. and got her degree in physical training at Sargent. She taught one year at Kansas State College,
met and married Jack Root Church in 1917. After the World War they spent a year or more in Europe.
Their children are Anna Virginia, born in 1918; Mary Ellen, born Sept. 20, 1922. Their home is in New
York, Manhattan Island; Virginia is a student at Elmira College for girls.
The oldest boy of Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Hutto was Claude Elton, born October 24, 1896. His life and
work is given in his obituary.
SERMON BY DR. PARKINSON
Claude Elton Hutto, son of Mr. And Mrs. A. J. Hutto, was born at Westmareland, Kansas. October
24, 1896. He died on Easter Sunday morning, April 20, 1924, at his home in Albuquerque, New Mexico,
after an illness of but a few days. He spent his childhood in Manhattan, Kansas and grew to manhood here.
He was a graduate of the Kansas State Agriculture College in the class of 1920. He joined the church in
early youth when not more than ten years old. He was always an active worker and leader in the church
life of the young people. Serving in every way he could, and being at one time president of our Epworth
League. On March 26, he was married to Mrs. Ruth Eden. He leaves behind him his mother and father, his
wife, a step daughter, six years old, a daughter three, a sister, Mrs. J. R. Church of Fort Worth, Texas, and
three brothers, Dale H. of Hollywood, Calif.; Loren H. of Fort Shafter; and max how is at home with his
parents. There is also his grandmother, Mrs. Hilliard, whom so many of us knew while the home was here
in Manhattan.
The same devotion that Claude showed to the genuine values of life while he was here, he took
with him to his western home. In the choir there, and in the spiritual interest of the church he was a faithful
leader and helper. When our church was carrying forward its great program for what we called the
Centenary Celebration, he was one of our minutemen. On such occasion he showed the gifts and graces
that would have served him well in the ministry to which he had determined during the last month of his
life to devote himself.
When his country needed men to defend her principles and to help write democratic justice into
the theories of government everywhere this young man offered himself. At the time of his death he held a
commission as lieutenant in the Reserve Forces of the United States.
He was a man of manly character and highest ideals. Those who knew him best loved him most.
Though young in years he had lived a full life, seeking the highest attainments and devoting himself to the
things which are of good report. Though he will be missed he cannot be forgotten.
“But as it is written, eye hath not seen nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man,
the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. But God hath revealed them unto us by his
Spirit; for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.” 1 Corinthians 2:9
When one whose life has completed the major portion of man’s allotted time passes to his reward
there is a comfort for the heart in that the life was full and finished. But when a man in the first full flush
of his human power is called away from earth there is a question in our hearts that can be answered only by
our faith. This is our comfort now. This young man had full Christian faith in his heart, and lifted it in his
life; his mother and his father, his wife, his sister, his brothers, and the friends among whom he lived have
that faith consoling and sustaining them now.
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Dale, the second son of Alvin and Ellen Hilliard Hutto, was born Nov. 2, 1898. He graduated from the
Manhattan Hight School and overseas as Captain of an ambulance squad with orders to go over the
battlefield and bring in only those who could recover and return for service. The orders were obeyed to the
legitimate hour after which he took hi=s men and they brought in all that were not dead, regardless of their
condition, after getting their name and that of the parents or relatives. Several times he was deeply
impressed that his life was spared only thought divine power and prayers of parents. At one time the squad
of eight had taken shelter in a stone barn. Shortly after they had retired he heard a shell pass over them; he
remarked to the men they had better find other quarters. He and his buddy left, on their return the next
morning the barn was demolished and all were killed that remained. At another time four of them were
carrying a wounded man on the stretcher, a shell burst, and he was the only one left alive. On his return
home he married Irene Walden of Manhattan. Their two children are: Robert Walden, born Aug. 4, 1925;
Jack Irvin, born 1931, in Los Angeles, their present home. He is a sales man in the largest store in Los
Angeles.
Loren Meryl Hutto, third son of Alvin and Ellen Hutto was born June 20, 1903 at Manhattan,
Kansas. He joined the navy and finished his high school work at Harpers Ferry, VA, making a specialty of
radio work. After two or three years at Ft. Shafter, Hawaii Is., he returned to Los Angeles, Calif. And was
married. They have one child, Joan Marie, born Sept. 8, 1930. Loren is an expert in radio repair.
Max, youngest child of Alvin and Ellen Hutto, was born in Manhattan, Kansas, July 16, 1911. He
finished high school winning a scholarship in the Los Angeles University for two years. He is at home
with his parents, attending night school and working through the day as express deliveryman.
George Newton, seventh son of Isaac and Mary Hutto, was born March 28, 1869, on the
homestead southwest of Hollenberg, Kansas. When ten years of age he moved with his family to
Manhattan, Kansas. When Oklahoma was opened up for settlement, the family went to Stillwater, where
George met and married Anna Luella Emmerson, (a direct relative of Ralph Emmerson), October 24, 1897.
They owned land near Rocky Ford, Colorado and later bought out a lumberyard at Otis, Colorado.
He was cashier in the bank there for three years or more when they moved to Los Angeles, Calif where
George was secretary in the office of the Whiting Lumber Co., until his death September 20, 1930.
Their children are Frank Gardett and Flossie Gabrella, twins, born at Stillwater, Oklahoma.
Gabrella died at Otis, Colorado, November 14, 1919. Gardett, by profession is a chef. He married Maudie
Adams Rains, July 30, 1930 at Van Couver, Washington. Their home, 6124 NE. Glisan, Portland, Oregon.
George Emmerson Hutto, the third child was born at Glenco, Oklahoma, Feb. 2, 1902. He married Bertha
B. Bartholomew at Fort Morgan, Colorado, January 10, 1919. He is an electrician. Their children are
Delvina Bertha, born November 19, 1919; Artell Georgana, born September 30, 1921; Bonita Belle, born
November 4, 1924; George Gardet, born August 18, 1929. All are at home at 4644 SE Windsor, Portland,
Oregon.
Anna, the wife of George Newton Hutto, is at present with her sister, Mrs. Ryan, at Rocky Ford,
Colorado.
Bertha May and Myrtle Fay Hutto were twins, born on the 14 th of July, 1874 in Kokomo, Indiana.
Bertha married Will Beach in Stillwater, Oklahoma, February 12, 1899. There was one son, Leo born
December 30, 1899. Leo served three years in the navy during the World War. He is married and lives in
Texas. There are two children. The second marriage of Bertha Hutto Beach was to Will McGrain, on June
10, 1909. They have one child, Myrtle, born December 21, 1911. Their present address is Tulsa
Oklahoma.
Myrtle Fay Hutto graduated from the Stillwater High School and taught several years. She
married Frank Northrop, an editor in Stillwater. One child was born to them, both mother and babe died.
Margaret Hutto, commonly called Maggie, was born at Manhattan. She graduated at Stillwater,
Oklahoma and was a successful teacher in the schools there. She married Virtees William, pastor of the
Christian Church at Stillwater. There were two children. Paul and the baby. The mother passed away
when the baby was quite young and the father took the children to his mother somewhere in Kentucky.
This concludes the children of Isaac Newton and Mary J. Miller Hutto --- a large family of very
intelligent, industrious, law abiding Christian citizens.
CHILDREN OF ALONZO J. and JULIA O. MILLER MATHER
Julia Ovando Miller, born Feb 11, 1843, had the calm self-poise of her grandmother Elliott. She
was deeply religious from Childhood. She became a successful teacher and her talent for vocal music
would have made her renowned, AHD she developed her voice under good instruction. She was a woman
of advanced ides, especially on religious and political questions. Her liberality and breath of mind, and
culture and refinement won the hearts of all who knew her. A fluent speaker, yet in this line it might be
said for her, as madam Willard remarked about herself, “She disappeared, to reappear in her daughter.”
Julia Ovanda m. Alonzo J. Mather, a man of equal mentality, fine ideals and sterling principles,
always a reader and student. His best work was as a teacher of vocal music.
Both of the above were reared near Rochester, Indiana, living there and in adjoining counties until
after he was mustered out at the end of the Civil War, in which he served the last year.
They came to Kansas in June, 1863 and homesteaded land one and one half miles north west of
Washington, Kansas. He was employed as carpenter and bridge builder for the U. P. railroad and was at
the completion of the road, and the driving of the golden spike when the road was finished at Ogden, Utah
in 1869.
Their children are Margaret Myrtle, born March 31, (29) 1871 and Edwin Ray, born March 1879.
A fine young man, very talented in music and reading.
While on his way to California in company with a man named Young; at El Paso, Texas, they
stopped off between trains, Ray went across to Juarez, in old Mexico to visit an old church and never
returned and has never been heard of or from since.
Margaret Myrtle was born on the homestead near Washington, Kansas. She had the brown eyes
and dark auburn hair of her father. Inheriting the best and keenest ability of both parents. She began using
words at six months of age and was a very successful teacher at 16. She put herself through the Kansas
State College by her own efforts, and held her first position at the Beloit Reform School for Girls. She was
influential in extension work in Illinois and Purdue College in Indiana. There was a demand for her as a
speaker and lecturer in educational circles. She was earning $3000 at this time as a speaker, until her
marriage.
In June 1907 she married Theodore Romino, a man of highest principles and intelligence, a
student and teacher for many years. He bought land in Morgan Co., IN and set out 20 acres of apple trees.
The orchard now consists of 80 acres. Theodore, Sr. passed away early in 1926. Margaret, with the help of
Theodore Jr., continues to care for the trees and markets some 8 to 12 thousand bushels of apples during the
year.
The two children of Theodore, Sr. and Margaret are Rebecca born Sept 19, 1908 and Theodore
Mather, born Nov. 12, 1910. Rebecca married Earl R. Shields, September 1927. They have two children:
Alice Patricia, born in 1929 and Margaret born in 1930. Both have the alert mentality of the Mathers, while
Margaret has the poise and quiet reserve of her great grandmother. Theodore, Jr. is not married.
The youngest son of A. J. and Oranda Mather was born in Arkansas (the parents having gone there
for the health of a little invalid daughter, Elleine) Chalmer Asbury was born in March 1881. After their
return to Kansas he finished the grade school and attended college for two or three years at Kansas State.
EH accepted an appointment from the government in the experiment being made to eliminate the ticks on
cattle and sheep on the range by “dipping” them. After this work was discontinued, he was appointed as a
meat inspector at Chicago.
While in New Mexico, at Farmington, he met and married Miss Alice (last name not known), who
was a teacher in the Indian school there. They are now living on a farm near Windser, MO. They have no
children; Julia Oranda Miller Mather passed away at Durham, Oklahoma, October 1912 and is buried there.
Alfonzo J. Mather survived her only a few months, passing away February 11, 1913 at Indianapolis, IN
where his daughter, Mrs. Romine resides, and he is buried there in a cemetery nearby.
The two remaining children of A. A. and Margaret E. Miller are Deidamia Ellen, who married
James Boyd, September 13, 1874, at Hollenberg, Kansas. He was a farmer. She was a faithful, selfsacrificing wife and mother, calm, patient, enduring. The qualities that make for righteousness and
harmony in the home and community.
There were five children: Ernest, born June 23, 1875, married Bertha Carey at Watson, MO,
December 24, 1898. They had five children, one of their sons was a college graduate and another entered
the military: Ella Boyd, born December 2, 1876 in Hollenberg, Kansas, married John Johnson, November
2, 1878 near Steel City, after her mothers death, Esther lived with her aunt, attending high school and
college at Stillwater, Oklahoma and was a successful teacher for more then 25 years. She married John
Myers, and was an ideal mother to Cornelia, his baby daughter. They moved to California where she
taught in the Van Nuys’s school until a few months before her death in 1933. Madge Boud, born August
20, 1880, died Aug. 1, 1895 at Hamburg, Iowa. Mary Boyd, born March 13, 1883 at Thunnan, Iowa,
married James W. Donahue, Jan 20, 1904, they had four children but we have been unable to obtain the
names of any of them.
Adda Geraldine Miller, born October 8, 1860, married Noah Slater, April 11, 1881. Two of their
four children lived to adult age. Clyde, born at Hardy, Nebraska September 1883, married Mamie
Giddings. Their two children are Giddings Slater, a successful doctor at Los Angeles, California and Mary
Slater.
DESCENTANTS of ALEXANDER A. and MARGARET E. MILLER
1) William and Margaret Wilson SHILEDS
2) Nancy Shields Elliott
3) Margaret Elliott Miller
4) Mary Jane Miller Hutto
5) Sarah Alice Hutto Wimmer
6) Cornelius Wimmer m. Mary Puterbaugh
7) Veta and Velma, twins
7) Ina Maude Wimmer
6) William Newton Wimmer m. Appa Slade
7) Winifred Wimmer
7) Olive Wimmer
7) Harry Lester Wimmer
5)
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5)
5)
6) Charles Irvin Wimmer
6) Melvin Gertrude Smith
7) Pauline Smith
7) Jack Wimmer Smith
7) Glen Wimmer Smith
7) Constance Smith
6) Harriet Belle Wimmer Smith
7) Roy Lester Smith
7) Haskell Smith
7) Harold Smith
7) Ray Smith
6) Harvey Lester Wimmer
7) Viola May Wimmer
6) Guy Halbert Wimmer
6) Sarah Alice Wimmer Tripp
7) Mabel Alice Tripp
7) Homer Alfred Tripp
7) Marilyn Agnes Tripp
7) Paul Arnold Tripp
Alpheus Zellotees Hutto
6) George Earl Hutto
7) George Enyart Hutto
7) John Mitchell Hutto
6) Lillian Hutto m. William Petty
7) William Earl Petty
Franklin Asbury Hutto
6) Charles Hutto
6) Clarence Hutto
Edgar Morton Hutto
6) Mell Hutto Lane
7) Marjorie Hutto Lane
7) Jack Hutto Lane
7) Robert Hutto Lane
Willis Wesley Hutto
6) Louis Hutto
6) Cathy Hutto, m. Elmer Wilson
7) Wilson
6) Mary Agnes Hutto
6) Myrtle Winena Hutto Dodge
5) George Newton Hutto
6) Frank Gardett Hutto
6) Flossie Gabrella Hutto
6) George Emmerson Hutto
7) Delvina Bertha Hutto
7) Artell Georgana Hutto
7) Bonita Belle Hutto
7) George Gardett Hutto
5) Bertha May Hutto Beach
6) Leo Beach
5) Margaret Hutto Williams
6) Paul Williams
4) Julia Ovanda Miller Mather
5) Margaret Mather Romine
6) Rebecca Romine Shields
7) Alice Patricia Shields
7) Margaret Shields
5) Edwin Ray Mather
5) Chalmer Asbury Mather
4) Deidamia Ellen Miller Boyd
5) Ernest Miller Boyd
6) Five children, no names
5) Ella Boyd Johnson
6) Seven children, no names
5) Mary Boyd Donahue
6) Four children, no names
4) Adda Geraldine Miller Slater
5) George Slater
5) Clyde Slater m. Faye Maimie Giddings
6) Giddings Slater
6) Mary Geraldine Slater m. Cecil Albert Jeffery
7) Mary Jane Jeffery
7) Geraldine Faye Jeffery
The third child and first son named Absalom for the paternal grandfather was born August 27,
1821 near Greenberg, Decatur Co., Indiana but grew to manhood and married Charlotte Spencer, near
Rochester in Fulton Co., in 1846. He was a man of decisions, deeply sympathetic, honest, sincere,
industrious, full of the imitative spirit, courageous and fearless, a perfect type of pioneer citizen. His
endurance of the vigorous climate of Minnesota with seeming enjoyment and his interest in his neighbors is
seen in his letter of 1860. While “father and mother” written from Vicksburg in February 1864. These
letters express the real self more truly then anyone else can portray it. His parents were at St. Louis in June
1864 and the mother felt persuaded it could not be possible from the last word received from them. Her
impressions were true, Absalom was there at the time and passed away shortly afterwards, as was learned
later, and is buried in the national cemetery there.
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Dear Father and Mother:
Vicksburg, Miss
Feb. 19, 1864
I take pen in hand to tell you where I am and how I am.
I am at Vicksburg, Miss. I joined the Army the 5 th of January as a recruit in the First Minn.
Battery, 1st Division under Captain Clayton of Winona. We left home last Saturday, two weeks ago. I have
not heard from home since that time but I am looking for a letter every day. I am as well as common and
hop these few lines may find you all we… I have not heard from Jesse nor Isaac since you wrote to us
about them, if you know where they are I wish you would write and give me their post address for I want to
communicate with them.
There has been five or six of the boys taken sick in the company that I come with but I think it is
mostly from intemperance and exposure.
I have been around here over the battleground considerable and have seen the effects of the war
and if I should undertake to describe it to you, I could give you but a faint idea of it. Suffice to say that all
along up and down the Mississippi river it looks desolate. Great large plantations evacuated and from ten
to twenty five chimneys standing with the house burned down. From miles and miles you would not see a
human being, only just where there is a town and in a great many of them the stores are emptied of their
goods and look desolate. Vicksburg is altogether under marital law and the rebels are coming in daily, both
blacks and whites, and taking the oath. I was down in town this forenoon and there were some blacks
coming in. They said they had been in the woods for two months. It looks like desolation here in the door
yard that have been set with the most beautiful evergreens that ever adorned the earth are now the hospitals.
Vicksburg and the whole country for miles around is all under marital law and drawing rations just the
same that we soldiers are, citizens and all. O, this is a desolate looking country. I think family; I tell you it
seemed hard for me to leave my two pretty little girls; but enough of that. They are in Minnesota and I am
in Vicksburg. We don’t know how long we will have to stay here. We are here now to guard the town.
Well, this is the 22nd and I will try to close my letter to yo. This is Washington’s birthday and we
have just got back from the celebration. There were several hundred armed blacks there; we had a speech
from Gen. Brayman, he is an old grey-bearded man.
Well, I believe I have written all that is of much interest to you. I still have as bright hoes as ever.
I am still trying to serve the Lord and make heaven my home. It does me good to reflect that I always had
good instructions and example for which I think you both kindly. We have formed a class of fifteen
members from the different branches of Christ’s Church and we call it Christian Union Associate. IT is
approved by our Captain and some more of the officers. We have our prayer meetings and class meetings
twice a week. If you get a letter from my family, write to me.
Well, I will close this from Absalom Elliott to James and Nancy Elliott.
Please direct your reply to:
1st Minn. Battery, 1st Division
17 Army Corps, Vicksburg, Miss.
He passed away in June 1864 at Jefferson Barracks, near St. Louis.
His children are; Jasper Newton Elliott, born 1850 in Fulton Co., Indiana. Jasper married and had
two children n Dunn Co., Wisonsin.
Mary Ovada Elliott, born June 29, 1860. Sarah Elizabeth Elliott, an adopted child 1858.
After the death of Absalom, his wife, Charlotte, sold the place near Winona, Minn. And moved to
Menomone, Dunn Co., Wisconsin.
All efforts so far to find any of these children or grandchildren have failed. One incident in
Absalom’s early childhood has come down to us through an older sister. “When a boy of 9 or 10 his
mother set him to chopping wood. A neighbor boy came over and began teasing Absalom, taking his cap
and various things, interfering with his work, so his mother came and remarked, “Ab if you don’t give that
boy a whipping, I’ll give you one.” No second urging was needed. The boy’s father came up and Ab’s
mother stepped out and said kindly, “Don’t interfere, I’ll tell him when to stop.” The man again was going
to interfere when Ab’s mother picked up the ax and said calmly, “Please don’t interfere,” and he stopped,
finally she told Ab he had done the boy justice and to let him go.”
INSERT TEXT
(The following information was sent by Marcia Powell, 260 McMillan Road, Grosse Pointe Farms,
Michigan 482234-3456, tel 313-417-0042. The information was sent by Email on March 18 th 2000)
Attached is a copy of the cover page from the 1979 reproduction of Aunt Van’s book. I thought
you might find it helpful to have the Fulton Co. Historical Society Address and a copy of the Library of
Congress number. My grandmother spoke of Aunt Van often and was so impressed with “Shields
Genealogy” that she persuaded the historical society to republish it. Aunt Van must have been a wonderful
person especially if tow sides of the family have chosen to reproduce her work. I am so sorry that I never
met her.
Please send me a laundry list of the information you would like for me to provide about my side of
the family. I have many old photographs, obituaries, death certificates, marriage announcements and even
a few old family tales that I am willing to share………. Etc.
Additional communication:
………..Now I am going to be very forward and ask a really big favor. Because you are retyping
the whole book, I am wondering how comfortable you would feel making a few minor corrections. On
page 37, Margaret Myrtle’s birthdate is listed as March 31, 1871. She was actually born on March 29,
1871. She married Theodore Parker Romine (not Romino). Their son was Theodore Mather, so the senior
and junior could be deleted. Finally, their daughter Julia Rebecca, was born on Sept. 1, 1908.
Signed Marcia Powell (Rebecca Romine’s and Jerry Shields’ granddaughter)
Julia Ovanda Miller (page 36 Shields Genealogy by Mary Ovanda Derrick
Coleman)
Born: February 11, 1843 in Saint Joseph County, Indiana. Died October 1912, in Durham, Oklahoma
Married First: Alonzo J. Mather on December 30, 1860. They divorced in September of 1895.
Born: August 12, 1834 in Michigan City, LaPorte County, Indiana
Died: February 11, 1913 in Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana
Buried: Crown Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis, Indiana
Occupation: Carpenter
Father: John T. Mather
Mother: Eliza Hodge
Lived in Indiana and Kansas
Married Second: Melvina Carroll on November 6, 1895 in Lebanon, Indiana. She died
on April 14, 1940.
Married Second:???
Issue First Marriage:
1. Lelia Mather, born February 14, 1862 in Edward County, Indiana. Died April 11, 1863.
2. Charles Augustus Mather; born July 10, 1867 in Washington County, Kansas. Died December
24, 1870.
3. Margaret Myrtle Mather, born March 29, 1871 in Washington County, Kansas. Died March 9,
1963 in Indianapolis, Indiana. Buried: White Lick Cemetery, Mooresville, Indiana.
Married: Theodore Parker Romine on June 15, 1907 at the Friends Church in Mooresville,
Indiana.
Born: October 20, 1861 in Fountain County, Indiana
Died: June 23, 1926 in Morgan County, Indiana
Occupation: Farmer
Father: Jacob Bonnell Romine
Mother: Rebecca Galloway
Married First: Cynthia (Sattie) Ratcliff on February 12, 1889
Issue First Marriage: Leon Rex Romine born June 3, 1891.
Issue.
3a. Julia Rebecca Romine, born September 1, 1908 in Mooresville, Morgan County,
Indiana. Died July 20, 1995. Buried: White Lick Cemetery, Mooresville, Indiana.
Married first: Earl Raymond Shields in Morgan County Indiana on September 18, 1927.
Married second Claude Hardin.
Issue First Marriage:
Alice Patricia Shields, born July 1929 in Morgan County, Indiana
Married: Donald Wright
Issue.
Patricia Ann Wright, born September 18, 1951 in ____________.
Married: Martin Kirkpatrick on March 24, 1972 in the Friends Church
at Mooresville, Indiana.
Issue.
Jesse Branden Kirkpatrick, born August 29, 1980.
Erin Megan Kirkpatrick, born November 3, 1982.
Margaret Louise Shields, born August 30, 1930 in Morgan County, Indiana.
Married: Richard Evan Powell, born: December 3, 1927. Father: Lotus Joseph
Powell. Mother: Opal Theresa Hobson
Issue.
Marcia A. Powell, born February 10, 1953 in Orange County,
California. Married Thomas E. Nugent on February 3, 1990 in
Elmhurst, DuPage County, Illinois.
Issue.
Colin Matthew Nugent, born March 8, 1991 in Winfield,
DuPage County, Illinois.
Richard Theodore Powell, born September 17, 1954 in Indianapolis,
Marion County, Indiana. Married: Bonita Merry Marcado on June 10,
1978 in Glenwood, Cook County, Illinois. Married second Deborah
Lynn DeCapite on April 6, 1990 in Bradenton, Manatee County,
Florida. Married third Jeanette Boudreau on June 5, 1998.
Issue first marriage.
Robert Joseph Powell, born July 16, 1979.
Marcus Evan Powell, born April 16, 1985
Cynthia Jo Powell, born July 4, 1958 in Indianapolis, Marion County,
Indiana. Married Robert Arturo on June 22, 1989 in Park Forest, Cook
County, Illinois.
Issue.
Michael Dennis Arturo: born October 15, 1993 in Oak Lawn,
Cook County, Illinois.
Rebecca Kathleen Arturo, born July 15, 1995, in Oak Lawn,
Cook County, Illinois.
Katherine Louise Powell, born July 29, 1960 in Indianapolis, Marion
County, Indiana. Married: Thomas M. Saak, on March 5, 1983, in Park
Forest, Illinois. Married second Paul Priester on May 2, 1996, in Iowa.
Issue second marriage
Paul Patrick Priester, born March 17, 2000 in Park Ridge,
Cook County, Illinois.
3b. Theodore Mather Romine, born November 12, 1910 in Morgan County, Indiana.
Married Berta Maxine Bartlow on June 15, 1940 at the Tabernacle Presbyterian Church
in Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana.
Issue
Carol Ann Romine, born March 3, 1943 in Indianapolis. Married Barry Carnine
on January 15, 1977 Also married James Gustafson.
Issue:
Rachel Sarah Carnine, born February 1, 1982.
David Lee Carnine, born December 1982.
Margaret Ruth Romine, born March 8, 1945. Married Col. Robert T.
McCollough
Judith Evelyn Romine, born August 25, 1948 in Martinsville, Morgan County,
Indiana. Married Robert James Kelly, III on September 28, 1976.
Issue.
Kathleen Ellen, born March 29, 1984 in Elkhart, Indiana
Lorelei Margaret Kelly, born August 8, 1985 in Elkhart, Indiana.
Linda Kay Romine, born November 12, 1953. Married Peter Hoban on May 12,
1984.
4.
5.
6.
Elliene Mather, born March 5, 1875 in Washington County, Kansas. Died as a youth from a
spinal birth defect most likely in Arkansas where her family had moved to improve her health.
Edwin Ray Mather, born March 7, 1879 in Washington County, Kansas. He disappeared
while traveling to California with a friend named Mr. Young. They stopped in El Paso,
Texas. Edwin walked across the border into Mexico, and disappeared. No Issue.
Chalmer Asbury Mather, born March 22, 1882 in Arkansas. Married Alice McMahan and
died at the Home for Aged Baptists in Ironton, Missouri June 1962. No Issue.
DESCENTANTS of JAMES and NANCY SHIELDS ELLIOTT
The fifth child of James and Nancy Shields Elliott was named Ruth for the paternal grandmother
and the ancestral Scotch Janet or English Jane. She was born Nov. 15, 1825, in Decatur Co., near
Greensburg, Indiana. A duplicate of her father, in features and disposition, whom she held in the highest
esteem and reverence. She was twice married, first to Miles Bristol, August 20, 1843. HE was a
blacksmith with a shop and a home in Rochester, Indiana.
The Bristols came from New York. A few happy years ended with Miles death in February 1850.
Their three loving children having preceded him. For two years Ruth taught school in the town of
Rochester previous to her marriage to Richard Emery Derrick, February 14, 1853. They lived in White
Co., near Monticello, where their oldest son was born, August 22, 1855, named John Perry Elliott. Their
four girls were born as follows; Mary Ovanda, November 20, 1857 in Fulton Co., Indiana; Nancy Eleanor,
November 12, 1859 on Greenwood prairie, Wabasha Co., Minn.’ Ruth Jane, November 1, 1860 on the
homestead in Washington Co., Kansas; Edith Ulysses, November 7 th, 1868 in Washington Co., Kansas on
the homestead. The fist deep sorrow in this home came with her death April 12, 1879. The remains are
buried in the Hollenberg Cemetery.
After their own family were all grown and settled in homes of their own, a blessing came to them
in the care of another babe nine days old, that of a distant relative. They cared for him until he was grown.
Of her children, she often said, “They can never do anything so bad that I will not love them just the same.”
And expressed the same love for Clyde Dunnuck, the boy they raised.
The mother was a woman of decision and resolution tempered with justice and consideration for
others, and the wit of the family. She maintained her cheerful, hopeful spirit until the end came May 4,
1899. Friends said of her, “No better woman ever lived or died then Aunt Ruth derrick.” Her husband
survived her ten years, passing on September 23, 1909. An n old friend and neighbor of fifty years
acquaintance said this tribute to his memory. “I never knew Mr. Derrick to do a dishonorable act, nor
speak disrespectful of anyone.” He was a man of few words, refined, humble, self respecting, not a
financier nor spend thrift, always avoiding a debt if possible. He lived on the homestead from 1860 till
1907 continuously and there was never a mortgage nor debt on the home regardless of cyclones, drowths
and grasshoppers. The homestead remained in the Derrick name seventy-two years.
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CHILDREN of RICHARD and RUTH ELLIOTT DERRICK
John Perry Elliott Derrick, the only son of the above to live to maturity was born near Monticello,
White Co., Indiana, August 22, 1855. He matured in the sunshine of the Kansas prairies. Farming and
stock raising was the greatest incentive sixty years ago. When the Otoe reservation was opened for
settlement in 1878, John bought 80 acres, one-half miles north and one mile west of his fathers homestead.
On October 22, 1878 John married Rebecca Jane Wilson and they moved on the little farm in the
spring of 1879. Here their four children were born; three sons and one daughter. Later he sold this place
and bought land in Oklahoma near Ripley in 1904. After his father’s death in 1909 much as he preferred to
live in Oklahoma, he sold there and moved back to the old homestead of his father in Jan of 1911, residing
there 20 years until January 1931 when he sold the farm and moved to Hollenberg and later with a son in
Colorado.
His greatest sorrow came from the death of his youngest son, Lyle, at Fort Riley in Oct. 1918, and
the death of Rebecca, his wife, two years later.
John was a great worker, never idle, self sacrificing, always considering the welfare of others
before his own and he was to generous for his own best interest. He passed away at the Adell hospital after
an operation for stomach trouble. As the end neared he looked up with a smile and said, “It’s all right.”
His two boys, Ray and William preceded hm to the other life two years. His remains were interred in the
Hollenberg Cemetery, near wife and sons, on May 10, 1932.
Roy Garner Derrick, son of John and Rebecca Derrick was born April 9, 1883 on a farm two and
one half mils from Hollenberg, Kansas. He married Hettie Menefee in 1906; their two sons are Lyal, born
January 16, 1907 and John Larkin, born September 20, 1910.
Hettie Menefee Derrick died and was buried Oct. 10, 1910. Five years later, Roy married Mary
Schutte, Feb. 25, 1915 at Washington, Kansas. They resided on a farm a half mile north of Hollenberg,
Kansas until his death, April 10, 1930. Lyal, the oldest son married Esther Sholtz in Aug 1930. Their
child, Joan Elaine, was born Dec. 26, 1932. John Larkin Derrick, brother of Lyal, graduated from the
Steele City high school in 1929 and from the teachers College at Greeley, Colorado in 1936, working his
way through. He is now living employed by the Firestone Tire Co. at Denver, Colorado.
William Emery Derrick, a successful teacher and disciplinarian, was a student at the Agricultural
College at Stillwater, Oklahoma. He married Bessie Hickman of Blackwell, Oklahoma, also a fine teacher.
For his health, he lived at La Vet, Colorado several years where he passed away December 30, 1929. HE
was born Feb. 28, 1887.
Lyal Alfred Derrick, born May 4, 1892 was a teacher and farmer. He held a state certificate from
Oklahoma. He was called to Fort Riley August 16, 1918 where he was a victim of the flu epidemic and
was brought home and buried Oct. 22, 1918.
Hazel may, only daughter of John and Rebecca Wilson Derrick, born January 6, 1887. She
married Sewell Hardy at Stillwater, Oklahoma. Their son, Carl, born July 14, 1911 graduated from the
Odell, Nebraska High School. He is married and lives on a farm south of Hollenberg, Kansas where a
baby, Shirley Elaine was born to them in 1935. Hazel was married twice, the second time to Fred Osendorf
of Lanham, Nebraska.
The Writer is the oldest daughter of Richard E. and Ruth Elliott Derrick. I was born November
20, 1857 near Rochester, Indiana, on the “Old Billy Shields farm.” So my father told me, and was named
for two cousins, Mary and Ovanda Miller (Ovanda should be Evanda, being French). My education began
with my mother teaching me my letters, then the spelling and reading. I went to school probably tow and a
half years in the 5 years between 1866 and March 12, 1872 that being the entire amount of school taught.
After the close of school in 1872 I married my teacher, Asa E. Coleman and went to live on his
homestead one mile from my parents. Having always wanted to know things, my education is still going
on. Always a believer in suffrage for women, for the benefit of men as well as women, I have seen it
established in the government. As an ardent prohibitionist, I am sure the principles will yet become a part
of our constitution again by the will of the people. It was brought about by the work of the women before,
it will be established by the men in time. I have bee a member of the W. C. T. U. since 1883 and have
taken The Union Signal more then fifty years. It has been a large factor in our education, especially the 25
years when Frances Willard was Editor in Chief.
As a descendant from Quaker faith, it was not hard for me to absorb the Truths of Christian
Science. Our home atmosphere was harmonious and considerate of others. I have been termed a radical
and fanatic and various other names without any fears or regrets on my part. It may be I have inherited the
spirit of freedom and justice, somewhat, that inspired Eleanor Mitchell Wilson in her stand for “Liberty,
freedom and Independence.”
Mr. Coleman was of German nationality and inherited their thrift, industry and desire to possess
something for future necessities and old age. In time he added to the homestead until he owned 700 acres
of land and always kept a heard of 40 or 50 head of cattle and 100 or 200 head of hogs. He had a pride in
the civic and political affairs of the community and state, and national as well, having served almost three
years in the Civil War.
Our home was a haven to all who desired to enter. At my sisters death we took her two babies,
Dorr and Claude Morey and cared for them until they were settled in homes of their own. Mr. Coleman
was deeply interested in the education of youth, never failing to attend the annual district school meetings,
and serving on the school and township boards, for many years he served as Justice of the Legislature but
declined because of the large interests at home. Mr. Coleman was 20 years my senior, he was never ill to
speak of. At the last week of his life he hoped he wouldn’t linger, and his hope was rewarded. He passed
on after a few days, on the 5th of April, 1921, aged 84 years, at our home in Huntington Park, California
and was laid to rest in the Santa Ana and Orange Cemetery. The passing of a noble, useful life. I had
forty-nine years of his protecting care and guidance. These are memories whose heritage are as great a
benediction as the heritage of children.
Their third child, Nancy Eleanor, was born in Wabash County, Minnesota on Greenwood prairie
November 12, 1859. While on the road to Kansas in 1860, the year of the drouth, she was 6 or 7 months
old and she refused nurse or drink a drop of milk of any kind. We wonder yet what her mother found in the
way of food to sustain her, yet she seemed to thrive and grow and proved to be the strongest and most
plump of all the children and the most resolute. One day her mother left her, then about 2 and one half
years ole, to rock the cradle in which the new baby was sleeping. The mother went to the garden. She
could hear the cradle rocking, presently the rocking stopped and the baby cried loudly. Just as the mother
reached the door she heard Eleanor say, “I’ll jay haw you, you little jayhawker, and she had a stick raised in
the act of striking the baby, when she called to her. Eleanor is as resolute and decided as was the Eleanor
Mitchell Wilson of Revolution days, for whom she was named.
She taught one of two 3-month terms of school, later she married Henry Richard Wilson, march 5,
1879. His parents came to America from Weisback, England, when he was a babe of six months. They
went to live in Pawnee Country, Nebraska on his father; farm. Four years later they bought an 80 acres
farm and moved to it in the spring go f1883. The spring of 1892 they bought another farm of 160 acres
joining theirs on the west. Five years later they sold the 240 acres for $7500 and came to Washington Co.,
Kansas, buying 2what 3as known as the Dave Bobbit farm near Emmons, 160 acres all clear of any
incumbrance. A few years later Hank (as he was called) AHD a partial stroke which seemed to effect him
more or less until November 12, 1912, when he passed away having lost the use of himself almost
completely.
John, the youngest child lived with his mother till his marriage in 1927. Albia Emeline the oldest
child, born August 28, 1880, was a teacher for several years. She married C. Ben Evans a teacher, in Aug
1903. Ruth Evans born July 16, 1904, married Fred Cole, August 1928. Shirley Ann Cole born June 24,
1929.
Ralph Evans born January 25, 1906, graduated from Washington High School, also had two and
one half years work at K. S. A. C. in Civil Engineering. He married Martha Weichold of Topeka. They live
in Chanute, Kansas where he works for the Santa Fe R. R. Company.
Josephine Eleanor Evans, born March 5, 1915, finished high school and does secretarial work in
the office of the Superintendent. She is also an instructor in instrumental music and is in demand as a
singer.
Carl E. Wilson, born March 11, 1883, had two years of work at K. S. A. C. He married Bertha
Potute, January 6, 1908, a teacher. Their one child, Paul Wilson, graduated from Kansas State and is a
teacher of Vocational Agriculture. Carl is an extensive farmer, handling and raising lots of stock. At the
time of the depression struck he had stock that would have sold for $12000 but later sold for less then half
of that.
Blanch E. Wilson, born 1884, married John Meilten, November 25, 1906. She was a capable
woman in every way. She passed away February 1919, no children lived.
William Henry Wilson, born September 18, 1890, married Fern Martin. Their children are Lois,
born April 6, 1913; she graduated from Washington High School and taught several terms. She married on
January 7, 1937 and now is living in Los Angeles, California.
Martin Henry Wilson, born August 12, 1917. He lives at home and does trucking. He had three
years in high school. His fathers declining health made it necessary for him to drive the truck.
Armand, the second boy born November 21, 1919, finished high school this year, a bright clever
boy, active member of the 4-H Club.
The two small girls, still in the grades are Thelma, born May 10, 1925, a real blond and Wilma
Jean, a brunette, born July 23, 1929.
William Henry Wilson passed away, April 1935 as a result of flu and pneumonia. He was the
embodiment of cleanliness, order and system, an expert mathematician, a pleasant cherry disposition,
honesty and dependability.
John Elliott Wilson finished high school and was dependable clerk for several years in Fred
Deidrichs clothing store in Washington. Eh married Beatrice Powell, a teacher, and bought out a cleaning
establishment in Tecumseh, Nebraska. They have one son, John Elliott Wilson, called Jack, a very earnest,
energetic lad of eight, born November 20, 1928. John is interested in the civil and political affairs. Eh is a
member of the school board and has the considerate yet firm decisions of his mother.
Ruth Jane Derrick, born on the homestead, Nov 1 1860, had many characteristics of her great
grandfather, William Shields. The same calm, self poise, yet with firm decisions, amiable in temperament.
She homesteaded 160 acres in Rawlins Co., Kansas, not far from the county seat, in the fall of 1885 and
married Franklin S. Morey, September 23, 1886, later they sold the homestead and bought 80 acres in
Washington Co., Kansas in 1899. Their children were Dorr Derrick, born November 8, 1889 and Claude
Franklin, born April 14, 1893, died May 12, 1893. Dorr married Mary Belle Allen, November 29, 1913
after graduating from Manhattan Business College and two years in K. S. A. C. Their children are Daryl
Derrick, born December 6, 1914, graduate of Manhattan High School and the Kansas State College. He
won his first scholarship from Manhattan High and also several prizes in college judging contests. The
second child of Dorr and Mary Belle was Allen Dwight, born August 15, 1916 and passed away March 30,
1932. Keith born September 10, 1918 graduated from Manhattan High School in 1935. Duane, born July
2, 1925 is in the 7th grade in College Hill District School, Manhattan.
Claude Franklin Morey married Esther Fae Mellor, July 16, 1915. He is a clerk in the shoe
department of Broadway department Store, Los Angeles, California. Their one child, Russel Franklin, born
May 20, 1916 at Orange, California and graduate from Los Angeles High School, specializing in secretarial
work and music. Their home is in Huntington Park, California.
DESCENDANTS of RUTH JANE ELLIOTT DERRICK
1) William Shields m. Margaret Wilson SHIELDS 1789
2) Nancy A. SHIELDS b. Feb 28 1798 m. James Elliott Dec. 7, 1815
3) Ruth J. Elliott b. Nov 15, 1825 m. Richard Derrick, 1853
4) John P. E. Derrick b. 1855 m. Rebecca Wilson, 1878
5) Roy Garner Derrick b. Apr 9, 1883 m. Hettie Meneffee 1906
6) Lyle Derrick b. Jan 16, 1907 m. Esther Sholtz, 1930
7) Joan Elain b. Dec 26, 1932
6) John Larkin Derrick b. Sept. 20, 1910
5) Wm. E. Derrick b. Feb. 28, 1887 m. Bessie Hickman, 1919
5) Hazel May Derrick b. Jan. 6, 1889 m. Swell hardy, 1910
6) Carl Hardy b. July, 1911, m. Jan. 1932
7) Shirley Elaine Hardy b. Jan 1932
4) Mary Ovanda Derrick b. Nov. 20, 1857 m. A. E. Coleman Mar. 4, 1872
4) Nancy Eleanor derrick b, Nov. 12, 1859 m. Henry R. Willson, Mar. 5, 1879
5) Albia Emmaline Wilson b, Aug. 28, 1880 m. C. Ben Evans Aug.
1903
6) Ruth Isabel Evans b. July 15, 1904 m. Fred Cole Aug. 1928
7) Shirley Ann Cole b. June 24, 1929
6) Ralph w. Evans b. 1906 m. Marta Weochold Dec. 1931
5) Carl Emery Wilson b. March 1883 m. Bertha Poteete, 1909
6) Paul Henry Wilson b. Feb. 22, 1912
5) Blanche E. Wilson b. Oct. 20, 1884 m. John Meitler
5) William Henry Wilson b, Sept. 18, 1890 m. Fern Martin
6) Lois M. Wilson b. Apr. 6, 1913 m. Albert Harper, 1937
6) Martin Henry Wilson b. Aug. 12, 1917
6) Armand Wilson b. Nov. 21, 1919
6) Wilma Jean Wilson b. July 23, 1929
4) Ruth Jane Derrick b. Nov. 7, 1861 m. Franklin S, Morey, Sept. 26, 1886
5) Dorr Derrick Morey b. Nov. 8, 1889
6) Darrell Derrick Morey b. dec. 6, 1914
6) Allen Dwight Morey b. Aug. 15, 1916 d. Mar. 1932
6) Keith Clinton Morey b. Sept. 10, 1918
6) Duane Samuel Morey b. July 2, 1925
5) Claude Franklin Morey b. Apr. 14, 1883 m. Fae Miller July, 1915
6) Russell Franklin Morey b. May 20, 1916
DESCENDANTS of JAMES and Nancy A. SHIELDS ELLIOTT
(Continued)
John Perry Elliott, seventh child of James and Nancy, always said he had six sister, six brothers,
and three were six older and six younger than he. He was born near Idaville, Indiana, May 21, 1829. He
and Tipton Lindsey were the same age; both grew up in the vicinity of Rochester, Ind. John had a strong
mentality. He and his sister, Ruth, were original in their ideas, their wit and repartee.
John worked in the foundry and forge until he became very proficient in black smithing. He was
the only one of the boys who learned a trade. He was twice married, first to Harriet Lorena Odell on April
11, 1849. Two children were born to this union, one died in infancy, Josephine Lorena, born Jan. 6, 1850.
Harriet Odell Elliot died on February 22, 1854. On March 29, 1855, John married Catherine Alkire. While
the Elliott’s were fairly good singers, Catherine Alkire was well known for her exceptionally sweet voice
and was in demand for all special occasions.
They moved from Indiana to Minnesota in 1857, in company with Absalom Elliott and family,
owning land in Wabasha County also in Filmore County, Minn. He was a farmer and like the Elliot’s
Richard E. Derrick, his brother-in-law were hauling lumber from the mill near the Zumbro River, to
Centerville with ox teams. The road was narrow and the loads heavy, emery’s team, making better time
than John’s, was in the lead. In the distance they saw a team of horses coming and recognized the driver to
be a certain Englishman that never gave the road to anyone. John called to Emery as he came forward, to
take his team, saying, “that Englishman will turn out this time.” When in hailing distance the Englishman
called, “Turn out, turn out, I am Johnny Bull and never turn out for anyone.” With that, John seized the big
full whip, leaped from the agon, brandished the whip as he ran forward, saying, “Turn out, turn out, I am
Commodore Perry, I licked you on Lake Erie and I’ll do it again.” The Englishman gave them all the road,
to their surprise and amusement.
John Perry Elliott was born diplomat and mediator in adjusting difficulties, while not approving
the wrong doing, nor even a desire to screen the guilty, yet he believed in mercy and justice especially for
the innocent sufferers. In one instance his timely advice and intervention saved the life of the guilty party
from the mob, which proved a benediction to the entire community.
He sold his claim on the Little Blue to his brother-in-law, John Dunnuck in 1863 and set up his
blacksmith shop in Marysville, Kans., Where they resided until the spring of 1866. He homesteaded a
claim just across the state line in Jefferson Co., Nebr., adjoining that of his brother-in-law, Thomas G.
Brown. Here he farmed, worked at his trade and studied for the ministry and was licensed to preach in the
United Brethren Church in 1868 which profession he followed, practically until his death in Dec. 1884.
His wife preceded him two years or more. A short time previous to the end, he asked his sister Ruth, with
whom he was staying, to write to a brother minister in the U. B. Church, a Rev. Caldwell to preach his
funeral on a promised agreement between the two ministers that which ever went first, the one left was to
conduct the services. In answer to the question, “Where to address rev. Caldwell?” John replied, “Never
mind writing, he will be there.” Two weeks later when his remains were taken to his home at Reynolds,
Nebr., Rev. Caldwell had arrived the evening before, not knowing of the illness and death. He had been so
impressed to stop and inquire about his friends and co-worker in the ministry, and there learned of the facts;
he waited to fulfill the long-standing promise, with gratitude for the divine guidance received.
DESCENDANTS of JOHN PERRY ELLIOTT
1) William and Margaret Wilson Shields
2) Descendants of James and Nancy Shields Elliott
3) John Perry Elliott b. May 19, 1829 d. Dec. 18, 1884 m. Harriet Lorena Odell, Apr. 11,
1848, d. Feb. 22, 1854
4) Josephine Lorena Elliott b, Jan 6. 1850, m. Jared Marks, June 1868 at
Reynold, Nebr.
5) John Elliott Marks b, Aug, 1869 m. Jackson 1897
6) Emmanuel marks b. 1900 m. Mary Groathouse, 1922
6) Metta marks b. 1902 m. Geo. Wolcott, 1920
7) There are 4 children bu do not know their names
6) Willard Marks b. 1905 lives at Colo. Springs, Colo.
6) Nina Marks b. 1907 m. J. Tribble, live in Memphis, T.
5) There are 4 other children of Jared and Josephine Marks but do not
have their names. Jared died and Josephine married nelson Andrews,
no children
3) John P. Elliott 2nd m. Catherine Alkire, b. Mar. 29, 1856
4) Sarah Jane Elliott, b. Jan. 3, 1856, d. April 4, 1901 m. Andrew J. Elder,
Nov.1, 1875, d. Aug. 28, 1931
5) Ella Edith Elder b. July 11, 1876, I. Johnson Aug. 1893
6) Glen Harlow Johnson b. May 1, 1894
6) Verne Johnson b. Apr. 10, 1896 m.
5) Perry Thomas Elder b. Feb. 23, m. 1879 d. Aug. 2, 1881
5) Pearl Tipton Elder, b. Feb. 8, 1881 m. mar. 1914
6) Ruth Marie b. Oct. 12, 1915 home at Deshler, Nebr.
5) Verne Elder, b. Nov. 4, 1883 m. Charles Franklin Blevins, Nov.1903
Fairbury, N.
6) John Elliott Blevins b. July 1,1904, m. V. Reeder, 1903
7) July, 1933 (name not known)
6) Luther Shields Blevins b. July 26, 1906
6) Charles Calvin Blevins b. Sept. 26, 1903
6) Andrew Lester Blevins, b. Apr. 16, 1913
6) Margaret Catherine Blevins b. Sept.26, 1915
4) James Absalom Elliott b. Dec. 24, 1860 d. Jan. 1, 1899
4) Harriet Ann Elliott, b. Feb. 19, 1863, m. T. Dobbins, 1886
5) Bessie Leona Dobbins b. Apr. 6, 1997 m. Wm. J. Bryan, Lincoln
Nebr. Dec. 19, 1913
6) Frances Bryan, b. 1915 d. 1925, Casper, Wyoming.
5) Earl Dobbins b. F. 5, 1890 m. Evangeline Nestlinger, 1916
6) Clark E. Dobbins b. Feb. 22, 1917
5) Cecil Dobbins b. Aug. 4, 1894, Fairbury, Nebr. m. Etta French
Lindsey, Greybull, Wyoming
4) Isaac Tipton Elliott b. May 4, 1865 m. Jo. Cerney, 1890
5) Roy Cerney Elliot b. Mar. 8, 1981. World War veteran
5) Agnes Elliott b. july3, 1893 m. Norcross, Greeley, Colo.
5) Beulah Elliott, b. Oct. 28, 1895
5) Roland Elliott b. June 7, 1879
4) Agnes Elizabeth Elliott b. June 1, 1860 m. D. M. Duncan, 1896 at Fairbury,
Nebr.
5) Ruth Duncan b. 1897, was World War Worker and teacher. M.
Myers a govt. Employee sent to Alaska
6) There were 3 children, their address in Portland, ore. Ruth
was buried there in 1935
5) Perry Dewey Duncan b. 1900 d. 1926 m. 1921
6) Richard M. Duncan b. 1922 Portland, Ore.
4) Ruby Ellen Elliot b. March 18, 1870 m. John Wilson, Nov. 23, 1886,
Atwood, Kansas
5) Dallas Wilson b. June 16, 1889, Miltonvale, Kan. M.
5) Maxine Wilson b. Jan. 18, 1901 Atchison, Kansas
4) Bertie Albertine Elliott b. Nov. 20, 1872. m. Geo Venables Mar. 1902. No
children. Bertie died Oct. 1935
DESCENDANTS of JAMES and NANCY SHIELDS ELLIOTT
(Continued)
Jasper Newton, the ninth child of James and Nancy Shields Elliott was born Jan. 9. 1833 was
deeply religious, always a student and became well educated and a very successful teacher fro several years
before going to Minn., in 1858. He married Kizziah Green in 1856. They came with the family to
Washington County, Kansas in 1860 and settled on the NE one-fourth of section 23, township 1, range 4.
He was active in organizing class meeting and Sunday school in the community, also in getting the
school district No. 4 established. He secured the traveling library for the Sunday School which proved a
great blessing in the country. He was interested in the civic welfare of the country as well, filling the office
on the school board and also served as Justice of the peace for many years. He taught the first two terms of
school in district No. 4 in 1866 and 1867, at $25.00 per month and boarded himself. The school terms were
three months.
He was powerful in prayer and song service. The writer has heard him singing a mile distant, the
words coming clear and distinctly on the still evening air. He was known through out the country for his
integrity, justice and honesty. He enjoyed a life of service to humanity. In teaching, he rewarded all good
work done and gave prizes for bible verses committed to memory in the Sunday School. He was not slow
in his sense of wit; one cold morning in Nov. 1875, someone remarked, “It was too cold for peach
blossoms.” Jasper replied, “but I see you have Beanblossoms,” referring to a bright little lad near by who
bore that name.
The paternal love was strong in all the Elliott family, they were all lovers of children and he was
no exception. No children come to bless their home yet their hearts and home welcomed and cared for a
number of children in the early days of Kansas, boarding them and sending them to school. Three children
were cared fro from early childhood until grown and settled in homes of their own.
In 1875 he sold the home and moved to Benton Co., Ark., where he engaged in raising fruit,
putting out a large apple orchard. This work and the environment were not conductive to his health, which
was more or less broken for ten years. He passed away April 10, 1892. His wife survived him 23 years.
They are both buried in a rural cemetery near Bloomfield, Ark.
DESCENDANTS of JAMES and NANCY SHIELDS ELLIOT
(Continued)
Nancy McCaleb Elliott, the tenth and smallest of al the children of James and Nancy Shields
Elliott was born Dec. 24, 1835, in Fulton Co., Indiana. She was truly a Christ like gift. Her spirit of hope,
faith and love of humanity never wavered nor warned throughout all the years of her long life of 87 years.
The multitude of cares and anxieties usually necessary in the rearing of a family of tem children of her own
left no lines of care on her broad brow, nor dimmed the joy in her large blue eyes. Her reply to a niece who
questioned the future and her duty, is a sermon never forgotten, when she said, “Well my time and duties
are in the hands of the Lord and whatever is his will is mine.”
She married Thomas Gilbert brown, April 24, 1855. He came from New York and had two
children by a previous marriage, which made 12 in all to care for. They first settled on a farm south of the
Little Blue River, opposite from her father’s claim. Later they sold and took land just across the state line,
who and one-half miles southeast of Steele city in Jefferson Co., Nebr. Six of their ten children were born
here. Thomas was a judge of good land and a very good provider. While not a professional Christian when
he married into the Elliott family, he later joined the church and became a deacon.
Alice Brown a stepdaughter married a fine man named William Fuller. Their four children are
Charles, born in 1870 in Washington Country, Kansas; Stella and on other girl and Paul Fuller. Paul has
worked in the ford Auto Shops for more than 20 years. Leander Brown, the other stepchild married
Melinda Kellum in Benton Co., Ark. Their home is in Ponca City, Okla.
Nancy Elliott Brown survived her husband 15, years or more. They are buried near Cherokee
City, Benton Co., Ark, in a beautiful country cemetery. Their children are as follows: Rebecca Ann born
may 7, 1856 in Fulton Co., Minnesota: Ida Bell Brown, Born May 4, 1864 in Jefferson Co., Nebraska: Amy
Dell Brown, born Mach 20, 1866 in Jefferson Co., NE: Ruth Jane Brown born Feb. 7, 1869 and Ulysses
Grant Brown, born May 15, 1871 both born in Jefferson Co., Ne: Lillian brown, born Sept. 13, 1875 and
John Elliott brown born Feb. 16, 1875, both born in Benton Co., Arkansas.
Many interesting incidents could be told of the early days in Indiana, Minnesota and Kansas that
make traditional history.
DESCENDANTS of THOMAS G. BROWN and NANCY ELLIOTT
1) William and Margaret Wilson Shields
2) James and Nancy Shields Elliott
3) Thomas Gilbert and Nancy Elliott Brown
4) Rebecca Ann Brown b. May 7, 1856 d. 1910 m. Ansel Cherry b, Feb. 13,
1855 m. Feb. 6, 1884
5) Eva Cherry b, Sept 12, 1889 m. R. Hendren, Aug. 1906
6) John C. Hendren b. Jun 6, 1908, Nowater Okla.
6) Flossie May Hendren b. Sept. 23, 1909
6) Edwin Ross Hendren b. Mar. 29, 1911
6) Eunice and Inis b. Oct. 20, 1912
5) Lilly Cherry b. Nov. 21, 1891 at Bos, Okla. m. Walter Hurt, Nov
11, 1914 b. Nov. 2, 1889
6) Ruby Hurt b. Nov. 2, 1916
5) Lilia Cherry b. Apr 8, 1984
5) John Cherry b. Jan. 5, 1896
4) Jay brown b. Mar. 17, 1959 in Wabasha Co., Minn. m. Jane Kellann May 25,
1879, Benton Co., Ark
5) Emery D. Brown b. mar. 7, 1880 m. Harriet Thompson, May 2, 1902
6) Sanna May Brown b. Sept. 22, 1903
6) Myrtle Lucille Brown b. 1905
6) Louisa Verene Brown b. Feb. 1907
5) Ida Mae Brown b. Oct. 26, 1884 m. Enos Thompson Feb. 24, 1904
at Hennesey, Okla.
6) Janie Marie b. 1905
6) Edith Melinda b. 1908
5) Thomas Gilbert Brown b. dec. 10, 1886 m. Ethel Ketcham May 25,
1915
6) Thomas Wesley Brown b. 1916
6) Noble Eldon Brown b. 1917, Puerto N. M
5) Jessie Shields Brown b. Mar. 16, 1889, Tucumcari, N.M m. Nellie
Ross, Nov. 9, 1910
6) Cecil Brown b. 1911
6) Josephine Brown b. 1912
6) Lee Brown b. 1914
6) Lawrence Brown b. 1917
5) Evan J. Brown b. Sept. 3, 1894 m. DeLoss Locklear, Mar. 22, 1912,
a minister
6) A. T. Locklear b. 1913
6) C. S Locklear b. 1915, Iowa Co., N.M
5) Earnest Lee Brown b. Feb. 25, 1896
5) Belva Bernice b. Feb. 23, 1900 m. V. L. Marford, Nov. 1906
4) Ida bell Brown b. May 4, 1864 Jefferson Co., Nebr. m. Abasha William
Evans Sept. 16, 1884, Sedan, Kansas
5) Walter A. Evans b. Nov. 29, 1885 m. Lillian Pearl Buckles, Nov. 27,
1910
6) Edith Evans b. Dec. 21, 1911 at Manzanola, Colo.
6) Walter Earl b. Nov. 11, 1915
5) Stella Pearl Evans b. Aug. 19, 1888 at Toledo, Wash. M. Zeno H.
Green b. 1882 in N. Carolina m. Oct. 3, 1908 at Tucumcari, N. M.
6) Walter Edward b. Oct. 12. 1909
6) Zeno H. Green b. June 30, 1912 d. Dec. 2, 1915
5) Amy Dell Evan b. Dec. 12, 1982 d. Oct 1915, m. Ralph Dutcher
Sept. 13, 1912
5) Jay William Evans b. June 11, 1894, d. Jan. 1, 1915, Saline, Kansas
5) Thomas D. Evans b. Jan. 5, 1898 m.
5) Roy Dean b. Apr. 6, 1900, resides at Tenino, Washington
5) Nancy Grace b. July 27, 1902 m.
5) Elverda Lillian Evans b. Nov. 10, 1903 d. Nov. 25, 1915
4) Amy Dell Brown b. March 30, 1866 Jefferson Co., Nebr. m. John Engle,
Benton Co., Ark. 1886
5) Nancy Engle b. 1887 m. Morgan
5) Richard Thomas Engle b. 1889
5) Lillian Engle b. 1891
5) Hester Engle b. 1895
4) Ruth Jane Brown b. Feb, 1869, Steele City, Nebr. d. 1891 m. Henry Jackson,
Sunnyside, Washington
4) Ulysses Grant brown b, May 15, 1871 m. Ida Lane Sep. 1897
5) Vona Ulysses Brown b. Aug. 22, 1899
5) Ethel May Brown b. Nov. 2, 1902, Cherokee City, Ark.
4) Lillian Brown b, Sept. 13, 1875, Benton Col., Ark. M. Peter Cherry Jan. 10,
1902 b. Jan. 28, 1860
5) Hazel May Cherry b. Nov. 1, 1902
5) Mabel Lee Cherry b. Feb. 3, 1906, Niles, Kansas
4) John E. Brown b. Feb. 16, 1879 m. Elizabeth lace Reb. 1902
5) Pearlie Elizabeth Brown b. 1903
5) There are others whose names we did not secure.
The eleventh child of James and Nancy Elliott was Isaac Tipton. He was possessed of the same
quiet, sunny temperament, of his sister Nancy, with the same undaunted spirit of faith and hope that trust in
humanity and God’s protecting care. He was born Feb. 6, 1837. He took a claim joining that of his
brother-in-law, Emery derrick in Washington Col., Kansas in 1860, but relinquished his claim to his
brother-in-law Alex Miller when he insisted in the Civil war in 1862. He served for three years in the 13 th
Reg. Kansas Volunteers, Co., H, under Col. Moonlight and Col. Bowen and Gen. Blunt. He was sent home
on sick furlough at one time but under the care of his mother he was able to return to his company. At one
time, they tell of him, doing picket duty one dark rainy night in a dense wood, the rebel sharpshooters were
passing in squads and shooting frequently, when Isaac called out, “Look out there boys, don’t shoot, you
will hit somebody yet,” and the firing seemed to cease for a time.
One time, on his homestead, after the war he had a fine cabbage patch and remarked that we
would raise cabbage whether it rained o not as he could irrigate it near the river. The cabbage grew into
perfect heads but he failed to reckon with the grasshoppers, which come in swarms and didn’t leave a stalk
of cabbage.
His religion was in his kindness of heart more than in song and audible prayer, and his happy
sunny spirit of hope.
In 1866 he married Margaret Davis, his cousin. There seemed never to be a discordant note in
their home. The little town of Hollenberg, Kansas in now located on their homestead.
Their children are: Mary Etta born Nov. 1, 1869 on the homestead: Frank Elliott, only son was
born June 11, 1873 at Bethany, Mo. In 1871 Isaac sold the homestead and moved to Bethany, Mo., where
he was employed as section foreman until his death, in 1914. His wife, Margaret survived him more than
20 years.
DEXCENDANTS of ISAAC T. ELLIOTT and MARGARET DAVIS
1) William and Margaret Wilson Shields
2) James and Nancy Shields Elliott
3) Isaac Tipton Elliott b. Feb. 6, 1837 m. his cousin, Margaret Davis b. Nov. 14, 1845 n.
Dec. 6, 1866
4) Mary Etta Elliott b. Nov. 1, 1869 m. john Hannars, Aug. 18, 1889; 2 nd m.
Edward Hunt Jan. 1, 1900
5) Alice Hannars b. 1890 m. Ed Wallace June 1909
6) Clifford J. Wallace b. 1910
6) Clara May Wallace b. 1912
5) Sylvia Hannars b. 1892 m. Lawrence Wallace, Nov. 1909
6) Lelia Margaret Wallace b. 1911
6) Lyal Sherman Wallace b. 1913
6) Martha Areta Wallace b, 1914
5) Ada Hannars b, 1894 m. Earnest Jones 1910
6) Lawrence Jones b. 1911
6) Mary Alice Jones b. 1913
5) Clara Hannars b. 1896 m. Chas. Hartman 1913
6) Charles Hartman, jr. b. 1914
5) Albert Hunt b, Oct. 21, 1901
5) Frank Hunt b. Nov. 22, 1902
4) Frank Elliott b. June 11, 1873 at Bethany, Mo. M. Mary Hunt 1897
5) Melvern Elliott b. 1904
5) Ruth Elliott b. 1900 m. Howard While 1917
6) Howard White, Jr. b. 1918
4) Eunice Elliott b. Jan 30, 1883 m. Joe. Hunt Nov. 27, 1900
5) Doris Letha Hunt b. Dec. 4, 1903
5) Hazel Elaine Hunt b. 1906
5) Earnest Hunt b. 1908
5) Charles Hunt b. 1913
Jesse Shields Elliott, twelfth child of James and Nancy Elliott, was born June 10, 1840 in Cass
County, Indiana. He went with his parents to southern Minnesota in 1858, coming to Kansas in 1860. A
year later he married Ann Lorena Morgan in Washington Co., Kans. He enlisted in the Civil War in 1862
in Co. H, 13th Kansas Regular Volunteers under Col., Thomas M. Bowen serving without furlough until
the war closed. He was lost in the Boston Mountains of the Ozarks four days, unable to find his way
because of rain and dense clouds. In his wandering he came upon a horse with saddle and bridle on,
tangled in the brush; with this means he was able, by letting the horse follow his own will, to come safely
to a house and from there he later joined his regiment. This was just after the battle of Pea Ridge. He
served under Gen. Blunt.
He reached home in June 1865 and took a claim along the Little Blue; Jesse homesteaded the
quarter adjoining his brother Isaac’s claim and moved his family there in the spring of 1866. Five years
later the Union Pacific R. R. was built and the town of Hollenberg was laid out. Jesse built the first hotel in
the town.
He was decidedly a Shields in looks and temperament, was a member of the Masonic Lodge and
after locating in Lewis Co., Washington, he served for several years as Marshall or doorkeeper in the
Legislature at Olympics
He was a believer in Divine Providence and like all the Elliott’s he was a lover of children and
always had a fund of songs and stories from them. As a child, I remember how happy we always were to
see “Uncle Jess.” The happiest hours of his declining years were those spent with his own grand children.
Of their four children, only one lived to adult age, namely Lelia Agnes, born Aug. 20, 1862. She
marred William Lyona in Chautauqua County, Kansas. Lafayette Morgan Elliott, their only son was born
at Hollenbeg about 1868 or 1869 and died near Bloomfield, Ark., in 1879 or 1880.
After living in Lewis Co., Washington near Winlock for 25 years or more, Jesse and wife moved
to Sunnyside in the Yakima Valley where Jesse passed away Sept. 1909 followed a few years later by his
wife; both are buried at Sunnyside, Washington and their children live near there.
DESCENDANTS or JESSE SHIELDS ELLIOTT and ANN MORGAN
1) William and Margaret Wilson Shields
2) James and Nancy Shields Elliott
3) Jesse Shields Elliott b. June 10, 1840, Fulton Co., Ind. m. Ann Lorena Morgan, Dec. 1,
1861
4) Lelia Agnes Elliott b. Aug. 30, 1862, Washington Co., Kan. M. William
Lyons Sept. 25, 1881 Chautauqua C., Kans.
5) Jesse Shields Lyons b. Oct. 24, 1882 d. Aug. 20, 1910 m. Goldie
Moon, 1907 Toledo, Washington
6) Theodore Lyons b. April 23, 1919
5) James Lyons b. April 21, 1887 m. Ida Betty Apr 21, 1907
6) Eva Lyons b. Nov. 30, 1908
6) Clifford Lyons b. July 10, 1910
6) Edith Lyons b. June 10, 1912
6) William Homer Lyons b. March 4, 1916
5) Roy Lyons b. Jan. 29, 1893 m. Jean Robinson April 15, 1913
6) Jesse Lyons b. Feb. 23, 1914
6) Dale Lyons b. Feb. 22. 1916, (Yakima Co., Washington).
5) Lily Lyons b. July 12, 1897 m. Ray Colby Aug. 8, 1917 d. Nov.
1918
The youngest child of James and Nancy Elliott was Rebecca Ann born Jan. 3, 1843 in Cass Co.,
Ind. She was named Rebecca for a younger sister of her mother. She had black hair and blue eyes and rosy
cheeks of a typical Irish Colleen. She also possessed the Lafayette Morgan, their only son, Miles Absalom,
was born Jan. 3, 1862. A few months later her husband enlisted in the Civil War, Rebecca remained with
her parents.
The father, James Elliott passed away near the close of the Civil War, In Sept. 1965. He had
requested that Lafayette and Rebecca remain with her mother in the parental home, this they did until early
in 1874, when they moved to Rice Co., Kansas, later they joined other relatives in Benton County, Ark.,
where Miles, their only son passed away suddenly on Dec. 23,1876. In the spring of 1877 they moved to
Chautauqua Co., Kansas where they resided until 1880, going from there to Centralia, Washington.
Their children were: Jesse Ann, born Feb. 14, 1868, married to E. A. Smith, March 10, 1884;
Nancy Dora born Feb. 25, 1870 in 1885 in Centralia Washington; Rachel Serena, born in Washington Co.,
Kansas. May 6, 1872, married Morrison Waite, July 23, 1899 in Lewis Co., Washington; Edith Edna, born
May 20, 1905 in Yakima Co., Washington; Lelia Alice, born Oct. 23, 1879 in Chautauqua Co., Kansas,
married Joseph Grice, June 12, 1910 in Whatcom Co., Washington both were teachers.
DESCENDANTS or REBECCA ANN ELLIOTT and L. MORGAN
1) William and Margaret WILSON SHIELDS
2) James and Nancy SHIELDS ELLIOTT
3) Rebecca Ann ELLIOTT b. Jan 3, 1843 in Cass Co., IN married LaFayette MORGAN,
Jan 31, 1861 in Washington Co., Kansas
4) Miles Absalom b. Jan 3, 1862 d. Dec. 23, 1876
4) Jesse Ann MORGAN b. Feb 14, 1868 married E. A. SMITH March 1884.
5) Bessie SMITH b. Dec. 27 1885 m. J. Slagle March 1904
6) Jessie SLAGLE b. Jan 17, 1905
6) James SLAGLE b. Oct. 7, 1906, King Co., Washington
5) Gertrude SMITH b. Oct. 18, 1886, Lewis Co., Washington, married
Jerry PETER, July 3, 1908.
6) Wilma PETERS b. Nov 7, 1909
6) Helen PETERS b. Dec. 1910
6) Harold PETERS b. May 12, 1912
6) Chester Peters b. Oct 20, 1913
5) Richard SMITH b. April 21, 1888 married Ann LARSON, May
1917.
4) Nancy Dora MORGAN b. Feb. 25, 1870 married Samuel J. MASSINGHAM,
Nov. 18, 1885
5) Lois M. MASSINGHAM , b. Aug. 3, 1886 married Mark O.
EASTMAN, Sept 29, 1909
6) Nellie B. EASTMAN b. Dec. 12, 1909
6) Mark O. EASTMAN, Jr., b. Feb 2, 1912
5) Alfred L. MASSINGHAM b. June 14, 1888 m. Ida May DESKINS
July 12, 1912
6) Virginia MASSINHAM b. June 10, 1913
6) Donald MASSINGHAM b. Sept 8, 1916
5) Alice MASSINGHAM b. April 5, 1890 married Milton H.
CAMPBELL, Sept 30, 1905
6) Catherine Bell CAMPBELL b. April 28, 1907
6) Dora Ann Campbell b. May 18, 1908
6) Minnie M. CAMPBELL b. Sept 22, 1910
6) Elizabeth J. CAMPBELL b. July 14, 1912
5) Mary Ann MASSINGHAM b. Aug 27, 1895 m. Hans C.
Rassmussen Sept 10, 1910
6) Elmer RASSMUSSEN b. April 26, 1912
6) Luella RASSMUSSEN b. October 5, 1914
6) Norman RASSMUSSEN b., September 16, 1916
5) Edna Dora MASSINGHAM b. Aug. 8, 1897 m. George WEIGANT
July 5, 1913
6) Donald G. WEIGANT b., April 8, 1915
5) S. Arthur MASSINGHAM b. Dec 22, 1900
5) Dollie Dot MASSINGHAM b. June 5, 1902
5) Marquis O. MASSINGHAM b. July 25, 1906
4) Rachel Serenea MORGAN b. May 6, 1872 married Morrison T. WAITE, July
13, 1880 in Lewis Co., Washington
5) Iona T. WAITE b. July 13, 1891 m. Melvin BISHOP 1910
6) Francis May BISHOP b. Oct 15, 1913
5) Etta C. WAITE b. Aug 3, 1892 m. Arthur Julian, June 12, 1910,
Kootenai Co., ID
5) Jennie D. WAITE b. Aug 26, 1894
5) Angie R. WAITE b. Dec. 7, 1901
5) LaFayette M. WAITE b. Nov 26, 1905
5) Vernon O. WAITE b. Aug 30, 1915 d. Dec. 29 1915
4) Armita MORGAN b. June 19, 1874, Rice Co., Kansas married M. A. T.
CHILVERS, July 12, 1891
5) Elizabeth CHILVERS b. March 30, 1892 m. Charles BRITON, 1910
6) Forest BRITON, b. May 18, 1911
5) George CHILVERS b. Jan 5, 1898
5) Myrtle CHILVERS b. April 11, 1901
5) Nettie CHILVERS b. Feb. 15, 1905
4) Edith Edna MORGAN b. May 20, 1877, Cau. Co., Kansas, married Frank
REYNOLDS, Dec. 1, 1897
5) Ora May REYNOLDS b. Dec. 1, 1897
5) John Earl REYNOLDS, b. May 3, 1905, Yakima Co., Washington
5) Charles Francis REYNOLDS b. Sept 18, 1914
4) Lelia Alice Morgan b. Oct 23, 1879 m. Joseph GRICE, June 12, 1910.
5) Violet GRICE b. May 1911, Whatcom Co., Washington
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1) Absalom and Ruth Ann ELLIOTT m. in 1788
2) Anna ELLIOTT b. 1789 m. Felix BOUICOURT in 1807 in Indiana
2) James ELLIOTT b. August 11, 1791 m. Nancy A. SHIELDS, December 1815 at Salem, Indiana
2) Absalom ELLIOTT b. 1793 m. Polly SPEAR in Clark Co., IN
2) John ELLIOTT b. 1795
2) Samuel ELLIOTT b. 1798
The Elliott’s came to southern OH first and later settled in Southern IN in 1804.
Aaron Van SCOYOCK, a cousin of James ELLIOTTT lived in Southwest OH.
1) Robert ELLIOTT b. in Chesterfield Co., South Carolina in 1789 m. Elizabeth CAMPBELL.
2) Elizabeth Jane ELLIOTT b. Washington Co., IN, Aug 25, 1826 m. Ezekiel LOGAN SHIELDS
in 1848.
DESCENDANTS Of WILLIAM and MARGARET WILSON SHIELDS
Samuel, the sixth child was born in 1800. He married and had two children, later separating from
his wife. He is spoken of as being “the only Shields known to prove unfaithful to his marriage vows. It
was thought he went to Illinois with Joseph in 1836 or 37.”
The three younger children were Rhonda born in 1802 and married Nathan Rose who was
associated with John Lindsey in 1829, in building the dam and corn cracker mill for the government, near
Rochester, Ind, to provide food for the Pottawatomie Indians.
The several children of the Rose’s were: Ezekiel, Elizabeth, James, Margaret Ann and Cyrus.
There may have been more, but as far we have been unable to find any of their descendants. They came to
Missouri in the early 50’s or before.
Rebecca Shields, born in 1805, married John Davis near Madison. Ind. They too, came into
Missouri along with the Roses or earlier and lived in Westport near Kansas City later taking up land near
Atchison, Kansas. The Roses also lived near them and in Buchanan County, Mo., at one time. All race of
the Rose family seems to have been lost during the Civil War.
The youngest daughter of Wm. Shield, named Jeannette, called Jenny, married Wm. Williamson.
They may have remained in Indiana. We have only the descendants of Rebecca Shields and John Davis as
follows:
2) William and Margaret Wilson Shields
3) Rebecca Shields b. 1805 m. john Davis, Madison, Ind
4) Nancy Davis b. 1825 m. Jesse Johnson
5) Sarah Jane Davis m. Samuel jones 1864
6) Lucy jones m. Albert Hunter
6) Parmelia Jones m. Wm. Jennings
6) Adiline Jones, m. a Mr. Oller
6) Albert Jones m. Miss Robertson
6) Samuel Jones m. Ora Gooden
6) Nora Jones m. Mr Green
6) Ruth Jones m. Mr. Jacobs
6) Edith Jones. Mr. Builderback
5) Rhoda Ann Johnson m. Henry Saxe
6) John Saxe m. Nettie Waddle
6) Frank Saxe m. Miss Banks
6) George Saxe
6) Nancy Saxe m. Mr. Fahn, 4 children
6) Dora Saxe m. Oliver Saura
6) Mary Saxe m. Mr. King
6) Ida Saxe m. Mr. Ruttan
6) Amy Saxe m. Anthony banks
6) Jessie Saxe m. Mr. Builderback
5) Albert Johnson m. Albertine Manley
6) John Johnson m. Arvilla Blanche Gordon, K. C. M.
6) Lyman Johnson m. Anna Keating
7) Margaret Johnson
7) Eunice Johnson
7) Preston Johnson
4) Ella Davis m. Wilson Gore Descendants near Centralia, Ks
4) Rhoda Davis m. Jr. m
5) Jasper Meadows, Jr. m
6) Clarence Meadows
6) Perry Meadows
6) Emmett Meadows
6) Strausie Meadows m B.L. Marshall
4) Jonathan Davis m. Lucinda Meadows
4) Elizabeth Davis d. 1888
4) James Davis m. Charlotte Kendall 1868
5) Ivy Davis
4) John Francis Marion Davis m. Sarah Catherine
4) Margaret Jane Davis m. Isaac Tipton Elliott
5) See Elliott’s record for descendants
4) Martha Ann Davis m. William. W. Shields. Second marriage to George Baker
5) Mary Baker m. Adolph Rawls
5) Sophie Baker, single, Hollenberg, Kansas (Died at 106 yrs old)
5) Fredrick baker m. Sadie Swanson, lives near Mayetta, Ks
4) Rebecca Davis b. 1851 m. Richard Belcher
5) James Belcher m. lives at 612 N. 6th, St. Joseph, Mo
5) Lucy Belcher m. Tennyson
DESCENDANTS of WILLIAM and AMANDA LOGAN SHIELDS
After Margaret’s death in 1814, William Shields married Amanda Logan, Sept. 10, 1817. Their
children were Sarah Jane, born June 5, 1818; Jesse, born Sept 20, 1820; Ezekiel. Born May 20, 1822 near
Madison, Ind.
Sarah Shields the oldest child and only daughter, married James George in 1835, or their several
children, five lived to maturity. Garrett Wilson George, born in 1836, died in 1860; Martha Ann George
born in 1838 in Salem, Ind., married Caleb Easterling in 1864, their three children were Hannah Katherine,
born in 1866, married Howard Witt in 1892; June Witt, born 1895; Katherine Easterling Witt born 1897,
married a Mr. Johnson in 1916.
Amanda George, second child of Sarah and James George, was married to William Patterson in
1866 to whom there were born three children: Effie May Patterson born in 1867; Wilbert Petterson, born in
1869, married Frances Kennedy in 1887, their children are Helen, born in 1892, Horace born in 1895 and
Florence born in 1897. Amanda married John H. Camplin in 1894, no issue.
Kate George, born in 1852 in Indianapolis, resides at Jamestown, married William Darnell in
1870. Their children are: Oscar, born in 1871, died in 1893; Florence, born in 1873, married John F. Hall
in 1888, he died in 1916. She resides in Long Beach, Cal. Their children are Richard Malcolm, born 1892;
Ina May, born in 1895, married Frank Snyder in 1913; John Franklin Hall, born in 1910; John Franklin
Hall, born in 1901 and Florence Margaret, born in 1905. The second child of Kate and William Darnell
was George Rosco Darnell, born in 1882, married Elsie Alice Heath in 1901; Wilbur Floyd Darnell, born
1884, married Blanche Jackson in 1904, they have two children: George William, born 1905 and Ina
Blanche, born 1914. Kate Darnell, the last child of Kate and William Darnell was born in 1890. They
reside at Mooresville, Ind. Their children are: Howard Darnell Champlin, born 1912; Gene E. Champlin,
born in 196; Marion Reid Champlin, born in 1917.
Jesse Shields, the oldest son of William and Amanda, was born at Madison, Ind., Sept. 20, 1820.
When a lad of 9 years, on the death of his parents, the children were taken to live with the mother’s
relatives in Washington Co., Ind. On the way, he escaped from the covered wagon and ran away, going to
his half sister’s, Nancy Shields Elliott, going with them and other relatives into northern Indiana. He grew
up in the vicinity of Rochester and married Catherine Welton, who died with her babe in 1845. Later he
married Margaret Robbins. There were five children.
Jesse Shields was well known in Futon County and highly respected. He was a leading merchant
in Rochester, also had large interests in land and stock. He was a member of the legislature several terms
and director of important interests in the community. He was known during the Civil War as the poor
man’s friend.
After Margaret Robbins death he married Margaret McClung in 1870, which survived him some
ten years or more, there were no children.
The following are the children of Margaret Robbins and Jesse Shields: William Jay Shields, born
1852, was married to Frances Killen, they lived at Rochester, there were two children: Leroy and Harry K.
Shields who married Mary Hurst, they reside at San Jose Ranch, Glendora, Calif. Their three children are:
Louis, born 1908; James Shields, born 1910; Margaret, born 1915. James is a very fine student and
minister in the Adventist Church. Harry K. Shields was a fine musician and singer over the radio and was
employed in evangelistic work. His remains are buried at Glendora, Cal.
The second child of Margaret Robbins and Jesse Shields was Alfred Mead Shields, born in 1855,
married Elizabeth Miller.
Clio May Shields was born in 1857, married Charles Kochendorfer. They resided many years in
Ohio where he was telegraph operator. Their only child, Fredrick Koechendorfer married Emma Hupp.
They resided in Chicago where he was employed with the Western Electric Co. Several years ago he was
chosen by the company to assist in the installation of the Bell Telephone System in japan. Their first child,
Charles died there and Mary, the daughter was born in Japan in 1914. She is now a graduate from the
University of Berkley California and their home is at Glendora. California.
From J. A. Shields History
Ezekiel Logan Shields, the second son of William and Amanda, was born May 20, 1822 in
Washington Co., Ind. He married Elizabeth Jane Elliott April 3, 1848. In 1871 he brought his family to
Jackson Co., Kansas, eventually settling at what is now known as Shields Grove, nine miles southwest of
Holton, Kansas. Like all the pioneer settlers of Kansas, he met with reverses in the way of drouths,
grasshoppers, cyclones and extortionate rates of interest. Shield’s grove, known and seen fro miles around,
is a grove of fine maple trees set out on the highest point in Jackson County. His remains are buried in the
Holton Cemetery.
His five children; are Sarah E. Shields, born in 1850, died in 1893, she married James W. Little, a
leading farmer of Jackson County, living on a large farm two miles west of Shields Grove. Their four
children; were Lucy, who married Fred W. Putman, they now own and live on the old Shields home farm.
The Putman children are: Charles, born in 1899; Paul, born in 1900; Mabel, born in 1908.
The Little children are: John E. Little married Nellie Good, one son Felix, born 1908. They lived
on the old James Little farm southwest of Holton. Arthur O. Little married Lois Highley, they were
farmers for a while. He died from blood poisoning resulting from an injury to his hand from a piece of
farm machinery. Mrs. Little moved to Idaho in 1905. Jerome Little, born in 1884 graduated from the
Holton High School and attended the University of Kansas. He married Edity Pagel; they live on a part of
the old James W. Little farm. There were no children.
Garrett William Shields, oldest son of Ezekiel and Elizabeth Jane Elliott Shields was born in 1851
in Washington County, Ind. In 1871he settled in Jackson Co., Kansas with his father. He was married Feb.
12, 1874 to Fannie P. Stalker from Ind. They settled on the Shields farm two and one-half miles from
Adrian, a country store and post office, where he lived until 1904. Fannie died in Sept. 1882 and on Dec.
11, 1883 William married Mary Bennett. Three girls were born to the first marriage: Dora Theodosia;
Estella May and Effie Felicia. Dora married James Davis Lewelling in 1895. He was a Welch immigrant
of the well-known Lewelling family of that country. They live six miles north of Delia, Kansas on a farm.
Their children are: Mary Elizabeth, born 1897; Fannie M., born in 1899; Roy Williams, born 1901; Evan
Shields Lewelling, born 1904; Edith May, born 1909; Elsie Marie, born 1913.
Estella May Shields, born 1877, married Albert M. Walt, Dec. 2,1894, they now live near Grove,
Kansas. Their children are Eva M. Walt, born 1896, married James Otto Holmes in 1917. Velma Blanche
Walt, born 1898; Celic Albert, born 1901; hazel Irene, born 1906; Goldie Lucile, born 1904; Ivan Orval,
born 1908; Grace Opal, born 1910. All are graduates of the high school and also College students; Louie
William Walt, born 1913; Donald Shields Walt. Norn 1917.
Effie Felecia Shields, born in 1881, married Marion Lasswell; they lived near Tecumseh, Kansas.
She passes on in 1916. Their children living are: Edna Marie, born 1906; Elsie May, born 1909.
Garrott William and Mary Bennett Shields had five children, four lived to adult age.
John A. Shields, born Dec. 17, 1884, graduated from the Ottawa University at Ottawa, Kansas in
1913. He was a demonstrator or typing at the St. Louis Fair. He has been state Chairman of the
Prohibition Party in Kansas, Nebraska and Minnesota. He was National Secretary of the Prohibition Party
for three years. On August 15, 1911 he married Ada Beatrice Vincent at Ottawa, Kansas. Their children
are: James Vincent born April 21, 1013; Robert; John Tipton and Nancy.
Jesse William Shields, born July 22, 1887, graduated from Ottawa University in 1916, a teacher
and professor. In 1913 he married Grace E. Dague, their two children are Carl Dague Shields. Born 1914
and Mary grace Shields, born 1917, lives at Akron, Ohio.
Elsie Elizabeth Shields, born Oct. 7, 1890, completed a four-year course at Ottawa University in
three years with honors in 1913. After teaching a year she married James W. Tanner, Principal of the
school at Alma, Kansas where she was assistant teacher. They own and operate a large tract of land at St.
John, Kansas.
Mary E. Shields, a daughter or Ezekiel Shields, born in Washington County, Ind., came to Jackson
County, Kansas in 1871. After the death of his father he operated the farm for several years at Shields
grove. He married Arethusa Dick in 1884. They have five children: Marion William, born 1885, married
Evan Bateman and reside near Holton’ Arthur E., born 1891; Otis and Orrie twins, born 1893. Then later
married a Faulkener; Sarah, the youngest and only daughter. All the above reside in and around Holton.
Kansas.
Margaret Semyra Shields, born in Washington Co., Ind., came to Kansas in 1871. She married
George W. Elliott. Their only child, Charity Elliott, married Roy Cline 1902. They reside in Topeka,
Kansas.
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