Thomas Shields

1763 - 1797  (34 years)

• Name	Thomas Shields
  Born	1763	Augusta County, Virginia
  Gender	Male
  AFN	8S9C-K9
  Died	4 Mar 1797	Sevierville, Sevier County, Tennessee
  Person ID	I29624	Smoky Mountain Ancestral Quest
  Last Modified	1 Apr 2013

  
  

  Father	Robert Shields,   b. 9 Nov 1749, Harrisburg County, Virginia ,   d. 18 Jan 1802  (Age 52 years)
  Mother	Nancy Stockton,   b. Abt 1749,   bur. Middle Creek Methodist Church Cemetery, Sevier County, Tennessee
  Married	1761	Sevier County, Tennessee
  Family ID	F3362	Group Sheet

  
  

  Family	Rhonda
  Married	1783	, Sevier County, Tennessee
  Children	+ 1. Joshua Shields,   b. 1785, , Sevier County, Tennessee ,   d. 22 Jan 1852, Clay Township, Cass, Indiana  (Age 67 years)   2. John Tipton Shields,   b. 1786,   d. 1839  (Age 53 years)
  Family ID	F10982	Group Sheet

  
  

• Event Map		Born - 1763 - Augusta County, Virginia Married - 1783 - , Sevier County, Tennessee Died - 4 Mar 1797 - Sevierville, Sevier County, Tennessee  = Link to Google Maps   = Link to Google Earth
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• Notes

  Thomas Shields enlisted in the Revolutionary War under General John Sevier. On 7 October 1780, he fought at the Battle of King's Mountain. After being mustered out he spent a year hunting and exploring in what is now the Great Smoky Mouintains National Park. For nearly two years more he wandered through the area of the mountains returning to his father's home in Sevier County, Tennessee. In 1795, Thomas and his two small sons were boiling sap in the sugar maple orchard on Birch Creek when he was shot from ambush. Ordering his sons to run, he rolled behind a log within reach of his rifle. He shot one of the Indians before he was killed. Thomas was the only Shields son killed by Indians. His death can be fixed fairly accurately by a newspaper clipping found in the Knox Gazette dated 6 March 1797. "Just as this paper was going to press we received information that Thos. Shields was killed by Indians in Sevier County, They cut his head nearly off, took out his bowells, otherwise shockingly cut and mangled him. The youth lived with his parents Robert Shields and Nancy Shields at Upper Middle Creek section of the County." ---------- Reference: "Kin of my Grandchildren, Vol III", Judge Noble K. Littell, 1992, p 15, 18. "Shields Family", Christine B. Brown, 6 February 1980, p 58. "Sevier County, Tennessee and Its Heritage", 1994, p 340.