James Shields

1770 - 1848  (77 years)

• Name	James Shields
  Born	10 Mar 1770	Augusta County, Virginia
  Gender	Male
  AFN	8S9C-P0
  Died	2 Feb 1848
  Buried	Seymour, Indiana
  Person ID	I29630	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	Penelope White,   b. Abt 1776,   d. Abt 1841  (Age ~ 65 years)
  Married	1795
  Children	+ 1. William Shields,   b. 1795, , Sevier County, Tennessee ,   d. 27 Jan 1840, Indianapolis, Indiana  (Age 45 years) + 2. Meedy White Shields,   b. 8 Jul 1805, , Sevier County, Tennessee ,   d. 6 Feb 1866, Seymour, Indiana  (Age 60 years) + 3. Elizabeth "Betsey" Shields,   b. 1797, Sevier County, Tennessee ,   d. 1877, Jackson County, Indiana  (Age 80 years) + 4. Nancy Shields,   b. Abt 1799, , Sevier County, Tennessee   5. Polly Shields,   b. Abt 1803, , Sevier County, Tennessee
  Family ID	F10988	Group Sheet

  
  

• Event Map		Born - 10 Mar 1770 - Augusta County, Virginia  = Link to Google Maps   = Link to Google Earth
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• Notes

  In 1784 James accompanied his mother and father, and his sister and four smaller brothers to the Yadkin Settlement in North Carolina. The next year he helped to bring them on pack animals to Shields Fort in Sevier County, Tennessee, via the Watauga and Traders Trail. In 1808, he settled in Indiana, building his own Shields Fort on the present site of Seymour, Indiana. James is buried in Riverview Cemetery by the side of his wife. ---------- Reference: "Kin of my Grandchildren, Vol III", Judge Noble K. Littell, 1992, p 15, 20. IGI. "Shields Family", Christine B. Brown, 6 February 1980, p 65.