Wilson Shields and Ruth Neel

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Husband Wilson Shields ^{1 2 3}

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           Born: Abt 1808
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           Died: 1889 3
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         Father: James Shields (1770-1841) 1 4 5 6
         Mother: Elizabeth Wilson (Abt 1774-1873) 1 3 4 5

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       Marriage: 1846 3

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Wife Ruth Neel ³

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           Born: Abt 1826
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           Died: 1910 3
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Children

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1 M James Shields ³

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           Died: 1898 - Mt. Pleasant, Westmoreland Co, PA 3
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2 M Samuel Neel Shields ^{3 7}

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           Born: 30 Mar 1849 - Hempfield Twp, Westmoreland Co, PA 8
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         Spouse: Sarah Millissa Ruff (      -Abt 1876) 7 8
           Marr: 1874 8

         Spouse: Jennie Vance (      -1902) 8
           Marr: 1879 8

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3 F Elizabeth Shields ³

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         Spouse: Calvin Power (      -      ) 3

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4 F Rachel Shields ³

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         Spouse: Frank Hurst (      -      ) 3

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5 F Emma Shields ³

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6 M John Shields ³

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           Died: 1895 3
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7 M William Shields ³

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General Notes: Husband - Wilson Shields

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Mt. Pleasant, Westmoreland Co, PA

As a young man he worked as a tanner in Mount Pleasant, and in 1846, after his marriage, took up farming in Hempfield township, where he remained until 1878. In that year he returned to Mount Pleasant, where he spent the latter years of his life and eventually died at the age of eighty-one years.
His farm of three hundred acres, which was highly improved and upon which he had erected first class buildings of all kinds, was one of the finest in the district. He never entered public life, but was very active in church work and was an elder of the Middle Presbyterian Church at Mount Pleasant. He was a Republican in politics.

1 George Dallas Albert, History of the County of Westmoreland, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 630.

2 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. III (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 245.

3 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 913.

4 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: John M. Gresham & Co., 1890.), Pg 347.

5 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. III (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 245, 332, 645.

6 Jane Maria Craig, Samuel Craig, Senior, Pioneer to Western Pennsylvania, and His Descendants (Greensburg, PA: Privately printed, 1915), Pg 119.

7 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. III (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 384.

8 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 914.