Western Pennsylvania Genealogy
Compiled by Douglas H. Lusher


Family Group Record



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Alexander McKnight Shields and Caroline Graff




Husband Alexander McKnight Shields 1 2 3

           Born: Abt 1817 - Indiana Co, PA
     Christened: 
           Died: Jan 1863 3
         Buried: 


         Father: Joseph Shields (1783-1823) 4 5 6 7
         Mother: Isabella McKnight (      -1847) 4 7 8


       Marriage: 2 May 1850 3



Wife Caroline Graff 1 2 9

           Born: 10 Dec 1828 9 10
     Christened: 
           Died: 16 May 1882 9 10
         Buried: 


         Father: John Graff (1800-1885) 1 10 11 12 13 14
         Mother: Lucy Sophia Hacke (1805-1876/1877) 1 10 12 15




Children
1 F Lucy S. Shields 1 3

           Born: 7 May 1852 3
     Christened: 
           Died: 10 Apr 1887 3
         Buried: 
         Spouse: Alfred Porter Kirtland (1844-      ) 3
           Marr: 7 Oct 1876 3


2 M John G. Shields 3

           Born: 10 Jan 1854 3
     Christened: 
           Died: 
         Buried: 
         Spouse: Esther Kendall (      -      ) 3
           Marr: 9 Oct 1884 - Grand Rapids, Kent Co, MI 3


3 F Bella Shields 3

            AKA: Isabella Shields 1
           Born: 6 Mar 1855 3
     Christened: 
           Died: 18 Mar 1862 3
         Buried: 
         Spouse: Did Not Marry


4 F Mary Shields 3

           Born: 1 Mar 1857 3
     Christened: 
           Died: 
         Buried: 



5 M Alexander D. Shields 3

           Born: 16 Dec 1858 3
     Christened: 
           Died: 
         Buried: 



6 F Caroline Shields 3

           Born: 21 Apr 1860 3
     Christened: 
           Died: 
         Buried: 
         Spouse: Edwin R. Morse (1857-      ) 3
           Marr: 24 Sep 3


7 M C. E. Shields 1

           Born: 
     Christened: 
           Died: 
         Buried: 



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Sources


1 —, History of Indiana County, Pennsylvania (Newark, OH: J. A. Caldwell, 1880), Pg 360.

2 J. T. Stewart, Indiana County, Pennsylvania - Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1913), Pg 712, 1011.

3 Paul Graff, History of the Graff Family of Westmoreland County (Philadelphia, PA: Privately published(?), 1891), Pg 49.

4 —, History of Indiana County, Pennsylvania (Newark, OH: J. A. Caldwell, 1880), Pg 446, 447.

5 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Indiana and Armstrong Counties, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia: John M. Gresham & Co., 1891), Pg 280.

6 J. T. Stewart, Indiana County, Pennsylvania - Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1913), Pg 1011, 1234.

7 —, Jefferson County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Company, 1917), Pg 41.

8 J. T. Stewart, Indiana County, Pennsylvania - Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1913), Pg 1011.

9 Paul Graff, History of the Graff Family of Westmoreland County (Philadelphia, PA: Privately published(?), 1891), Pg 48.

10 J. T. Stewart, Indiana County, Pennsylvania - Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1913), Pg 712.

11 —, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 328.

12 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 26.

13 John W. Jordan, LL.D, A Century and a Half of Pittsburg and Her People, Vol. IV (New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1908), Pg 141.

14 Paul Graff, History of the Graff Family of Westmoreland County (Philadelphia, PA: Privately published(?), 1891), Pg 6.

15 Paul Graff, History of the Graff Family of Westmoreland County (Philadelphia, PA: Privately published(?), 1891), Pg 40.


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