Alexander McKnight Shields and Caroline Graff

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Husband Alexander McKnight Shields ^{1 2 3}

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

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         Father: Joseph Shields (1783-1823) 4 5 6 7
         Mother: Isabella McKnight (      -1847) 7 8 9

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       Marriage: 2 May 1850 3

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Wife Caroline Graff ^{1 2 10}

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           Born: 10 Dec 1828 10 11
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           Died: 16 May 1882 10 11
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         Father: John Graff (1800-1885) 1 11 12 13 14 15
         Mother: Lucy Sophia Hacke (1805-1876/1877) 1 11 13 16

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Children

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1 F Lucy S. Shields ^{3 17}

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           Born: 7 May 1852 3
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           Died: 10 Apr 1887 3
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         Spouse: Alfred Porter Kirtland (1844-      ) 3 18
           Marr: 7 Oct 1876 3

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2 M John G. Shields ³

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

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3 F Bella Shields ³

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

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4 F Mary Shields ³

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           Born: 1 Mar 1857 3
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5 M Alexander D. Shields ³

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           Born: 16 Dec 1858 3
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6 F Caroline Shields ³

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

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7 M C. E. Shields ¹

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1 Editor, 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 Editor, History of Indiana County, Pennsylvania (Newark, OH: J. A. Caldwell, 1880), Pg 410, 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 Editor, Jefferson County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Company, 1917), Pg 41.

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

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

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

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

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

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

14 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.

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

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

17 Editor, History of Indiana County, Pennsylvania (Newark, OH: J. A. Caldwell, 1880), Pg 360, 379.

18 Editor, History of Indiana County, Pennsylvania (Newark, OH: J. A. Caldwell, 1880), Pg 379.