References:
(1) Some Prominent Virginia Families, Page 366.
(2) Colonial Families of the United States, page 201, 202.References:
(1) Some Prominent Virginia Families, Page 366.
(2) Colonial Families of the United States, page 201, 202.
Served in the Black Hawk War, the Indiana legislature (House, 1846-47; Senate, 1853, 1855,1861 and 1863). Was the founder of Seymour, Indiana. He was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention of 1860 and supported Stephen A. Douglas.
Joe Funderburk reports Meedy Shields' birth date as 8 July 1804.
Captain Meedy White (he was so called because of his leadership of the settlers in fending off hostile Indians) inherited his father's substantial landholdings (once amounting to more than 1,200 acres).
During the late 1840s, a north-south railroad connecting the Ohio River at Jeffersonville with Indianapolis, was built, crossing the Shields farm. Then in 1852, an east-west railroad was being surveyed through Jackson County, and Shields persuaded the railroad company to run through his property instead of neighboring Rockford. In exchange for this favor, he provided the right of way and agreed to name the town after the railroad's civil engineer, J. Seymour.
Still not satisfied with the railroad business, Captain Shields (by then a state senator) secured passage of a bill requiring all trains to stop at all railroad intersections. Now the two railroads met at Seymour, and because they were required to stop, the trains exchanged freight and passengers, and Seymour because a major center of commercial activity. The city was incorporated in 1864 with a population of 1,553.
Meedy Shields donated land for the railroad to use as a depot, roundhouse and repair shop. He gave land to all religious denominations and paid for building the Presbyterian Church, of which his wife was a member. He built and donated to the town the first schoolhouse. His business enterprises included the first sawmill in Seymour (1852), First National Bank, a large general store and livestock packing plants at Seymour and Brownstown. When he died, his estate amounted to $375,000.
Curious of the difference. SHIELDS HISTORY, 1980, pg. 66 says that Meady White SHIELDS m. Eliza P. Ewing?
Marriage Notes for Meedy White Shields and Eliza P. (Ewing) FLOYD-72831
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(1) RANDOLPH COAT OF ARMS:
Gules on a cross Or, five mullets of the first.
CREST: An Antelop's head couped, holding in its mouth a stick Or.
References:
(1) Magna Charta Sureties, page 58.
(2) Complete Peerage, I, page 30.
(3) History of Northampton.
(4) Visitations of Essex, I, page 294-295.
(5) Budges, History of Northampton, pages 275-276.
Historical Notes:
(1) Dorothy Lane was sister of Richard Lane, who was Attorney General for the
Prince of Wales.
(1) Colonel Peter Beverley was Clerk for the Virginia House of Burgesses, and
later Speaker of the House. He also served as Treasurer of the Virginia
Colony.