Some sources give Elizabeth Evangeline Shields' name as Elizabeth Angeline.
Marriage Notes for Mitchell Smith Valentine and Elizabeth Evangeline SHIELDS-88170
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Marriage Notes for W. L. McMann and Rebecca Jane DUGGAN-88173
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Marriage Notes for Curtis Duggan and Nancy Jane MCPHERSON-88177
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Marriage Notes for Mansfield Webb and Mary Maude VALENTINE-88179
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Marriage Notes for James Robert Valentine and Haley DAWSON-88182
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Marriage Notes for Roscoe Inman and Margaret Elizabeth VALENTINE-88183
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Marriage Notes for Daniel Herbert Shields and Emma WATSON-88189
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Born on the "Old Home Place".
William Preston Shields' father was an early landowner in Jennings County, Indiana. William was the first white child born on Sand Creek near Brewersville, Indiana. At his death, William was the oldest native-born citizen of Jennings County. At his birth, that part of Sand Creek Township was a favorite camping ground for the Indiana. As the first white child born on the stream, he was a favorite among the Indians of the vicinity, who insisted on, and sometimes were allowed, the privilege of keeping him in their camp for days at a time, always returning him to his mother at night. As a boy, he entered as a clerk in one of the principal stores in Madison and continued there until his marriage in 1839, when he started farming. He farmed that same land all of his life, except when he was clerk of Jennings County. He was known as an intellectual, an untiring reader, a logical reasoner, a Democrat in his politics and a materialist in his religious belief.
He died at "the old home place" near Butlerville of paralysis, from which he suffered for 24 hours.
Research: Jennings county Land Records and Death Records, 1884 Jennings County plat maps, 1850 and 1870 census records, the last will and testament of Elizabeth Jane (Davis) Shields, Seymour Daily Republican 25 May 1903 and 19 December 1903.
Marriage Notes for William Preston Shields and Elizabeth Jane DAVIS-88202
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