When David Francis Shields was born in 1807, in Sevier, Tennessee, United States, his father, Robert Shields III, was 20 and his mother, Naomi Cordelia Littel, was 22. He married Mary Jane Goldsmith on 24 August 1826, in Corydon, Harrison Township, Harrison, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 4 daughters. He died in 1848, in Fulton, Illinois, United States, at the age of 41.
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Atlantic slave trade abolished.
Illinois is the 21st state.
With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years.
English: variant of Shield 1 (and perhaps occasionally 2, 3, and 4) with plural or post-medieval excrescent -s. In the plural form, the surname may also be topographic, for someone who lived in or near some huts, or habitational, from a place so named, such as North Shields (Northumberland) and South Shields (Durham), though these are unlikely to be the main sources of the surname.
Irish: shortened form of O'Shields , an alternative Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Siadhail; see Shiel .
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