Brief Life History of Malinda Frances
When Malinda Frances Shields was born in 1830, in Hannibal, Marion, Missouri, United States, her father, Isaac Ward Shields, was 21 and her mother, Bethany Mitchell Mayhall, was 22. She married William Tecumseh Gibson on 18 March 1849. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Indiana, United States in 1870 and Union Township, Crawford, Indiana, United States in 1880. She died on 22 March 1893, in Crawford, Indiana, United States, at the age of 63, and was buried in Sulphur, Union Township, Crawford, Indiana, United States.
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- Malinda F Gibson in household of William F Gibson, "United States Census, 1850"
- Malinda Frances Shields Gibson, "Find A Grave Index"
- Malinda Frances Shields in entry for William Gipson, "Indiana Marriages, 1811-2007"
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1830 · The Second Great Awakening
Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.
1836 · The Massive Internal Improvements Act
The Massive Internal Improvements Act of 1836 loaned Indiana $10,000,000 to create infrastructure such as canals, railroads, and roads across the state. The act was signed by Whig Governor Noah Noble and passed by the Indiana General Assembly. However, the financial crisis known as the Panic of 1837 thwarted these plans as costs ballooned. Construction on the infrastructure was not completed and the state debt rapidly increased.
1851 · Constitution of 1851
Due to the state’s financial crisis during the previous decade and growing criticism toward state government. Voters approve the Constitution of 1851 which forbade the state government from going into debt.
Name Meaning
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 .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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