Brief Life History of Eliza
When Eliza Shields was born on 4 June 1885, in Spring Garden, Pittsylvania, Virginia, United States, her father, Augustine S Shields, was 31 and her mother, Fannie Green Allen, was 25. She lived in Chatham District, Pittsylvania, Virginia, United States in 1900. She died on 27 January 1963, in Bristol, Virginia, United States, at the age of 77.
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Family Time Line
Sources (4)
- Eliza G Shields in household of Augustan S Shields, "United States Census, 1900"
- Elizabeth Commers, "Virginia, Death Certificates, 1912-1987"
- Eliza Shields in household of Augustine S Shields, "United States Census, 1910"
Spouse and Children
– Male
1885–1963 Female
Parents and Siblings
1853–1937 Male
1859–1944 Female
Siblings (10)
1880–1972 Female
1882–1959 Female
1885–1963 Female
1888–1967 Male
1892– Female
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World Events (8)
1886
Age 1
1894 · Confederate Soldiers and Sailors Monument
Age 9
1906 · Saving Food Labels
Age 21
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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