Brief Life History of Mary Annette "Nettie"
When Mary Annette "Nettie" Shields was born on 9 February 1872, in Plantersville, Drew, Arkansas, United States, her father, Andrew B Shields, was 24 and her mother, Mary Susan Remley, was 22. She married David Dudley Goodner on 24 December 1895, in Montgomery, Arkansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Mena, Polk, Arkansas, United States for about 10 years and Center Township, Polk, Arkansas, United States for about 10 years. She died on 12 August 1953, in Arkansas, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in Mena, Polk, Arkansas, United States.
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Sources (9)
- Nettie Gadner, "United States Census, 1920"
- Nettie Shields, "Arkansas, County Marriages, 1837-1957"
- Nettie Shields in entry for David D. Goodner, "Arkansas Marriages, 1837-1944"
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1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
1883 · The Mosaic Templar is Founded
The Mosaic Templar is an African American fraternal organization founded in Little Rock. it was founded by former slaves, John Edward Bush and Chester W. Keatts. It was part of a movement that was going on at the time, where everyone was forming fraternities and sororities. The main departments for this one where endowment, monument, analysis, uniform, rank, recapitulation, records, and a juvenile division.
1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
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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