Brief Life History of James Walter
James Walter Shields was born in 1877, in Missouri, United States as the son of James T Shields and Martha Ellen Hollandsworth. He married Ida Elvira Haddox on 17 December 1905, in Owensville, Gasconade, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in McWilliams Township, Otoe, Nebraska, United States for about 20 years. He died in April 1936, in Talmage, Otoe, Nebraska, United States, at the age of 59, and was buried in Talmage, Otoe, Nebraska, United States.
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- Walter Shields, "United States Census, 1910"
- Walter Shields, "Missouri, County Marriage, Naturalization, and Court Records, 1800-1991"
- U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current
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World Events (8)
1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
1882
Historical Boundaries: 1882: Otoe, Nebraska, United States
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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