When Sarah Jane Shields was born on 29 September 1854, in Pajaro, Monterey, California, United States, her father, John Fenton Shields, was 31 and her mother, Mary Elizabeth Howell, was 29. She married Jeremiah Plumb on 17 January 1870, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She died on 5 January 1932, in Price, Carbon, Utah, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Salem City Cemetery, Salem, Utah, Utah, United States.
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The Fort Tejon earthquake, on January 9, 1857, registered at 7.9, making it one of the largest earthquakes ever recorded in the United States. Only two people were killed, largely due to the sparse population in the area where the earthquake occurred. As a result of the large scale shaking, the Kern River was turned upstream and fish were stranded miles from Tulare Lake as the waters were rocked so far from its banks.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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.
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.
Possible Related NamesBorn 4 June 1877, in Salem, Utah County, Utah. A son of John Ammon Powell and Hannah Matilda Snyder. Hannah was born 26 February 1847 at Winter quarters, now called Florence, Nebraska. A daughter of …
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