Mary Elizabeth Howell

Brief Life History of Mary Elizabeth

When Mary Elizabeth Howell was born on 21 June 1825, in Springfield, Sangamon, Illinois, United States, her father, Samuel Howell, was 45 and her mother, Mary “Polly” Howell, was 40. She married John Fenton Shields on 1 July 1847, in Warren, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in San Bernardino, California, United States in 1860 and Utah, United States in 1870. She died on 16 February 1890, in Salem, Utah, Utah, United States, at the age of 64, and was buried in Salem City Cemetery, Salem, Utah, Utah, United States.

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Family Time Line

John Fenton Shields
1823–1908
Mary Elizabeth Howell
1825–1890
Marriage: 1 July 1847
George Shields
1848–1848
James Fenton Shields
1850–1859
John Thomas Shields
1852–1880
Sarah Jane Shields
1854–1932
Lewis Abraham Shields
1856–1890
Rhoda Marie Shields
1859–1912
Martha Ann Shields
1863–1947
Mary Eliza Shields
1866–1894
Rachel Melissa Shields
1869–1943

Sources (20)

  • Mary Shields in household of John F Shields, "United States Census, 1850"
  • Mary Howell, "Illinois, County Marriages, 1810-1940"
  • Mary Howell Shields, "BillionGraves Index"

World Events (8)

1828

Historical Boundaries: 1828: Sangamon, Illinois, United States

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.

1846

U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.

Name Meaning

Welsh and English: in the Welsh border counties, from the Welsh male personal name Hywel ‘eminent’, popular since the Middle Ages particularly in honor of the great 10th-century law-giving Welsh king. The name may also arise from the Breton personal name Houuel, Huwel, Huwal, Howael, cognate with the Welsh name. Bretons were especially numerous in the eastern counties of England. See Powell .

English: perhaps from a Middle English personal name Huwel (spelled Howel), a shortening of Huwelot or Huelin (see Hewlett and Huling ), both pet forms of Middle English Huw (see Hugh ).

English: habitational name from Howell (Lincolnshire), from an uncertain initial element + Old English wella ‘well, spring, stream’.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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Eliza Elizabeth Howard Shields Eliza Elizabeth Howard Shields was the Mother of Faithful Letitia Shields Matthews, and the Grandmother of Alice Jane Mathews Zufelt. Eliza was born in London, England …

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