Elizabeth Shields

Brief Life History of Elizabeth

When Elizabeth Shields was born on 21 August 1826, in Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, her father, James Henry Shields, was 30 and her mother, Elizabeth Livingston, was 33. She married Harmon Cutler on 11 April 1857, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in Renfrewshire, Scotland in 1851 and Oakshaw East Church, Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland, United Kingdom in 1851. She died on 19 September 1857, in West Jordan, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 31, and was buried in Cutler Hill Cemetery, Midvale, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.

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Family Time Line

Harmon Cutler
1799–1869
Elizabeth Shields
1826–1857
Marriage: 11 April 1857
Cutler
1857–1857

Sources (11)

  • Betsy Shields in household of William Shields, "Scotland Census, 1841"
  • Elizabeth Shields, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
  • Elizabeth Cutler, "BillionGraves Index"

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World Events (8)

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.

1832 · The Scottish Reform Act

The Scottish Reform Act was introduced by Parliament that introduced changes to the election laws in Scotland. The Act didn’t change the method of how the counties elected members but adopted a different solution for each pair of counties. Ultimately, it brought about boundary changes so that some burghs would have more say for the country than others.

1836 · Remember the Alamo

Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.

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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Harmon Cutler

Harmon Cutler was born in Dover, New York, July 16, 1799. When young, he was apprenticed to learn the wagon—makers trade. He married Nov. 13, 1825, Susannah Barton of Coberskill, N.Y. Soon after this …

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