When Joseph Henry Shives was born on 3 May 1921, in Maryland, United States, his father, Theodore Ulton Shives, was 26 and his mother, Elizabeth Catherine Martin, was 21. He registered for military service in 1942. He died on 8 October 1986, in Youngstown, Mahoning, Ohio, United States, at the age of 65.
Scottish (Aberdeen): variant of Shivas, a habitational name from the barony of Shivas in the parish of Tarves, Aberdeenshire.
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