John Blish attended Newberry Academy in Vermont.
Sarah Shields and her sister Eliza died on the same day and in the same hospital.
Marriage Notes for John H. Blish and Sarah SHIELDS-89756
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Marriage Notes for Bruce Shields and Jane MITCHELL-89759
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Albert Dickinson was a superintendent for the Missouri Pacific Railroad.
Both Eliza Shields and her sister Sarah died on the same day and in the same hospital.
Marriage Notes for Albert W. Dickinson and Eliza A. SHIELDS-89760
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Lycurgus Shields attended the University of Indiana. He was a dairy farmer. Two of his children were named for siblings who had died earlier.
Rebecca McCollum Shields was assistant postmaster under her father. She died at her home after completing her customary rounds with the milk wagon.
Marriage Notes for Lycurgus L. Shields and Rebecca Jane MCCOLLUM-89763
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Lycurgus Shields lived at Cincinnati, Ohio in 1905.
Meedy Shields was a clerk at the Hotel Jonas at Seymour, Indiana. He and his brother William died within hours of each other and were buried after a double funeral.
Marriage Notes for Meedy W. Shields and Mary A. CONWAY-89766
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See note and sources for father. Shields Genealogy (by Mary O. Derrick Coleman) lists Amanda and Orvanda as twin daughters of William and Aria, but makes no mention of Nancy Ellen.
Ken Parker web site.
"Email dated 29 Feb 2000 which credits Kate Doonan of Minneapolis, Minnesota."
Marriage Notes for William Shields Lindsey and Jane BOZARTH-90069
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John was a banker.
John T. Lindsey, Jr., son of John and Elizabeth Shields Lindsey, was born 1818 in Decatur Co., IN., and married Kate Willis of South Bend, IN., in 1847. Their children were Charles, Edwin, Lelia who married a Mr. Sisson and moved to California; Alma married a Mr. Huntsinger and lived at Point Richmond, California. A daughter of Mrs. Huntsinger, Mrs. Louis Moore, resides at Santa Rosa, California, R. R. I.
John T. Lindsey, came to this country when a mere lad, and was partially raised in the family of T. W. Bray. In 1837 Mr. Bray was made country clerk and young Lindsey showing great aptitude for business, was made deputy. In 1844, Mr. Lindsey was a candidate for the same office, was elected and served until 1851. In 1850 he was appointed teller in the South Bend Branch of the State Bank of Indiana and held this position until the organization of the First National bank of South Bend, when he was tendered the position of cashier, which he accepted. Through the course of a long and useful life, it was the food fortune of Mr. Lindsey to secure the confidence of every one with whom he had relations. It is not much to say of him that he never knew how to follow a devious of dishonest course, and his name became to those having dealing with hi the synonym of integrity. Mr. Lindsey was a member of the Presbyterian Church and also of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He died loved and respected by all, Tuesday November 16, 1869. (Chapman’s “History of St. Joseph county, IN.” Page 504.”
Mrs. Lindsey was born March 2, 1829 and died December 7, 1911. At the time of her death her two daughters were living.
Marriage Notes for John T. Lindsey and Kate WILLIS-90070
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Marriage Notes for Joshua Lindsey and Laura WARD-90071
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Tipton migrated 20 February 1849, when he was only 19, to Hangtown, near Placerville, California, walking all the way while driving a team of oxen. He arrived at Hangtown 5 September 1849.
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTHES OF TIPTON LINDSEY, 1829-1894
In the notes of Kate Lindsey Frazier, his daughter, I find, in her handwriting, this statement: dictated by him something after 1891: Indiana in 1798. He married Elizabeth Shields, the mother of Tipton Lindsey, and as his second wife, her cousin, Nancy Shields.
Here follows the first few pages off the autobiography of Tipton Lindsey:I was born May 21st, 1829, in Carroll County, in the valley of the Wabash, in the state of In., near what was afterwards named Delphi.
My mother and her children were alone, my father having been appointed gunsmith and miller to the Pottawatomie nation at lake Manitou, in territory that afterwards became Fulton County. This office he held for seven years, until the office was abolished.
Three months after I was born, my mother, with her children were taken to my father, who had prepared a residence for her in the midst of the warlike tribe of Indiana, twenty-three miles from a while settlement.
My father and family resided here during the Black Hawk war of 18-3, but only a part of the Pottawatomies took a hand in that war. A band of young men of that nation were hired by the French to go to a point on the Fox fiver where some ten or twelve men (Frenchmen, Scotchmen and Americans) had established a fur traders post. This post was located on the present site of the City of Chicago.
These traders, having received word that they were to be destroyed, escaped in the boats. The young Indians, failing to find them, returned to the parties who had employed then and reported “Che-ca-go,” with in their language, meant “all gone.” They received their pay, and I have often heard of how they laughed at the cunningly-worded report, which enabled them to collect their pay, thought they had no killed the traders.
From this circumstances Chicago undoubtedly took its name.
At the close of my father’s term of office he moved onto a piece of land (with his family) adjoining what afterwards became the Town of Rochester, IN., and a few years later to Starke County.
From the time I was ten years old until fifteen years of age I worked regularly on the farm, and after I was fifteen, would sometimes make trips of eighteen or twenty miles alone, driving an ox team, to deliver produce and make necessary purchases for the farm.
I had reached my fifteenth year without any attention having been paid to my education there being no schools in the county where my father lived. So I contracted with him to pay him one hundred dollars for the time intervening before my coming of age. This was faithfully paid within a year.
I immediately “bound” myself out to an employer for that time. He was to pay the hundred dollars and permit me to go to school for five months in each year. The balance of my time to he is. During the first year and a half I earned my board and lodging by working for the family with whom my employer lived.
I immediately started to school but was in miserable health. Yet I made fair progress, studying almost day and night.
After the first eighteen months I was put into a Legal Clerk’s office to do copying, with time enough each day to recite two or three lessons, such as I had to study the night before. This was continued for about six months. After this the work in the Clerk’s office was such that it required the whole of each day. Then I began devoting my evenings to studying law with Judge Thomas S. Stanfield, he kindly hearing and directing me after business hours. (George Frasier studied with me under Judge Stanfield).
I continued following this routine until February 1849, when I lacked a few months of being twenty years old. But this confinement to the desk and my books had seriously impaired my health, so I sought my employer’s consent to come to California, at the time of the gold discovery excitement. In view of my ill health he reluctantly consented and on the 20th day of February, 1849, I walked out of the Clerk's office, where the temperature was usually kept at 75 degrees, into the snow four inches deep, to begin the journey which would consume many months, and during which time we must camp out every night.
I took up an ox-whip to drive an ox-team across the plains. This necessitated my walking the entire distance, as it was against the rules for any but invalids to ride.
We arrived at Hangtown, near Placerville, Calif. On Sept. 5, 1849.
Marriage Notes for Tipton Lindsey and Elizabeth FINE-90072
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