Ancestry of
Michelle (Robinson) Obama

First Lady of President Barack Obama

Moses Shields

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• • 5th Great-grandfather of Michelle (Robinson) Obama — 8th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 192 
  • Father:
  • Andrew Shields 
  • Mother:
  • Polly Ann Bishop   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1770 
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  • Death Date:
  • ABT 1842 
  • Death Location:
  • Spartanburg, Spartanburg Co., South Carolina 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Celia Arnett
  • Marriage Date:
  • BEF 1795 
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  • Children:
  
  

  Sarah Shields

  Martha V. "Pattie" Shields

  Henry Wells Shields (Ahnentafel No:96 )

  Emily Brooks Shields

  • Notes: 
  • Moses Shields appeared in the 1820 Federal Census with his children but no wife. It appears his first wife Celia Arnett must have died prior to 1820, and he married his second wife Jane Wyatt after 1820 but before their son Marion was born in 1822.

• Additional marriages for Moses Shields

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  • Spouse:
  • Jane Wyatt
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1821

• Sources for Moses Shields

  • ¹ Federal Census, SC, Spartanburg County, 1810, Image 12 of 46.
  • ² Federal Census, SC, Spartanburg County, 1820, Image 11 of 52.
  • ³ Federal Census, SC, Spartanburg County, 1830, Image 217 of 218.
  • ⁴ Federal Census, SC, Spartanburg County, 1840, Image 117 of 206.
  • ⁵ Storey, William M., The Family Storey, Mississippi City, Mississippi: W.M. Storey (1900), 32, 41.
  • ⁶ Swarns, Rachel L., American Tapestry: The Story of the Black, White, and Multiracial Ancestors of Michelle Obama, New York: HarperCollins Publishers (2012), 222-223.