Ancestry of
Moses Shields

(c1770–c1842)

Moses Shields

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• • 1st Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1 
  • 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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  • 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.

• Marriages for Moses Shields

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  • Spouse:
  • Celia Arnett
  • Marriage Date:
  • BEF 1795

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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.