Shields Family History to 1917

Hardly had the vanguard of civilization crossed the mountains when the Indian massacres began. Between 1780 and1795 every other male settler had fallen by the tomahawk or the Indian rifle. They went down amid the solitude and silence of the wilderness, where few would mourn their fall, and perhaps not even a rude stone would tell their names to ... ................
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