New Shields Family Photos

While going through online trees recently, I found the two photos featured in this post—one of the Samuel Cas Shields family and one of my grandmother, Daisy Lee Shields. Both photos were posted on another Shields family researcher’s online family tree. That researcher, Oliver Cagle, and I are 2nd cousins once removed, and we are both descendants of Cas and his wife, Martha Ann Ogle. Oliver’s grandmother was Cas and Martha’s daughter, Melona Jane Shields, and a sibling of my great-grandfather, James Stewart Shields. Years ago, Oliver, my sister, and I exchanged Shields family information and photos, but he did not have these particular photos back then. After discovering the photos, I reached out to Oliver to inform him of my intention to use them on my blog and asked where he found them. He replied that they came from either his grandmother or her daughter Betty, both of whom have since passed away. 

The family photo features (from left to right) Melona Jane Shields, Maude Maree Shields, and Pearl Lewcrilly Shields in the front row. Jane, also known as Janie or Dicie, later married, moved to California, had four children, and lived to the age of 95. Maude married young and sadly died at age 16, likely due to childbirth complications. Pearl’s life was particularly tragic. She married a man who struggled with alcoholism and was unable to support their family of five children (four sons and one daughter). Pearl contracted tuberculosis and died at the age of 31. After her death, her husband abandoned the children, who ranged in age from 2 to 11. They spent some time with their grandparents, Cas and Martha, but due to financial constraints, the four youngest children were eventually placed at Georgia Baptist Children’s Home. The sons were placed in one home and the daughter in another, through their church, where they stayed until they turned 18. The oldest son, being old enough to work, lived with an uncle (Elmer Shields) for a short time and then with an aunt (Addice Shields). Despite their tragic beginnings, all five children grew up to lead good, productive lives.

In the back row are (from left to right) Walter C. Brown Shields, Sallie Addice Shields, Albert Conley Shields, James Stewart Shields, and Martha and Cas Shields. Walter, a farmer in Whitfield County, Georgia, married and had eight children before he passed away at age 57. Addice, the mother of six children, was married three times. She lived to age 87 after taking care of her mother and brother Blaine Arthur Shields following Cas’ passing. Conley, who lived to age 72, married and had one daughter and worked in construction. Stewart, my Pappy, married and had 12 children. He passed away at age 70 after working as a farmer for many years in Whitfield County, Georgia, and then at a cardboard manufacturer in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Martha and Cas Shields, farmers in Sevier County, Tennessee, before moving to Whitfield County, Georgia, raised 10 children before their deaths at age 91 and 85, respectively.

Oliver estimates that his grandmother was about 13 years old at the time the family photo was taken, which would place it around 1920.

Samuel Cas Shields family (ca. 1920). Photo from Oliver Cagle.

The second photo features my granny, Daisy Lee Shields, the eldest child of James Stewart Shields and Hattie Jane Rhinehart. I believe Daisy was in her late teens or early 20s when this photo was taken on the back porch of Cas and Martha’s home in Tunnel Hill, Georgia. Daisy was married six times and had one daughter. She worked as a beautician and lived to the age of 77. If you would like to learn more about Daisy’s life, click here.

Daisy Lee Shields (ca. 1930). Photo from Oliver Cagle.

Although I titled this post “New Shields Family Photos,” these photos are not new in the traditional sense—but they are new to me. It was thrilling to discover these photos, as I had never seen either of them before. I do have one photo of Cas and Martha Shields, taken around 1910, with all but two of their children—my great-grandfather Stewart, who had already married and left home, and Maude, who had not been born yet. I am thankful Oliver took the time to post these photos. 

28 slaves recorded in Holcomb G. Moore’s estate inventory

This post is part of an ongoing project to record names of enslaved people of Greene County, Georgia I find in historical records. 

Inventory and Appraisement of the Estate of Holcomb G. Moore, late of Greene Co., Ga., dec’d.

37 hogs $200.00, 20 pigs $40.00, 16 head cattle $200.00 - $440.00
1 bay horse 75.00, 1 bay mule 150.00, 1 sorrel mule 150.00 – 375.00
1 black mule 125.00, 1 bay mule 140.00, 1 bay mule 150.00 – 415.00
300 bushels corn 375.00, 6 stacks fodder 24.00, 5 bushels wheat 8.75 – 407.75
1 lot plow stocks and gear 20.00, 1 lot hoes, spades, wedges and axes 5.00 – 25.00
1 buggy and harness 50.00 – 50.00
1 negro man Tom $1000.00, 1 negro man Lewis $500.00 - $1500.00
1 negro man Haynes 400.00, 1 negro man Henry 800.00 – 1200.00
1 negro man Henry 700.00 – 700.00
1 negro woman Carmilla and 3 children (Green, Charles and Evalina) – 1400.00
1 negro boy Jack 500.00, 1 negro man Edmond 100.00 – 600.00
1 negro boy Daniel 400.00, 1 negro woman Harriet and child Ann 900.00 – 1300.00
1 negro woman Clara and 2 children (Charles and Horace) – 1100.00
1 negro girl Mary 700.00, 1 negro girl Sophia 500.00 – 1200.00
1 negro boy Henry 400.00, 1 girl Lou 200.00 – 600.00
1 negro woman Sarah and 2 children (Butler and Nancy) – 1000.00
1 negro girl Parilee 350.00, 1 girl Emma 600.00 – 950.00
1 negro girl Dora 300.00, 1 boy Jackson 300.00 – 600.00
1 saddle 1.00, 3 sacks salt 48.00, 5 jars lard 50.00 – 99.00
27 bu. peas 27.00, 1600 lbs. bacon 400.00 – 427.00
1 lot plow hoes 16.00, 3 smoothing irons 1.50 – 17.50
1 wagon and britching 125.00, 1 cotton gin 60.00 – 185.00
1 pr. steelyards 2.00, 2 plow stocks and plow hoes 5.00 – 7.00
1 wagon 10.00, 1 pr. Andirons shovel and tongs 2.00 – 12.00
4 flower vases 2.00, 3 window curtains and shades 10.00 – 12.00
1 lot books 20.00, 1 table and cover 5.00 – 25.00
1 tea stand 2.00, 1 lot parlor chairs 15.00 – 17.00
1 lot cottage chairs 6.00, 1 rocking chair 6.00 – 12.00
1 sofa 20.00, 1 parlor carpet 15.00 – 35.00
1 gold watch and chain 140.00, 1 bedstead and furniture 40.00 – 180.00
1 washstand and furniture 2.50, 5 plain chairs5.00 – 7.50
1 carpet 10.00, 1 bureau 25.00, 1 pr. Andirons. 50 – 35.50
1 safe 8.00, 4 candle sticks and 1 small bell 2.00 – 10.00
1 egg stand 10.00, 1 castor 30.00 – 40.00
1 lot tin ware 6.00, 1 lot table ware 80.00 – 86.00
2 buckets and dippers 2.00, 1 pine table 2.00 – 4.00
1 dining table 20.00, 1 lot table linen 10.00 – 30.00
1 bedstead and furniture 40.00, 1 table and cover and glass 4.00 – 44.00
1 washstand 2.00, 1 bedstead and furniture 25.00 – 27.00

Carried Forward 15,175.25

1 dressing table and glass $2.00, 1 washstand 2.00 – 4.00
1 lot bed clothing 80.00, 1 small bedstead and furniture 6.00 – 86.00
1 bedstead and furniture 12.00, 1 shot gun 5.00 – 17.00
2 small tubs .75, 1 spinning wheel 2.00 – 2.75
1 lot kitchen furniture 25.00, 1 wash tub and churn 1.50 – 26.50
15 bales cotton badly injured by high water –

$15,311.50

We do certify upon oath, having first qualified each other as the law directs, that so far as was produced to us by Green Moore, Administrator of Holcomb G. Moore, dec’d, the above and foregoing contains a true inventory and appraisement of the goods and chattels of said Holcomb G. Moore dec’d to the best of our judgement and understanding.

Given under our hands and official signatures this 24th day of March 1862.
Jas. B. Park
James N. Armor, Appraisers
William Armor
J. J. Zachry

Inventory of the Rights and Credits of Holcomb G. Moore
1 tract of land in Greene County containing about 420 acres
13 23/100 8/9 shares in the Eatonton Mfg. Co. worthless

The above and foregoing contains a true statement of all the property of Holcomb G. Moore, dec’d required by law to be inventoried, embracing all his estate of which as his Administrator I have been possessed or could control or that has come to my knowledge.

March 24th 1862
Green Moore, Adm. of Holcomb G. Moore
Filed in Office March 28th 1862.
May 5th 1862. Examined and ordered to be recorded.

Recorded May 7th 1862.
Eugenius L. King, Ordinary

Reference

Holcomb G. Moore Inventory and Appraisement, Appraisements: Greene County, Georgia, Appraisal Records 1852–1865, images 170–171, FamilySearch (access requires free registration); https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QSQ-G93L-DHQ8?view=explore&groupId=M9KL-K4G.