James P. Shields ¹

   Other names for James were James P. Shields and James Patrick Shields.

  General Notes:

Helen (Ribble) Bradley recalled that her grandfather was "born above Grand Rapids Ohio on 640 acre section of land bought from government by his father. He died when my father (or grandfather?) J. P. Shields was 8 years old.

John B Shields, half brother of James Michael
His mother was sister of General Stedman

  Noted events in his life were:

• Residence: Miami, Cass, Indiana, 1880. ⁸

James married Mary Ellen Walp, daughter of Alexander Walp and Margaret Finzel. (Mary Ellen Walp was born in 1854 in Whitehouse OH ⁷ and died on an unknown date.)