Born [location unknown]
Ancestors 
Daughter of Peter Shields
and Rachel (Donahoe) Shields
Sister of
Nancy Shields, Ellanor (Shields) High, Sarah Shields, Elizabeth (Shields) Singleton, Julia Ann Shields, William Shields, Salathiel Shields and Margaret Shields
Wife of
Martin Dell McCarty
— married
[date unknown] in Jackson, West Virginia
Wife of
Unknown Byrne
— married
[date unknown] [location unknown]
Wife of
Washington Pierce
— married
19 Feb 1844 in Braxton County, Virginia
Descendants 
Died
at age 79
[location unknown]
Profile last modified
| Created 22 Feb 2010
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SOURCES
History of Braxton County & Central West Virginia, Page 156 by John Davison Sutton Sutton, WV January 1919
Mt. Hebron Cemetery Records, Mt. Alto, WV
"West Virginia Marriages, 1780-1970," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FR15-XZL : 11 February 2018), Washington Pearce and Matilda Shields, 1844; citing Braxton, West Virginia, United States, , county clerks, West Virginia; FHL microfilm 573,806.
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Matilda by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Matilda:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Matilda by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Matilda:
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~3.91%
Rodney Conrad
:
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member Rodney_Conrad
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~3.12%
~6.25%
Dee Christophel D'Errico :
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member dderrico3333
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~1.56%
John Turley :
AncestryDNA
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~0.78%
~0.78%
Valerie (Thurber) Flores :
23andMe
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~0.39%
~0.78%
Barron Weand :
23andMe
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