Jobe
Solomon
Shields
Born in Georgia
Ancestors 
Brother of
Dorcus (Shields) Alexander, Andrew M. Shields, Joseph Anderson Shields, Francis Henry Shields and John R. Shields
Husband of
Nancy Catherine (Lovorn) Shields
— married
27 Nov 1856 [location unknown]
Descendants 
Father of
Isaiah James Shields, William Francis Marion Shields, John Richard Shields, Joseph Taylor Shields, George Washington Shields, George Washington Shields, Andrew Milton Shields, Thomas Jefferson Shields, Henry Alexander Shields and Edith Matilda (Shields) Melby
Died
at age 75
in Mississippi
Profile last modified
| Created 14 Nov 2013
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Biography
Jobe Solomon Shields was born January 15, 1833 in Georgia, a son of Frank Shields and Martha Elizabeth Adams. On November 27, 1856, he married Nancy Catherine Lovorn (1842-1910), daughter of William Edmund Lovorn and Matilda Milton Lowe, in Center, Attala County, Mississippi. They had ten known children, and first settled near Dossville Mississippi and later lived a half mile from Center on a farm situated partly on the Leake and Attala county line. Jobe enlisted in the C.S.A. on May 3, 1862, Co. K, 40th Ms. Regt., commanded by Capt Steve Jamison. He was discharged April 26, 1865. [1] Jobe died November 6, 1908 and was buried at Magnolia Cemetery, Meridian, Lauderdale County, Mississippi.
Children of Jobe and Nancy Shields:
Isaiah James Shields 1858–1914
William Francis Marion Shields 1861–1900
John Richard Shields 1863–1942
Joseph Taylor Shields 1866–1933
George Washington Shields 1869–1869 d/y
George Washington Shields 1870–1945
Andrew Milton Shields 1873–1951
Thomas Jefferson Shields 1876–1923
Henry Alexander Shields 1880–1945
Edith Matilda Shields 1882-1923; m. 1901 James LeRoy McGee, M.D. (1880-1918); m. Edwin Melby (1889-1966)
Sources
- ↑ Entered by Stephanie Sanchez.
- "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M4LD-8XP : 12 April 2016), Andrew Shields in household of F Shields, Leake county, Leake, Mississippi, United States; citing family 280, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
- Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/39089954/jobe-solomon-shields: accessed 16 September 2023), memorial page for Jobe Solomon Shields (15 Jan 1833–6 Nov 1906), Find a Grave Memorial ID 39089954, citing Magnolia Cemetery, Meridian, Lauderdale County, Mississippi, USA; Maintained by William Price (contributor 47121479).
Acknowledgments
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Jobe by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Jobe:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Jobe by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Jobe:
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~0.78%
James Vincent Bartlett
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23andMe, GEDmatch M202105 [compare]
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AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A700289 [compare], Ancestry member jimbartlett1
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Family Tree DNA Family Finder, GEDmatch T252878 [compare], FTDNA kit #5960
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~0.78%
Cleve Willis :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch CK6009117 [compare], Ancestry member willis362529
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