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Question

Looking for the parents of: Louis Green Shields?

Louis Green Shields

Born: Jul 25 1872

Georgia

Died: Oct 25 1942

Yuba City, California

http://www2.tribalpages.com/tribe/browse?view=0&rand=813601008&pid=279&userid=zrae66

I have the following Documentation:

1910 United States Federal Census

1930 United States Federal Census

California Death Index, 1940-1997

His wife's name was:

Martha Jane Raby

Born: 24 Jun 1878

Bigflat, Marion, Arkansas, USA

Died: 22 Feb 1945

, , California, USA

There Children

James Albert Andrew Jackson Shields

1897–1937

Elick Arthur C Shields

1899–1975

Bertha E Shields

1901–1967

Earl Vester Shields

1905–1993

Ernest Edward Shields

1908–1994

Calvin Jewel Shields

1911–1974

Lara Alice Shields

1913–1998

Garland L Shields

1917–1940

Ruby May Shields

1920–1998

Answer 1

You should be on a genealogy site for a search like this.  I know they are costly, but you can also exchange email with others, which is how my niece found my ex-husband and my daughter can now have a relationship with him and with a sister she knew nothing about.

best of luck!

Answer 2

This is a long shot........but maybe his name was spelled wrong on the census.  I found this one that could be a possibility if the name was spelled wrong, but you did not include who any of his siblings may be, so I cannot rule this possibility out.  Here in 1880 there is a Lavaries G. Shields, age 9.  Right age.  When I looked at the original, Lavaries could have been some spelling of Louis or Lewis that ancestry transcribed wrong.

http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.d...

Answer 3

Still looking in 1880...

In 1920, they lived in Hardy Station, Grenada, Mississippi

transcribed as Green and Marthia Shilds

In 1900, they lived in Big Creek, Marion, Arkansas

transcribed as L G and Martha Skidds