History of Fulton County, Illinois; together with
Sketches of its Cities, Villages and Townships, Educational, Religious,
Civil, Military, and Political History; Portraits of Prominent Persons
and Biographies of Representative Citizens. Chas. C. Chapman & Co.,
Peoria, Illinois, 1879, page 962, Woodland Township
Jesse V. Shields, farmer, P. O., Astoria; is a native of
Harrison Co., Ind., where he was born in 1814; during the autumn of
1828 he accompanied his mother and two brothers to Ill., locating in
Schuyler Co.; in 1829 they settled in Woodland tp., where Jesse is now
the only survivior of this once numerous family; Feb. 11, '36, Mr. S.
was united in marriage with Miss Rebecca Miner, of Indiana, by whom he
had 13 children, 8 of whom are living; their names are: Mary Ann,
Nathan, Emisia, Wm., Eliza, Susan, Ettie and Lucy. Mr. S. owns
160 acres of land in this township.
