Children of EMMA HOVIOUS and ROBERT SHIELDS are:

1. EDNA JANE SHIELDS, b. January 07, 1891, May, Texas; d. March 15, 1973, Arizona.
2. MARY EDITH SHIELDS, b. September 26, 1892, Texas; d. May 09, 1978, Spur, Texas.
3. THOMAS WESLEY SHIELDS, b. July 14, 1895, Texas; d. June 26, 1909, Texas. Died of an accidental self-inflicted gunshot wound in Corpus Christi, TX
4. GEORGE WALKER SHIELDS, b. August 31, 1897, Texas; d. May 26, 1899, Texas. Buried, Dickens, TX
5. MAUDE SHIELDS, b. June 02, 1900, Texas; d. June 02, 1900, Texas. Died at birth - Buried Dickens, TX.
6. VERNOR HOVIOUS SHIELDS, b. June 19, 1901, Dickens, Texas; d. June 13, 1984, Tacoma, WA.
7. HELEN GOULD SHIELDS, b. July 25, 1903, Dickens, Texas; d. September 11, 1965, Dickens, Texas; m. (1) FRED ROSS HARRISON, December 25, 1923, Dickens, Texas; m. (2) HORACE DIXON NICKELS, November 07, 1944, Mineral Wells, Texas
8. ADELE SHIELDS, b. March 19, 1906, Dickens, Texas; m. ARCHIE IRVIN DOTY, June 12, 1925, Tacoma, Washington
9. NELDA GAY SHIELDS, b. February 1913, Dickens, Texas.
10. KATHRYN ELIZABETH SHIELDS, b. January 1916, Dickens, TX.

More About Robert SHIELDS and Emma HOVIOUS: 1896, Robert Daniel Shields moved from May, TX to Dickens, TX. Opened a general Store. 1908, Moved to Corpus Christi, TX. 1911, Moved back to Dickens , TX. 1913, First State Bank of Spur, on Board of Directors. 1923, Moved to Tacoma, Washington. 1928, Moved back to Crosby County, TX. Opened new store. January 04, 1931, Robert Daniel SHIELDS was buried in Mt. View Cemetery, Tacoma, Washington. On February 28, 1943, Emma was buried in Dickens, Texas.

More about Emma Hovious Shields; reminiscences of Adele (Steadham) Guthrie, from an E-Mail dated Jan 5, 1995: "...lived with grandmother Shields for at least a couple of years before we moved to Tacoma, in the building that had been both home and General Store before my Grandfather died. Grandmother Shields died about a year after we moved to Tacoma, WA. She stayed in Texas when we moved as she had several daughters still in that area. She died of a blood clot in her leg which was the end result of an accident she had as a young woman. A wagon ran over her leg and crushed it so she always walked with a cane when I knew her. I recall, too, that she had a little dachshund named Sausage who used to sleep on her feet, which she liked because it kept them warm."

This information graciously provided by Leslie Shamus. Photo courtesy of Kathryn (Shields) Steadham.