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THOMAS J. SHAW, born 16 April 1836, and
Mary Jane Maddox Shaw born 19 May, 1837, came to
Wood County from their home state of Alabama circa
1880 and settled on a farm in the Concord Community.
They were the parents of eleven children:
Doctor William A., born 1859, did not marry
Betty, born 1859, married Jack Vaughn
Talithia Jane, born 1861
Isabelle, married William A. Bankston
Malinda, married Allen T. Carlile
Julia, married Burl J. Mansell
Jemima, married L. A. Whitehurst
Thomas Jefferson, born 1869, married Ollie
Wheeler
Andrew Jackson, born 1869, married Annie N.
Vickery
Joseph L. (Joe), married Carrie Reese
Lou Ellen, married W. A. (Arthur) Warrick
VIRGIL BRYAN SHAW was born on a farm four
miles southeast of Quitman in 1897. He taught school
in the county for a number of years and served as
Deputy Tax Assessor under W. P. Lawrence. He
resumed teaching until he was elected district clerk in
1926, serving two terms. He was manager of the Wood
County Electric Co-op for many years before his retire-
ment.
V. B. Shaw has been acitve in civic and church af-
fairs since young manhood. He is a Mason and a
member of The First Baptist Church of Quitman, and
is presently serving as chairman of the Wood County
Historical Society (1975).
Thomas J. and Mary Jane Maddox Shaw and
many of their descendants were buried in the Concord
Cemetery.
JOSEPH C. SHIELDS, born 11 September 1849
in Floyd County, Georgia, walked the entire distance to
Wood County in 1870, settling in the Pine Mills area.
"Uncle Joe" recalled that it took 42 days to make the
trip and that his party crossed the Mississippi River at
Helena, Arkansas.
In 1871, Joseph Shields married Sarah Tennie
Reed, daughter of Dick Reed, a prominent sawmill
operator of Pine Mills. Tennie Reed, born in 1848, had
lived in Pine Mills since the age of 12. She was a native
of Texas.
"Uncle Joe" Shields farmed and worked at saw-mills and for a period of years was co-owner with
George Lindley of the Shields-Lindley sawmill on the
Pine Mills to Mount Pisgah road. A descendant says
that one of the largest pines grown in Wood County was
sawed at the Shields-Lindley mill.
Children of Joseph and Tennie Reed Shields were:
Richard, married Minnie Wheeler; Rose, married
Oscar Tunnell; Bertha, married Edgar Tharp, and
Charlie, who married Archella Laminack.
Joseph and Tennie Reed Shields were buried in
the Concord Cemetery. Five other children died in
early childhood and were buried at the Reed Family
Cemetery.
Source: Charm Reed Shamburger and Wood
County Democrat
THOMAS SHIPP, born 1771 in North Carolina,
came to Wood County in 1858 and settled 2 miles above
the bridge on Lake Fork creek on the present Quitman-
Mineola highway. He operated a water-powered grist
mill which is said to have been one of the first of its
kind in that section of the county. During the Civil
War, Shipp fought for the Confederacy. In the 1880's,
he was robbed and murdered.
JAMES VINCENT SIMMONS, born 12 March
1861 in Wood County, married Elizabeth Chaney of
Hunt County in 1893. He inherited the family home
from his parents, John and Nancy Simmons, and lived
there for a number of years. This property has been in
the Simmons family for more than a century. There
were 10 children in the John and Nancy Simmons
family:
Carrie G., deceased
Minnie A., married F. W. McGuire
Robert H., married Josephine Surprise
John Howard, married Inez Wilson
June L., married Estelle Weakley
Myrtle, married (1) Reuben Hardman; (2)
Luther Yones
James V., married Catherine Coble
Mamie, deceased
Esther, deceased
Mattie Adele, married Elzy F. Prater
All the deceased members of the family were
buried in New Hope Cemetery.
Source: Parmer-Simmons families and InezWilson Simmons
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