Denny Leonard O'Shields Jr.

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Blogger: Charles O'SHIELDS - "Robert James Rice and his sister Faye Bloodworth on Robert Rice's bithday he was 80 years of age. What a great time that we had on that day. Mr. Robert Rice is my wifes daddy and i will never forget the time that Mr. Rice came to the house and he worked on our sink all day. And he never charged anything for what he done that day. Now if that don't show love for his family then i don't know what love is. We do love Mr. Robert Rice and we praise God for him.

VETERAN WIZARD OF PEN AT AGE 66 STILL PERFORMS STRANGE FEAT

A man who is able to write with both hands at the same time. And carry on a rapid line of conversation. Which probably has no bearing upon the matter which he is writing is no ordinary person. The individual is W.G.S. O'Shields Auditor for Spartanburg County. Mr. O'Shields is one of the most accomplished penman in the whole country. And besides having this fact to his credit. He is also quite an artist. It is interesting to note the ease and nonchalance with which he performs this almost superhuman feat. Taking the two pens firmly in both his right and left hands he carefully guides them over the paper' and talks in a soft quite voice. Which holds the listener in awe. And wonder at a man who can so easily entertain. And yet not for one moment pause to see what he is writing. The words flow gracefully from the pens with which he barely touches the paper. But when with a last flourish he places a few finishing touches the result is quite appalling. Mr. O'Shields has been Auditor for Spartanburg for nearly 40 straight years. Before assuming his present position he was Clerk to the Treasurer and also to the Probate Judge of the county. He first entered Poltics when only 26 years old and at the of 38 he was elected Auditor. The position he was destined to hold for so many years. Thus all told he has worked in the old Courthouse at Spartanburg for nearly 40 years exactly 28 of which he served as Auditor. Besides being an expert penman. Mr. O'Shields is also a noted huntsman. Since only a small country lad he has displayed a distinct fondness for the sport which has proved to be his favorite. When he contracted this mania for hunting. Dogs have been his pet hobby. In spite of his advancing years. His dogs as relics of his many events of the field. When speaking of his favorite sport and his pets. The old gentleman's eyes grow misty and his voice trembles' as he thinks back over years. When he could hoist his gun to his manly shoulders and stride out into the great open spaces to indulge in his favorite pastime. [Although] he said';i still keep my hunting dogs and never ceased loving them and still i like to hunt too i'm not able to do much of it because i'm not as strong as i once was i'm not a young man anymore; He added with a pleasant smile. Mr. O'Shields was born in the Walnut Grove Township in Spartanburg Co. 1863 where he spent his happy boyhood days. At the age of 24 he was married. And later moved into the city. Where he took up his political career. In two offices which proved to be stepping stones to his present position. Took up 12 years of his political life. Then in 1902 he was elected Auditor by a huge majority and sice that time very few men have found it advisable to enter the race as his opponent. The few instances in which some few have attempted to displace Mr. O'Shields without the glamour and spectacle of a heated campaign has always left his opponents lagging behind. Inspite of the years that have piled themselves upon his shoulders and the grief and pain that has bent his head--Mr. O'Shields still ably carries on his daily duties. Day after day and year after year he has gone about them with the same happy countenance which everyone has learned to admire. During the nearly four decades he has spent in the old courthouse' He has become an essential part of the daily routine. It would not be quite the same without his familiar old face and his snow white locks have become dear to the residents of Spartanburg. Everyone that knows this accomplished gentleman honors and respects him for his kind heart and noble life. This is what was wrote in the Journal and Carolina Spartan' Newspaper of Spartanburg S.C. in November 3rd. 1930. grand--pa i love you. Yes i think God for my grandaddy W.G.S. O'Shields

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W.G.S. O'Shields and Annie Hyatt.

This is my grandaddy and my grandmother O'Shields which grandaddy was born in Walnut Grove Spartanburg County South Carolina 1863--1938 75 years of age at his death.

julias O'Shields

charles e's Blog on Yahoo! JULIAS ISAAC O'SHIELDS He was living in Greenville S.C. on Perry road. He worked for the Greenville News for many years Mr. O'Shields was born 1908 and died 2005' at the age of 97. We thank God for his long life Julias was a kind person.

DENNY LEONARD O'SHIELDS Jr.

charles e's Blog on Yahoo! This is my oldest brother Denny Leonard O'Shields Jr. Denny L. O'Shields Jr. was married to Alberta Cooper. They were married in 1955. No children were born in their home. We thank God for D.L. and his wife Alberta. D.L. O'Shields Jr. fought in World War [2] for thr Country that he loved. Denny Leonard O'Shields Jr. loved the U.S. and was ready and willing to fight for what was right. Yes he did have a love in his heart for others. I'am very proud that D.L. was my older brother. D.L. O'Shields Jr. was the first child born in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Denny Leonard O'Shields Sr. Born April 29 th. 1920 and he died in 1981 at the age of 61. He is buried at Mt. Creek Baptist Church Cemetery in Greenville S.C.

CARRIE RIDDLE AND LILLIE BELLE RIDDLE

Carrie riddle with her daughter in this picture. Carrie Riddle was my mothers mother and my grandmother. Carrie Rampley Riddle was born in Laurens S.C. In 1864' and died 1958' she was 94' at her death. there is so much that can be told about grandmother Riddle. She was a christian and she loved reading the Bible and going to church. Yes she enjoyed reaching out to others. I remeber when grandmother was 90' years of age. She said charles if you will get me those apples i will bake an apple pie. But then she said don't say anything because they don't won't me to cook. I got the apples and grandmother cooked the best apple pie that i have ever eat. One day when grandmother was sitting on the front porch and my daddy was out there also. Carrie Riddle kelpt looking up at the sky my daddy said Mrs. Riddle why are you looking up at the sky. Mrs. Riddle said Denny i'am going home. My daddy said Mrs. Riddle you will be alright youe are not going anywhere. I really don't think that daddy understood what she meant. Grandmother was talking about going to Heaven. Mrs. Riddle walks that long hall for the last time she goes into her bed-room. Grandmother gets very sick the doctor was called to the house. This was 1958' back then the doctor would make house calls but anyway the doctor came he went into her room. The doctor did not stay long he came out of her room and shook his head. I never will forget that day as long as i live because the the doctor never got out of the house good till he had to come right back in grandmother was gone. She was 94 years of age grandmother i love you and i hope to see you in the sweet by and by.

LILLIE BELLE RIDDLE

This picture is a picture of my mother when she was young. She was born in Laurens County S.C. In the year 1900' March 5' and she died at the age of 71 1971.

She sure was a very pretty young girl oh how we praise God for this picture of her when she was young. i don't have a lot of pictures of my mother i don't know what happen to them but i'am thankful for what i do have. And i'am so happy as i think back over the years when i was but a small boy. As i think about the great times that we had as children and having a christian mother. Mother was a christian at an early age. I really thank God for a mother who prayed for all her children. Mother prayed for her husband she prayed that all her children and her husband would get saved. She prayed for all her grandchildren' and great grandchildren well she prayed for everyone. Mother i sure do miss you and i love you and i praise God for having a mother like you.

MY DADDY AND HIS HORSE

This is a picture of my daddy and his horse daddy loved horses as you can see in the picture. Yes my daddy loved to show off his horses. My daddy was born in Spartanburg S.C. And he was the youngest child of W.G.S. O'Shields. My daddy was born July 21' 1900' and he lived to be 86' years of age daddy died in June 1987. He was married to Lillie Belle Riddle. Which she was my mother of course. Mother and daddy had a good life which we do thank God. Now Lillie Belle Riddle was born March 5' 1900' and she died in Oct' 1971 she was 71' at her death. Mr. and Mrs. D.L. O'Shields Sr. are buried in Greenville' S.C. At Mt. Creek Baptist Church Cemetery. I hope to see my mother and my daddy some day in Heaven.

Denny Leonard O'Shields

Mr. and MRS D.L. O'Shields Sr. This is my daddy and my mother. Now my daddy was the youngest child of W.G.S. O'Shields and my mother was the youngest child of Calvin M. Riddle and Carrie Riddle. Mother and daddy had eight children. Which three were born dead two baby brothers and a baby sister. these baby graves are in Spartanburg County S.C. at Mt. Calvary Presbyterian Church Cemetery next to grandaddy and grandmothers grave. i hope to see them someday. I want to tell you about the family that i grew up in. As we walk on down the road of yester-year i can't help but think of all the good times that we had as a family. Yes as children we had great times together. over many rivers and as time moves on we have started leaving one by one. Mother died in 1971 mother was 71 at her death. Next was our oldest brother D.L. O'Shields Jr. He died in 1981 at the age of 61. Daddy died in the year 1987 in June daddy was 86 years of age at his death. Next to die in our family was our sister Mildred O'Shields Seaborn she died in 1988 she was 65 at her death. Now from a list of eight children only three are left. And mother and daddy both are gone. Yes looking at a family of ten seven gone. But i really thank God for just letting me be a part of this family. Mother and daddy on this picture at this time they had been married for 50 years and when mother died they had been married for 52' years. Yes i'am giving you history and i hope that this is a help to you.

NANCY O'SHIELDS

Let's start with Nancy O'Shields. In hopes that we can clear up some things that need to be cleared up. It seems that we hit a brick wall when we get to Wiley Drayton O'Shields. It seems that we do not know much about his mother or his daddy. I'am only doing this to try to help those that are doing research. A lot of the records got lost back then. So i said to myself' i'am going to write to Annie Myrtle Wilson a letter. You may wonder who is Annie Myrtle Wilson/ She is my first cousin. Anyway i wrote her and she wrote me back. Now Annie Wilson lived in the house of W.G.S. O'Shields along with her mother Aunt Myrtle. By being in this house she would hear a lot of things about the O'Shields. W.G.S. O'Shields was the youngest son of Wiley Drayton O'Shields If anyone should have known about his daddy then W.G.S. O'Shields should have known. He also knew about his grandmother and he sure knew who she was. Mr. O'Shields knew her name was Nancy O'Shields and he also wrote lot's of things down in the family Bible. But this was something that they just did not go around talking about. The O'Shields are very proud people. Annie has been knowing all her life about Nancy O'Shields the mother of Wiley Drayton O'Shields. So Annie Wilson told me all about this that she has kepl all these years. She told me Charles' i want to help you. Maybe i can shed some light on what happened. Yes Charles' Nancy O'Shields was the mother of Wiley Drayton O'Shields. Nancy worked for a Dr. John Smith. They were good friends. Dr. John Smith changed his name to Dr. John Winn-- Smith why/ We have record that Nancy O'Shields was born an O'Shields August 17' 1804. I will name all of her children as i have them. William Paschal O'Shields born 1824' Samuel Drayton O'Shields born 1825' Wiley Drayton O'Shields born 1832' Polly Ann O'Shields born 1833' Isaac Scott O'Shields born 1834 or 1835. I'am going to tell you this about Nancy O'Shields she was a nurse and she helped those that needed help. I will tell you this from W.G.S. O'Shields my grandaddy to Wiley Drayton O'Shields great grandaddy and great-great grandmother Nancy O'Shields they were all good people. I thank God that i'am part of the O'Shields family as i have done my research and have been told how that great --great grandmother was a christian i have to praise God. I really do thank God for everything He is so good to us all. All have sinned and come short of the Glory of God. Please lets look a little more about Nancy O'Shields she got her life together. Nancy loved to help anyone her first grandchild loved to go with his grandmother as she went about helping others. His name was J.M. Monroe O'Shields and he became a veterinarian. Annie Wilson told me that he would stay at W.G.S. O'Shields when he had to deliver a calf or colt. Nancy O'Shields rasied her family on the O'Shields Plantation 272 acres of land. Yes Nancy had a rough time with a plantation and small children. Please understand that yes Nancy O'Shields had slaves on this plantation. Which they done most of the work.

WILEY DRAYTON O'SHIELDS

Bigraphy of Wiley Drayton O'Shields This is about my great grandaddy Wiley Drayton O'Shields. And his last will and testament. South Carolina' Spartanburg County. This is the way that this reads. I' W.D. O'Shields of Spartanburg County a farmer do make this my last will. I give devise and bequeath my estate and property real and personal as follows that is to say. 1st. I give devise and bequeath to my beloved wife Julia O'Shields' the plantation where upon i now live containing two hundred and seventy two acres more or less. Together with all the farming tools. The North Carolina wagon and harness' the steam engine and cotton gin. And all it's necessary fixtures. Also two mules' Bill and Jerry and the black horse Charly' also the stock of cattle and hogs. And all other stock that is upon the above named premises necessary for the comfort of my wife Julia O'Shields. I appoint Julia O'Shields my wife and J.M. O'Shields my son excecutor of this my will. In witness where of i have signed and sealed and published and declared this instrument as my will at home upon the sixth day of September in the year of our Lord One Thousand Eight hundred and seventy eight. His W.D. [X] O'Shields [seal] mark that W.D. O'Shields at home on the sixth day of September signed and sealed this instrument and published and declared the same as and for his last will' and we at his request and in his presents and in the presents of each other have here unto written our names as subscribing witnesses. J.B. Wofford Seal' John O'Shields Seal' John Willard Seal' Reference--S.C. Archives' Spartanburg CO' Esate Papers' File number 3499. Now this is the last will of Wiley Drayton O'Shields who was born 1832 and he died in Oct' 31' 1882. Julia O'Shields was born September 8' 1827 and Julia O'Shields died Nov' 20' 1904' Both are buried at Philadelphia Baptist Church Cemetery in Pauline S.C. Spartanburg County S.C.

Wiley Drayton O'Shields

Wiley Drayton O'Shields Born 1832 and died 1882. He was born in walnut grove Spartanburg County S.C . He lived on the O'Shields Plantation 272 acres of land. He was only 50 years old at his death. Mr. O'Shields played in the O'Shields String Band. Wiley Drayton O'Shields was married to Julia Smith. He was the daddy of W.G.S. O'Shields. Mr. O'Shields was a farmer and he loved people. His mothers name was Nancy Ann O'Shields. His mother was born in Spartanburg County S.C. in the year 1804' August 17. Wiley Drayton O'Shields Was my great grandaddy. As you young researchers read this i sure hope that you get a clear picture of this O'Shields family. As in a lot of families if you do very much research then you will see things that you don't like. But as you keep going on down history road you will see so much more that you do like. So just stay with me as i bring out this history about this family with the truth which i'am sure that is what most of us want. Wiley Drayton O'Shields enlisted in the confederate army when he was 31 years of age. At the time' it was the year 1861' on December 29. He was discharged from service on April 5' 1862. Because of his medical discharge. Wiley Drayton O'Shields owned lot's of land. He was a man that would buy land and sell land that he owned on Blackstock road. Mr. O'Shields owned several hundred acres of land. The more that i have learned the more i enjoy doing what i'am doing. Wiley Drayton O'Shields was married to Julia Smith in 1851. She was the daughter of Enoch and Abigail Elder Smith. Yes this is history in the making. Let me name all the children that were born in their home. James Monroe O'Shields' son' born June 12' 1852; Franklin M. O'Shields' son' born September 7' 1853; Robert Belton O'Shields' son' born September 8' 1855; Enoch Thomas O'Shields' son' born January 6' 1858; Giddeon Henry O'Shields' son' born January 30th 1859 and died as an infant on April 7th 1859. Henry Westel O'Shields' son' born May 8th' 1860. And Wiley George Simpson O'Shields' son' born April 6th 1863. This is the list of the children of Wiley Drayton O'Shields and Julia Smith O'Shields. There's so much to tell about great grandaddy i know that i can't ever tell it all. But i want to put a lot of this down for my children and grandchildren and for the young researchers out there that are doing research on the O'Shields. This is why that i hope to do this with the help of God. And i hope that this will help you as i have researched this and i have been doing this for a long time.

W.G.S O'SHIELDS

W.G.S O'Shields was born 1863 and died 1938 at the age of 75. He played a fiddle in the O'Shields String Band. Mr. O'Shields was a kind and gentle person who loved being around people. Mr. O'Shields was married to Annie Hyatt she was born 1865 and she died 1928 at the age of 63 years of age. Mr. O'Shields was the youngest son of Wiley Drayton O'Shields and Julia Smith O'Shields. This was my grandaddy and my grandmother, Mr. O'Shields could write with both hands and talk all at the same time or this has been told to be the truth. He could draw anything that he wanted to draw. I never did get to really get to know them since they both died before i was born. But it seems as if i have known them all my life. I know this i'am looking for the day that i will see them both. We can talk about a family reunion and they are great but just wait till we get home what a day that will be. When we see our love ones that have gone on before. Grandaddy was County Auditor for many years in Spartanburg County Court House S.C. He lived on a large Plantantion 272 acres of land. Now that is a lots of land to farm. Rites planned today for W.G.S. O'Shields' County Auditor for many years. This is the way that this was written in the Spartanburg newspaper' 1938. Funeral Services for W.G.S. O'Shields' 75' Spartanburg County Auditor for many years' who died yesterday will be conducted 3;30 O'Clock this afternoon at Mt. Calvary Presbyterian Church by Rev. H.B. Hardy' Rev. C.B. Prince and the Rev. C.E. Vermillion. Nephews will serve as active pallbearers. A burial will be held in the church cemetery. County officials and employees as follows were to serve as honorary escorts; Harold Murph' W.R. Catheart' J.W. Davenport' D.E. Hydrick' E.W. Miller' Walter B. Aiken' Dewey D. Foster' John F. Darden' J.F. Brooks' J.H. Brannon' Stacy W. Burnett' S.S. Pettit' C.J. Harrison' R.H. Ashmore' and Leroy More. [Others in Escort] Also; J.W. Plyler' John M. Barry' J.L.M. Williams' Samuel R. Watt' J. Allen Lambright' Sam M. Henry' M.P. Hayes' B.B. Brockman' O.J. Brady' F.S. Moore' J.P. Bolton' O.B. Edge' E.J. Thornton' R.W. Byars' Joe L. Bailey' Clarence N. Hill' John P. Snow' W.M. McKinney' Wilkes T. Martin' C.E. Carrutth' B. Max Ross' George E. Goforth' Roy Lister' John Kirby. W.C. Alverson' R.R. Souther' T.T. Cooksey' and George Pruette. Mr. O'Shields died at 4;20 yesterday morning at the home of his daughter Mrs. C.M. Senn. at 164 Branch Street. Death ended a long illness' the last three monts of Mr. O'Shields life being spent in bed. A native and life long resident of the county' Mr. O'Shields was county auditor for thirty --two and one half years' and was employed in various capacities by the county for more than forty--five years. Before being elected to the office of auditor he served as Magistrate Clerk of the Probate Judge's office and as clerk in the treasure's office. He was the son of the late Wiley Drayton and Julia Smith O'Shields and was born reared in the Walnut Grove section. Before entering public office' he was engaged in farming for a number of years. Since being succeeded to the office of auditor four years ago by the present incumbent' Harold Murph' he had made his home with his daughter' Mrs. Senn. Surving are four children' Mrs. Senn' Manley W. O'Shields both of the city' Wallace M. O'Shields of Pauline' and D.L. O'Shields of Greenville; twenty--seven grandchildren; eight great grandchildren; and a brother; H.W. O'Shields of Pauline. this is the way that it was in the paper in 1938. I want to say that i have two baby brothers and a baby sister that are buried right next to grandaddy and grandmother's grave site there are no markers but i have been told by family members that they are buried there.