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Janet (Shields) Tipton: married Joshua Tipton, son of General John Tipton. Joshua was killed by a band of Cherokee Indians April 18, 1793. Janet and the children moved to Indiana in the fall of 1807 and settled in Harrison Co. on the Ohio River, at the fort commanded by her brother, James, located just north of the present site of Seymour, where she died in 1827. To her son, John Tipton, the state of Indiana owes more in its early history than to any other individual who ever lived within her borders...military leader (General in U.S. Army), statesman, U.S. Commissioner of Indian Affairs (which may not have benefited the Indians, as "he was a born Indian hater), and U.S. Senator, was on the committee that selected Indianapolis as the capitol. He married his cousin, Jennie, daughter of John, one of the ten brothers.
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Thomas Shields: The only one of the Shields brothers killed by Indians, he was shot from ambush by Indians while getting water in his sugar-tree orchard with which to boil his sugar. His two sons, one of them Joshua 8 and 10 years old, heard the report of guns, saw their father fall, and saw twelve Indians run up and scalp him. The boys rode away on the old blind horse which they unhitched from a sled used for hauling water. Not much is known about Thomas's wife but his sons were apparently taken in by Janet (Shields) Tipton, and went to Indiana with the other Shieldses. Joshua Shields later married his cousin, Rhoda Tipton, Janet's daughter.
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Richard Shields: Richard remained in Tennessee when his siblings left for Indiana. Many of his descendants settled in the Cades Cove area of the Smoky Mountains, some on land that is now part of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The old log cabin in Cades Cove,
owned by some of his descendants is one of five preserved and now open to the public. Another is the Oliver cabin, a family that intermarried with descendants of Robert of the Ten Brothers.
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David "Big Dave" Shields: Commonly called "Big Dave" was the largest and most powerful of the Ten Brothers. He is credited with having been the best man whoever rowed a flat-boat on
the Mississippi. He settled in Louisville, Kentucky, across the Ohio River from Indiana, where he engaged in the business of freighting goods by flat-boat down the Ohio River to the Mississippi River and on to New Orleans. "Big Dave" was Clara Carter's ancestor. She said the flat-boats weren't much more than log rafts with hand-operated rudders, and could only navigate downstream. They sold their goods in New Orleans, then sold the boat for its lumber. They walked back by way of the Natchez Trace. Oftentimes, the men were ambushed, killed and robbed, as they made this long trek homeward.
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John was probably the best known of the Ten Brothers. At age 35 years, he went on Lewis and Clark's Expedition to the west coast, and it is believed he was one of those spoken of as being selected for the trip as "one of the nine young men from Kentucky." He served as head blacksmith, gunsmith, boat builder, and general repairman. He also "doctored" when the men were ill, served as lookout and guide, knew how to deal with Indians along the way, and on several occasions helped keep the party in foodstuff for much of the winter. On their return, Capt. Lewis wrote this about him: "Shields had received the pay of only a private. Nothing was more particularly useful to us in various situations, in repairing guns, accoutrements, etc., and should it be thought proper to allow him something(extra) as an artificer, he well deserved it.
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