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_shiles_c_1880.jpg "Anna Stuart Shiles (1848-1935) (1960 KB)
Taken c1890s. From Florence (Elliott) Wiltbank Smith collection (via Michael G. Hitch)
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Mahala Anna Stuart
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Mahala Anna Stuart 1
- Born: 11 Jan 1848, Sussex Co., DE 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
- Marriage (1): Jesse Shiles Sr. on 21 Nov 1866 in Laurel, Sussex Co., DE
- Died: 19 Dec 1935, New Castle Co., DE 8 9
- Buried: 23 Dec 1935, Riverview Cemetery, Wilmington, New Castle Co., DE
Had very blue eyes (conversation with Florence Elliott Wiltbank Smith). On Apr 20 1891, Mahala A. Shiles filed to collect pension for Jesse Shiles' service in the Civil War. When her son, John H. Shiles died, his obit in 1896 states she is living at 706 Brown Street in Wilmington. She was also living there in 1893 when her daughter Mary died.
Obituary can be seen in the Wilmington Morning News, 12/21/1935, page 2, column 1.
This compiler's maternal grandmother (born 1918) told me a few stories of her to include in the anecdotal records of my family. Two things she remembered are that she was very small statured and had VERY piercing blue eyes. Another thing she remembered and, at the risk of her rolling over in her grave, is that she was supposedly noted for going into a room of family, passing the most god-awful smelling wind, and leaving the room with a smirk on her face (LOLOL). I am sure I would have gotten along with my great-great-great grandmother very well!
Jesse and Annie had eight children in total and only 5 made it past young adulthood and one was my 2x great grandfather Harry Thomas Shiles (1869-1953), their first child and son. Annie collected pension for Jesse's Civil War service for 50 years from 1885-1935.
Mahala married Jesse Shiles Sr., son of James Shiles and Mary (Polly) Marvel, on 21 Nov 1866 in Laurel, Sussex Co., DE. (Jesse Shiles Sr. was born on 19 Aug 1846 in Sussex Co., DE,10 11 died on 17 May 1885 in Wilmington, New Castle Co., DE 1 12 and was buried about 20 May 1885 in Riverview Cemetery, Wilmington, New Castle Co., DE.)
Their marriage announcement is in the Dec 12 1866 "Smyrna Times" (page 2) as married in Laurel on the 21st instant. Mr. Jesse Shiles to Miss Mahala Stuart by Rev. C. Fries.
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Sources
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DE Death Records.
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1850 DE Census, Listed as age 3 in the 1850, 11th subdivision, Sussex Co., DE Census.
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1860 DE Census, Listed as age 12 in the 1860, Broad Creek Hundred, Sussex Co., DE Census.
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1870 DE Census, Listed as Anna Shiles, age 23, in Wilmington #26, New Castle Co., DE.
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1900 DE Census, Listed as Mahala Shiles, born Jan 1848, in Wilmington, New Castle Co., DE.
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1920 DE Census, Listed as Annie Shiles, age 71, in Wilmington Ward 9, New Castle Co., DE. In household of her daughter Sallie Banks' family.
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1910 DE Census, Listed as Annie Shiles, age 62, in Wilmington Ward 11, New Castle Co., DE. She had had 9 children by 1910 and only 4 had survived by then.
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DE Death Certificate.
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Gravestone Record.
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1870 DE Census, Listed as Jesse Shiles, age 24, in Wilmington #26, New Castle Co., DE.
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1860 DE Census, Listed as Jessee Shiles, age 13, in Broad Creek Hundred, Sussex Co., DE, born in DE.
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Wilmington (DE) Death Registers, Died of Consumption.
