Maria Love Shiels ^{2 3}

   FamilySearch ID: L622-PJH.

  Noted events in her life were:

1. Census in 1850 in Buffalo, Erie, NY. ⁴ The 1850 census recorded Charles Shiels, 41, living with wife Hanah, 39; Thomas, 19; Margaret, 14; Andrew, 12; John, 8; Maria, 9; Harriet, 3; and Hanah C., 0.

2. Residence: Moved from Buffalo N.Y. to St. Paul MN in 1872 in Saint Paul, Ramsey, MN.

3. Census in 1910 in Saint Paul, Ramsey, MN. ³ Samuel A. Beecher, no occupation, 68, was married for 30 years to wife Maria L., 66. It was her second marriage; his first. She had birthed 2 children, both were alive in 1910, but neither living with them. He was born in Missouri, and his parents in Maryland. She was born in New York, and her parents in Scotland. They were living on Kent St.

Maria married Horatio Nelson Farnham on 21 Oct 1863 in Buffalo, Erie, NY. (Horatio Nelson Farnham was born on 12 Mar 1840 in Silver Creek, Chautauqua, NY and died on 30 Aug 1877 in Minneapolis, Hennepin, MN.)

Maria next married Samuel Adrian Beecher, son of Samuel Beecher and Margaret Jane Smith, on 21 Apr 1879 in Saint Paul, Ramsey, MN.¹ (Samuel Adrian Beecher was born in 1843 in Washington, Franklin, MO,^{2 6 7} died on 18 Sep 1915 in Saint Paul, Ramsey, MN ⁷ and was buried on 20 Sep 1915 in Saint Paul: Oakland Cemetery, Ramsey, MN ⁷.)