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Born enslaved around 1844, Melvinia Shields lived her later free decades in Kingston. Through her son Dolphus, she became the great-great-great-grandmother of First Lady Michelle Obama, a five-generation arc from bondage to the White House.
Melvinia Shields is a historical marker in Kingston, Bartow County. It is one of 139 historical markers documented in Bartow County, among 265 historic sites cataloged across the county on Georgia Roam.
The site sits at 34.2305, -84.9471 near Kingston. The nearest cataloged historic site is Confederate Cemetery (cemetery), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Unknown Confederate Dead, House - Site Thomas V. B. Hargis, and Original Hospital Site of Wayside Home.
This record is drawn from Georgia historical-marker records. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
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