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PLAC Gardner, Cass County, North Dakota
ACCORDING TO A FAMILY STORY, DENWOOD DASHIELL CHANGED HIS NAME TO DESHIELL WHEN HE GREW UP. HIS FATHER, THADDEUS WILLIAM DASHIELLABANDONED THE FAMILY WHEN DENWOOD WAS 4 YEARS OLD AND DENWOOD DID NOTWANT TO BE ASSOCIATED WITH THE DASHIELL NAME. BELOW IS THE EUOLOGYON MY GRANDFATHER, DENWOOD: DENWOOD DE SHIELL, BETTER KNOWN AS DANDE SHIELL, FELL DEAD WHILE MOTORING TO CUMMINGS LAST FRIDAY MORNING.THAT MORNING WHEN HE LEFT TOWN HE WAS APPARENTLY AS WELL AS USUAL, ANDHE WAS ACCOMPANIED BY A.E. KNOWLES, THE PLUMBER. THEY WERE GOING TOCUMMINGS TO WORK ON THE COUNTRY PLACE OF W.A. FOSTER'S BUILDING. MR.DE SHIELL WAS THE ARCHITECT AND HAD CHARGE OF ALL THE CONSTRUCTIONWORK. ABOUT SIX MILES NORTH OF WILLITS, AS THEY WERE STARTING DOWNTHE GRADE, MR. DE SHIELL, WHO WAS DRIVING, FELL OVER THE WHEEL, AND ASHE DID SO HIS FOOT PRESSED HARD ON THE GAS PEDAL, WHICH STARTED THEAUTO WITH A JUMP. MR. KNOWLES WAS IN THE REAR SEAT AND JUMPED OVERAND STOPPED THE MACHINE JUST AS IT STARTED TO GO OVER THE GRADE. ACREW THAT WAS WORKING ON THE HIGHWAY WAS NEAR AND THEY BROUGHT THEBODY BACK TO WILLITS ON A TRUCK. AN EXAMINATION WAS MADE AND THEDOCTOR STATED THAT DEATH MUST HAVE BEEN INSTANTANEOUS. MR. DE SHIELLHAS HAD BAD SPELLS WITH HIS HEART FOR SEVERAL YEARS AND HAS NOT BEENWELL FOR SEVERAL YEARS. DAN DE SHIELL WAS BORN NEAR PETALUMA, MARCH22, 1857 AND WAS ALMOST 65 YEARS OF AGE. HE WAS WHAT IS KNOWN AS ASELF-MADE MAN AND HAD THE REPUTATION OF BEING THE BEST ARCHITECT ANDBUILDER NORTH OF SAN FRANCISCO. HE STARTED TO LEARN THE CARPENTERTRADE WHEN HE WAS A BOY AND AFTERWARDS WENT TO S.F. WHERE HE WORKED ATHIS TRADE AND ATTENDED A NIGHT SCHOOL AND TOOK A FULL COURSE INARCHITECTURE. HE AFTERWARDS WORKED AT HIS TRADE IN VARIOUS CITIES ANDTOWNS AND SOON BRANCHED OUT AS A CONTRACTOR. IT WAS WHILE WORKING ATHIS TRADE IN PASADENA THAT HE MET MISS FLORENCE HUDDLESTON AND THEYWERE MARRIED SHORTLY AFTERWARDS AND WERE LOVING COMPANIONS UP TO THEDAY OF HIS DEATH. NINE CHILDREN WERE BORN TO THIS UNION, 7 OF WHOMARE LIVING. THEY ARE LLOYD OF SAN FRANCISCO, MERL OF ALBION,CALIFORNIA, FORREST OF PORTLAND, OREGON, GAIL OF OAKLAND, CLARK DESHIELL, SAME ADDRESS, ADLIA AND MISS HAZEL OF WILLITS. THE FAMILYMOVED HERE 11 YEARS AGO, SINCE WHICH TIME MR. DE SHIELL HAD CHARGE OFALL THE CONSTRUCTION WORK FOR THE NORTHWESTERN REDWOOD COMPANY. HEWAS ALSO THE ARCHITECT AND BUILDER OF MOST OF OUR MODERN HOMES. MR.DE SHIELL WAS ALWAYS A PUBLIC-SPIRITED AND ENTERPRISING CITIZEN ANDGAVE FREELY OF HIS TIME AND MONEY TO HELP ANY WORTHY CAUSE. HIS DEATHIS A GREAT LOSS TO OUR COMMUNITY, AS WELL AS TO HIS FAMILY, ANDFORTUNATELY, ALL OF THE CHILDREN ARE GROWN. FUNERAL SERVICES WEREHELD AT WATSON'S UNDERTAKING PARLOR MONDAY AFTERNOON, BEING CONDUCTEDTHE REV. LLOYD SMITH. THERE WAS NOT ENOUGH ROOM FOR ALL HIS FRIENDSTO GAIN ADMITTANCE AND THE HIGH ESTEEM IN WHICH HE WAS HELD WAS PROVENBY THE GREAT ABUNDANCE OF FLORAL PIECES WHICH HAVE BEEN USED TODECORATE HIS GRAVE IN THE I.O.O.F. CEMETERY. JANUARY 20, 1922. DIEDJANUARY 13, 1922.
There was a memorial for him at Mt. Shasta
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TYPE Moved to
DATE 23 NOV 1839
PLAC Hamilton County, Indiana, Westfield MM.