✅ True. This monument commemorates former slave Melvinia Shields, an ancestor of former U.S. first lady Michelle Obama.
, in a gathering that brought together a white descendant of Shields’ former owner and locals, the town inaugurated a similar slab that said, “This memorial marks the grave of Melvinia ‘Mattie’ Shields McGruder.” The monument is also mentioned on the city of Kingston’sThe Kingston memorial, which records a different age for when Shields arrived at the farm in Rex,She was born a slave in South Carolina in 1844. At age 8 she was brought to the Shields farm near what is now Rex.
The family entered the working class through Dolphus who was a carpenter and could read and write unlike his mother. Dolphus’ grandson was a painter named Purnell Shields who lived in Chicago, and like other Black people who moved north during the Great Migration took advantage of growing opportunities there. Purnell Shields was Michelle Obama’s grandfather.
Melvinia worked as a midwife and resided in Kingston for decades. William Hill, a local senior citizen in Kingston, told the at the monument dedication in 2014 that she delivered him, “She delivered me, named me and called me her baby until the day she died,” Hill said. “She was real nice.”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KupecreikW4
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