July 30, , a secretary at Spiegel's catalog store. Some of Obama's paternal family still reside in the Georgetown area. Melvinia's first son, Dolphus T. Shields, was biracial and born into slavery about Based on DNA and other evidence, in researchers said his father was likely year-old Charles Marion Shields, son of Melvinia's master. They may have had a continuing relationship, as she had two more mixed-race children and lived near Shields after emancipation, taking his surname.