The Arms of Daniel James Sheffner - The Armorial Register.

$\the Banner of Daniel James Sheffner$

Gules and Argent, which make up the field, are important colours used in the flags of two cities meaningful to the armiger and his family: St. Louis and Chicago. Gules also represents the bravery of the armiger’s family members and ancestors, many of whom face and have faced great adversity. The wavy bendlet can describe either of two rivers central to the armiger’s family—the Mississippi and the Chicago Rivers.

The three hexagons, meanwhile, represent the armiger and his two siblings; hexagons were used to commemorate the armiger’s paternal grandfather, an accomplished biochemist. The bear symbolizes the family’s strength, the armiger’s mother’s family—as her maiden name means “bear” in Italian—and the Eastern European lands from where his father’s paternal grandparents emigrated.

The armiger assumes these arms for himself, as well as for his parents and all of their direct descendants, no matter such descendants’ genders or surnames.