Lake County CO Archives Obituaries.....Shields, Nathan B. April 23, 1918
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Carbonate Chronicle - April 29, 1918
Carbonate Chronicle (Leadville, Lake County) - Monday, April 29, 1918

Nathan B. Shields.

With his three-week-old baby, Marion Nathalie (who died on the same day, 
Tuesday last, resting on his arm, the late Nathan B. Shields, young mining man 
who had been a leaser here recently at the Yak tunnel, was buried yesterday 
afternoon in Evergreen cemetery. The double funeral was held at the Shields 
home at 212 West Sixth street at 9 o'clock with the Rev. David McMartin of the 
First Presbyterian church officiating.

The casket holding the remains of the young father and baby daughter was banked 
deeply by the flowers which expressed the regret of many friends over the sad 
deaths and their sympathy for Mrs. Shields, who is widely known here, being a 
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E.B. Harlan, who are prominent residents of Leadville. 
These tokens were so numerous that at the close of the house services and extra 
vehicle was required to convey them to the cemetery.

Beautiful singing marked the funeral rites. Mrs. S. B. Crosby and Fred Volkert 
sang an opening duet, "One Sweetly Solemn Thought" and Mrs. Crosby and Mrs. 
Theo. Austin Brooks sang "Abide With Me." "Face to Face" was the one solo of 
the services sung by Mrs. Brooks. Mrs. Paul P. Peyer played the accompaniments 
for each of the hymns.

A long procession of carriages in which rode relatives and friends formed in 
Sixth street after the services and drove to the cemetery where Mr. Shields and 
the baby were buried in the Harlan plot.

The pall bearers were Ed Plummer, William Wurts, William Corbett, Sidney 
Meredith, Q. D. Bonner, and John Bailey.

The death Tuesday of pneumonia of Mr. Shields and the baby girl, only a few 
hours apart; was one of the saddest occurrences the family and their many 
friends had experienced, word of it has been withheld from Mrs. Shields sister, 
Mrs. Frank E. Kendrick Jr., the wife of the clerk in the county treasurer's 
office to whom a son was born the same day, on account of possible serious 
effects it might have.

Mrs. J. T. Taylor of Sumpter, Ore., a sister of Mrs. Shields arrived here 
Friday morning to attend the services with Mr. and Mrs. Harlan, Mrs. Shields, 
the sisters here, Mrs. Wayne Pott, and Miss Marion Harlan, and Mrs. Harlan's 
sister and brother-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. M. J. Blue of Twin Lakes. Illness 
prevented Mr. Shields' parents, who live in Seattle, from coming to Leadville.

Additional Comments:
First husband and infant daughter of Harriet Blue Harlan Shields Mahon b. 1895 
d. 1987

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