Mecklenburg COUNTY, NC - OBITUARIES - Alexander Cowan Shields, 9 Sep 1899
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Here are transcriptions of 2 death notices printed
in the newspaper about Alexander Cowan Shields (b.
27 Dec 1826, d. 9 Sep 1899) of Mecklenburg Co.,
NC.  He is buried at Hopewell Presbyterian Church
Cemetery, Mecklenburg Co., NC.

Charlotte News; Sept. 10, 1899:

DEATH OF MR. A. C. SHIELDS

Well-Known Citizen of Mecklenburg Passes Away.

   Mr. A. C. Shields, whose illness has been noted
in the News, died at his home in Hopewell Saturday
night at 9:30 o'clock.  Mr. Shields had been in
declining health for more than two years.  His
trouble was a complication of diseases that
gradually wore him out.  He fought bravely but
being of an advanced age his constitution could
not bear up under the ravages of the disease.

   Mr. Shields has been a well known figure in
Mecklenburg for many years.  He was a native of
this county and was well thought of by all.  He
was 72 years old and was a member of the Hopewell
Church, also of the Masonic fraternity.  He leaves
six children, Messrs. Thomas, David Lemuel and
Hugh Shields, Miss Maggie Shields and Mrs. T. A.
McDonald.

   The funeral services were conducted from the
home of the deceased yesterday afternoon at 4:30
o'clock.  The interment was at Hopewell Church. 
Rev. Mr. Stimson conducted the service.

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Charlotte Observer; September 10, 1899:

Mr. A. C. Shields, of Long Creek, Passing Away.

Policeman Shields received tidings last night by
Messrs. Frank Blythe and Lonnie Wilson, of Long
Creek, that his father, Mr. Alexander Cowan
Shields, was in a dying condition and would hardly
last until morning.  Mr. Shields went back with
Messrs. Blythe and Wilson, but hardly hoped to see
his father alive.  Mr. Shields, Sr., is 75 years
of age.  He is one of the most prominent men in
the upper part of the county.  He has not been a
well man since the dreadful experience he had six
or seven years ago with the negro Monroe Johnson,
who burglarized his house and shot him and came
near killing his daughter.  The nervous shock to
an old man was great, and Mr. Shields has never
recovered from either the injury or the shock.  He
was in his usual health, however, up to yesterday,
when he suddenly fell ill, and began sinking
rapidly.

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Charlotte Observer; Sept. 12, 1899.  Copy of death
notice sent to me by Sandy Griffin.

DIED SATURDAY NIGHT,

Mr. A. C. Shields Passed Away Ere the Sabbath
Dawned.

   Mr. A. C. Shields, of Long Creek, passed away
Saturday night ere the messengers who came after
his son, Policeman Shields, reached the city.  The
clock was striking 9 as his spirit went forth from
the darkness of night to the dawn of a glorious
day.  Mr. Shields was one of the best men in the
county.  He was honest, upright, reliable and a
good man and citizen in every respect.  For fifty
years he was a member of Hopewell Church
(Presbyterian) and stood high in its councils.  As
mentioned Sunday morning, he had never recovered
from the shock of this experience with Monroe
Johnson, the burglar, his nervous system being
shattered by the illness resulting from the pistol
shot wound, which he received that night.  The
illness which ended in death came on Saturday
morning and he sank rapidly.  He leaves four sons
-- Messrs. T. L., D. H., R. H. and C. L. Shields;
and two daughters -- Mrs. Mary J. McDonald and
Miss Maggie Shields.  The funeral services were
conducted Sunday afternoon at the house by Rev.
Mr. Stimson, pastor of Hopewell Church.