OBIT: Elisha A. SHIELDS, 1890, York, York County, PA Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by JRB Copyright 2009. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/york/ _________________________________________ Death of a Well-known Moravian Clergyman in York. Rev. Elisha A. Shields, aged nearly 43 years, died after a short illness, of heart disease, on Sunday, in York. He was pastor of the First Moravian church, and also a trustee of the York County Academy. He was born near Salem, Forsythe county, North Carolina, January 16, 1843. His ancestors were of Scotch-Irish Revolutionary stock. In the spring of 1864, when only seventeen years of age, the sweeping conscript act of the Confederate Congress forced him into the Confederate army. He was twice captured, the last time at Fort Hill, in front of Petersburg, in 1865. In 1884 he took charge of the First Moravian church, in York. He leaves a wife, the daughter of the late Rev. Theodore Wanderling, of Nazareth, Pa., and five children, three girls and two boys. On leaving the South Mr. Shields went to Nazareth Hall as a teacher, and from there entered the ministry. He is well known in this city, and visited Rev. J. Max Hark, D.D., only a few months ago. Last year he spent nine months in Europe, going as a tutor to a wealth young gentleman of York. The funeral services will be held in the church at York on Wednesday afternoon, and the remains will be taken to Bethlehem for interment. The Lancaster Daily Examiner, Monday, January 6, 1890