Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Shields, John E. November 8, 1889 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Dorothy Strawhand http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00034.html#0008405 July 17, 2024, 4:49 pm Norfolk Virginian Sunday November 10, 1889 SHIELDS - Suddenly in Washington, on Friday, November 8th, JOHN E SHIELDS, aged 60 years. The remains will arrive on Monday morning by Washington steamer and be conveyed directly to Elmwood Cemetery. ***************************************************************************** Death of Mr. John E. Shields Intelligence was received here yesterday of the sudden death in Washington, D.C., Friday of Mr. John E. Shields, a well known and popular resident of this city. At the time of his death Mr. Shields was on a visit to his daughter, Mrs. Wheatley, of Washington. His death was from heart trouble. Mr. Shields was sixty years of age and has lived in Norfolk all his life. He leaves a wife and several children, all of whom are grown. City Collector LeRoy H. Shields is one son and John R. Shields, who was formerly in the hardware business in this city, but is now living in Alabama, is another. Mr. Shields has for a number of years past been prominently connected with the insurance business in this city. The sad news of his sudden death was a severe shock to his many friends in this city and his family will have the sympathy of the whole community. His remains will arrive here tomorrow morning in the Washington steamer and will be taken at once to Elmwood Cemetery for interment. Norfolk Landmark November 10, 1889 **************************************************************************** Funeral of the Late Mr. John E. Shields The remains of the late Mr. John E. Shields, whose death has been before announced in The Virginian, arrived in Norfolk yesterday morning and were met at the boat by a large number of relatives and acquaintances and escorted to Elmwood Cemetery and interred, the funeral services having taken place in Washington. The following gentlemen were the pallbearers: Col. W.B. Rogers, C.A. Sanots, Col. J.J. Phillips, B.F. Tebault, Nat White, C.G. Metts, W.H. Granberry and G.W. Dey. Norfolk Virginian Tuesday November 12, 1889 ******************************************************************************* The Late John E. Shields The death, in Washington city, on Friday, 8th inst, of our well-known fellow citizen, John E. Shields, Esq., was a very painful surprise to his friends. Before many of them knew that he was critically ill his decease was announced. Since the death of a son, to whom he was tenderly and even passionately attached, he had been almost wholly unmanned. His grief, deep and poignant at first, seemed to be intensified rather than mitigated by time; and his family were not without the most painful apprehensions respecting its effect upon his health and spirits. In the hope of a beneficial diversion of mind, he was persuaded to make a visit to relatives in Washington, where he had himself long resided. He returned to this city, seemingly improved, but soon relapsed into his former depression. Three weeks ago he visited Washington again; but, alas no more to return till his lifeless form was brought by sorrowing friends to be laid in Elmwood Cemetery by the side of the son whom he had loved so well, and who had passed away in his "glorious youthful prime," only a little more than a twelvemonth before. Mr. Shields had a strong, though delicately organized constitution, and while 60 years of age, looked very much younger. In his normal, healthy state he was a fine specimen of quiet, unostentatious gentlemanliness and civility. He was modest and unobtrusive, rather reserved toward strangers, but with congenial and familiar friends, easy and affable and often full of the raciest humor. Better than all, he was a man of elevated sentiment, of generous impulses and of incorruptible integrity. Whatever his imperfections, with these fine qualities he was loved by all who knew him, and we cannot but trust is a participant of the ineffable, everlasting love of Heaven. Mr. Shields was for many years editor of the Evening Courier, of this city, and was a son of the late Wm. C. Shields, who, with Hon. Hugh Blair Grigsby, so ably edited the old "Norfolk Beacon," at the time the leading newspaper in Virginia Norfolk Virginian November 17, 1889 File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/norfolkcity/obits/s/shields12117nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/vafiles/ File size: 4.9 Kb