Shields, David bio

History of Fulton County, Illinois; together with Sketches of its Cities, Villages and Townships, Educational, Religious, Civil, Military, and Political History; Portraits of Prominent Persons and Biographies of Representative Citizens. Chas. C. Chapman & Co., Peoria, Illinois, 1879, page 961, Woodland Township
David Shields, deceased, was born in Kentucky, in 1805; in an early day he moved to Indiana, where he followed different vocations, as stone-mason, farmer and cooper; while residing in Indiana he married Eliza Onion, by whom he had 10 children: 6 are living, - Mary, who married Jacob Burgess and resides in this township; Wm. M, who married Catherine Barnes and resides in Ipava; C. R., who married Mary C. Burgess and resides in Pleasant township; Martha, who married John Langston and resides at Summum; Eliza, who married Nelson Horton and resides in Iowa, and A. P. Shields, who married Miss Tamar Azbell, of Fulton county. Three children blessed this union, - Lucius, Leoni and Clifton. Mr. Shields has taught school during the winter season; now devotes his time principally to farming.