Shields, Nathan 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 962, Woodland Township
Nathan Shields, deceased, was born in East Tennessee, June 8, 1801; he was but a child when his parents removed to Harrison Co., Ind., where he grew to the mature years of vigorous manhood; Aug. 6, 1827, he married Polly Onion, by whom he had 4 children, - Sarah, Wm., Jane and Ellen. Having learned the trade of a wheel-wright, Mr. S. for some years followed his calling in Indiana; in 1836 he removed to this county; prior to his emigration his wife had died; shortly after his arrival he purchased a farm of several hundred acres in this township; March 5, 1835, he married Mary Kingery, daughter of Tobias Kingery, who came from Germany; 8 children were born of this marriage: 6 are living, - Sally, who resides on the homestead; Henry, who married Miss Tabitha Weldon; Martin, who married Mary Van Meter; Ellis, who married Hannah M. Hughes; John J., who married Ariel Hughes; and Susan, who married Conrad Fitz; Ely, a soldier, was killed during the late war at Kenesaw Mountain; Nancy, deceased, had married Henry Bloomfield, a brother of Gen. Bloomfield, of Bloomington; on Oct. 15, 1866, Mr. Shields died, leaving a valuable estate of over 200 acres.