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Mitchell, Charles Shea, Morris

Morris Shea
Feb. 8th 1913
Passes Away Saturday Evening After a Long Illness Aged 68
VETERAN OF CIVIL WAR

A long and honored career both as a soldier and citizen After suffering for some time with arteriosclerosis, Morris Shea breathed his last at six o'clock Saturday evening. The funeral was held at the home on Monday afternoon. Rev. H.W. Tilden, pastor of the Baptist church and chaplain of the G.A.R. Post, officiating. The three patriotic orders, the G.A.R. the W.R.C. and the Sons of Veterans, were represented and contributed several of the more beautiful floral emblems, which, with the flag of his country, covered the coffined for, The home was filled with friends, neighbors and comrades. Interment was made in Greenwood cemetery.

Mr. Shea was born at Waukegan, Lake County, Illinois on July 12, 1845. His opportunities for acquiring an education were limited, owing to the outbreak of the Civil War when he was about sixteen years of age, but he attended country school from the age of nine years until, one day early in 1862, he enlisted in Company F. 37th Illinois Volunteers. which was recruited near his home. He was therefore one of the youngest soldiers in the army. A patriotic family, his father and brother later entered the service, but no two of them were in the same regiment. Mr. Shea re-enlisted at the end of his firth three year term in the same company and regiment and was mustered out at Houston, Texas, May 1866.

Comrade Shea received his baptism of fire at Brownsville, Mo. in a scrimmage brought on by a southern editor and a union soldier. Later he participated in some of the greatest battles of the war. Mission Ridge, Vicksburg, Gettysburg, Pea Ridge and others. At the siege of Vicksburg with General Grant his witnessed the surrender of three thousand five hundred Confederate soldiers as prisoners of war. That his service was noted for courage, faithfulness and attention to duty is attested to the fact that he made corporal and then sergeant in his company.
Soon after being mustered out Mr. Shea returned to his farm home in Brookings South Dakota
[Submitted by Barb Ziegenmeyer]

Charles A. Mitchell

PUBLISHER OF BROOKINGS REGISTER DIES

Brookings -- Charles A. (Art) Mitchell, publisher of the Brookings Register, died here Friday afternoon.

Mitchell, 56, had been hospitalized since he suffered on Christmas Eve the second heart attack in the past 20 months. He was the second of his name in a newspaper family going back many years in South Dakota. Mitchell and late father, C. H. J. Mitchell, who died in 1961, had been owners of The Register sincd 1936. Before that the elder Mitchell held an interest in the old Sioux Falls Press. The Rapid City Journal and The Daily Huronite, predecessor to the Huron Daily Plainsman.

The younger Mitchell was generally known as "Art" in his father's lifetime to distinguish between the two.

Funeral services will be Monday at 2 p.m. at the St. Paul Episcopal Church here, with burial at the Greenwood Cemetery.

Charles A. Mitchell was born Dec. 31, 1909 at Storm Lake, Iowa. He was graduated in 1932 from the University of Nebraska. He was editor of The Daily Nebraskan, a student publication. On graduation, he moved to Brookings by way of The Press & Dakotan at Yankton and The Huronite at Huron. He interrupted his service at The Register only to serve in the Air Force from 1942 to 1946. He was instrumental in promoting commercial air line service to Brookings. He served on the airport board and was, for years, its chairman. At the time of his death, he was a member of the board of the Greater South Dakota Association and a board member of the State Printers Association. He was past president of the South Dakota Press Association. He also was past president of South Dakota's chapter of Sigma Delta Chi, professional journalism society. He was a member of Brookings Masonic Lodge and of El Riad Shrine at Sioux Falls. He is survived by his wife, Ada.

Mrs. Mitchell will continue publishing The Register in association with her nephew, Thomas G. Reynolds, who has been a member of the staff. [The Daily Plainsman, Huron, Sunday, January 16, 1966 - Submitted by Karen Seeman]