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Surnames: SHIELDS, SLINKARD, CLINTON, SHOVEL, NUGENT
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The Odon Journal, Odon, Indiana, January 14, 1921, page 1:
"PROMINENT FARMER DIES SUDDENLY. J. B. SHIELDS SUCCUMBS TO HEART ATTACK WHILE
CLEARING.
Jacob B. SHIELDS, widely known resident of this community died very suddenly last
Wednesday morning about eleven o'clock while at work in a clearing on his farm
northwest of this city. Mr. SHIELDS had been enjoying reasonably good health although
affected with touches of heart trouble and epilepsy and his demise comes as a shock to the
community. On the morning of his death he had gone to work in a small clearing near the
home and stated that he would return at eleven o'clock. When he did not come at that
time Mrs. SHIELDS went to look for him and found that he had fallen near his work and that
life was extinct. He had presumably been stricken just as he was ready to return home and
had fallen forward upon his face and was still carrying the axe which he was using, under
his arm.
Coroner Holder of Washington held an inquest at the home Thursday morning pronouncing
death due to suffocation superinduced by heart failure and epilepsy.
Jacob Byron SHIELDS was born in this township in 1861 and was 60 years of age on New Years
day. He was a son of William and Eliza (SLINKARD) SHIELDS and grew up to manhood in the
community in which he was born. He was united in marriage to Miss Belle CLINTON and to
this union one child was born, a son Dale, who passed away about fourteen years ago. The
wife and mother passed away about eighteen years ago.
On January 1st 1909, Mr. SHIELDS was married to Mrs. Annie SHOVEL who survives. He also
leaves one sister Mrs. Jane NUGENT of Newberry, and a number of nephews and nieces and
more distant relatives. He was a member of the order of Free and Accepted Masons at
Elnora and was a respected citizen and kind neighbor.
The funeral services will be held from Good Hope church this morning at 10:30 with Rev.
Ernest Roberts of this city in charge. The Masonic Order will have charge of the
obsequies. Burial will be made at Walnut Hill."