"Well Known Citizen Dead"

Henry Shields, one of the oldest and probably the best known citizen of Centralia, died about 12:30 o'clock after an illness of about ten days.

He was sixty-eight years old and a veteran of the Civil war. He had lived in Centralia over thirty years and during his residence here has held almost every office in the city with one or tow exceptions.

While doing police duty the night before election Mr. Shields stepped into a hole and received a severe shaking up which confined him to his bed. That seemed to be the starting of a general decline and for the last few days little hope of his recovery had been entertained.

No funeral arrangements have yet been made.


Source: The Centralia Daily Chronicle, 19 Sep 1908, page 1.

Transcribed by Diana Smith. She has no further information on this individual.