Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 June 1912 — Brothers Die on Same Day. [ARTICLE]

Brothers Die on Same Day.

Seymour, June 7. William H. Shields, sixty-nine years old, died two miles, north of this city, and his brother, Meedy W. Shields, sixty-seven, died at the New Lynn Hotel in this city. Both were stricken with paralysis. They were sons of the late Capt. Meedy W. Shields, wrho was the founder of Seymour and for many years the most prominent and influential man in this vicinity. William H, Shields served two terms in the Inniana legislature a number of years ago.