The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1914-05-15
Nine Y-THREE YEARS
HAVE PASSED OVER
MRS. ELIZA SHIELDS
VENERABLE COLUMBIA WOMAN
OBSERVES BIRTHDAY WITH
HER FAMILY.
WAS BORN In NORTH CAROLINA
Lived During the Lives Of All the
Presidents Except That Alone Of
the Father Of His country-Born
While Napoleon Was Yet in Flesh.
Thursdays Daily.)

MTs. Eliza r. SnlelQS, PROBABLY the
Oldest woman living in Maury coun-
ty, is today celebrating her ninety
third birthday at her home in this
city with the members of the immedi-
ate family attending. The following
are present: Mr.. and Mrs. N. A.
Smith, John Albert Smith, Miss
Eliza Smith, Mrs r. H. Witt and lit
tie daughter, of Lynnville; a. H.
Shields and the following children:
Mrs. Kate Shields Duke and damgh-
ter, Dorothy; Mrs. Ada Murray. Miss
Ruth and James Shields; Mrs. owen
Smith and daughter, Aleatha, Mrs.
Camilla Boyd, Will M. Shields AID
Miss Elizabeth Shields.
Mrs. Eliza Shields was Miss Eliza
F. Moore and was born May Ia, 1921,
in Germantown, N. c., and she has
large connection both in the North
and South, being descendant Of the
Moore and Hill families of the old
North State. Her father moved to
Taylorville, now Mountain City, in
this state when she was eight years
Of age, and at sixteen she came to
Lynnville to visit her brother, Rev.
Albert Moore and assist him N school
work. Here she was married to Jas.
M. Shields, of Lynnville, and there
she spent most Of her life. In addi-
ton to the numerous Columbia
friends who remembered her birth.
day, the following friends came from
Lynnville: Misses Elenor Fleming,
Helen G. Walker and Kate Boyd, Ex-
cept for one daughter, Mrs. W. R.
Hansard, of Albertsville, Ala, all
were with her today.
Mrs. Shields life has been long
and eventful one and she has retain
ed to remarkable degree al. Der
faculties, taking a lively interest in
the affairs Of life. Mrs. SHEDS has
lived through the administration of
every president this country has had
except the first four, Washington, the
elder Adams, Jefferson and Madison.
She was born during the life of ev.
cry president except that of Washing
ton alone. When she was born the
great Napoleon, the darling of the
war god, was yet in the flesh at his
lonely prison home on the stern and
forbidding coast Of st. Helena. He
died seven days after her birth, hut
the fact was not known in this coun-
try for many weeks, so limited in
that time were the means Of commu-
nication.
During her life Mrs. Shields wit
messed the invention Of most of the
modern appliances that have revolu-
tionized life. She was forty years
old when the shot at Fl. Sumpter, that
was heard around the world was
fired and she was in middle age when !
the tragedy Of nation was staged !
beneath the famous apple tree at APP
pomattox. She saw the Bourbons |
on the throne of France, witnessed
the brief life Of the second republic,
the disastrous ruin that overlook the |
second Napoleonic empire in 1870.
She saw the creation, of the great
German empire. When she was born,
Victoria, who ruled Britain for SIX
ty-four years, was child Of two years
and she was married and the mother
of children before Frances Joseph,
On the throne Of Austria.H hungary for
sixty-six years, was crowned emperor. i,
When Mrs. Shields was born Mau.
~ county had been organized but
fourteen years and Columbia was but
} trading Iost and James X. Polk
was not yet representative in Con-
sress Of the United States and vii.
lam Carroll was serving his second
.erm az governor.