A Sesquicentennial History of the Green River Missionary Baptist Church
1836 - 1986, Written and Compiled by Wendell Holmes Rone, Sr., For the One
Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary of the Founding of the Church, 1987. By
permission of author. Ohio County

WARREN P. SHIELDS (b. November 12, 1875 - d. September 22, 1948) was born
in Ohio County, Kentucky and was the son of James W. Shields (b. January
12, 1835 - d. September 29, 1898) and Martha Elizabeth "Bettie" (Daniel)
Shields (b. December 31, 1845 - d. September 2, 1909), who were married in
Ohio County, Kentucky, on August 12, 1868, shortly after the close of the
Civil War.
     His maternal grandparents were:  George M. Daniel and Nancy A. (Tilford)
Daniel, who were married in Ohio County, Kentucky, on March 15, 1827.  His
paternal grandparents, of record, were:  William C. Shields (b. September
4, 1804 - D. April 11, 1855) and Rachel Shields (b. c. 1798 - d. August 5,
1864).  His paternal grandmother was a Charter Member of the Church.  She
and her husband are buried in the Green River Church Cemetery as are his
parents.  He was a younger brother of Birch Shields (1869-1934), the
Baptist Minister, Richard Shields (1871-1940) and Miranda Shields (b.c.
1873).  In the Ohio County Census for 1880 his father is listed as a 
carpenter.
     Brother Shields was inducted into the fellowship of the Green River Church
by Christian Experience and Believer's Immersion on October 25, 1890, being
baptized by Pastor J. N. Jarnagin, in his fifteenth year.  Having been
chosen by the Church as a new Deacon on March 27th, 1909, he was duly
ordained on April 23rd, 1909, by pastors G. W. Gordon, A. J. Snodgrass and
A. B. Gardner.  Brethren J. P. Miller, C. C. Thomas, Martin Flener and
Benjamin Benton were ordained then, too.  He served until he was lettered
out in 1936, a total of over 27 years.  Also, he served as the Church Clerk
in 1917-1920; as the Church Treasurer from September, 1922, until he was
lettered out in 1936; as Sunday School Superintendent in 1911, 1913,
1920-1927; as Ohio County Mission Board Member from Green River Church in
1923-1924 and in 1926-1927.  He served as a Messenger from the Church to
the Association in the years 1909, 1911-1912, 1914-1915, 1917, 1919-1925,
1928, 1930, 1933-1935.
     On November 27, 1898, on an Ohio County, Kentucky, license, Brother
Shields was united in marriage to Miss Susan M. "Mattie" Davis, the
daughter of J. T. Davis.  She was born on August 8, 1881 and departed this
life on August 7, 1954, in her seventy-second year.  He had preceded her in
death on September 22nd, 1948, in his seventy-second year, too.  He died in
Owensboro, Kentucky.  Both of them were buried in Sunnyside Cemetery,
Beaver Dam, Kentucky.  
     In early manhood he was a farmer.  Having left the farm, he moved to
Cromwell and operated a hotel and livery stable there.  He enjoyed much
business from the trade generated on Green River by the Evansville-Bowling
Green Packet Boats.  In later years he owned a store on the Highway in
modern Cromwell, and became familiarly known as "Uncle Warren" Shields to
many persons.  He was also a member of the Cromwell Masonic Lodge for
years.
     At his death he was survived by his wife, and daughters, as follows: Mrs.
Reathel Oglesby, Mrs. Clifford Warren, Mrs. Roscoe Embry and Mrs. J. K.
(Ruth Shields) Shaver, as well as by one sister, Mrs. Pearl (Shields)
Taylor.

Shields Daniel Tilford Jarnagin Gordon Snodgrass Gardner Miller Thomas
Flener Benton Davis Oglesby  Warren Embry Shaver Taylor
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IN Bowling_Green-Warren-KY

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