ZIEGENBEIN, MRS. FERDINAND 
(ARLINA SHIELDS)
Ashland Gazette
Oct. 1900

Mrs. Ferdinand Ziegenbein
Mrs. Ferdinand Ziegenbein died at her home near this city last Thursday, October 25, 1900 
after an illness of about five months with quick consumption, aged 29 years, 2 months, and 
18 days. The funeral was held on Saturday last from her late home, Elder C.A. Huyck 
conducting the services. The interment was in the Ashland cemetery. Arlina May Shields 
was born in Fulton County, Illinois, August 7, 1871, and came to Nebraska with her 
parents, Mr. and Mrs. W.W. Shields, in September 1882.

February 23, 1890, she was married to Ferdinand Ziegenbein. Four children were 
born to this union, three of whom, namely Elmer, Alvie and Arlie, survive their mother, 
and one, Selma, died in infancy. She leaves her father and mother, two brothers and 
one sister, and her husband and three children to mourn her death. Mrs. Ziegenbein 
was a Christian and was a member of the Christian church, having united with that 
denomination at the age of fifteen.