Jessie Eilein FIELDS

  General Notes:

1878 BIRTH of Jessie Eilein Fields

1880 CENSUS, Iowa, Keokuk County, Delta ("Baby," age 2, with parents)

1897 DEATH of father, Jesse Allen Fields

1898 MARRIAGE of Jessie Fields and Godfrey Lewis Simpkins on December 1 in What Cheer, Keokuk County, Iowa

1900 CENSUS, Iowa, Mahaska County, White Oak Township ("Godfrey," age 26, "Farmer") (Godfrey's father, George W. Simpkins, widower, "Farm Laborer," is in the household, too)

1905-1910 DEATH of mother, Mahala (Johnson) Fields

1910 CENSUS, Iowa, Mahaska County, White Oak Township ("Godfrey L.," age 37, "Farmer, General farm") (Godfrey's father, George W. Simpkins, widower, age 62, "Farmer, General farm," is also there)

1918 REGISTRATION, World War I Draft, Iowa, Mahaska County, Tioga ("Godfrey Louis Simpkins," age 45, "Farmer, self-employed") (Year of birth, 1873)

1920 CENSUS, Iowa, Mahaska County, White Oak Township ("Godfrey," age 47, "Farmer, General")

1930 CENSUS, Iowa, Mahaska County, White Oak Township ("Godfrey L.," age 57, "Farmer, General Farm")

1951 DEATH, Jessie (Fields) Simpkins at approximately 72 years

1951 DEATH of husband, Godfrey Lewis Simpkins at approximately 78 years


Jessie and her husband Godfrey died 7 days apart, she on December 2, he on December 9. One wonders the cause(s).



DESCRIPTION (Godfrey): "Medium height, slender build, blue eyes, light hair" (World War I Draft Registration)

Jessie married Godfrey Lewis SIMPKINS, son of George Washington SIMPKINS and Sarah Elizabeth SAYLOR, on December 1, 1898 in What Cheer, Keokuk County, Iowa. (Godfrey Lewis SIMPKINS was born on December 22, 1872 in Mahaska County, Iowa, died on December 2, 1951 in Mahaska County, Iowa and was buried in Tioga Cemetery, White Oak Township, Mahaska County, Iowa.)