Thea G. FIELDS

  General Notes:

Photo: Thea G. Fields, 1888-1919, and his wife, Ila Mae (Sprowls) Fields, 1881-1970, are at West Finley Cemetery, Washington County, Pennsylvania. Thea's gravestone provides his year of birth as 1882, but the 1900 census provides 1888, as does his 1917 World War I draft registration.
Credit: Greene County, Pennsylvania Cemeteries CD No. 5 by James Fordyce, 2004


1888 BIRTH of Thea G. Fields (His name is sometimes documented as Theodore Fields)

1900 CENSUS, Pennsylvania, Washington County, West Finley Township ("Thea," age 11, born October, 1888 with parents) ("Fileds" in some census indexes)

1910 CENSUS

1917 DRAFT Registration, Ohio, Columbiana County, Salem ("Theodore Fields," age 28, "Painter") (There are several towns named Salem in Ohio; Thea's draft registration provides Columbina County as his location in 1917)

1919 DEATH, Thea Fields, at 30 years 3 months 0 days

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1920 CENSUS, Pennsylvania, Washington County, West Finley Township ("Ila," age 36, widow, is with her children, Edna, age 3, and Donald, age 2, in the household of her parents, "W. W." and Elizabeth Sprowls)

1930 CENSUS, Pennsylvania, Washington County, West Finley Township ("Ila," age 41, "Teacher, Public School," is in the household of her parents, William W. and Elizabeth E. Sprowls, along with her children Edna, age 15, and Donald, 12)

1970 DEATH of Ila Mae (Sprowls) Fields, at approximately 88 years



DISCREPANCY:

Date of death for Ila Mae Sprowls: October 23 or October 25, 1970

Thea married Ila Mae SPROWLS, daughter of William Wylie SPROWLS and Elizabeth E. SMITH, on May 6, 1915 in Washington County, Pennsylvania. (Ila Mae SPROWLS was born on October 25, 1881 in Washington County, Pennsylvania, died on October 23, 1970 in West Finley, Washington County, Pennsylvania and was buried in West Finley Cemetery, West Finley Township, Washington County, Pennsylvania.)