John FIELDS

  General Notes:

1820 BIRTH of John Fields

1820 CENSUS

1830 CENSUS, Pennsylvania, Greene County, Richhill Township (John would have been in the household of his father, "John Fields")

1840 CENSUS, Pennsylvania, Greene County, Richhill Township (John is presumed to havebeen in the household of his father "John Fields")

1850 CENSUS, Pennsylvania, Greene County, Richhill Township (September 10) ("John," age 30, "Farmer") (wife "Matilda," age 31)

1855 DEATH (approximate) of father, John Fields

1859 DEATH (approximate) of Matilda Ann (Sprowls) Fields at about 40 years

1859 MARRIAGE (approximate) of John Fields and Ann ...

Alice M. Fields, daughter of Andrew Max Fields and Emma Hendrix:

"My Daddy [Andrew Max Fields] and Uncle Jim Robinson had the same mother. Uncle Jim lived in Hardy, Arkansas. He told us went to live with his Robinson relation, and Daddy went with his half brothers."

1860 CENSUS, Iowa, Iowa County, Marengo Township, P. O. Marengo (August 13) ("John," age 40, "Farmer") (wife "Ann,"age 27)

1863 DEATH of John Fields, in service, Civil War at approximately 43 years

John served with Company G, Iowa 28th Infantry Regiment. He was a fifer!

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1865 DEATH (approximate) of mother, Rachel (Phippen) Fields






MILITARY SERVICE: Enlisted as a Fifer in August, 1862 at age 42 in Company G, 28th Infantry, Iowa Regiment. Died of disease on June 30, 1863 in Memphis, Shelby County, Tennessee

BURIAL (John): Koszta Cemetery, Koszta, Iowa County, Iowa, Lot 25




SOME DOCUMENTS:


1863 - June 30, John Fields, Estate No. 2793, Estate Book 1, page 67
(No date): Ann Fields, Estate No. 2791, Estate Book 1, page 67

1864 - May 19, Probate, petition to sell land owned by John Fields, Dec'd.
Minor heirs are Warren B. Fields; Maria Fields; Rachel Fields; Elizabeth Fields; Andrew M. Fields; Emily Fields; Lauria (sic) A. Fields

Land in Iowa County, Iowa: West 1/2 of the southeast 1/4 of the southeast 1/4 of section 18. Township 81, forth of range 11 west of the 5th P.M. (prime meridian?) containing 20 acres

Land in Richhill Township, Greene County, Pennsylvania: Adjoins Morrison Jones on North, Arron Cummings on the East, George and Grace Teagarden on the West and others, that is 7/10th of the last (?) last as all that John Fields deed seized of (?)
Invest money in other lands for farming.

(signed) Ann Fields (X) (her mark) and Jessie Allen Fields


1864 - July 25, "Warren B. Fields, a minor over 14 years--allowed by law to choose his guardian. He therefore asks the appointment of J. C. Beem as his guardian for the purpose of preserving his property aforesaid as by law in such cases proved and also as guardian of his person.
(signed) Warren B. Fields"



BOOK: HISTORY OF IOWA COUNTY, IOWA, pages 102, 108, 109 and pages 472-477:

Page 109: "Fields, John, age 42; residence Koszta; enlisted August 14, 1862; mustered August 25, 1862; died of disease June 30, 1863, Memphis, Tenn."

Page 477: Company G (Enlistments): "John Fields, musician, Aug. 14"



Leota Clutter:

"The Fields property down the creek below the Ackley bridge toward Majorsville in Greene County, Pennsylvania, probably was the homestead of John Fields and Matilda (Sprowls) Fields. When I was a child I heard my dad talk about it. We were there in the thirties and no one lived there; the house and buildings had fallen. I remember a large house. I don't know who owns the land now; the road is closed, and a dam was built below to help keep Wheeling, West Virginia from being flooded. Enlow Valley was famous for 'wild flowers'--more varieties than anywhere in this area. There have been tours every year for the last five years.

"My great grandfather, Henry Sprowls, owned the Joshua Ackley farm near Ackley Bridge. My grandfather was James Sprowls, a brother to Matilda and Nancy Jane. There were 9 children in my great grandfather's family. I was fortunate to locate a picture of Nancy Jane and her husband, William Birch, a Civil War vet."

--1989 letter to Margaret Smith Brennan



CONTRIBUTORS to this page:

Margaret Smith Brennan

Sadie Fields Zeitz

John married Matilda Ann SPROWLS, daughter of Henry SPROWLS and Elizabeth NEWLAND, about 1846 in Pennsylvania. (Matilda Ann SPROWLS was born in 1819 in Pennsylvania and died about 1859 in (Probably) Iowa County, Iowa.)

John next married Ann FIELDS in 1859-1860 in Iowa. (Ann FIELDS was born in 1823 in Virginia.)