William Wallace FIELDS

  General Notes:

1822 BIRTH of William Wallace Fields

1830 CENSUS, Pennsylvania, Greene County, Richhill Township (with parents)

1840 CENSUS, Pennsylvania, Greene County, Richhill Township (with parents)

1845 MARRIAGE of William Fields and Rhoda Teagarden

1850 CENSUS, Pennsylvania, Washington County, East Finley Township ("William," age 28, "Carpenter") (wife "Rhoda," age 26)

1855 DEATH (approximate) of father, John Fields

1860 CENSUS, Iowa, Iowa County, Honey Creek Township, Koszta ("William M.," age 38, "Carpenter") (wife "Rhoda," age 36)

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

1866 MOVE from Iowa County, Iowa to Washington County, Kansas

1870 CENSUS, Kansas, Washington County, Washington Township, Washington ("W. W.," age 49, "Farmer") (wife "Rodah," age 45)

1880 CENSUS, Nebraska, Jefferson County ("William," age 68, "Carpenter") (wife "Roda," age 56)

1885 CENSUS, Kansas State Census, Riley County, Zeandale Township ("W. W.," age 59, "Farmer") (wife "Rhoda," age 57) ('should probably have been "59")

1900 CENSUS, Oklahoma, Payne County, Glencoe Township ("William W.," age 77, "Farmer," born "August, 1822 in Pennsylvania") (wife "Rhoda," age 76, born "March, 1824 in Pennsylvania") (Rhoda is documented as the mother of 9 children, 8 children living in the year 1900; she and William had been married 53 years)

1910 CENSUS, Kansas, Butler County, Union Township, Latham ("William," age 88, "Own income") (wife "Rhoda," age 86) (William and Rhoda are "father" and "mother" in the home of their widowed daughter, "Lovina Murray," age 63) (Rhoda is shown as the mother of 9 children, 8 children living in the year 1910; she and William had been married 64 years)

1911 DEATH, William Wallace Fields, at 88 years 11 months 11 days

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1913 DEATH of wife, Rhoda (Teagarden) Fields, at 88 years 11 months 17 days

William married Rhoda TEAGARDEN, daughter of Samuel TEAGARDEN and Katherine McGUIRE, on July 8, 1844 in Washington County, Pennsylvania. (Rhoda TEAGARDEN was born on March 20, 1824 in Richhill Township, Greene County, Pennsylvania, died on March 8, 1913 in Latham, Butler County, Kansas and was buried in Latham Cemetery, Latham, Butler County, Kansas.)