Rachel E. FIELDS

  General Notes:

1852 BIRTH of Rachel E. Fields

1855 DEATH (approximate) of grandfather, John Fields

1860 CENSUS, Iowa, Iowa County, Honey Creek Township, Koszta ("Rachel," age 8, with parents)

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

1870 CENSUS, Iowa, Iowa County, Honey Creek Township, Koszta ("Rachel E.," age 18, with parents)

1878 DEATH of mother, Mary Ann (Teagarden) Fields

1880 CENSUS, Iowa, Dallas County, Booneville ("Rachel," age 26, is "sister-in-law" in the household of Catherine Fields Alvord and Will Alvord)

1900 CENSUS, Iowa, Polk County, Walnut Township (in household of sister and brother-in-law, Catherine and Solomon Brunson)

1902 DEATH (approximate) of father, Lewis Fields

1910 CENSUS, Iowa, Polk County, Walnut Township ("Rachel E.," age 58, is in the household of her younger sister, Kate Fields Alvord Brunson)

1920 CENSUS, Iowa, Polk County, Walnut Township ("Rachel E.," age 63, is in the household of her younger sister, Kate Fields Alvord Brunson) (Rachel would actually have been about 68 years old in 1920)

1927 DEATH, Rachel E. Fields, at 75 years 0 months 6 days


Rachel did not marry



BOOK: GENEALOGICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF DESCENDANTS OF ABRAHAM TEAGARDEN, From Arrival in America, Including European Background, by Helen Elizabeth Vogt, published 1967, page 342, regarding Rachel Fields:

Born October 10, 1854, died October 16, 1927. Unmarried. Lived in Commerce, Iowa.


Rachel is documented as age 8 in the 1860 census, then age 18 in the 1870 census; this means she would have been born in 1852, not 1854.