Almira FIELDS

  General Notes:

Postcard: This original vintage postcard reveals that "Myra" (Almira) and "Orrie" (Arthur Ora) Fields have Scarlet Fever in 1878. Below, read a typewritten transcription of the handwriting on the postcard.
From DeeAnna Allum Granston
(Original vintage letters and postcards written by Sarah "Emma" L. Meacham Fields were gifts to DeeAnna in 1965 from Bonnie Darr Fields, 1882-1967)


1868-1869 BIRTH of Almira L. Fields ("Myra" or "Mary")

1870 CENSUS, Nebraska, Dixon County, Centerville Township, Newcastle ("Almira," age 1, with parents)

1878 DEATH of grandmother, Mary Ann (Teagarden) Fields

1880 CENSUS, Iowa, Iowa County, Honey Creek Township, Koszta ("Myrah L.," age 12, with parents)

1886 DEATH of mother, Sarah (Gorby) Fields

1900 CENSUS, Missouri, Lewis County, La Belle Township, Lewistown ("George W.," age 43, occupation ?) (wife "May C.," age 32) (Myra is documented as the mother of 4 children, with 3 of those 4 children living in the year 1900; she and George had been married 13 years)

1902 DEATH (approximate) of grandfather, Lewis Fields

1910 CENSUS, Missouri, Shelby County, Taylor Township ("George W.," age 54, "Selling Organs") (wife "May," age 41) (Myra is shown as the mother of 5 children with all 5 children living in the year 1910; she and George had been married 23 years)

1920 CENSUS, Missouri, Boone County, Columbia Township, Columbia ("George W.," age 63, "Salesman, Commercial") (wife "Mae," age 51)

1924 DEATH of father, Francis Marion "Frank" Fields

1930 CENSUS, Illinois, Warren County, Monmouth Township, Monmouth ("Myra L.," age 60, widow, "Practical Nursing," is "mother-in-law" in the household of her daughter, Donna Fristoe)

1935 DEATH, Almira (Fields) Craft, at approximately 66 years

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1938 DEATH of husband, George W. Craft, at approximately 83 years



POSTCARD
To Miss Hattie L. Fields
Solon, Johnson Co., Iowa
Care A. Meacham


Kostza, Iowa
April 15, 1878

Dear Hattie,

I was so glad to hear from you again and to know that you were having such a nice time. Today is Gracie's ninth birthday. She did not have a birthday party. School began today. Myra and Orrie Fields have the Scarlet Fever very bad. We hope no one in Koszta will have it. Am glad you are away even if you have the whooping cough, for Auntie can take such good care of you. Nellie has it--coughs quite hard at night, but she plays all day. She says, "I am DOING right after Hattie myself. Hattie is a nice little girl, and I want her." Papa is quite spry again, is in the store today. Cousin George's move to Nebraska tomorrow. Manda and Harry are well again. Ernest has been sick, is better. I have a class in Sabbath School now. Gracie and (unreadable) and Lillie are in it. Good Bye.

Your Mama


Original vintage postcard, owned by DeeAnna, was written by Emma (Meacham) Fields to her daughter Hattie who was visiting in the household of Emma's father, Anderson Meacham. Emma's husband was Alexander Teagarden Fields. Gracie, Nellie and Hattie are children of Emma and Alex.

Myra (Almira) Fields and Orrie (Arthur Ora) Fields were Hattie's first cousins.




OBITUARY (Myra) from the MONMOUTH REVIEW ATLAS, March 22, 1935:


MRS. MYRA CRAFT DIES AT HOSPITAL; FUNERAL SUNDAY

Mrs. Myra Craft, a resident of Monmouth for 8 years passed away at Monmouth hospital last night at midnight following a brief illness from mastoiditis. She was taken to the hospital from the home of her daughter but failed to rally. Mrs. Craft was born at Belle Plain, IA 17 Nov. 1866 and for many years was a resident of MO. She is survived by her husband, George Craft, 4 daughters and a son. Funeral services will be held at Lugg and Holliday Chapel Sunday afternoon at 2:00 p.m. with the Rev. William Icenogle of Roseville in charge. Interment will be in Monmouth Cemetery.




Martha Bush Blocker, e-mail to DeeAnna:

"George Craft was 83 years old and in good health when he died as a result of being hit by a taxicab in Saint Louis, Missouri. Per his wish, he was cremated. He had lived in Saint Louis for many years. His granddaughter remembers that he and a son, Ralph Craft, ran a sewing machine/typewriter repair shop until George's death in 1938."




CONTRIBUTOR to this page:

Martha Bush Blocker (obituary) (also data about the Craft ancestral line and descendants of Almira & George W. Craft, not online at this web site)
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Almira married George W. CRAFT, son of Stephen CRAFT and Eleanor (Ellen) TEAGARDEN, in (Perhaps) Wilcox, Hancock County, Illinois. (George W. CRAFT was born on March 5, 1855 in Pennsylvania and died in May 1938 in St. Louis, St. Louis County, Missouri.)