Martin C. FIELDS

  General Notes:

1843 BIRTH of Martin C. Fields ("Mart")

1850 CENSUS, Pennsylvania, Washington County, West Finley Township ("Martin," age 7, with parents)

1855 DEATH (approximate) of grandfather, John Fields

1860 CENSUS, Iowa, Iowa County, Marengo Township, Marengo ("Martin C.," age 17, with parents)

1861 DEATH (approximate) of mother, Elizabeth (McCarroll) Fields

1870 CENSUS

1876 MARRIAGE of Martin C. Fields and Amelia Alice McBride on March 5 in Iowa County, Iowa

1880 CENSUS, Iowa, Iowa County, Marengo ("Martin C.," age 36, "Working on farm") (wife "A. Alice," age 29, "Dressmaker")

1885 CENSUS, Iowa State Census, Iowa County, Marengo ("Martin C.," age 41, "School Janitor") (wife Alice, age 33; son Ralph, age 6; daughter Hattie, age 3)

1900 CENSUS, Nebraska, Lancaster County, Lincoln ("M. C.," age 49, occupation ? ) (wife "A. M.," age 41; son "R. C.," age 20) (Alice is documented as the mother of 1 child, 1 child living in the year 1900)

DEATH of wife

1910 CENSUS, Nebraska, Lancaster County, Lincoln ("Martin C.," age 67, widower, is in the household of his son, Ralph C. Fields)

Martin married Amelia Alice McBRIDE, daughter of Unknown and Margaret McBRIDE, on March 5, 1876 in Iowa County, Iowa. (Amelia Alice McBRIDE was born in 1851 in Ohio and died before 1910 in Nebraska.)