Leroy W. FIELDS

  General Notes:

Photo: Yet again the dedicated work of James Fordyce allows us to see the gravestone of Leroy W. Fields and his wife "Jane" at West Finley Cemetery in Washington County, Pennsylvania
Credit: Greene County, Pennsylvania Cemeteries CD No. 5 by James Fordyce, 2004


1849 BIRTH of Leroy W. Fields

1850 CENSUS, Pennsylvania, Washington County, West Finley Township ("Leroy," age 8 months, with parents)

1855 DEATH (approximate) of grandfather, John Fields

1860 CENSUS, Iowa, Iowa County, Marengo Township, Marengo ("Leroy," age 11, with parents)

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

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

1870 CENSUS, Pennsylvania, Washington County, West Finley Township ("Leroy W.," age 21, is with his father Henry and stepmother Louisa)

1875 MARRIAGE (approximate) of Leroy W. Fields and Jane Adaline Danley

1880 CENSUS, Pennsylvania, Washington County, West Finley Township ("Leroy W.," age 30, "Carpenter")

1900 CENSUS, Pennsylvania, Washington County, West Finley Township (Leroy, age 57, "Wagon maker") ("Leo W." in some census indexes) (wife "Jane A." is shown as the mother of 4 children, 3 children living in the year 1900)

1910 CENSUS, Pennsylvania, Washington County, West Finley Township ("Leroy W.," age 61, "Blacksmith, general") (wife "Jane A." is documented as the mother of 4 children, 3 children living in the year 1910)

1915 DEATH of father, Henry Fields

1920 CENSUS, Pennsylvania, Washington County, West Finley Township ("L. W.," age 71, "Blacksmith")

1926 DEATH, Leroy W. Fields at approximately 77 years

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1930 CENSUS, Pennsylvania, Washington County, West Finley Township ("Jane A.," age 75, widow, is in the household of her son, George H. Fields)

1937 DEATH of wife, Jane (Danley) Fields, at approximately 83 years



Leroy's wife's name is found as Jane Adeline (or Adaline) and Adeline (or Adaline) Jane



BOOK: HISTORY OF WASHINGTON COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA with Biographical Sketches of Many of Its Prominent Men, by Boyd Crumrine, L. H. Everts Co., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1882, page 983:

"At present West Finley contains twenty-seven dwelling houses, two wagon-shops, two cabinet and undertaker establishments, two saddlery and harness-shops, the post-office, an Odd-Fellows' Hall, two stores, the hotels of J. P. Lucas and C. Burns, blacksmith-shops of Brady, Gray and L. W. Fields, the shoe-store of John Hastings, and several carpenters and artisans of other trades. Just west of the town is the public school building; the "Windy Gap" Cumberland Presbyterian Church is near the town. One of the earliest physicians of Burnsville was Dr. Roberts. In 1863, Dr. Richardson and Dr. Silas McCracken were practicing here, and at the present time the profession is represented in Burnsville by Drs. W. S. Grim, J. W. Teagarden, and I. N. Sprowls."



Leota Clutter, 1989 letter to Margaret Smith Brennan:


"I found an old obituary for Mrs. L. W. Fields, aged 83, died January 6. Her husband died in 1930. Her son was H. G. Fields (Hack). He was a mail carrier out of West Finley for years. He lived in a big brick house on the edge of town."



CONTRIBUTOR to this page:

Margaret Smith Brennan

Leroy married Adeline "Jane" DANLEY, daughter of Samuel DANLEY and Catherine Elizabeth McDAID, about 1875. (Adeline "Jane" DANLEY was born in November 1854 in Pennsylvania, died on January 6, 1937 in West Finley, Washington County, Pennsylvania and was buried in West Finley Cemetery, West Finley Township, Washington County, Pennsylvania.)