Warren Benjamin FIELDS

  General Notes:

Photo: The Warren Benjamin Fields plot at Koszta Cemetery, Koszta, Iowa County, Iowa includes individual headstones for Warren, 1848-1925, and his wife Meroa, 1853-1900. Warren, called "Ben," outlived his wife by twenty-five years.
From DeeAnna Allum Granston (photo taken in 1965)


1848 BIRTH of Warren Benjamin Fields ("Ben")

1850 CENSUS, Pennsylvania, Greene County, Richhill Township ("Warren," age 1, with parents)

1855 DEATH (approximate) of grandfather, John Fields

1859 DEATH (approximate) of mother, Matilda Ann (Sprowls) Fields

1859-1860 MARRIAGE of father, John Fields, and Ann (maiden name unknown)

1860 CENSUS, Iowa, Iowa County, Marengo ("Warren," age 11, with father John and stepmother Ann)

1863 DEATH of father, John Fields

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

1870 CENSUS

1876 MARRIAGE of Warren Benjamin Fields and Meroa W. Norton

1880 CENSUS, Iowa, Iowa County, Hartford Township, Ladora ("W. B.," age 31, "Grain dealer")

1900 CENSUS, Iowa, Iowa County, Hartford Township, Ladora ("Warren B.," age 52, "Stock and grain dealer") (census taken in June)

1900 DEATH of wife, Meroa W. (Norton) Fields (in August) (suicide?), at 47 years 3 months 6 days

1910 CENSUS, Iowa, Iowa County, Hartford Township, Ladora ("Ben W.," age 62, "own income")

1920 CENSUS, Iowa, Iowa County, Hartford Township, Ladora ("Warren B.," age 70, occupation "none")

1925 DEATH, Warren Benjamin Fields, at 76 years 9 months 20 days



OCCUPATION: Grain dealer (1880 census); may also have been a cattle buyer



BOOK: HISTORY OF IOWA COUNTY, Union Historical Company, Birdsall, Williams & Co., DesMoines, Iowa, 1881, page 565:

BUSINESS DIRECTORY. Grain Houses--W. B. Fields, J. S. Black, Z. Waterman



PHOTOGRAPHS:

Gravestone at Koszta Cemetery, Koszta, Iowa County, Iowa, inscribed as follows:

WARREN B. FIELDS
APR. 13, 1848
FEB. 2, 1925

Gravestone at Koszta Cemetery, Koszta, Iowa County, Iowa, inscribed as follows:

MERORA W.
WIFE OF W. B. FIELDS
MAY 10, 1853
AUGUST 15 (or 16), 1835 (?)


REGISTER OF DEATHS:

Iowa County, Iowa:

Mrs. Meroa W. FIELDS; age 47 yrs. 3 mo. 6 dys. died on 16 Aug. 1900; married in Iowa Co., IA died in Ladonna, IA (sic); buried Koszta Cemetery

Warren married Meroa W. NORTON on October 18, 1876 in Iowa County, Iowa. (Meroa W. NORTON was born on May 10, 1853 in New York, died on August 16, 1900 in Ladora, Iowa County, Iowa and was buried in Koszta Cemetery, Iowa County, Iowa.)