Rachel FIELDS

  General Notes:

1856 BIRTH of Rachel 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 ("Rachel," age 5, with father John and stepmother Ann)

1863 DEATH of father, John Fields

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

1870 CENSUS, Iowa, Iowa County, Koszta (Rachel, age 14, is in the household of Lewis Q. Reno)

1877 MARRIAGE of Rachel Fields and Edson Robert Ball on October 25 in Marengo, Iowa County, Iowa

1880 CENSUS, Iowa, Iowa County, Sumner ("Edward," age 30, "Farms") (in addition to his wife "Rachel," age 24, and son "James P.," age 1, also in the household is Edson's mother, "Oray," age 68)

1900 CENSUS, Iowa, Emmet County, Ellsworth Township ("Robert," age 51, "Farmer")

1903 DEATH of Rachel (Fields) Ball

1905 CENSUS, Iowa State Census, Emmet County, Dolliver ("Robert" and James, Edison, Jessie, Mae, Winnie, John, Josie, Hattie, Frank, Bessie)

1910 CENSUS, Iowa, Emmet County, Lincoln Township ("Robert F." age 60, widower, "Farmer, General Farm")

1920 CENSUS, Kansas, Cowley County, Arkansas City ("Edson," age 71, widower, "Farmer, retired," is "Uncle" in the household of his niece, Tillie [Ball] Livingston and her husband Alex; Tillie [Matilda] was a daughter of Edson's brother Lewis)

1923 DEATH, Edson Robert Ball, at 74 years 10 months 27 days




OBITUARY (Robert) from ESTHERVILLE ENTERPRISE, Estherville, Emmet County, Iowa, October. 3, 1923:


Robert F. Ball was born in Vermont, October 25th, 1848. He was the youngest of five boys and with his parents came to Marengo, Iowa.

At the age of 28 he was married to Miss Rachel Fields, Marengo, Iowa county, Iowa, October 25th, 1877.

To this union ten children were born, 6 girls and 4 boys, all alive. The girls are: Mrs. W. M. Ross of Dolliver, Iowa; Mrs. L. B. Schenck of Dolliver; Mrs. Herman Rosburg and Mrs. Frank Rosburg, both of Huntington; Mrs. Jessie Sidles, Grantsburg, Wis.; and Mrs. L. M. Scott, Cody, Nebraska. The boys are: Jim, who lives at Huntington; John at Gruver; Frank N., Grantsburg, Wis.; Ed of Melrose, Wis.

Mr. Ball was a good father. His neighbors speak well of him because of his kindness to them. He was a member of the Presbyterian church at Marengo.

Twenty years ago, September 26th, Mrs. Ball passed away.

Funeral service was held in the Community M. E. church at Dolliver, the Rev. Herbert Marsh, pastor, officiating. Interment was in the Dolliver cemetery.

Rachel married Edson Robert BALL, son of Stephen BALL and Oralily FLINT, on October 25, 1877 in Marengo, Iowa County, Iowa. (Edson Robert BALL was born on October 25, 1848 in Chautauqua County, New York, died on September 21, 1923 in Kansas Or Iowa and was buried in Dolliver Cemetery, Lincoln Township, Emmet County, Iowa.)