William Sears FIELDS

  General Notes:

1854 BIRTH of William Sears Fields

1855 DEATH (approximate) of grandfather, John Fields

1860 CENSUS, Iowa, Iowa County, Honey Creek Township, Koszta ("William S.," age 7, with parents)

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

1870 CENSUS, Kansas, Washington County, Washington Township, Washington ("Wm. S.," age 17, "Farm laborer," with parents)

1880 CENSUS, Nebraska, Jefferson County ("William," age 24, "Farmer," with parents)

1892 MARRIAGE (approximate) of William Sears Fields and Edna Katherine Smith

1885 CENSUS, Kansas State Census, Riley County, Zeandale Township ("W. S.," age 27, "Farmer," born in Pennsylvania, is with his parents)

1900 CENSUS, Kansas, Riley County, Zeandale Township ("William," age 48, "Farmer") (wife "Edna K.," age 34) (Edna is documented as the mother of 4 children, all 4 children living in the year 1900) (William and Edna had been married 8 years)

1910 CENSUS, Kansas, Riley County, Zeandale Township ("William S.," age 55, "Farmer, General farm") (wife "Edna K.," age 43) (Edna is shown as the mother of 5 children, all 5 children living in the year 1910) (William and Edna had been married 18 years)

1913 DEATH of mother, Rhoda (Teagarden) Fields (in March)

1913 DEATH of father, William Wallace Fields (in July)

1920 CENSUS, Kansas, Riley County, Zeandale Township ("William S.," age 65, "Farmer") (in February) (wife "Edna K.," age 63)

1920 DEATH of wife, Edna Katherine (Smith) Fields (in October), at approximately 54 years

1925 DEATH, William Sears Fields, at approximately 71 years

William married Edna Katherine SMITH. (Edna Katherine SMITH was born in April 1866 in Kansas, died in October 1920 and was buried in Pleasant Valley Cemetery In Kansas.)