[or-roots] or-roots Digest, Vol 35, Issue 9
JOHN LAURA MCKINNEY
birdman_326 at msn.com
Fri Mar 12 13:38:58 PST 2010
Fields: Thank you so much. I would appreciate any of the census you can help me w/. I have: William Fields b. 20 Oct. 1829 Ray co., Missouri d. 1880 Marcola, OR. (I can't verify this or find the cem. on line, Johnson Crk. Cem. Marcola, OR) His parents> Thomas Fields and Rebecca Riggs. He marries Elizabeth Carter 19 Dec. 1853 she was b. 1834 IA. and died 1880 or 1887. Their children that I have: Melissa Caroline Fields b. abt. 1856 Linn co., OR., Mary M. Fields b. 14 Dec. 1873 d. 29 Mar. 1924 WA., Matilda Ann b. 14 Dec. 1857 Crawdfordsville, OR. d. 29 Mar. 1924, George b. abt. 1864, Thomas b. abt. 1868 Linn co., OR., John Fields b. 09 Mar. 1869 d. 1936 Lane co., OR., Robert Henry (my ggrandfather) b. 25 Nov. 1873 d. 29 Oct. 1951 Scio, Linn, OR.(haven't found obit to verify) He married Phoebey TN. Barnard 30 Jul. 1895 Scio, Linn co., OR.
The Thomas does look like a match. I tried going in on the OR. death index, and couldn't find anything. I tried the WA. digital index, and they state that you aren't allowed to see the death records. Something abt. the site, almost froze my computer. I had nothing but errors from internet explorer. Thank you again for your help, Laura birdman_326 at msn.com
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From: reedsportchapmans at verizon.net
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Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:43:11 -0800
Subject: [or-roots] Fields; Tkhomas George et al
Laura;
Have you tried the death index?
I don't have access to it past 1030, but you can probably find it at a local
libray or Fam History center.
For your great grandfather is one of these him?
Name Death Date County Certificate #
Fields, William Henry 14 January 1929 Union 7
Fields, William 26 June 1927 Portland 1756
Fields, William 08 March 1913 Union 1279
Fields, William 11 December 1906 Josephine 2444
There is a John Fields in Crook Co in 1900 who may be the one you have an
obit for; Wife Ida, son Fred? 4, dau Polly 2 and son Nelson 1.
TJ is a possible match;
Series: T623 Roll: 233 Page: 252
Surname GivenName Age Sex Race Birthplace State County Location Year
FIELDS T J 32 M W OR ID LATAH GOLD CRK PCT 1900
b. may 1862 OR, but parents bp not a match, both listed as Illinois I think.
he is single, a laborer and literate etc
1910 we find John still in Crook county, wife number 2 Marette of 7 years;
ch Freddie, Polly and Nelson 14, 12, 11
Wash vital rcrds index;
DA Reference Number: {3BF2759C-4F26-4677-9348-96828FC0B181}
Image Number: 1037
Document Number: 28
Document Reference ID: 221
Name: Thomas Fields
Date Of Death: 19 Feb 1922
Age: 55
Gender: Male
Father Name: William Fields
Batch ID: 275980
Batch Locality: Washington, United States
Death Place: Spokane, Spokane, Washington
Mother Name GN: Ann
Mother Name Surname: Carter
I would say this is a pretty good match for Thomas.
I will do a little more digging, if you want the census images off list I
can send them to you.
Les C
>
George Fields born abt. 1864 and brother Thomas Fields born abt. 1868 in
Oregon
On abt. 1934, John Fields obit says he has brother, Robert H. Fields(my
ggrandfather) surviving. I can't track George or Thomas after 1880 Linn co.,
OR. William Fields and Elizabeth Carter are the parents of these brothers.
Can anyone help me, please. I'd appreciate any advice. Thank you, Laura
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From: reedsportchapmans at verizon.net
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Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:04:35 -0800
Subject: Re: [or-roots] Fields; Tkhomas George et al
Okay this just got more interesting; in 1920 a George Fields b OR age 50
shows up in Portland with wife Gertrude L age 38 b Nevada and niece Lois
Thayer age 20 b in Oregon.
Again he is a bit off, perhaps self concsious about being 16 years older
than wife instead of 12? Parents bp don't match either, lists MO and PA
instead of MO IA as listed in 1880, but assuming the Robert H in
Crawfordsville in 1900 is your guy wrong bp for parents is normal.
Interesting that Robt is such a stay at home and the rest of them are all
over th place?
Les C
>
George Fields born abt. 1864 and brother Thomas Fields born abt. 1868 in
Oregon
On abt. 1934, John Fields obit says he has brother, Robert H. Fields(my
ggrandfather) surviving. I can't track George or Thomas after 1880 Linn co.,
OR. William Fields and Elizabeth Carter are the parents of these brothers.
Can anyone help me, please. I'd appreciate any advice. Thank you, Laura
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From: nancydean at columbia-center.org
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Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:09:12 -0800
Subject: Re: [or-roots] Robert H Fields 1900 1930 census
Laura - This must be your ggrandfather in the 1930 census
Reads,
Nancy
Robert born in OR.
both his parents born in MO. BUT the 1900 census
reads father born in OR & mother born in MO.?
Occupation, laborer in a saw mill
Ancestry.com
1930 United States Federal
Census
about Robert H Fields
Name:
Robert H Fields
Home in 1930:
Crawfordsville, Linn, Oregon
View Map
Age:
57
Estimated birth year:
abt 1873
Birthplace:
Oregon
Relation to Head of House:
Head
Spouse's name:
Phebe T
Race:
White
Occupation:
Education:
Military
service:
Rent/home value:
Age at first
marriage:
Parents' birthplace:
View
image
Neighbors:
View others on page
Household Members:
Name
Age
Robert H Fields
57
Phebe T Fields
55
Evy Violet
Fields
16
1900 United States Federal
Census
about Robert H Fields
Name:
Robert H Fields
Home in 1900:
Crawfordsville, Linn,
Oregon
Age:
27
Birth Date:
Dec 1872
Birthplace:
Oregon
Race:
White
Gender:
Male
Relationship
to Head of House:
Head
Father's Birthplace:
Oregon
Mother's Birthplace:
Missouri
Spouse's name:
Phebe
Marriage Year:
1894
Marital Status:
Married
Years Married:
6
Residence :
Sweet Home City, Linn,
Oregon
Occupation:
View on
Image
Neighbors:
View others on
page
Household Members:
Name
Age
Robert H
Fields
27
Phebe
Fields
22
James W
Fields
4
Anna
Fields
1
View
Original
Record
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image
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Original
Record
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From: "Leslie Chapman" <reedsportchapmans at verizon.net>
To: "or-roots mail list" <or-roots at listsmart.osl.state.or.us>
Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2010 1:43 PM
Subject: [or-roots] Fields; Tkhomas George et
al
> Laura;
>
> Have you tried the death index?
>
> I don't have access to
it past 1030, but you can probably find it at a local
> libray or Fam
History center.
>
> For your great grandfather is one of these
him?
>
> Name Death Date County Certificate #
>
>
Fields, William Henry 14 January 1929 Union 7
> Fields, William 26 June
1927 Portland 1756
> Fields, William 08 March 1913 Union 1279
>
Fields, William 11 December 1906 Josephine 2444
>
> There is a John
Fields in Crook Co in 1900 who may be the one you have an
> obit for; Wife
Ida, son Fred? 4, dau Polly 2 and son Nelson 1.
>
> TJ is a
possible match;
>
> Series: T623 Roll: 233 Page:
252
>
> Surname GivenName Age Sex Race Birthplace State
County Location Year
> FIELDS T J 32 M W OR ID LATAH GOLD CRK
PCT 1900
>
> b. may 1862 OR, but parents bp not a match, both
listed as Illinois I think.
> he is single, a laborer and literate
etc
>
> 1910 we find John still in Crook county, wife number 2
Marette of 7 years;
> ch Freddie, Polly and Nelson 14, 12, 11
>
> Wash vital rcrds index;
>
> DA Reference Number:
{3BF2759C-4F26-4677-9348-96828FC0B181}
> Image Number: 1037
>
Document Number: 28
> Document Reference ID: 221
> Name: Thomas
Fields
> Date Of Death: 19 Feb 1922
> Age: 55
> Gender:
Male
> Father Name: William Fields
> Batch ID:
275980
> Batch Locality: Washington, United
States
> Death Place: Spokane, Spokane,
Washington
> Mother Name GN: Ann
>
Mother Name Surname: Carter
>
> I would say this is a pretty good
match for Thomas.
>
> I will do a little more digging, if you want
the census images off list I
> can send them to you.
>
> Les
C
>
>>
> George Fields born abt. 1864 and brother Thomas
Fields born abt. 1868 in
> Oregon
> On abt. 1934, John Fields obit
says he has brother, Robert H. Fields(my
> ggrandfather) surviving. I
can't track George or Thomas after 1880 Linn co.,
> OR. William Fields and
Elizabeth Carter are the parents of these brothers.
> Can anyone help me,
please. I'd appreciate any advice. Thank you,
Laura
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From: nancydean at columbia-center.org
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Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:19:05 -0800
Subject: Re: [or-roots] [or-roots ]Thomas Fields 1920 census Spokane, WA.
Is this your Thomas Fields? He is single and a farmer.
Both parents born in MO.
1920 United States Federal
Census
about Thomas J Fields
Name:
Thomas J Fields
Home in 1920:
Greenacres, Spokane,
Washington
Age:
53 years
Estimated birth year:
abt 1867
Birthplace:
Oregon
Relation to Head of House:
Head
Father's Birth Place:
Missouri
Mother's Birth Place:
Missouri
Marital Status:
Single
Race:
White
Sex:
Male
Home owned:
Rent
Able to read:
Yes
Able to Write:
Yes
Image:
253
Neighbors:
View others on page
Household Members:
Name
Age
Thomas J Fields
53
View
Original
Record
View original image
Nancy
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Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:37:03 -0800
Subject: [or-roots] Bio of Thomas Fields, Linn Co., OR.
Laura, Looks like your
ancestors? BONNIE BARTLETT who wrote this Bio has a family tree
on line with Elizabeth A Carter in it, looks like she has pictures too
if interested I can send you that
site.?
Nancy
[DOC]
BIOGRAPHY OF THOMAS FIELDS
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>From there they headed for
Brush Creek Valley in Linn County,
Oregon where ... Their daughters Nancy Jane married
George Fields, Mary Catherine married ...
www.orgenweb.org/bios/Thomas_Fields.doc
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THOMAS FIELDS
Thomas Fields,
the elder son of Ebenezer and Sarah (Burden) Fields was born the
4th of May 1809, Bourbon County, Kentucky. Thomas’s Oregon Donation Claim say’s
he was born in Ohio, but other records indicate that he was born in Bourbon
County, Kentucky. His siblings were Betsy, Dorcas, Peggy, James, Lizey, Ebenezer
Jr., Stephen and Eldridge. All the children except Stephen and Eldridge were
born in Kentucky and they were born in Ray County, Missouri.
Ebenezer and family removed to Missouri about 1815, which they may
have came by the Tennessee River to the Ohio River, then the Mississippi River
as that’s the route most of the pioneers from Kentucky came to
Missouri.
The family settled in Crooked River Township, Ray County, Missouri
after a short stay in Howard County, Missouri where some of the Fields that had came to
Missouri before they did.
Thomas Fields
married Rebecca Riggs, daughter of Thomas & Leah (Hunt) Riggs, January
1st 1829 in Ray County, Missouri. They had eight
children, William, Harvey, John, Eliza, Reuben, Nancy Jane, Preston and Thomas
Newton while in Ray County, Missouri.
When the Heatherly War of 1836 started, Thomas Fields joined Mathew T
Long’s outfit that commanded a Militia Company from Ray County, Missouri
formally called Longs Independent Company, Missouri Mounted Militia, War of
1832.
Shortly before or after Thomas Fields father, Ebenezer died in
1847, Thomas had decided to go west to the wild frontier and the promise of
free land. His wife Rebecca’s parents
had left for Oregon in 1846 where Rebecca’s father Thomas Riggs died on the way
on Oregon Trail near the Iowa Point.
According to records, each pioneer heading out west, loaded their
wagon with a grub box with a lid, that each wagon had that sat in the front of
the wagon. At the end of this box was a place for the Dutch oven, coffee pot and
kettle that were packed in a sack. There was usually a outside box attached to
the front of the wagon bed for halters, hobbles, rope, axe, shovel, hammer,
chain, bell, a rack for the guns, a small keg with a lid in which was their
drinking water. They put their frying
pans, water bucket and a kettle at the rear of the wagon. They hung their tar
buckets for greasing the wheels beneath the wagon. Their food they bought was
flour, beans, sugar, coffee, lard, ham and bacon that had been cured, corn meal,
dried fruit, molasses, butter, vegetables, homemade soap, salt and medicine.
Each wagon. Each wagon team had at least four oxen’s, a couple horses and a
couple milk cows.
After getting their wagon ready for the trip out west, Thomas Fields and family joined the
Nathaniel Bowman Company at Caples Landing, twelve miles above St. Joseph,
Missouri May 2, 1847. They crossed the Big Blue on May
8th and came into the Independence road the next day,
arriving on the evening of May 16, at the head of the Little Blue River. Before
reaching Fort Laramie, Wyoming, the company split up into three
divisions.
After crossing the Missouri River, they were in Indian Territory and
the
1
Indians were very hostile. After many
nights of trouble with the Indians, Thomas
Fields and family decided to
stay back behind the wagon train.
They used buffalo chips for fuel when there was no wood. There was a
lot of cholera and other sickness on the Oregon Trail.
In
some places on the trail, there were herds of antelope and buffalo. The men or
boys would kill them for meat. Crossing the rivers was quite a chore. They would
have to raise their wagons several inches, attach ropes to the front so that the
horseman riding along could help if it was needed to urge the teams into the
water. Some places the roads were so sandy, that they would be knee deep in
sand.
In
what few places there were to buy food along the trail, they’d stop and reload
what they could get by with. They’d have to stop, feed and rest their cattle and
horses. At this time they would do various other things, such as reset their
wheels as they had to be taken off and soaked over night to keep them from
falling off. They also had to grease the wheels and brake blocks had to be built
and tighten
up.
In
the evening time they’d play their guitars, fiddles, singing, and dancing.
They’d have a lit campfire that they’d gather around and visit.
On
Sundays, they had church services for the ones that wanted to attend. They
gathered for the services in a group, by one of their wagons.
After months crossing the Oregon Trail, the dust,
heat, sometimes lack of water, food, just before the real hard snow hit the
mountains, they came to a place four miles above Willow Creek on the Columbia River,
some of the wagon train went by raft down the Columbia River. Thomas Fields and his family headed
to Tygh Valley, to the Cascade’s and crossed over the Barlow Road. The cost to
go over the Barlow Road was $5.00 a wagon, 10 cents a head for cattle. Some of
the pioneers sold their rifles, quilts or anything they could use for payment.
The ones that were flat broke were able to use IOU’s. This Barlow Road saved the
pioneers from going down the Columbia River, on the make shift rafts as going
down the river was a terrible experience that many drowned. There were some
terrible places
going over the Barlow Road. One of
those places was called Laurel Hill. It was the worst part of this road. The way
the pioneers got down this hill was by cutting a tree down and chaining a tree
behind the way for it would slow the wagon down. Even then some lost their
belongings.
Many women went out of their minds under the hardship of the Oregon Trail.
After arriving in the fall at the end of the Oregon Trail, Thomas Fields and family spent a
short time in Oregon
City, Oregon. >From there
they headed for Brush Creek Valley in Linn County, Oregon where Thomas’s wife
Rebecca’s mother and brothers were living. During the fall and winter of 1847
the Indians annoyed the Thomas Fields family so they moved
down the Calapooia River and stayed with Rebecca’s mother and brothers, Leah,
Timothy and Thomas Riggs till the spring of 1848. Then in the summer of 1848,
Thomas applied for an Oregon
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Donation land claim, near Chandler Mountain. He was granted 640 acres
in 14 S Range East, located in Section 13 and 14. Their neighbors were, R. C.
Finley family, James McHargue family, Robert Montgomery family and Rebecca Fields mother and brothers,
Leah, Timothy and Thomas Riggs.
After Thomas and Rebecca Fields moved to Oregon, they had four more
children, Mary, Lucinda, Louise and Franklin.
Thomas farmed the land and raised bees, hogs, and
cattle.
Thomas and Rebecca Fields joined the
Reorganized Latter Day Saints Church. Thomas and Rebecca were baptized May 25,
1868. Thomas was an elder in the church.
Before Thomas and Rebecca Fields passed away, they had
lost two children, Eliza and John. John drowned in the Calapoola River July 18,
1867.
Rebecca (Riggs) Fields passed away January
29, 1874 and Thomas Fields passed away July 1,
1875. Where they are buried is unknown so far as I write this story.
Thomas and Rebecca’s sons William married Elizabeth Carter, Harvey
married Nancy Jane Carsner, Franklin married Syrena Davis, Reuben married,
Catherine Fields later
married Mary Black, Thomas Newton Fields married Louisa Ellen
Fields, Franklin married
Syrena Davis. Their daughters Nancy Jane married George Fields, Mary Catherine
married Jason Butler, Lucinda married Charles Aldrich.
(This information came from Court,
land, census records, Harvey Fields obit stories and what
Harvey told his family. Some of the deceased Harvey Fields family claim that his
grandfather, Ebenezer was a brother to the Joseph and Ruben Fields that was on the Lewis
& Clark Expedition but so far I have not found any information to verify
this. Some of this information came from records on what little that I could
find out on the Nathaniel Bowman train.)
WRITTEN BY BONNIE BARTLETT @ MAY 29,
2005
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