[or-roots] Fw: Marcola Cem. Springfield, OR.

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On Mar 12, 2010, at 2:33 PM, Nancy Lee Adams wrote:

> I got a bit confused.. got it right now.
> Marcola Cem. is just a skip from actual town of Marcola, OR. but Cem. listed as in Springfield, Lane Co., OR.  sorry about that : ) 
> Nancy
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> From: Nancy Lee Adams
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> Sent: Friday, March 12, 2010 2:24 PM
> Subject: Re: [or-roots] Marcola Cem. Springfield, OR.
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> This is interesting I found Marcola Cemetery on Google earth this one's not in Marcola OR.? but reads Springfield, Lane Co. OR. zip code - 97478.. Maybe this is why we couldn't find it?
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> more reading (Marcola, OR.)
> Marcola .  (READ THIS)
> Sharon Jakeways scrubs a century of grime from a headstone at Marcola Cemetery. On the back of the stone, the cleaning revealed a poem about the death of ...
> news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1310&dat=20010701&id...
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> Mohawk Valley History | Schools
> School was also held in the log building at the present Marcola Cemetery. Prior to 1876, a frame building was built on the Wendling road half way between ...
> mohawk.historiceugene.com/schools.htm - Cached
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> From: JOHN LAURA MCKINNEY
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> Sent: Friday, March 12, 2010 1:38 PM
> Subject: Re: [or-roots] or-roots Digest, Vol 35, Issue 9
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> 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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> Subject: [or-roots] Fields; Tkhomas George et al
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> Fields, William		26 June 1927	Portland		1756
> Fields, William		08 March 1913	Union			1279
> Fields, William		11 December 1906	Josephine		2444
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> There is a John Fields in Crook Co in 1900 who may be the one you have an
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> DA Reference Number:	{3BF2759C-4F26-4677-9348-96828FC0B181}
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> 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
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> On abt. 1934, John Fields obit says he has brother, Robert H. Fields(my
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> OR. William Fields and Elizabeth Carter are the parents of these brothers.
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> Subject: Re: [or-roots] Fields; Tkhomas George et al
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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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> Subject: Re: [or-roots] Robert H Fields 1900 1930 census
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> Name:	Robert H Fields
> Home in 1900:	Crawfordsville, Linn, 
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> Age:	27
> Birth Date:	Dec 1872
> Birthplace:	Oregon
> Race:	White
> Gender:	Male
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> Father's Birthplace:	Oregon
> Mother's Birthplace:	Missouri
> Spouse's name:	Phebe
> Marriage Year:	1894
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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Leslie Chapman" <reedsportchapmans at verizon.net>
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> To: "or-roots mail list" <or-roots at listsmart.osl.state.or.us>
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> Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2010 1:43 PM
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> Subject: [or-roots] Fields; Tkhomas George et 
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> Fields, William Henry 14 January 1929 Union 7
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> 1927 Portland 1756
> > Fields, William 08 March 1913 Union 1279
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> Fields, William 11 December 1906 Josephine 2444
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> > Name: Thomas 
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> > Age: 55
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> > Death Place:       Spokane, Spokane, 
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> > On abt. 1934, John Fields obit 
> says he has brother, Robert H. Fields(my
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> 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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> Subject: Re: [or-roots] [or-roots ]Thomas Fields 1920 census Spokane, WA.
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> Name:	Thomas J Fields
> Home in 1920:	Greenacres, Spokane, 
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> 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
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> Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:37:03 -0800
> Subject: [or-roots] Bio of Thomas Fields, Linn Co., OR.
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> 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 
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> BIOGRAPHY OF THOMAS FIELDS
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> Brush Creek Valley in Linn County, 
> Oregon where ... Their daughters Nancy Jane married 
> George Fields, Mary Catherine married ...
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> THOMAS FIELDS 
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>       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.
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>       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.
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>       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.
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>       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.
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>       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.
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>       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. 
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>       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.
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>       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 
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>       They used buffalo chips for fuel when there was no wood. There was a 
> lot of cholera and other sickness on the Oregon Trail. 
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> 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 
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> 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 
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> They’d have a lit campfire that they’d gather around and visit.
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> gathered for the services in a group, by one of their wagons.
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>       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 
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> 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 
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>       Many women went out of their minds under the hardship of the Oregon Trail. 
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>       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, 
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> 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.
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>       After Thomas and Rebecca Fields moved to Oregon, they had four more 
> children, Mary, Lucinda, Louise and Franklin.
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>       Thomas farmed the land and raised bees, hogs, and 
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>       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.
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>       Before Thomas and Rebecca Fields passed away, they had 
> lost two children, Eliza and John. John drowned in the Calapoola River July 18, 
> 1867.
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> 29, 1874 and Thomas Fields passed away July 1, 
> 1875. Where they are buried is unknown so far as I write this story.  
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>       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. 
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> 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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