Francis Marion Fields, 2005 bio

FIELDS

Posted By: Martha D. Bush Blocker (email)
Date: 10/13/2005 at 15:35:34

Submitted by: Martha D. Bush-Blocker
Copyright: October 2005 The following data is not to be used for profit or posted on any on-line family tree and/or web site without the express consent of the author/poster.

Francis Marion Fields

HUSBAND: Francis ‘Frank’ Marion FIELDS
date and place of birth: 17 February 1844/45 in Greene or Washington Co., PA
military service: enlisted on 20 August 1862, at the age of 19, in Koszta, Iowa Co., IA; he served as a Private in the 28th Iowa Infantry Regiment and was discharged on 31 July 1865 in Savannah, GA.
date and place of marriage: 18 March 1867/68 in Koszta, Iowa Co., IA
date and place of death: 02 February 1924 in the Iowa State Soldier’s Home in Marshalltown, Marshall Co., IA.
his father: Lewis FIELDS (b: about 1812in DE-d: about 1902 in Mitchellville, Polk Co., IA)
his mother: Mary Ann TEAGARDEN (b: 01 February 1813 in Washington Co., PA-d: 23 September 1878 in Iowa Co., IA)
WIFE: Sarah A. GORBY
date and place of birth: about 1845 in PA
date and place of death: 1886 in Koszta, Iowa Co., IA.
her father: Samuel GORBY (b: about 1817 in PA-d: 28 November 1893 in Omaha, NE)
her mother: Emaline SHAY (b: about 1826 in PA-d: 27 July 1894 in Omaha, NE)
CHILD 1: Almyra ‘Myra’ L. FIELDS
date and place of birth: about 1868-70 in Benton, Jasper or Iowa Co., IA
date and place of death: on 21 Mar. 1935 in Monmouth, Warren Co., IL
date and place of marriage: after 1895 in IA or IL
married: George W. CRAFT
his date and place of birth: 05 March 1855 in Washington Co., PA
his father: Stephen CRAFT (b: 19 March 1820 in Washington Co., PA-d: 02 January 1863 in Helena, Phillips Co., AR)
mother: Eleanor ‘Ellen’ TEAGARDEN (b: about 1825 in PA-d: 03 September 1895 in Koszta, Iowa Co., IA)
CHILD 2: Francis FIELDS
date and place of birth: 1871 in NE
date and place of death: 1872 in Koszta, Iowa Co., IA
CHILD 3: Arthur ‘Oriole-Ora-Orie’ FIELDS
date and place of birth: 06 July 1873 in NE
date and place of death: 06 May 1914, age 41, in Iowa Co., IA
note: He did not marry.
CHILD 4: Jessie T. FIELDS
date and place of birth: 1875 in Koszta, Iowa Co., IA
date and place of death: 21 Apr.1879 in Koszta, Iowa Co., IA
note; He died of Scarlet fever.
CHILD 5: Adda G. FIELDS
date and place of birth: 1878in Koszta, Iowa Co., IA
date and place of death: 1902, at age 24, in Iowa Co., IA
note: There are no known marriages for her.
CHILD 6: Nellie M. FIELDS
date and place of birth: 1879 in Koszta, Iowa Co., IA
date and place of death: about 22 April 1899, age 19years-07months-18days) in Ladora, Iowa Co., IA
=She died of Consumption, there are no known marriages for her.
CHILD 7: Alpha FIELDS
date and place of birth: 1881 in Koszta, Iowa Co., IA
date and place of death: 1885 in Koszta, Iowa Co., IA
CHILD 8: Ruey FIELDS
date and place of birth: 1883 in Koszta, Iowa Co., IA
date and place of death: 1885 in Koszta, Iowa Co., IA
SOURCES:
-E-mail exchanges with DeeAnna Allum-Granston a Fields descendant
-E-Mail exchanges with Barbara Brant-Ketels a descendant of Martha Nichols and George W. Craft
-Correspondence and Telephone exchanges between myself and a grandson and a granddaughter of Myra and
George Craft
-Documentation from the Iowa State Soldier’s Home
-Descendants of Abraham Tegarden (June 1967) compiled by Helen E. Voght; revised edition published (June 1988) by George and Shirley Teegarden with revisions compiled by Helen Vogt

NOTES:
1. Four of Sarah (Gorby) and Frank Fields’ eight children died at young ages or without marrying. Seven of their eight children are buried at the ‘old-original’ Koszta Cemetery in Koszta, Iowa Co., Iowa. A ‘Family Tombstone’ was erected by an unknown individual, probably after 1899 but before 1914, for Sarah and six of their children. Their son Arthur Fields has a separate headstone. There is a GAR Marker for Frank Fields but it is not known if he was buried there; he was definitely not buried in the cemetery of the Iowa State Soldier’s Home.
2. Stephen Craft, the father of George W., enlisted for Civil War Service in Koszta, Iowa Co., Iowa on 20 August 1862, at age 42; he served as a Private with the 24th Iowa Volunteer Regiment. He died, of disease while on active duty, on 02 January 1863 in Helena, Arkansas. His remains were apparently returned to Iowa and he was buried the Koszta Cemetery in Koszta, Iowa Co., Iowa. A tombstone was recently erected for he and his wife courtesy of their descendant Rev. Denis R. Craft.
3. George W. Craft’s other marriages:
-1st on 15 February 1877 in Tama Co., Iowa to Martha L. SHAW (b: 05 February 1858 in Adair Co., Missouri-d: 27 August 1879 in Poweshiek or Tama Co., Iowa)
-possibly 2nd between 27 August 1879 and 1886 to Unknown
-2nd or 3rd about 1886/87 in Iowa (divorced after 1895-before 1902) to Martha Nichols (b: 29 December 1868 in Scott Co., Iowa)
-3rd or 4th to Almyra L. Fields (my great grandmother)
4. Myra Fields and George Craft were first cousins once removed; her paternal grandmother and George's mother were sisters.
5. Myra told a grandson and a granddaughter that her father or grandfather, they could not remember which, was a full-blooded Native American ‘Chief' of the Mohawk Tribe.
5. George W. Craft's death, at age 83, was the result of his being hit by a Taxi Cab in front of his "Typewriter and Sewing Machine Sales and Service" shop at 4037 Easton Ave. St Louis, St Louis Co., Missouri.

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