[or-roots] Johnson Creek Cemetery, Marcola, OR

Fri Mar 12 14:53:49 PST 2010

I don't know if this helps, but here is a different cemetery with Johnson
Creek and Marcola in the description of the location.
Ronda

http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~orlane/links/lanecems.htm

Drury (Upper Mabel)	 25-100	 --	 1 mile on Johnson Creek Road off
Marcola Road, 2 miles north of Mabel	 1881	

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From: or-roots-bounces at listsmart.osl.state.or.us
[mailto:or-roots-bounces at listsmart.osl.state.or.us] On Behalf Of JOHN LAURA
MCKINNEY
Sent: Friday, March 12, 2010 1:39 PM
To: or-roots at listsmart.osl.state.or.us
Subject: Re: [or-roots] or-roots Digest, Vol 35, Issue 9

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
To: or-roots at listsmart.osl.state.or.us
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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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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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

 <http://www.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=6224&enc=1> 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:

<http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?rank=1&gsfn=Robert+H&gsln=Fields
&gsby=1870&gsb2co=2,USA&gsb2pl=1,All+States&gsdy=&gsd2co=2,USA&gsd2pl=1,All+
States&sbo=0&sbor=&ufr=0&wp=4;_80000002;_80000003&srchb=r&prox=1&ti=0&ti.si=
0&gss=#> Education:

Military 
service:

Rent/home value:

Age at first 
marriage:

Parents' birthplace:

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Name	
Age	

<http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1930usfedcen&indiv=try&h=1093
99289> Robert H Fields	
57	

<http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1930usfedcen&indiv=try&h=1093
99309> Phebe T Fields	
55	

<http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1930usfedcen&indiv=try&h=1093
99306> Evy Violet 
Fields	
16	

 <http://www.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=7602&enc=1> 1900 United States
Federal 
Census 
about Robert H Fields 

Name:	
Robert H Fields	

Home in 1900:	
Crawfordsville, Linn, 
Oregon	

Age:	
27	

Birth
<http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?rank=1&gsfn=Robert+H&gsln=Fields
&gsby=1870&gsb2co=2,USA&gsb2pl=1,All+States&gsdy=&gsd2co=2,USA&gsd2pl=1,All+
States&sbo=0&sbor=&ufr=0&wp=4;_80000002;_80000003&srchb=r&prox=1&ti=0&ti.si=
0&gss=#> Date:	
Dec 1872	

Birthplace:	
Oregon	

Race:	
White	

Gender:	
Male	

<http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?rank=1&gsfn=Robert+H&gsln=Fields
&gsby=1870&gsb2co=2,USA&gsb2pl=1,All+States&gsdy=&gsd2co=2,USA&gsd2pl=1,All+
States&sbo=0&sbor=&ufr=0&wp=4;_80000002;_80000003&srchb=r&prox=1&ti=0&ti.si=
0&gss=#> 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:	

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7776> Robert H 
Fields	
27	

<http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1900usfedcen&indiv=try&h=4574
7777> Phebe 
Fields	
22	

<http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1900usfedcen&indiv=try&h=4574
7778> James W 
Fields	
4	

<http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1900usfedcen&indiv=try&h=4574
7779> Anna 
Fields	
1	

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From: "Leslie Chapman" < <mailto:reedsportchapmans at verizon.net>
reedsportchapmans at verizon.net>

To: "or-roots mail list" < <mailto:or-roots at listsmart.osl.state.or.us>
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
To: or-roots at listsmart.osl.state.or.us
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.

 <http://www.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=6061&enc=1> 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:	

<http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?rank=1&=,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,&gsfn
=Thomas&gsln=Fields&gsby=1864&gsb2co=2,USA&gsb2pl=40,Oregon&gsdy=&gsd2co=2,U
SA&gsd2pl=1,All+States&sbo=0&sbor=&ufr=0&wp=4;#> Single	

Race:	
White	

Sex:	
Male	

Home owned:	
Rent	

Able to read:	
Yes	

Able to Write:	
Yes	

Image:	
253	

Neighbors:	

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Name	
Age	

<http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1920usfedcen&indiv=try&h=6346
2650> Thomas J Fields	
53	

<http://search.ancestry.com/iexec?htx=View&r=an&dbid=6061&iid=WAT625_1940-02
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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] 

 <http://www.orgenweb.org/bios/Thomas_Fields.doc> BIOGRAPHY OF THOMAS FIELDS

File Format: 
Microsoft Word -
<http://74.125.155.132/search?q=cache:ptZOfM6sfrQJ:www.orgenweb.org/bios/Tho
mas_Fields.doc+George+Fields+Brush+Creek,+Linn,+Oregon,&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&g
l=us> View as HTML
>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_
<http://www.orgenweb.org/bios/Thomas_Fields.doc> Fields.doc

This 
is the html version of the file
http://www.orgenweb.org/bios/Thomas_Fields.doc.
Google 
automatically generates html versions of documents as we crawl the 
web.

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 

<http://74.125.155.132/search?q=cache:ptZOfM6sfrQJ:www.orgenweb.org/bios/Tho
mas_Fields.doc+George+Fields+Brush+Creek,+Linn,+Oregon,&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&g
l=us#> 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 

<http://74.125.155.132/search?q=cache:ptZOfM6sfrQJ:www.orgenweb.org/bios/Tho
mas_Fields.doc+George+Fields+Brush+Creek,+Linn,+Oregon,&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&g
l=us#> 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 

      2 

      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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