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• [S13] Charles Barnes, 1815 Tyrrell County (NC) Tax List, database, Charles Barnes and Gordon Basnight (Tyrrell County Genealogical and Historical Society), Tyrrell County NC Genealogy, (http://patriot.net/~cpbarnes/TYR1815.HTM : accessed by Carl Fields September 2008), digital database contains information for several individuals of interest, based on surviving county tax records in North Carolina State Archives.
• [S32] Ancestry.com, 1810 United States Federal Census, database on-line, Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc, 2010, images reproduced by FamilySearch, (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed by Carl Fields, 2004-2011); citing Third Census of the United States, 1810, population schedules (NARA microfilm publication M252), Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29, National Archives, Washington, D.C. Interim or placeholder ("lumped-source"-type) source citations for US 1790-1930 census population schedules have been adapted from source description information on Ancestry.com. Most of this census information was indeed taken from the Ancestry.com census page-images. However, in a few cases, the census information was (1) taken directly from microfilm - either at the Family History Library (Salt Lake City, UT), the Newberry Library (Chicago, IL), or at the Aiken Family History Center (using microfilm reels "rented" from the Family History Library, or (2) from on-line digital images from other providers, such as FamilySearch. For simplicity, the "accessed tags" all refer to ancertry.com. The long-term plan is to eventually replace all of these interim source citations with detailed citations based on one of the other of the two books by Elizabeth Shown Mills, Evidence or Evidence Explained.
• [S33] Ancestry.com, 1820 United States Federal Census, database on-line, Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc, 2010, images reproduced by FamilySearch, (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed by Carl Fields, 2004-2011); citing Fourth Census of the United States, 1820, population schedules (NARA microfilm publication M33), Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29, National Archives, Washington, D.C. Interim or placeholder ("lumped-source"-type) source citations for US 1790-1930 census population schedules have been adapted from source description information on Ancestry.com. Most of this census information was indeed taken from the Ancestry.com census page-images. However, in a few cases, the census information was (1) taken directly from microfilm - either at the Family History Library (Salt Lake City, UT), the Newberry Library (Chicago, IL), or at the Aiken Family History Center (using microfilm reels "rented" from the Family History Library, or (2) from on-line digital images from other providers, such as FamilySearch. For simplicity, the "accessed tags" all refer to ancertry.com. The long-term plan is to eventually replace all of these interim source citations with detailed citations based on one of the other of the two books by Elizabeth Shown Mills, Evidence or Evidence Explained.
• [S34] Ancestry.com, 1830 United States Federal Census, database on-line, Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc, 2010, images reproduced by FamilySearch, (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed by Carl Fields, 2004-2011); citing Fifth Census of the United States, 1830, population schedules (NARA microfilm publication M19), Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29, National Archives, Washington, D.C. Interim or placeholder ("lumped-source"-type) source citations for US 1790-1930 census population schedules have been adapted from source description information on Ancestry.com. Most of this census information was indeed taken from the Ancestry.com census page-images. However, in a few cases, the census information was (1) taken directly from microfilm - either at the Family History Library (Salt Lake City, UT), the Newberry Library (Chicago, IL), or at the Aiken Family History Center (using microfilm reels "rented" from the Family History Library, or (2) from on-line digital images from other providers, such as FamilySearch. For simplicity, the "accessed tags" all refer to ancertry.com. The long-term plan is to eventually replace all of these interim source citations with detailed citations based on one of the other of the two books by Elizabeth Shown Mills, Evidence or Evidence Explained.
• [S35] Ancestry.com, 1840 United States Federal Census, database on-line, Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc, 2010, images reproduced by FamilySearch, (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed by Carl Fields, 2004-2011); citing Sixth Census of the United States, 1840 (NARA microfilm publication M704), Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29, National Archives, Washington, D.C. Interim or placeholder ("lumped-source"-type) source citations for US 1790-1930 census population schedules have been adapted from source description information on Ancestry.com. Most of this census information was indeed taken from the Ancestry.com census page-images. However, in a few cases, the census information was (1) taken directly from microfilm - either at the Family History Library (Salt Lake City, UT), the Newberry Library (Chicago, IL), or at the Aiken Family History Center (using microfilm reels "rented" from the Family History Library, or (2) from on-line digital images from other providers, such as FamilySearch. For simplicity, the "accessed tags" all refer to ancertry.com. The long-term plan is to eventually replace all of these interim source citations with detailed citations based on one of the other of the two books by Elizabeth Shown Mills, Evidence or Evidence Explained.
• [S68] North Carolina, Tyrrell County, Land Records, Record of Deeds, Chattel Deed Rachel Cullipher/Mary Jarman, ; Pages 75 and 76 of Deed Book 14 for Tyrrell County. 1815.,.
• [S83] Missouri Secretary of State, "Missouri State Library/Missouri State Archives/State Historical Society of Missouri," digital images, Missouri State Archives: Missouri Death Certificates, 1910 – 1957, (http://www.sos.mo.gov/archives/resources/deathcertificates/ : accessed by Carl Fields Feb 2009), John H Fields,.
• [S105] Diana German Anderson, Redding, California, to Carl Fields, e-mail, "John Jarman Family", 23 Sept 2006; privately held by Carl Fields, Aiken, South Carolina, Computer Files (e-mails, Genealogy, or "Gene," section of Local Folders).
• [S120] Dianna German Anderson, Redding, California, to Carl Fields, e-mail, "Josiah Jarman 1780," 17 Oct 2006; privately held by Carl Fields, Aiken, South Carolina, Computer Files (e-mails, Genealogy, or "Gene," section of Local Folders).
• [S144] North Carolina, Tyrrell County, Estates Records, Record of Estates (bound volume), pp 137-142, (1806), Estate Sale for Henry Cullipher, 2 October 1806 (inventory), 6 and 19 December 1806 (estate sale); North Carolina State Archives, Raleigh, North Carolina. Josiah Jarman/German purchased hand gun (apparently), earthen plates ($0.15), "stocks bees" ($2.00). Henry Jarman purchased cartridge box ($0.50). Robert Sawyer appeared to purchase mugs (3 separate purchases -- although at least one of these may be a mis-read -- it seems odd because "mugs" seem grouped with tools). David Sawyer purchased some type of frying pan ($1.19).
• [S147] North Carolina, Tyrrell County, Estates Records Record of Estates (bound volume), pp 142-145, (Oct - Nov 1806), Estate Sale for John Jarman, 17 October 1806 (inventory), 22 November 1806 (estate sale); North Carolina State Archives, Raleigh, North Carolina. Items listed in the inventory and the sale list included: 1 heifer yearling, 1 cow, 4 head sheep, 2 hogs, a hand mill, 1 lot pewter (utensils, apparently), 1 stone jug, 1 kettle, 1 iron skillet, several pieces of woodware, 2 basins, 6 spoons, a cag (apparenlty an alternative spelling for a keg), a barrel, a big bottle, a plane iron and a flat iron, 2 books, 1 hammer, 1 pair "pinchers" (perhaps pliers), 2 lots called "1 bed and furniture", 1 small chest, 1 chest, 5 chairs, 1 table, 1 loom, 1 item apparently called "slaying and gears" (which might be components associated with the loom), apparently 2 spinning wheels (one for wool and one for linen), and apparently one pair of "cotton cards," which may also be items associated with the loom (this is not a complete list, some items omitted for brevity and some because the handwriting could not be deciphered -- the estate sale list appears to be somewhat more comprehensive than the inventory list). The amounts received for sales items are listed in units of pounds, shillings, and pence. The total proceeds from sale were 45.7.9. Persons who purchased items are: Josiah Jarman (hand mill, 2.0.0; 1 heifer yearling, 1.7.0; 1 lot pewter?, 0.5.0; 1 stone jug, 0.2.6; 1 plane iron, 0.2.6; 5 books, 0.6.0), Mary Jarman (1 cow slatley?, 2.0.0; 3 head sheep, 2.1.0; 2 hogs, 2.2.0; 1 bed and furniture, 2.11.0; 1 bed and furniture, 3.0.0; 1 small chest, 0.1.0; 1 kettle, 0.15.0; 1 iron skillet, 0.5.0; 2 chairs, 0.6.0; 3 pieces woodware, 0.5.0; 2 basins, 0.16.0; 1 loom, 0.12.0, 1 slaying? and gears? (might be "sleigh" -- perhaps a shuttle -- it's listed following a loom -- and gears), 0.12.0; 1 table, 0.6.0; a meal line? (listed between a table and a cag -- keg -- MIGHT be a serving utensil of some kind, or possibly a sieve for flour or meal), 0.3.0; a barrel, 0.5.0; 1 trice?, 0.1.0; 1 big bottle, 0.3.0; 1 doz? cotton cards, 0.8.0; 1 flat iron, 0.5.0; 1 linen? wheel, 1.0.0; 1 wool wheel, 2.10.0), Henry Jarman (1 head sheep, 0.15.0; 1 chest, 1.1.0; 1 "hois? and 13" (MIGHT be something like a hogshead of lard, or, possibly, hoes with handles), 0.15.9; 1 cag (keg? -- it's listed immediately prior to a barrel, and one dictionary in RefDesk lists cag as an alternarive spelling), 0.3.0; 1 hammer, 0.1.4; 1 pair "pinchers" (pliers?), 0.3.0), Elizth (Elizabeth) Jarman (1 cow flatley?, 5.0.0), Bets Jarman (3 pieces woodware, 0.1.0; 6 spoons; 0.1.0; 1 piece woodware; 0.2.0). Not clear if Elizabeth Jarman and Bets Jarman are two separate people or two names for the same person. Others purchasing items include: Libby (or maybe Lilly) Armstrong, Joseph White, Samuel Sexton, Thomas Liverman, Shadric Alcock, Justice Liverman, and John Clayton.
  
• [S163] North Carolina, Tyrrell County, General Index to Real Estate Conveyances Microfilm; North Carolina State Archives, Raleigh, North Carolina. In several instances the microfilm photographs of the actual deed books was overexposed, so that only a fraction of the words on the pages giving the detailed descriptions could be deciphered.
  
  There are two indexes, one where transactions are listed by buyer and the other where they are listed by seller. These indexes do not provide any detailed information, such as the amount of acerage or location or arrangement of the property. In several instances the microfilm photographs of the actual deed books was overexposed, so that only a fraction of the words on the pages giving the detailed descriptions could be deciphered.
  
  The following information is listed for each transaction of interest: year, seller, buyer, addition information (sometimes), deed book number, and page number within deed book. In cases where the information is taken from the buyer-listed-first index, the names have been reversed to provide a consistent format for this source citation. In a few cases, these index entries represent land grants. The detailed land grant information is in a separate file in the North Carolina state archives, in addtion to being in the deed book. The following items are listed in the index for buyers and sellers with surname Jarman: 1807, Robert Spence to Henry Jarman, 13, 12. 1809, State of North Carolina to Josiah Jarman and Henry Jarman, Grant # 829, 13, 124 (non-Jarman-surnamed buyers involved in this transaction are not listed at this point in the index). 1817, Michael Best to Henry Jarman, 18, 13. 1819, Josiah Jarman to Joseph Godfrey, 15, 59. 1837, John Simmons to Ezekiel Jarman, 18, 15. 1837, Henry Jarman to Abcedef Sawyer, Deed, 45, 73 (volume number listed for this entry, and a few others, appears to be inconsistent with others from that era; this might be an error). 1842, W. G. Armstrong to Barney Jarman, Deed, 19, 67. 1845, Barney Jarman to W. G. Armstrong, Deed, 46, 360. 1847, Barney and Mary Jarman to Tuxton Sykes, power of attorney, 19, 376. 1853, Barney Jarman to W. G. Armstrong, Transfer of Title, 41, 251. 1858, Ezekiel and Bethanna Jarman to Willima G. Armstrong, Power of Attorney, 22, 306.
• [S178] North Carolina 1812 Muster Rolls, database, Bobbie Cutter, Perquimans County, NC -- associated with American History and Genealogy Project (AHGP), (http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncperqui/1812muster.htm : accessed 15 Feb 2009), Josiah Jermanny in detached militia (organized in August 1814), 2nd Regiment, Tyrrell County, listings on web site are not paginated; based on Muster Rolls, Soliders of the War of 1812, Detached from the Militia of North Carolina, 1812 and 1814, published (in accordance with resolutions of the general assembly under direction of the adjutant general) in Raleigh NC, by Stone and Ussell, State Printers and Binders, 1873; . Hereinafter cited as North Carolina 1812 Muster Rolls. A Google Books search (http://books.google.com) by Carl Fiields in February, indicated that multiple versions of North Carolina muster rolls for the War of 1812 were published in the 1800s, and reprint editons were published in 1926, 1976, and 1989.
• [S202] Livingston County KY Marriage Register, Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah, FHL Microfilm # 318176.
• [S206] Grady Gordon Brickhouse, Marriage Bonds of Tyrrell County, North Carolina, database, Charles Barnes and Gordon Basnight (Tyrrell County Genealogical and Historical Society), Tyrrell County NC Genealogy, (http://patriot.net/~cpbarnes/TYRMARR.HTM : accessed by Carl Fields, Sept 2008), several selected marriages, based on WPA compilation agumented by information from Tyrrell County Register of Deeds.
• [S221] Montgomery County Register of Deeds, Montgomery County Tennessee Deeds (Filmed by the Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville TN 1963).
• [S232] Land Grant 829 -- Warrant 74, 19 Aug 1809, North Carolina Land Grants, Tyrrell County (Loose), North Carolina State Archives, Raleigh, North Carolina.
• [S294] North Carolina, Tyrrell County, Court Minutes, Bound Volume (1803-1808) ; North Carolina State Archives, Raleigh, North Carolina.
• [S295] North Carolina, Tyrrell County, Deeds, Bound Volume, 1808; North Carolina State Archives, Raleigh, North Carolina.
• [S296] North Carolina, Tyrrell County, Court Minute Bound Volume, (1808); North Carolina State Archives, Raleigh, North Carolina.
• [S299] Grady Gordon Brickhouse, "Tyrrell County (NC) Marriage Bonds", database, Charles Barnes and Gordon Basnight (Tyrrell County Genealogical and Historical Society), Tyrrell County NC Genealogy, (http://patriot.net/~cpbarnes/TYRMARR.HTM : accessed by Carl Fields September 2008), several selected marriages, based on WPA compilation agumented by information from Tyrrell County Register of Deeds.
• [S302] North Carolina, Tyrrell County, Estates Records Record of Estates (bound volume), pp 210-214, (1808), Estate Sale for David Cooper, 4 Jan 1808 (inventory), 17 Feb 1808 (estate sale); North Carolina State Archives, Raleigh, North Carolina, . Items listed in the inventory and the sale list included: 1 horse (with bridle an saddle), 7 head cattle, 15 head hogs, bed and furniture, tools, cookware (kettles, pots), candlesticks, 1 pair sniffers, q bible, 1 dictionary, 3 books, coffee mill, 2 barrels of fish, a side of leather, spinnig wheels, loom (and associated equipment), and 100 sq feet of shingles (this is not a complete list, some items omitted for brevity and some because the handwriting could not be deciphered -- the estate sale list appears to be somewhat more comprehensive than the inventory list., . Items listed in the inventory and the sale list included: 1 horse (with bridle an saddle), 7 head cattle, 15 head hogs, bed and furniture, tools, cookware (kettles, pots), candlesticks, 1 pair sniffers, q bible, 1 dictionary, 3 books, coffee mill, 2 barrels of fish, a side of leather, spinnig wheels, loom (and associated equipment), and 100 sq feet of shingles (this is not a complete list, some items omitted for brevity and some because the handwriting could not be deciphered -- the estate sale list appears to be somewhat more comprehensive than the inventory list.The amounts received for sales items are listed in units of dollars and cents. The total proceeds from sale were about $245. The horse brought the largest amount (about $35) with a lot of cows, yearlings, and a bull bringing in the second largest amount (about $24). A lot consisting of beds, furniture, and a table apprears to have brought $21.55.
  
• [S362] Thomas Dodson (Cpl, 26th Missouri Infantry Regiment of US Volunteers, Civil War), pension case file, pension application 50,866, filed 2 September 1864 (as a wounded veteran), certificate 42,399; Civil War and Later Pension Files; Department of Veterans Affairs, Record Group (RG) 15; National Archives, Washington, D.C. Widow, Arah Ann Davidella (Fields) Dodson, application 1,009,086, filed 9 June 1913, certificate 764,894.
  
  Thomas received a pension from some time in 1865 (as a disabled veteran) until about 1913. Then his widow received a pension until she died in 1920. This is a much longer time span than the other Civil War pensioners in this family. Their file has well over 100 sheets of paper in it. Only "highlights" are listed in this citation.
  
  Specific cited items are listed in roughly chronological order. Most of the material dealing with Arah Davidella (which might be most interesting to the Fields family members) appears toward the end, especially from when she first applied for a widow's pension.
  
  The following is the key information that the National Archives uses to identify this pension file: He applied for a pension on Sept 2 1864 (as a wounded veteran), Application Number 50,866, and was awarded a pension (Certificate 42,399), in MO. His widow applied on June 9, 1913 (after his death), Application 1,009,086, and was also awarded a pension (Certificate 764,894), also in MO.
  
  1. Army certificate of disability for discharge, dated 22 May 1864. He was apparently at Lawson General(?) Hospital in St. Louis on that date. States he is 23 years old, 5 ft 11.5 inches tall, dark complexion, blue eyes, dark hair, and was a farmer prior to entering army. Corporal in 26th Missouri Infantry. Enlisted at Osage County Missouri on 3 Feb 1862. Born in Gasconade County, Missouri. Had been wounded in Battle of Chattanooga in left forearm, causing a fracture of ulna. This item is very similar (perhaps identical) to something in his service record. Perhaps it was transferred to the pension folder after the service record was microfilmed.
  
  2. Apparently a War Department pension internal proof/review sheet. Summarizes case, states he was wounded on 25 Nov 1863 (gives location of wounding as Mission Ridge). Seems to have pension of $6/month granted 29 May 1865, retroactive to 22 May 1864 (but the amount might have been changed to $4/month - the copy is unclear. The evaluation had initially been he was totally disabled, but that is crossed out and changed to ¾ disabled. It is unclear if these changes were made in May 1865 (prior to final approval of this form) or if there were later changes.
  
  3. Certified record of marriage of Thomas Dodson and Arah D. D. Fields. Married in house of A. Deal in Osage County Missouri, 14 Jun 1865. Certification is dated 27 May 1913 (probably credited for Arah's widow's pension application). Placed in this sequence on marriage date.
  
  4. Application for pension increase dated 6 Dec 1873. At this time his pension appears to be $4/month. In this document. He lives near Hartsville, Wright County, Missouri. William C Fields is a witness for Thomas Dodson's mark. Richard Dodson (possibly a brother?) is another witness (Richard also signs with a mark). This appears to be a true Wm C Fields signature, since it appears at least one more time in this file and at least once in his own file, and they all look very similar. Interestingly, there are also places in his own file where he did not sign, but rather placed a witnessed mark.
  
  5. Increase for Invalid Pension, dated July 1886.This is a document that was witnessed by Mary A Williams (who is listed in the document as a resident of Greene County). She may have been the Mary Williams who was married to William C Fields for a time (the 3rd of his 4 wives).
  
  6. Affidavit claiming deafness (and other illnesses). Claims he first had hearing difficulties at Battle of Vicksburg. His mark witnessed by C C Dodson, one of the sons of Thomas and Arah. One C. C.'s initials stands for Christopher. Date is uncertain, but probably 1891 or 1892.
  
  7. Affidavit by William C Fields dated 20 May 1892. Gives his address as "Telora" (probably Florilla) and his age as 74. Describes deafness and other disabilities and states they have been continuous since the end of the claimant's military service.
  
  8. Affidavit from Thomas A Stephens, dated 6 Dec 1892. Stephens says he knew Dodson in Osage County and lived 6 miles away. He observed Dodson around August 1863, when Dodson was home on an extended furlough due to illness (and Stephens observed the effects of the illness on Dodson). August 1863 would have been prior to when Dodson was wounded in action. Stephens was briefly a brother-in-law of Thomas Dodson. They married daughters of Wm C Fields and Keziah Jarman (both born about 1819). Thomas Stephens' wife, Mary Elizabeth (Fields) Stephens, died around 1866, just a year or two after Thomas Dodson married Arah. This document was generated long after their in-law relationship ended.
  
  9. Affidavit by "Arah Davidella" (who gives her name as "Ary Ann") dated 20 Dec 1892 (gives her age as 48). She talks about his illness during the August 1863 furlough (chronic diarrhea). Appears to be her signature (handwriting of signature looks different than other writing on page, even though some later things in the file indicate she did not read or write).
  
  10. Filled-out questionnaire from Bureau of Pensions dated 11 May 1898. Wife's maiden name is given here is Aryann Davidella Fields. Address is Elwood, Greene County, Missouri. This document, not signed with a mark, has Thomas Dodson's signature (in flowing handwriting) - the document could have been dictated to a scribe. The list of 7 children includes "Tilie" (or maybe "Telie") born 1882. Complete list of children is:
  
  Stanford 1865
  Luice (?) 22 Jan 1871
  John 27 Jan 1874
  Alice Jul 3 1877
  Jeff 25 Dec 1879
  Tilie 19 Dec 1882
  Bertha 15 Jun 1888
  
  11. Filled-out questionnaire form Bureau of Pensions dated 25 Mar 1899. Similar to the previous item, but about a year later. Her maiden name is now listed as Ann Della Fields, address is Plainfield, Missouri, and "Tilie" is omitted from list of children. Marriage is said to have been performed by Rev. Mr. Vaughn on Jan 22, 1985. This version is signed with a mark. Complete list of children is:
  
  W. S. Dodson 1865
  C. C. " 1871
  J. N. " 1874
  Allice " 1876
  F. J. " 1879
  Bertha J " 1888
  
  12. Declaration for Pension (or, probably more accurately, a pension increase) dated 24 May 1912. Gives Dodson's birth location (Herman, Gasconade County). Indicates approximately when they moved to Greene County (about 1873, 39 years prior to 1912). Gives his address as Elwood. Signs with a mark.
  
  13. Affidavit from undertaker, dated 27 May 1913. Gives burial date and location, 11 may 1913, in Clear Creek Cemetery, Greene County Missouri. A later document indicates he died the previous day, May 10.
  
  14. Application for widow's pension, dated 2 June 1913. Gives name as Arah D D Dodson, age 65, Clear Creek, Green County, Missouri. Soldier died 10 May 1913 in Clear Creek. Signs with mark.
  
  15. Informal handwritten list. This appears to be undated, but may be from some time around 1912 or 1913. Written by their oldest son, it provides the most comprehensive list of children's names and entire family's birth dates. It may have been was sent to the pension bureau as an enclosure with some other document in the file, but, if so, it has now become separated from that parent document.
  
  Thomas Dodson 4 May 1837
  Ary Ann DD Dodson 7 Sep 1846
  W S Dodson 18 Oct 1865
  Christifer C Dodson 22 Dec 1871
  John R Dodson 27 Jan 1874
  Meda A Dodson 3 July 1877
  Fransas J Dodson 25 Dec 1879
  Mary B Tela Dodson 18 Dec 1882
  Bertha Emma Jane 15 Jun 1888
  
  16. Pension office internal approval sheet apparently dated 9 Oct 1913, approving widow's pension of $1/month effective (retroactive to) 9 June 1913. It appears to have been stamped on 17 April 1917 indicating the pension increased to $20/month effective 8 Sept 1916, when she reached age 70.
  
  17. A handwritten letter written in the name of Erah D D Dodson, dated 28 Oct 1916. It describes an "old family reckard" and states she was born in Tennessee, in Montgomery County. Unclear what the "reckard" is. Letter asks that it be returned and it is not in the file. This record does not seem to be in the file -- and it is not clear as to what it might have been.
  
  18. A handwritten letter written in the name of Arah D D Dodson, dated 24 Jan 1917. It states she was born in Tennessee, in Montgomery County near Palmyra in 1846. She moved with her parents to Osage County Missouri at age 8 (about 1854).
  
  19. Letter from pension office to Arah D D Dodson (RFD No. 4, Springfield, Missouri) dated 19 Feb 1917. Requested to provide list of townships she has lived in and distance and directions to post offices in 1850 and 1860 (looks like pension office may have access to census records for those years - and indeed a jacket in the file contained a notation that mentioned a request for census data).
  
  20. A handwritten letter written in the name of Arah D D Dodson, dated 28 Feb 1918. States she is unable to supply information as she was a young child, except that in Osage County she lived in Crawford Township, near the town of Linn, which
  
  21. Pension Bureau document indicating Arah D D Dodson died on 7 August 1920. She was apparently receiving a pension of $25/month at that time.
• [S372] 1880 United States Census, Missouri, population schedule, Middleton (ED 55), Lafayette County, p 21, Household 212, John H Fields; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed by Carl Fields 2009), based on NARA Microfilm Publication T9.
• [S388] 1850 United States Census, Tennessee, population schedule, Montgomery County, p 203 (stamped, p 405 written), Household 1020, William C Fields; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed by Carl Fields 2009) , based on NARA Microfilm Publication M432.
• [S402] Arizona Vital Records Section Department of Health Services, death certificate D102-880026727 (19 December 1988), Virgil Aaron Fields; Office of Vital Records, Department of Public Health, Sacramento, California. Place of death: St Joseph's Care Center; born: 16 July 1901 (Arkansas); Divorced; Citizen of USA; SS# 527-05-0188; Usual Occupation: Service Station Owner; Usual Residence: 1512 E. Wood, Phoenix AZ (Maricopa County) 85040; Arizona resident 60 years; Father: G. M. Fields; Mother: Sarah Johnston (sic); Informant: Aline Amelia Gilliatt, friend, 3121 W. Bloomfield Road, Phoenix AZ 85029; Burial on 21 Dec 1988, East Resthaven Park Cemetery, Phoenix AZ; Funeral Home: Grishaw Bloom Chapel, 3800 S. Central, Phoenix AZ; Certifying Physician: Anna M. Lupa, 1010 E. McDoweel Rd, Phoenix AZ (attending physician: Ron Mabels); Death at 3:10 pm; Cause: cancer of colon (metastatic). Reg File No. 16352, Reg. District 0704.
• [S406] "Tyrrell County Official's Bonds, 1743-1899, 1908, 1910, N. D.", Tyrrell Branches (Tyrrell County (NC) Genealogical and Historical Society), Vol 5, No. 2 (October 2000) (possibly transcribed by Ann Basnight).
• [S462] 1920 United States Census, Missouri, Cedar Township (ED 56) Cedar County, p 5B (Image 677), Household 111, J H (John Hartwell) Fields; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed by Carl Fields 5 June 2007) , based on NARA Microfilm Publication T625.
• [S488] 1860 United States Census, Missouri, population schedule, Crawford Township, Osage County, 97 (Image 312), Household 689, Wm C Fields; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed by Carl Fields 7 Jan 2006) , based on NARA Microfilm Publication M653.
• [S589] Beyonca Fields-Gravedoni, "Genealogies: Fields", OZAR'KIN Volume XVIII, Number 2 (Summer 1996), publication of Ozarks Genealogical Society, Incorporated. Hereinafter cited as "Genealogies: Fields". This is a family genealogy submitted by Mrs. Beyonca Fields-Gravedoni , which appeared in a regular feature (or "column") of the journal. The feature was edited by Pauline W. Huffman.
• [S615] Dianna German Anderson, Redding, California, to Carl Fields, e-mail, "Re: Jesper Jarmon Estate Documents" (4 Aug 2006 -- summarizes information Diana received from John German indicating that in 1806 a William Jarman was apprenticed to Josiah Jarman as a cordwinder (shoemaker) and that in the 1850 census of Greene County TN, a William Jarman, age 55, was listed as a shoemaker; William Jarman was Household 620 in this county's 1850 census return), 4 August 2006; privately held by Carl Fields, Aiken, South Carolina, Computer Files (e-mails, Genealogy, or "Gene," section of Local Folders).
• [S652] Lacy Fields Cemetery Marker, Blue Springs Cemetery, Newark, Independence County, Arkansas; Carl Fields, read July 2000 (and on other dates).
• [S653] Dilla Fields Cemetery Marker, Blue Springs Cemetery, Newark, Independence County, Arkansas; Carl Fields, read July 2000 (and on other dates).
• [S655] Alvin Fields Cemetery Marker, Blue Springs Cemetery, Newark, Independence County, Arkansas; Carl Fields, read July 2000 (and on other dates).
• [S674] 1940 U. S. Census, Hot Springs Township, Garland County, Arkansas, population schedule, Enumeration District 26-32, page 1A, Line 29, no household number listed (visited 10 May 1940), Virgil A Fields -- informant was Virgil A Fields; digital image, National Archives 1940 Census, Official 1940 Census Website (http://1940census.archives.gov : accessed by Carl Fields 28 July 2012), citing National Archives microfilm publication T627, roll 137, image 801.
• [S740] E Walls, "The Public Health Service VD clinic in Hot Springs, AR", Public Health Reporter 1995 Jan-Feb; 110(1), 103-104, (PMCID: PMC1382082) (Jan-Feb 1995). Hereinafter cited as "Public Health Service VD clinic in Hot Springs".
  
  Two articles by the same author and with similar titles appeared in different journals in early 1995: this one in the Public Heath Reporter and a second one in the Journal of the Arkansas Medical Society. The one in the Public Heath Reporter appears in pdf form on the internet. Carl Fields has not seen the other one to compare the two articles. Thus it is unclear if these are two different articles, two versions of the same article, the same article published twice (with different titles), or something else. Carl suspects the same article was published twice, probably reprinted in Public Heath Reporter to provide wider readership.
  
  The Public Heath Reporter version is available on the internet via a web site called PubMed.gov, which is owned by the US National Library of Medicine, part of the National Institutes of Health. The URL for the pdf version of the article is: (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1382082 : accessed 25 Aug 2012 by Carl Fields). The internet version of the article also seems to have the identifier: PMCID: PMC1382082, where the "PMC" seems to stand for PubMed Central, apparently a poprtion of a larger web site (or possibly a series of nested web sites). This web site also seems to have the name: National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) associated with it (perhaps the name of the next level up what seems to be a daisy chain of linked or nested web pages).
  
  The author (E. Walls) is Edwina Walls, Head, Historical Research Center, University of Arkansas for Medical Science Library, Little Rock
  
  The copyright status of this article is unclear.
• [S741] E. Walls, "Hot Springs waters and the treatment of venereal diseases: the U.S. Public Health Service Clinic and Camp Garraday", Journal of the Arkansas Medical Society (J Ark Med Soc.) 1995 Feb;91(9):430-1, 433-7 (Feb 1995). Hereinafter cited as "Hot Springs waters and the treatment of venereal diseases: ... Camp Garraday".
  
  Two articles by the same author and with similar titles appeared in different journals in early 1995: this one in the Journal of the Arkansas Medical Society and a second one in th e Public Heath Reporter. The one in the Public Heath Reporter appears in pdf form on the internet. Carl Fields has not seen this one to compare the two articles (fromJournal of the Arkansas Medical Society). Thus it is unclear if these are two different articles, two versions of the same article, the same article published twice (with different titles), or something else. Carl suspects the same article was published twice, probably reprinted in Public Heath Reporter to provide wider readership.
  
  The author (E. Walls) is Edwina Walls, Head, Historical Research Center, University of Arkansas for Medical Science Library, Little Rock (as of 2012, she is apparently known as Edwina Mann).
  
  Under this title (Hot Springs waters and the treatment of venereal diseases: the U.S. Public Health Service Clinic and Camp Garraday) the manuscript won the 1992 Murray Gottlieb Prize, awarded by the Medical Library Association (MLA). The Murray Gottlieb Prize is awarded annually for the best unpublished essay on the history of medicine and allied sciences written by a health sciences librarian. The Gottlieb Prize was established in 1956 by Ralph and Jo Grimes of the Old Hickory Bookshop, Brinklow, MD, in order to recognize and stimulate the health sciences librarians' interest in the history of medicine (http://www.mlanet.org/awards/honors/gottlieb.html : accessed 25 Aug 2012 by Carl Fields). The prize is awarded for an unpublished essay, so the date of the prize was earlier than the date (or dates) of publication.
  
  
  
  
• [S844] Gloria Simpson, Sanger Cemetery (Sanger, Fresno County, California), database (with some images), Jim Tipton (and others), Find A Grave, (http://www.findagrave.com : accessed 30 Sep 2012), Clarence Fields, Memorial No. 6155665.
• [S930] Tax Assessor, Livingston County, Kentucky, "Tax books 1831, 1833, 1836-1838, 1840-1857," tax records on microfilm, Family History Library (FHL) : Salt Lake City, Utah, FHL Microfilm 8120; citing Kentucky State Historical Society, Frankfort, Kentucky, 1952-1953
  
  The title/description for this microfilm reel mentions years "1831, 1833, 1836-1838, (AND) 1840-1857" (but the 1835 tax roll seems to be present on the reel). Apparently the tax records are missing for other years.
  
  The information is in columns and rows, with each taxpayer (and apparently, in at least some years, each parcel of land owned by a taxpayer) being on a row, with the type of property being taxed or assessed indicated in columns.
  
  The types of taxes and/or assessed property seemed to vary somewhat from year to year. Items in one or more years included land (acreage and, in some years, town lots), slaves, horses (and, in some years, mules, mares, and ginnys -- or hinnys), carriages, cattle, "stores," "studs, jacks, and bulls," ownership of tavern license, and (for 1840 and later) number of children (in certain age ranges). A few additional categories of information were added around the mid-1850s, including number of hogs and the value of gold watches and gold plate. In some years slaves were divided into two or more age groups. In some years both the number and value of slaves and certain types of animal livestock are listed.
  
  In some years the descriptions of assessed property (the column headings) were written by hand and are difficult to decipher. For example, it appears that "carriages" were assessed in 1835, but that is not a certain reading of the column heading text (carriages were assessed in at least one other year, but perhaps not each year in this series). It is not clear if mules were taxed as if they were horses each year, or if they were taxed in only those years where they were explicitly listed as such. Also, some types of property seem to have been listed only for information (and possibly to enable estimating the tax revenue that might be obtained from potential revisions to tax laws. for example, as indicated above, in some years procedures appear to have required tax collections to determine the number of hogs and the numbers of "studs, jacks, and bulls" that resident owner. However, these "extra" items of information do not seem to have been used in determining the value of total value of property to be taxed.
  
  The county assessed a poll (head) tax on white males age 21 and over. In the early years, when the column headings were written by hand, this was sometimes written as a "pole" tax. In later years, when printed forms were used, the column heading was something like "Free White Males Over 21". It is possible this column could provide some information about ages. For example, it be that a person under age 21 (and thus not counted as a "poll" could have owned a horse and been taxed for it. However, no situations like this were noted for the people of interest in this web site. Also, no situations were noted where two "polls" were listed on the same line (which might have represented two adult men in the same household). Apparently, each adult male was listed under his own name in a separate row in the tabular records (at least that seemed to be the case for the individuals of interest in this web site).
  
  A few instances have been noted where female members of the Sills family owned land, where they appeared in the tax records has having been assessed taxes for land, but no "poll" was recorded for them. These members of the Sills family (other than Lucy Sills and Thomas B Sills) are described in more detail later in this endnote.
  
  Few of the people of interest in this county (when this microfilm was examined in March 2013) owned land or other property, so most columns were blank (in particular, none of them owned any slaves in any of these years). For simplicity, only the types of property that each one was assessed for are listed in the narratives. The other categories are mentioned above paragraph primarily to provide insight into the types of things these individuals did not own (the items would have been listed if they had been owned). In particular, land, horses, slaves, and cattle (in excess of a certain threshold value) seem to have been included in the list of taxable items each year. Thus when these items are not listed for a given year, it is quite likely that the household did not include any of these items (except possibly cattle, where the household could have included cattle whose value was below the taxable threshold - usually $50).
  
  Even though John Jarman, and perhaps some other individuals, were assessed for taxes on land, they apparently did not own the land (or did not have full title to it), at least in the early years. The tax record books for the years 1835, 1836, and 1837 list the name of the "patent" holder for "his" land" (which appears to be James Rutten, or something like that, for the land John Jarman is assessed for). The land (916 acres) that Thomas B Sills was assessed for in 1837 lists the name of John Orton as "patent" holder (Thomas B Sills may have been a brother of John Jarman's wife, Lucy Sills). These patent holders no longer seem to have been listed after 1837. No systematic, detailed research was done for the patent holders. However, it was noticed that in 1836 Rutter was taxed for a total of about 1080 acres of land. The value of all his property (which included some livestock and other items was $4715.
  
  John Jarman may have been renting the land or purchasing it on some type of contract with installment payments. No records have yet been located indicating John Jarman even had formal legal title to any land in Livingston County KY. His name (Jarman's) does not seem to be listed among Livingston County deeds as a grantee or a grantor. No searches have yet been done for deeds associated with members of the Sill family (as of March 2013). The name of the individual who patented the land does not appear in the tax books after 1837.
  
  In the early years for the information on this roll, land was apparently divided into three classes (called 1, 2, and 3, which may have been taxed at different rates). John Jarman's land was considered Class 3. These land classifications do not appear in the tax books after 1836.
  
  During several years, the tax list information includes a "watercourse" associated with the land. This suggests the property (land grants) in this county were laid out so that each plot bordered on a creek or river.
  
  John Jarman's property was on apparently on Sandy Creek. A modern map of Livingston County (http://www.livingstonco.ky.gov/map/livingston.pdf : accessed 19 March 2012) suggests that Sandy Creek is in the western portion of the county and runs roughly NNW, passing west and north of the community of Salem. The Creek enters Crittenden County north of Salem. Interestingly, in the 1840 census, John Jarman is listed as living in Smithton, which is in the opposite end of the county from the Salem area. (It is possible, of course, that two creeks in the county have - or once had -- that name.)
  
  Several specific dates (which include a month and a day of the month) appear among the various tax records. Based on examining these, it would seem taxes were due (or taxes were assessed) around midyear (May or June) and the tax rolls were examined or audited around August or September.
  
  In 1845 and 1846, the tax roll appears to be divided into two sections. That is, for those years there are two alphabetical lists, both running "A to Z". Some later years may also have multiple lists for the same year.
  
  Some individuals of interest seem to have been "missed" for some years (for example, John Jarman in 1845). It is also possible that tax records for some years are only partially complete. Also there seem to be some errors on the lists, such as Jane Sills possibly being listed as a "poll" (white male) in 1840 and an apparent addition error in computing John Jarman's taxes in 1844.
  
  The records seem to contain information on only the number of "polls" and the value (or assessed value) of taxable property. The records do not contain information about the amount of tax actually paid for the "polls" or on the assessed property.
  
  When this microfilm reel was first examined, in March 2013, the primary interest was in William (Charles) Fields and John Jarman. However, in perusing the film, it appears the tax records may provide information about other people that are of possible interest to Sills family researchers. These include James Fields (1840 and 1841), John Fields (1847 and at least one year in the 1850s), Jeptha Jarman (1844 and 1845), Josheua D. Jarman (1855 and 1856 - he is the eldest son of John Jarman), Thomas B Sills (1836-1838, and 1840-1846), Thomas Sills (1837 and 1838), Henry H Sills (1840 and 1841), Jane Sills (1840, 1842-1844, and 1847), William H Sills (probably 1844-1847), Joseph J Sills (1844-1846 and 1848-1857), Polly P Sills (1847-1850), B. D. Sills (probably 1848-1857), and possibly a few others (who may or may not be some of the above-named individuals listed under other names -- for example, an individual listed as B. T. Sills in the tax records for one year may be the individual usually listed as Thomas B Sills). John and James Fields may be related to William Fields, Jeptha Jarman may be related to John Jarman, and the various individuals named Sills may be related to John Jarman's wife, Lucy B Sills. Also, in one year, John Jarman is listed as John B Jarman. The names Thomas Sills and Thomas B. Sills both appear in 1837 and 1838, suggesting these are two different individuals. Also, Thomas Sills was taxed for land on Sandy Creek in 1837 and 1838, and Thomas B. Sills began to be taxed for land on the same watercourse in 1839, suggesting that Thomas Sills had transferred land to Thomas B Sills (although the amount of land Thomas B. Sills held in 1839 - and in later years - was much smaller than the amount of land held by Thomas Sills in 1838 and 1839).
  
  Detailed year-by-year information has not been recorded here for anyone other than William C Fields, John Jarman, Joshua Jarman (the eldest son of John Jarman, who was recorded on the Livingston County tax rolls in 1855 and 1856), and Thomas B. Sills. The other names are listed in the preceding paragraph to provide a "trail" for other researchers. As of May 2013, they are not treated in detail on this web site or in the data base.
  
  Detailed systematic analyses and comparisons of the values of various properties have not been performed. However, it was noted in passing that the horses owned by Thomas B. Sills seemed to have been much more valuable than those owned by John Jarman or William Fields. Also, John Jarman's land began to have sharp increases in assessed value starting in 1855. It is unclear if the land value really changed suddenly or if this might have been due to a change in the policies and/or methods used to assess land value.
  
  It appears that Thomas B. Sills was not taxed for any land after 1846, while certain other individuals named Sills began to be taxed for land in 1847. It could be that Thomas B. Sills died (or transferred assets to family members) around 1846 or 1847. A "B. T. Sills" appears in the 1847 tax rolls and only in that year's tax roll), but did not own land. Also, certain female names (such as Polly Sills) show up as being taxed for property for a few years. No research has been done to see if any of those females who vanish from the rolls died, transferred (e.g., sold) their property, or married (in which case the property was probably subsequently listed under the name of her husband).
  
  It appears that none of the individuals examined on these tax rolls for this web site (i.e,, no members of the families with Jarman, Fields, or Sills surnames) owned slaves at any time during the years these records cover.
  
  Names in the tax rolls are generally grouped by the first latter of the surname of the taxpayer. However, they generally do not appear to be arranged alphabetically other than for that first letter. It is likely, that (within the names grouped by those fist letters) the names are grouped either geographically (as the tax collector or assessor traveled around the county (or possibly - but less likely - chronologically, as taxpayers visited the county offices). Based on this, it appears that several of the people surnamed Sills were related because, in most years, several of them are listed together (or close to one another). If the tax collector did indeed travel around the county, it appears that (in most years in the late 1850s and early 1850s) several, but not all, of the people named Sills lived close to one another.
  
  A web site, "Tax Lists," set up by the current (as of July 2013) Kentucky Secretary of State, Alison Lundergan Grimes, provides general information about these early tax lists (http://sos.ky.gov/admin/land/resources/legislation/Pages/… : accessed25 Jul 2013). This web site provides a link to a second web site that contains an article by Kandie Adkinson, "Tax Lists (1792-1840): Overlooked Resource for Kentucky History & Land Title," said to have initially been published by the Kentucky Genealogical Society (no additional original publication information is given on the sites -- the sites are somewhat unclear as to what the original title of the Adkinson article might have been). The "end date" of 1840 in the article seems to have been selected represent when the state began to used standardized forms to collect information. The tax was collected after 1840 and (as indicated above, records are available for Livingston County until at least well into the 1850s).
  
• [S934] Notes and Observations on the Jarman Family (as this matierial was being composed, an alternative working title was something along the lines of "Jarman Family Mysteries and Puzzles").
• [S1138] Ron and Cindy Dunfee, Fairview Cemetery (Ann, Douglas County, Missouri), database (with some images), Jim Tipton (and others), Find A Grave, (http://www.findagrave.com : accessed 22 Aug 2013), Eva Amanda (Elliott) Fields, Memorial No. 19946214. Web site includes photo of grave marker. Marriage to W. C. Fields is mentioned on thie grave marker.
• [S1177] Carl Fields, "Personal Recollections about V A Fields" :
  
  I “always” thought of two of my uncles (Virgil and Orville) as primarily living in Phoenix Arizona during the era that I remember (which starts around 1950 – “always,” as used here, is something like “within the entire span of my memory”). I have been quite surprised in recent years to find that they are generally not listed in Phoenix city directories that became available at various internet sites in the last few years (“last few years” from the viewpoint of when the first draft of this paragraph is being written in March 2010). Also, he was not living in Phoenix at the times of the 1930 and 1940 censuses.
  
  In the case of Uncle Virgil, this may have been because he was a construction worker at various times in the 1930s and 1940s, and mostly resided at or near various construction job sites – “coming back” to Phoenix only “between jobs”. I don’t have any specific memory that suggests this, but at some time in the 1950s (probably early 1950s) he sent or gave me a decal for the Hungry Horse Dam in (I think) Montana. My very vague memory is being told he had helped build that dam. I put the decal on my suitcase. I had several other decals on the suitcase (mostly from places that I had been). I believe the suitcase had once belonged to my mother. I remember using it until (perhaps) the late 1950s. Not sure what happened to it, but, of course, I wish that I at least had a photograph of it now, to see what some of those decals were.
  
  Sometime (probably in the late 1950s), he purchased (or started) a “service station” business at (if I remember correctly) the southwest corner of the intersection of 16^th Street and Wood Street in Phoenix (south of the Salt River in Phoenix, but I believe it is only a few blocks south of the river). I believe the “service station” was what we would now probably call a convenience store. He had gasoline and sold candy and snacks, but I’m pretty sure did not do much mechanical work on automobiles (although he might have done some relatively simple things, such as patching inner tubes, changing oil, and replacing fan belts). His station was “unbranded,” in the sense that it was not a franchise from a large oil company.
  
  When I first visited him as an adult (around 1977), he lived around 1612 Wood Street (the house number MIGHT have been 1512 – I remember it was east of 16^th Street), which was on the opposite side of the street from the service station and maybe just west of it. His home was a small cottage with a carport on the east side of it (his home faced south). The yard was essentially grass-free and there seemed to be scrap construction material at various locations beside the house and in the yard. In 1977, he put me (actually Donna and I) up in a camper trailer that seemed to be permanently parked behind the house, which he used as a guest room. His toilet (which had running-water plumbing) was sort of behind the house (behind the kitchen) in what seemed to be a small addition (like a back porch that had been closed in). It wasn’t an “outhouse” (in the sense that one had to go out from under the roof in order to use it, but it did not seem to be part of the original construction of the house).
  
  The parked camper trailer had electricity. I don’t recall if it had running water or not – I think it did, possibly from a tank in the trailer, or maybe from hoses (or pipes laid on the top of the ground) running from the house. Donna and I were there probably in early December. I recall that it was pretty cold in the trailer at night. Mom (Edith) had told me that she and Dad had stayed in the trailer on at least one earlier trip when they visited Uncle Virgil – probably around the late 1960s or early 1970s.
  
  I believe that he never owned the land and/or buildings where his home or his service station business was. That is, he was always a renter.
  
  He probably retired from the service station business some time in the early 1970s. I believe the building that had housed the station was vacant on my 1977 trip. I sort of remember hearing that he had tried to bring his grandson, George Howard Fields, into the business, but that had not worked out.
  
  I believe it was that 1977 trip when I mentioned the possibility of him and me going to see George (Virgil’s son) while I was in Phoenix and Uncle Virgil seemed to make excuses. This suggested to me that he and George were not getting along, so I did not press the point. George was, even at that point, suffering from emphysema. My memory is that Uncle Virgil said he was living with friends of his. I did not fully realize then the bad state of George’s health.
  
  Uncle Virgil visited Arkansas several times in the 1950s when I lived with Aunt Ruby and Uncle Hanford. I seem to remember that he came with Uncle Orville a few times, and with his son George at least once (in the last few years, as this is written in 2010, I have learned that George’s full name was George Franklin Fields, but I do not ever remember hearing that middle name used during his lifetime – George was known as just George and his son was known as George Howard).
  
  I also heard that he (Uncle Virgil) once came with a “girlfriend” (who I guess he went with, or lived with, for a year or so). I’m almost certain this was at a time when I was not in Arkansas, since I do not remember meeting her. I can’t remember if this was after I went to Detroit in 1960, or if it was at a time when I was in Detroit in the 1950s – perhaps at time when I was in Detroit (or, at least, not in Arkansas) during a summer vacation.
  
  I sort of remember seeing Uncle Virgil in Arkansas on one trip when Joe Pocus had driven him – perhaps in the early 1980s.
  
  I remember that on 2 or 3 of these Arkansas trips, Uncle Virgil came in a panel truck (a Ford, I believe, probably a model-year from around 1953 or 1954) that he had essentially made into a camper, by installing a bed in the back (like a regular single bed with an ordinary “bedroom-type” bed frame, headboard, etc). He had essentially “invented” a camper van – at a time when few, if any, were ready-built, so far as I remember.
  
  Another time, probably in the early 1970s, he started to Arkansas (perhaps in a truck – perhaps even in the above-mentioned panel truck). At some point on the way (New Mexico or Texas) the vehicle he started in had a serious (terminal) malfunction. He stayed in the town a couple days, arranging to have money wired from his bank in Phoenix, and bought a new car to finish the trip to Arkansas. I think this was when he purchased the Gremlin.
  
  After Uncle Virgil retired, I would hear about him going on extended fishing trips – sometimes to Mexico (with his friend Joe Pocus, I think, who spoke Spanish) and perhaps sometimes to other parts of Arizona, perhaps with Arkansas friends (such as a relative of my former Newark Classmate Richard Gilbreath – I believe Richard moved away when we were in the second grade; I imagine he moved to Arizona). He may have also taken me to visit someone named Boltinghouse in Phoenix once too.
  
  I remember that one of the people we visited (Gilbreath, or possibly Boltinghouse) had a painting in his living room of the old red brick “grade school” building in Newark, which several generations of students attended (the building was used from perhaps around 1902 to 1957, I started first grade there in 1950). The person we visited was pleased that I could recognize the building from the painting. He told me he had the painting done in Arizona, and the artist had never seen the building (the painting was probably done long after the building had been demolished). I imagine the artist worked from a photograph and his description.
  
  George F. Fields had four children: George Howard (the oldest – born perhaps late 1946 or early 1947; he was about 2 years younger than me) and three daughters, whose names I do not remember. I’m pretty sure all four had been born when I first visited Phoenix with my dad in 1953.
  
  Uncle Virgil visited my dad in Detroit at some time in the 1950s, and perhaps stayed there for several weeks, going out on “air conditioning” cleaning jobs. Some time after he returned to Arizona, Uncle Virgil started a similar business of his own out there. He probably mostly ran it as a low-key part-time thing in conjunction with his service station (although he may have started the Arizona cleaning business before starting or buying the service station). I believe he used the same name as my dad’s initial business name: Ventilation Cleaning Service. [I vaguely recall there was a third “spin-off” like this too, where a former employee – perhaps Stanley, brother-in-law of Art Taylor, returned to some city in the south to do this -- started a similar business in some other city using the same name, while I was a small boy). I once asked my dad why he didn’t “claim” to be a larger company with these other “branches” (this was when I was maybe 9 or 10). His answer was something along the lines that he didn’t want to have any liability if these other businesses did something wrong (such as accidentally start a fire or be involved in an auto accident, I imagine).]
  
  Uncle Virgil told me he sold his business to Philip Norris, who was a fireman in Phoenix Arizona. I had known Phil back in Newark Arkansas in the late 1950s, before his family moved to Phoenix (Phil was about 3 years older than me, but one of his younger sisters was in my class). I presume Phil operated this only as a part-time sideline (in addition to his normal job). Uncle Virgil also told me that he (Uncle Virgil) had sold his business for more than my father had gotten for his larger business in Michigan (and my dad’s Michigan business had a longer history, of course). [It was only as I was writing this in 2010 that I realized the similarity between the name Philip Norris and the cigarette brand name, Philip Morris. Perhaps that’s why the person I knew was always known as Phil, not Philip.]
  
  A story about Uncle Virgil that I do not remember (but which my dad told me about a few times) was that when I was very young, Uncle Virgil told me that when I got older he would get me a Mexican Mule. (I have no idea why a Mexican Mule would be different from any other mule – or what I would do with a mule or where I would keep it.) Since I heard about this (from my dad) when I was quite young (but do not actually remember hearing Uncle Virgil say it), I imagine the occasion was when we were all in Arkansas (around September 1948) for Miss Sally’s funeral. Many years later, when I was perhaps 14 or 15, I asked Uncle Virgil about this (not expecting at that point that he was really ever going to produce a mule to give me). He apparently did not remember it.
• [S1178] Carl Fields, "Personal Recollections about Lacy Fields" :
  
  In the memories I have of Uncle Lacy from when I was a young boy, he and Margie owned a small liquor store on Front Street in Newport (small in terms of square feet of floor space – perhaps not all that small in terms of dollar volume of business). They lived in an apartment behind the store. In my early memories, their living space was very small – perhaps only a single room. However, as time went on, they expanded this space (probably in two or three stages); it eventually was an apartment with several rooms.
  
  I have a memory that the name of the liquor store (printed on the license that had to be displayed in the store) was something like “Margie’s Liquor Store” – and the license itself might have been in her name, Margie Fields. I’m pretty sure the sign outside just said “Liquor”.
  
  Earlier, according to what I learned reading the “Newark History Book” (written by Robert Craig), he had a “beer joint” and/or a pool hall in Newark. As best I can piece together the story, he had to give up the place in Newark when Independence County “voted dry” some time in the late 1940s. From various articles in the “News of Other Days” section of the Batesville Guard (which I read in the 2008-2010 era), the “voting dry” process took 2-3 elections, with Newark staying “wet” for at least a time (some number of months) after the rest of the county became dry.
  
  My memory is that Margie once said something to me about how they had to move to Newport in rather abrupt circumstances – and the small living quarters they had there were all that was available (and/or all they could afford at the time). It wasn’t until just a few years ago (perhaps the early 2000s, when I had access to the Newark History book and also several Batesville Guard “News of Other Days” columns – ones that described the 1940s wet/dry controversy) that it occurred to me that Lacy and Margie may have taken a substantial financial loss when Independence County voted dry.
  
  [A couple years ago, a cousin of my stepsisters, Bobby Brightwell, called me. He said (among other things) that when he lived in the White River bottoms (perhaps 1944-46), Uncle Lacy would hire him to plow (using Uncle Lacy’s tractor, I imagine). I think Uncle Lacy was farming the two pieces of GM Fields Estate land in that area (about 80 acres each, although probably some of the land on the Padgett Island side was wooded and could not be cultivated then). I also have a vague memory of hearing that Lacy and Margie had once lived at the Pink House – the 80 acres not on Padgett Island was normally called The Pink House Place within our family. I had thought this meant they lived at the Pink House during the 1930s, but perhaps it was in the 1944-46 era that Bobby spoke of. During my memory (the 1950s) the Pink House was unpainted (and unoccupied), except for an occasional vandal. Apparently the pink paint job had been many years earlier (but from a time when all my Fields uncles remembered it, i.e., probably ~1915, or later). The Pink House place did not have running water. I remember obtaining water from the pump there. The pump was outside (toward the front of the house, I believe). To obtain water, you had to prime it by pouring water into the base of the pump – I think – and then “pump” the handle several times.]
  
  Later (perhaps in the late 1950s) he and Margie bought a farm on the land on the east end of the “inside” of Hulsey Bend on the White River (the “inside” is on the Oil Trough and Newport side of the White River). There was a house on the farm, but it had no electricity and they never lived there. Instead, they purchased a house in Newport (on Holden Street, I believe – the address in my memory is 801 Holden Street – but my memory on this is pretty hazy as I write this particular section in April 2010). They apparently sold the liquor store at about the same time they bought the farm.
  
  I heard two stories from around the late 1950s, from around the time Lacy and Margie first purchased the Hulsey Bend farm. I seem to remember hearing both stories from Paul Cummings, although he may have related at least one of them as second hand.
  
  One story involves the very early days, when they had cattle, but did not yet have a truck. Instead they had a four-door sedan (which I recall as a large brown sedan – perhaps something like a late-1940s Packard – or possibly a Hudson?). The story was that they had a very young sick calf. They took the calf to a veterinarian by putting it on the floor in the back seat of the car.
  
  The second story also involves an animal. This time I think it was a pig that they were taking to sell – or perhaps had purchased to take to the farm to “fatten up.” At this time they had a pickup truck, but had not yet purchased tall sideboards for it (for use in hauling livestock). What they did was to put the pig in the bed of the pickup and started out driving. Margie would watch the pig through the back window of the cab. When the pig would start to climb out, she would tell Lacy and he would hit the brakes sharply, causing the car to decelerate and “throwing” the pig toward the front of the bed of the pickup.
  
  Their land in Hulsey Bend was fenced on the south and west. There may have been some fences along the river, but (if so) they were not always in good repair. The White River formed the primary barrier to livestock movement in those directions. The river banks were lined with a strip of dense tree growth and undergrowth – extending perhaps 50 –60 feet back from the river bank in some places (especially on the east side, if I remember correctly). Many of these were wild nut trees, especially pecans (I think he said there were “hundreds” of pecan trees of the land – I can remember his voice empathizing the word “hundreds” as I’m writing this sentence). There were some internal fences, but they too were not always in good repair.
  
  One had to drive through a farm (ranch?) owned by the Freeze family to reach the gate of Uncle Lacy’s property.
  
  For a time, early in their ownership, they raised pigs/hogs. He told me once that when they had pigs, the pigs “got” most of the pecans, essentially almost as soon as the pecans fell to the ground. One of my uncles (Uncle Virgil, I imagine) said something about how Lacy probably shouldn’t be too bothered by this, since he essentially derived income from the pecans by this indirect method – just as he would have if had collected the pecans off the ground and sold them – the pigs did the collecting for them. I have a vague memory of hearing of (or possibly imagining) them as chasing around the farm, trying to pick up fallen pecans before the pigs got to them. This might have been someone’s imagination (perhaps mine), not something that really happened. I always wondered what that pecan-fed pork tasted like. Probably not good, since the pigs almost certainly ate the (bitter) pecan shells along with the sweet “meaty” part of the pecan.
  
  One time (perhaps when I was down there on a trip while I was college-age), he asked if I wanted to meet him at the farm, as he would be there “cutting hogs” (or some term like that). I probably didn’t know what he meant at first. It was castrating young hogs – he took someone with him who knew how to do it. Not a pleasant thing for me to watch (I found myself sort of siding with the hogs). Each one would squeal and defecate as it was picked up to be placed on the “operating table” (although I can’t really remember the arrangement, i.e., if there was indeed a “table”). After their “surgery” each one went out into a field and lay down on its belly (and looked miserable). The “cutter” put all of the removed testicle in coffee cans – I presume to take home to have them cooked for his family.
  
  Another time I was out there and he and Margie were preparing to put some corn (stored in a large metal cylindrical tank) into their truck to take the grain into Newport (or someplace) to have it ground for feed (I believe they had cattle on the farm at this time). We went onto the (semi-closed-in) back porch of the farmhouse to a stack of cloth bags he had there (they might have been burlap, but I seem to remember they were a thinner type of cloth). The idea was that the bags would be re-used to hold the finely-ground corn meal cattle feed.
  
  As he started removing bags from the stack, he realized that a small hole had been chewed in almost every bag by a mouse. After removing perhaps 20 bags (and cursing the mouse for the hole chewed in almost every one of them) the mouse itself jumped out when the next bag was moved – in my memory it jumped right straight out at me, although that part – the mouse coming right toward me – might not have really happened. I’m pretty sure I was just as surprised to see the mouse as it was to have its little nest disturbed. Uncle Lacy was yelling at me to stomp on the mouse (whatever he said probably included a little bad language – he was pretty mad at that mouse at this point for having ruined his feed bags). The mouse was, of course, long gone by the time I recovered from the sudden shock of that (seemingly) flying mouse.
  
  Based on his appearance in the last few years of his life, I suspect my Uncle Lacy had a lower lip cancer surgically removed – one similar to my dad.
  
  Uncle Lacy almost always seemed to dress in khaki work clothes (even during the time when he “worked” indoors as basically a sales clerk in his own liquor store in Newport).
  
  I remember once (as a very small boy) being in the (very small) liquor store with my dad (and possibly also one of my other Fields uncles). There were railroad tracks on the other side of Newport’s Front Street, across from the liquor store. A train (diesel engine) came into town slowly (from the west – I’m not certain how the streets are aligned in Newport, but I think it was from the west – from upriver, in any case) with a very-much-dented truck (a panel truck as best I can remember) sort of “stuck” onto the front of the train (where the “cow catcher” would be, if diesel engines had “cow catchers”). The train had hit the vehicle at a grade crossing a minute or so earlier, and had coasted into town before it could come to a complete stop.
  
  I have a vague feeling about hearing someone (probably one of his brothers) tell about Uncle Lacy eating onions (I’m pretty sure this story was about him). The story was that Uncle Lacy liked onions and he ate them in a way similar to the way others might eat an apple. This might be confused with another story about how someone in my family ate apples, starting from the top and eating going down, eating the entire apple: core, seeds, and all. That may have been about Uncle Lacy (and it could have been that he ate an onion this same way).
  
  Uncle Lacy died of bone cancer. I visited him in Arkansas a few months before he died (at a time when Uncle Virgil was also there). I took Christian (an Old English Sheepdog) with me on that trip. I seem remember from that visit they had a hospital bed set up for him in the living room of Lacy’s and Margie’s house. Also, his affected leg was swollen noticeably, and he was very sick. One of his (Margie’s) granddaughters (or, perhaps more likely, a great-grand-daughter, about age 3 or 4) was visiting. That little girl got more of his attention than Christian and I did (and deservedly so – she was precious).
  
  
  
• [S1476] Carl C Fields, Aiken SC, to Natalie Goff (and many others), e-mail, "Stephens-Fields Cemetery Osage County Missouri -- Part 1 -- Fields-Johnson-Jarman-Stephens-Dodson Family History", 30 May 2015; privately held by Carl Fields, Aiken, South Carolina, Computer Files (e-mails, Genealogy, or "Gene," section of Local Folders, and also in TMG Note-FTM for Eleanor Siegel).
  
  Text of e-mail message:
  
  This is the first of what will probably be three e-mails related to the Fields-Stephens Cemetery, which I visited on May 18th, during the recent trip to Missouri and Kansas. During this visit, I was graciously hosted by the current owners of the land, Lane and Sharon Herndon (it could be they share ownership with Lane's brother, I'm not sure about that).
  
  The land the Herndons own today is not contiguous with the land the Fields ancestors owned back in the 1800s. It may be only the 40-acre 1/16th section containing the cemetery that is common to both their current holdings and the land the Fields ancestors owned back in the 1800s.
  
  This first message is to lay some groundwork, providing background information.
  
  One set of my g-grandparents, William C Fields and Keziah Jarman Fields, owned about 240 acres in Osage County Missouri between 1854 and about 1867 (40 acres of this land was at one point during this time period sold to one of their daughters, Mary Elizabeth Fields Stephens, who was married to Thomas Allen Stephens). During that time interval, three members of the family (descendants of William and Keziah) are known to have died. Those three appear to have been buried in a family cemetery on the land (two of the three are named on a marker in the cemetery, the third, Mary Elizabeth Stephens, is assumed to be buried there because she is known to have died during the period when the family owned the land). The cemetery seems to contain at least 6 graves. The next message will contain some speculation about who might be in the other graves.
  
  Most of the information conveyed by this e-mail is in the attachments, which are images of pages from documents.
  
  The first three attachments relate to ownership of the land in the 1800s. Lane Herndon gave these pages to me. They are probably selected pages from the abstract deed to his property. The first image documents the initial purchase by William C Fields of 240 acres from the US government. The second image documents the sale of 40 acres to the daughter of William C and Keziah (the son-in-law was not mentioned, which seems odd given how things worked back then).
  
  The third image documents a sale of 80 acres to someone outside the family (Alfred G. Parker). Note that one 40-acre parcel (the southwest quarter of the northeast quarter) seems to have been sold twice. It's listed in both the second image and the third image (the way I read them). I don't understand that, unless the land somehow reverted back to Mary Elizabeth Stephens's parents (rather than to her husband and/or her minor children) upon her death. (The next message will provide more detail about Mary Elizabeth's life and death.)
  
  The next seven images (the 4th through the 10th attachments) are of selected pages from a book documenting a survey of Osage County Cemeteries that seems to have been completed in the 1980s. I first saw this book in the Mid-Continent Genealogical Library near Independence Missouri several years ago (and I examined it a second time on this May 2015 trip to Missouri -- the name I gave here for the library is a guess; it's a big library crammed with family history stuff and is part of the Jackson County library system). The 4th through 8th images are included primarily to document the title of the book and to provide some of its introductory material for anyone who is interested (the fourth image gives the Dewey Decimal System call number for the book at the library).
  
  The 10th image is a description of a second cemetery on the 40-acre 1/16th section. I didn't see the second cemetery (which the book calls the Wildcat Cemetery, because it is near an old school building -- no longer in use -- on the Herndon property; the school was known as Wildcat School). So far as I know, the Wildcat Cemetery is not associated with our family. Its description from the book is provided here for completeness.
  
  The primary information of interest from the cemetery survey book is in the 9th image. It is a description of the Stephens-Fields cemetery, based on when it was examined in the 1980s. I'll add three things to further clarify the description on this page of the book: (1) I believe the Herndons mentioned on the page are Lane Herndon's parents, who owned the land in 1987; (2) the distance of "about 200 feet" mentioned at one point refers to the distance after you enter the woods, not the total distance from the farmhouse, which is probably a few hundred feet from the edge of the woods; and (3) the person who did the survey in the 1980s was uncertain if the "broken" engraved marker in the cemetery had indeed originally been a single marker; it was (she did not have the family history background to recognize that the two different surnames on the original marker were associated with the same extended family).
  
  The description on page shown in the ninth image mentions a line of six partially buried stones in a row. Actually there is a second almost-parallel row containing two additional partially buried stones. I took those two additional stones to be "foot-stones" associated with two of the (presumed) "headstones" in the row of six. However, it's possible they could be two additional "headstones". Also, there is an additional "loose" stone (not embedded in the ground), which seems to have writing engraved on it, but the writing is not legible. There will be more details in the next message in this series.
  
  At least some of the information on the 9th image was on the internet several years ago. Alinda Miller pointed it out to me via an e-mail, which is how I became aware of this cemetery. That information has apparently since been removed from the internet.
  
  The 4th through 8th images are from photographs that I made from the book at the library in Independence. The 9th and 10th images are scans of pages that Lane Herndon gave me (they were probably made using a copy machine). That's the reason why the last two "pages" look more "square" than the others. Another reason for using Lane's pages in this message (rather than photographs of the pages from the book in the Independence library) is that the photos on the 10th image are clearer on the page Lane provided than on the corresponding page in the library's copy of the book. The next e-mail in this series will include some better photos that I took at the cemetery (they are "better", but not as good as I had hoped).
  
  
  Note added Jan 2016: Two extraneous (unrelated) documented images had been inadvertently added to the original e-mail transmission. They are not included in the exhibit-images included in this source item.
• [S1531] Herbert G. May and Bruce M Metzger, The Oxford Annotated Bible with the Apocrypha (Oxford University Press, New York, Oxford, 1965).
• [S1874] 1860 United States Census, Tennessee, population schedule, District1 8, Monroe County, 315 (stamped) and251 (handwritten), Dwelling 1809 Household 1829, Robert (Ancestry.com initially transcribed surname as Bowering) Boring; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed by Carl Fields 27 Apr 2020) , based on NARA Microfilm Publication M653, NARA Roll # unknown (FHL 805265), Image unknown.
• [S1875] "Tennessee Marriage Records, 1780-2002," digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : 27 Mar 2020), entry for Robert Boring and Amanda Elliott, 25 Apr 1858, Monroe County; based on Tennessee State Marriages, microfilm, Tennessee State Library and Archives, probably Knoxville TN. Source document suggests license was granted on 24 April and marriage was performed on 25 April.
• [S1895] 1900 United States Census, MIssouri, Cedar Township (ED 49), Cedar County, 6B, Household 135, J H Fields; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed by Carl Fields 8 April 2020) , based on NARA Microfilm Publication T623, Reel XXXXXX, Sheet 6B, Line 86.
• [S1896] 1910 US Census, Missouri, North Cedar Townshp (ED 53), Cedar County, 11A, Dwelling 177 Household 177, Lindsey Fields; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed by Carl Fields 8 April 2020) , based on NARA Microfilm Publication T624 (Roll 768, ED 53, FHL Film No. 1374781).
• [S2085] Pat Carmichael (Cemetery Chairman - and presumably one of the compiles), Douglas County Historical Society Cemeteries, Book 4, Ava Missouri, 2020. Self-published by the Society. The address of the Douglas County Historical Society is P. O. Box 986, Ava, Missouri (MO) 68608. (self-published by the society, 2020).
  
  Alternatively: Pat Carmichael (Cemetery Chairman - and presumably one of the compiles), Douglas County Historical Society Cemeteries, Book 4, Ava Missouri, 2020. Self-published by the Society. The address of the Douglas County Historical Society is P. O. Box 986, Ava, Missouri (MO) 68608.

 

Compiler: Carl Fields

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