"COUNTIES OF MORGAN, MONROE & BROWN, INDIANA. HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL."
CHARLES BLANCHARD, EDITOR. CHICAGO: F. A. BATTEY & CO. PUBLISHERS. 1884.
F. A. BATTEY. F. W. TEPPLE
CLAY TOWNSHIP, MORGAN CO., INDIANA
PAGE 261
A. J. FIELDS was born in Madison Township, Morgan County, August 20, 1830,
and is the son of Allen and Elizabeth (Ritcher) Fields, natives respectively
of North Carolina and Virginia. The parents came to Indiana in 1828, and
located in Madison Township, where they resided until their death. Our
subject was reared upon a farm, received a rather limited education, and
came to Clay Township on January 1, 1853, and continued farming, being at
present located upon a farm of 138 acres of well-improved land, of which he
is the owner. He has been twice married. First to Clarissa Butterfield, on
December 18, 1853. She was native of Morgan County, and daughter of Veloris
and Clarissa Butterfield. Seven children were born to them--Omer A., born
February 12, 1856, died July 17, 1870; Francis O., born August 10, 1860,
died March 30, 1882; Martin A., born November 30, 1868, died May 18, 1882;
George A., born December 4, 1871, died November 25, 1874; Ada A., born
August 18, 1858; William F., born July 13, 1864; Annetta, born July 15,
1862. The mother of these children died on October 2, 1872, a consistent
member of the Christian Church. He was next married, on March 20, 1874, to
Eleanor Butterfield, who was born on January 15, 1837. She is the daughter
of John H. and Eleanor Butterfield. They have no children. Both Mr. and
Mrs. Fields are members of the Christian Church, in which he has been Deacon
for the past twenty years. Consistent in his piety, lavish in his gifts to
charity, upright in his dealings with his fellow-man, Mr. Fields is
respected by all who know him. Mr. F.'s father, Allen Fields, was born on
March 18, 1789, and died on October 24, 1877; his mother, Elizabeth Fields,
was born on December 2, 1793, and died on April 24, 1864.
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