"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

MORGAN COUNTY, INDIANA
HARRISON TOWNSHIP

PAGE 282

FRANCIS M. FIELDS is a son of Allen and Elizabeth (Pitcher) Fields, the former
a native of North Carolina, born 1789;  the latter of Virginia, born 1792.  They
were married in North Carolina, and parents of nine children, and in 1826 moved
to what is now Mooresville, this State, and one year later moved on to eighty
acres, on which he remained until death, having reared ten children. Francis M.
married Miriam Shafer, a union smiled upon by six children--Martin, Mary A., Minnie,
George (deceased), Anna B. (deceased) and Effie.  Mrs. Fields died September 8, 1874,
and on January 8, 1878, he married Mrs. Mary A. Loy.  After marriage, Mr. Fields
purchased, in con-junction with his brother-in-law, 160 acres, which they
cultivated about seven years, when Mr. Fields purchased 130 acres alone, and to
this, in 1871, added fifty-six acres.  Some of this he afterward sold, and engaged
in mercantile business at Waverly.  His lands will average a value of $50 per acre.
Mr. Fields is a Democrat, and was elected Township Trustee in 1882.  He is also a
member of the I. O. O. F., and of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

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