Elizabeth Eleanor Field (some sources give her name as Eleanor Elizabeth) was the second daughter and second of eight children born to Elswick Sherwood Field (1808-1867) and his wife Guilianna L. Lindsay (1807-1885). She was probably named for both her grandmothers, Eleanor Sherwood (1776-1859, Mrs. Jeremiah Field) and Elisabeth Briggs (1784-1871, Mrs. William Lindsay). I am not certain of her birth date, but her older sister was born in Feb. 1833, and her next brother was born in Jan. 1836, so I am guessing 1834.
Elizabeth was graduated from Greensboro (Female) College in 1851. Her family moved from Greensboro to Mountain Island, Gaston County around 1850, to Leaksville, Rockingham County sometime between 1857 and 1860, and to Caldwell County in the Spring of 1861. Her father was superintendent of various cotton mills in those places.
The last record I've been able to find of Elizabeth was her listing with her family on the 1860 Rockingham County, NC census. I can't find her or her mother in 1870, and while her mother reappears in 1880, I've never been able to find out what happened to Elizabeth, whether she died, or was married, etc.
A hah! Discovered as of 21 Jan 2020.... Elizabeth married John Wesley Clinard (c. 1839-?), a Confederate veteran and widower with several children, in Rockingham County in 1868. They were living in Kernersville in 1870, but appear to have moved to HIckory in the early 1870s. He evidently died there sometime in the 1870s, and she and two of his children were living in a boarding house in Hickory in 1880. The following notice appeared in the "Raleigh Christian Advocate," Raleigh, NC on 21 Aug. 1889 (with various typos):
"CLINAED: Mrs. L. E. Clinead, daughter of Eldrick S. and G. L. Field, was born in the year 1835, in the town of Greensboro, N. C., and was married about the year 1868 to J. W. Clinaed.
"Sister Clinaed joined the church while quite young, and until the day of her death, July 19, 1889, in the town of Hickory, N. C., she was a faithful Christian. She died beautifully, and triumphantly. PASTOR."
And this from the "Hickory Press," Hickory, NC, 25 July 1889:
"On last Firday, the 20th inst. at 2 o'clock A. M. Mrs. L. E. Clinard, of Consumption. Our sympathies are tendered the bereaved friends and relatives in both instances."
I am assuming she was buried at Oakwood Cemetery in Hickory. Her brother, Thomas Elswick Field, was buried there.
Elizabeth was graduated from Greensboro (Female) College in 1851. Her family moved from Greensboro to Mountain Island, Gaston County around 1850, to Leaksville, Rockingham County sometime between 1857 and 1860, and to Caldwell County in the Spring of 1861. Her father was superintendent of various cotton mills in those places.
The last record I've been able to find of Elizabeth was her listing with her family on the 1860 Rockingham County, NC census. I can't find her or her mother in 1870, and while her mother reappears in 1880, I've never been able to find out what happened to Elizabeth, whether she died, or was married, etc.
A hah! Discovered as of 21 Jan 2020.... Elizabeth married John Wesley Clinard (c. 1839-?), a Confederate veteran and widower with several children, in Rockingham County in 1868. They were living in Kernersville in 1870, but appear to have moved to HIckory in the early 1870s. He evidently died there sometime in the 1870s, and she and two of his children were living in a boarding house in Hickory in 1880. The following notice appeared in the "Raleigh Christian Advocate," Raleigh, NC on 21 Aug. 1889 (with various typos):
"CLINAED: Mrs. L. E. Clinead, daughter of Eldrick S. and G. L. Field, was born in the year 1835, in the town of Greensboro, N. C., and was married about the year 1868 to J. W. Clinaed.
"Sister Clinaed joined the church while quite young, and until the day of her death, July 19, 1889, in the town of Hickory, N. C., she was a faithful Christian. She died beautifully, and triumphantly. PASTOR."
And this from the "Hickory Press," Hickory, NC, 25 July 1889:
"On last Firday, the 20th inst. at 2 o'clock A. M. Mrs. L. E. Clinard, of Consumption. Our sympathies are tendered the bereaved friends and relatives in both instances."
I am assuming she was buried at Oakwood Cemetery in Hickory. Her brother, Thomas Elswick Field, was buried there.
Elizabeth Eleanor Field (some sources give her name as Eleanor Elizabeth) was the second daughter and second of eight children born to Elswick Sherwood Field (1808-1867) and his wife Guilianna L. Lindsay (1807-1885). She was probably named for both her grandmothers, Eleanor Sherwood (1776-1859, Mrs. Jeremiah Field) and Elisabeth Briggs (1784-1871, Mrs. William Lindsay). I am not certain of her birth date, but her older sister was born in Feb. 1833, and her next brother was born in Jan. 1836, so I am guessing 1834.
Elizabeth was graduated from Greensboro (Female) College in 1851. Her family moved from Greensboro to Mountain Island, Gaston County around 1850, to Leaksville, Rockingham County sometime between 1857 and 1860, and to Caldwell County in the Spring of 1861. Her father was superintendent of various cotton mills in those places.
The last record I've been able to find of Elizabeth was her listing with her family on the 1860 Rockingham County, NC census. I can't find her or her mother in 1870, and while her mother reappears in 1880, I've never been able to find out what happened to Elizabeth, whether she died, or was married, etc.
A hah! Discovered as of 21 Jan 2020.... Elizabeth married John Wesley Clinard (c. 1839-?), a Confederate veteran and widower with several children, in Rockingham County in 1868. They were living in Kernersville in 1870, but appear to have moved to HIckory in the early 1870s. He evidently died there sometime in the 1870s, and she and two of his children were living in a boarding house in Hickory in 1880. The following notice appeared in the "Raleigh Christian Advocate," Raleigh, NC on 21 Aug. 1889 (with various typos):
"CLINAED: Mrs. L. E. Clinead, daughter of Eldrick S. and G. L. Field, was born in the year 1835, in the town of Greensboro, N. C., and was married about the year 1868 to J. W. Clinaed.
"Sister Clinaed joined the church while quite young, and until the day of her death, July 19, 1889, in the town of Hickory, N. C., she was a faithful Christian. She died beautifully, and triumphantly. PASTOR."
And this from the "Hickory Press," Hickory, NC, 25 July 1889:
"On last Firday, the 20th inst. at 2 o'clock A. M. Mrs. L. E. Clinard, of Consumption. Our sympathies are tendered the bereaved friends and relatives in both instances."
I am assuming she was buried at Oakwood Cemetery in Hickory. Her brother, Thomas Elswick Field, was buried there.
Elizabeth was graduated from Greensboro (Female) College in 1851. Her family moved from Greensboro to Mountain Island, Gaston County around 1850, to Leaksville, Rockingham County sometime between 1857 and 1860, and to Caldwell County in the Spring of 1861. Her father was superintendent of various cotton mills in those places.
The last record I've been able to find of Elizabeth was her listing with her family on the 1860 Rockingham County, NC census. I can't find her or her mother in 1870, and while her mother reappears in 1880, I've never been able to find out what happened to Elizabeth, whether she died, or was married, etc.
A hah! Discovered as of 21 Jan 2020.... Elizabeth married John Wesley Clinard (c. 1839-?), a Confederate veteran and widower with several children, in Rockingham County in 1868. They were living in Kernersville in 1870, but appear to have moved to HIckory in the early 1870s. He evidently died there sometime in the 1870s, and she and two of his children were living in a boarding house in Hickory in 1880. The following notice appeared in the "Raleigh Christian Advocate," Raleigh, NC on 21 Aug. 1889 (with various typos):
"CLINAED: Mrs. L. E. Clinead, daughter of Eldrick S. and G. L. Field, was born in the year 1835, in the town of Greensboro, N. C., and was married about the year 1868 to J. W. Clinaed.
"Sister Clinaed joined the church while quite young, and until the day of her death, July 19, 1889, in the town of Hickory, N. C., she was a faithful Christian. She died beautifully, and triumphantly. PASTOR."
And this from the "Hickory Press," Hickory, NC, 25 July 1889:
"On last Firday, the 20th inst. at 2 o'clock A. M. Mrs. L. E. Clinard, of Consumption. Our sympathies are tendered the bereaved friends and relatives in both instances."
I am assuming she was buried at Oakwood Cemetery in Hickory. Her brother, Thomas Elswick Field, was buried there.
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