~Husbands family member~
Per Henry Co., Obit
Clinton, Mo, July 1937-
The folds of mortality slipped from the frail shoulders of Miss Amanda Fields while she slept Tuesday night at her home five miles northwest of Clinton, leaving her, as she had lived, serene and peaceful in death. So her nephew and wife, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Billingsbey, who cared for her, found her when they went to her bedside about five o'clock in the morning. Miss May, as she was generally called, had been in delicate health for many moths, having broken her arm last winter, and had been confined to her bed for more than a year. With the passing of this aged resident of Henry County the last of the Nathan Fields children are gone. Nathan Fields, a man of importance and wealth, was one of the earliest pioneers of the county, having come here in 1834, the oldest settler in Fields Creek Township, born in Grayson County, VA. He was the first deputy sheriff of Henry County, appointed by the governor of the state. He early entered about 1,600 acres of land, owning some 700 at the time of his death. He was married to Miss Mary E. Graham, also a Virginia who had come with her parents to Johnson County in 1833, and to them were given eleven children. The Church, school, creek and township were named after Mr. Fields who importance was long felt through his children after his death. His daughters, Misses May, Sallie and Helen, longest lived of the family, resided at the old home place and were known as the Fields Sisters. Miss Helen died in 1928 and Miss Sallie Three years ago, leaving Miss Amanda, who ws born June 10, 1844, and the oldest of the three, alone. Each one had made a will, leaving a life interest in her third of the farm to the survivors, and at the end, what was left, was to be divided among nieces and nephews. More than a year and half ago Robert Billingsbey came to the home to manage the farm and care for her, which he and his wife did, kindly and with pleasantness. Miss May, who had attended the Fields Creek school as a girl and grew up in the fields creek Cumberland Presbyterian church, as all her life a home body, quiet and retired, religious and good. Her home was her haven, and there she found her pleasure and diversion, reading her Bible, doing fine needle work, finding no interest in coming to town or going other places. In the old house, typical of years gone by and well remembered by many Henry Countains, she and the other sisters were surrounded by lovely old things they had prized thru the years, handsome antique furniture, fine, rich silks made up into beautiful dresses and hangings; laces; silver, heavy and ornate; china; shawls of exquisite paisley and cashmere that different great nieces loved and had been promised all things antique collectors had in vain tried to buy. These were lost, however, one night about six years ago when late in November, the house caught fire and Miss Sallie and Miss May escaped with little more than their night clothing. Hurt and distressed over their loss, they did not grieve over it as much as had they been younger, and came to town to a house on North Third street where they lived until a little modern four room house was built on the same site as the old, to which they went back as soon as complete. It held nothing of the past and while they had been unhappy in town it was nothing to the loneliness they suffered in the new home. The furniture was modern and stiff, nothing they had known and loved was there, and their hearts were near to breaking. The old house had peopled with memories, the forms of parents long asleep in the nearby church yard, moved through its high cellinged rooms, the voices of little brothers and sisters and girlhood companions rang up the stairs. Everything they touched and used was endeard to them by happy association and they were never lonesome though sometimes years would pass and they were never off the place. When Miss Sallie laid down her burden of years, Miss Amanda said goodbye to all she had loved and with her Bible, her companion, she lived in the past, to fragile to struggle against the new, fond of her kinspeople of later generations yet never in tune with her changed world. Thus Ill health found her and thus her life wore out its length of days. The funeral services were conducted Wednesday at the Wilkinson Chapel and the body was laid to rest in the Fields Cemetery beside others of her family. Amog surviving nieces and nephews are Mrs. Robert Montgomery of Clinton, Miss Eugenia and Miss Maggie McLeod and Sidney of Garland; Mrs. Walton Everman of Bartlesville, Okla; Robert Billingsbey of northwest of Clinton, and the Cox Family- Mrs. Ella Gilkison, and Mrs. Effie Bryant of Kansas City; Mrs. Lillian Meyers of Maryville, Mo.; Dr. J. H. Cox, Omaha, Neb.; Bert Stratford, Tex.; R. L.Lubbeck, Tex.; Walter, Union, Ore; Mrs. J. W. Shy, Cheyenne Wells, colo. Dr. and Mrs. Geo. Gilkison and Mrs. Meyers were in Clinton for the funeral.
according to the obit she was later buried in Englewood Cemetery.
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Missouri Death Certificate # 27317,
Amanda age 93 years had lived in Clinton, for 93 years, female, white, single.
daughter of Nathan Fields and Betty Graham,
Burial was on the 28 Jul, 1937 in Fields Cemetery,
Undertaker- Fred Wilkinson of Clinton.
Per Henry Co., Obit
Clinton, Mo, July 1937-
The folds of mortality slipped from the frail shoulders of Miss Amanda Fields while she slept Tuesday night at her home five miles northwest of Clinton, leaving her, as she had lived, serene and peaceful in death. So her nephew and wife, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Billingsbey, who cared for her, found her when they went to her bedside about five o'clock in the morning. Miss May, as she was generally called, had been in delicate health for many moths, having broken her arm last winter, and had been confined to her bed for more than a year. With the passing of this aged resident of Henry County the last of the Nathan Fields children are gone. Nathan Fields, a man of importance and wealth, was one of the earliest pioneers of the county, having come here in 1834, the oldest settler in Fields Creek Township, born in Grayson County, VA. He was the first deputy sheriff of Henry County, appointed by the governor of the state. He early entered about 1,600 acres of land, owning some 700 at the time of his death. He was married to Miss Mary E. Graham, also a Virginia who had come with her parents to Johnson County in 1833, and to them were given eleven children. The Church, school, creek and township were named after Mr. Fields who importance was long felt through his children after his death. His daughters, Misses May, Sallie and Helen, longest lived of the family, resided at the old home place and were known as the Fields Sisters. Miss Helen died in 1928 and Miss Sallie Three years ago, leaving Miss Amanda, who ws born June 10, 1844, and the oldest of the three, alone. Each one had made a will, leaving a life interest in her third of the farm to the survivors, and at the end, what was left, was to be divided among nieces and nephews. More than a year and half ago Robert Billingsbey came to the home to manage the farm and care for her, which he and his wife did, kindly and with pleasantness. Miss May, who had attended the Fields Creek school as a girl and grew up in the fields creek Cumberland Presbyterian church, as all her life a home body, quiet and retired, religious and good. Her home was her haven, and there she found her pleasure and diversion, reading her Bible, doing fine needle work, finding no interest in coming to town or going other places. In the old house, typical of years gone by and well remembered by many Henry Countains, she and the other sisters were surrounded by lovely old things they had prized thru the years, handsome antique furniture, fine, rich silks made up into beautiful dresses and hangings; laces; silver, heavy and ornate; china; shawls of exquisite paisley and cashmere that different great nieces loved and had been promised all things antique collectors had in vain tried to buy. These were lost, however, one night about six years ago when late in November, the house caught fire and Miss Sallie and Miss May escaped with little more than their night clothing. Hurt and distressed over their loss, they did not grieve over it as much as had they been younger, and came to town to a house on North Third street where they lived until a little modern four room house was built on the same site as the old, to which they went back as soon as complete. It held nothing of the past and while they had been unhappy in town it was nothing to the loneliness they suffered in the new home. The furniture was modern and stiff, nothing they had known and loved was there, and their hearts were near to breaking. The old house had peopled with memories, the forms of parents long asleep in the nearby church yard, moved through its high cellinged rooms, the voices of little brothers and sisters and girlhood companions rang up the stairs. Everything they touched and used was endeard to them by happy association and they were never lonesome though sometimes years would pass and they were never off the place. When Miss Sallie laid down her burden of years, Miss Amanda said goodbye to all she had loved and with her Bible, her companion, she lived in the past, to fragile to struggle against the new, fond of her kinspeople of later generations yet never in tune with her changed world. Thus Ill health found her and thus her life wore out its length of days. The funeral services were conducted Wednesday at the Wilkinson Chapel and the body was laid to rest in the Fields Cemetery beside others of her family. Amog surviving nieces and nephews are Mrs. Robert Montgomery of Clinton, Miss Eugenia and Miss Maggie McLeod and Sidney of Garland; Mrs. Walton Everman of Bartlesville, Okla; Robert Billingsbey of northwest of Clinton, and the Cox Family- Mrs. Ella Gilkison, and Mrs. Effie Bryant of Kansas City; Mrs. Lillian Meyers of Maryville, Mo.; Dr. J. H. Cox, Omaha, Neb.; Bert Stratford, Tex.; R. L.Lubbeck, Tex.; Walter, Union, Ore; Mrs. J. W. Shy, Cheyenne Wells, colo. Dr. and Mrs. Geo. Gilkison and Mrs. Meyers were in Clinton for the funeral.
according to the obit she was later buried in Englewood Cemetery.
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Missouri Death Certificate # 27317,
Amanda age 93 years had lived in Clinton, for 93 years, female, white, single.
daughter of Nathan Fields and Betty Graham,
Burial was on the 28 Jul, 1937 in Fields Cemetery,
Undertaker- Fred Wilkinson of Clinton.
~Husbands family member~
Per Henry Co., Obit
Clinton, Mo, July 1937-
The folds of mortality slipped from the frail shoulders of Miss Amanda Fields while she slept Tuesday night at her home five miles northwest of Clinton, leaving her, as she had lived, serene and peaceful in death. So her nephew and wife, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Billingsbey, who cared for her, found her when they went to her bedside about five o'clock in the morning. Miss May, as she was generally called, had been in delicate health for many moths, having broken her arm last winter, and had been confined to her bed for more than a year. With the passing of this aged resident of Henry County the last of the Nathan Fields children are gone. Nathan Fields, a man of importance and wealth, was one of the earliest pioneers of the county, having come here in 1834, the oldest settler in Fields Creek Township, born in Grayson County, VA. He was the first deputy sheriff of Henry County, appointed by the governor of the state. He early entered about 1,600 acres of land, owning some 700 at the time of his death. He was married to Miss Mary E. Graham, also a Virginia who had come with her parents to Johnson County in 1833, and to them were given eleven children. The Church, school, creek and township were named after Mr. Fields who importance was long felt through his children after his death. His daughters, Misses May, Sallie and Helen, longest lived of the family, resided at the old home place and were known as the Fields Sisters. Miss Helen died in 1928 and Miss Sallie Three years ago, leaving Miss Amanda, who ws born June 10, 1844, and the oldest of the three, alone. Each one had made a will, leaving a life interest in her third of the farm to the survivors, and at the end, what was left, was to be divided among nieces and nephews. More than a year and half ago Robert Billingsbey came to the home to manage the farm and care for her, which he and his wife did, kindly and with pleasantness. Miss May, who had attended the Fields Creek school as a girl and grew up in the fields creek Cumberland Presbyterian church, as all her life a home body, quiet and retired, religious and good. Her home was her haven, and there she found her pleasure and diversion, reading her Bible, doing fine needle work, finding no interest in coming to town or going other places. In the old house, typical of years gone by and well remembered by many Henry Countains, she and the other sisters were surrounded by lovely old things they had prized thru the years, handsome antique furniture, fine, rich silks made up into beautiful dresses and hangings; laces; silver, heavy and ornate; china; shawls of exquisite paisley and cashmere that different great nieces loved and had been promised all things antique collectors had in vain tried to buy. These were lost, however, one night about six years ago when late in November, the house caught fire and Miss Sallie and Miss May escaped with little more than their night clothing. Hurt and distressed over their loss, they did not grieve over it as much as had they been younger, and came to town to a house on North Third street where they lived until a little modern four room house was built on the same site as the old, to which they went back as soon as complete. It held nothing of the past and while they had been unhappy in town it was nothing to the loneliness they suffered in the new home. The furniture was modern and stiff, nothing they had known and loved was there, and their hearts were near to breaking. The old house had peopled with memories, the forms of parents long asleep in the nearby church yard, moved through its high cellinged rooms, the voices of little brothers and sisters and girlhood companions rang up the stairs. Everything they touched and used was endeard to them by happy association and they were never lonesome though sometimes years would pass and they were never off the place. When Miss Sallie laid down her burden of years, Miss Amanda said goodbye to all she had loved and with her Bible, her companion, she lived in the past, to fragile to struggle against the new, fond of her kinspeople of later generations yet never in tune with her changed world. Thus Ill health found her and thus her life wore out its length of days. The funeral services were conducted Wednesday at the Wilkinson Chapel and the body was laid to rest in the Fields Cemetery beside others of her family. Amog surviving nieces and nephews are Mrs. Robert Montgomery of Clinton, Miss Eugenia and Miss Maggie McLeod and Sidney of Garland; Mrs. Walton Everman of Bartlesville, Okla; Robert Billingsbey of northwest of Clinton, and the Cox Family- Mrs. Ella Gilkison, and Mrs. Effie Bryant of Kansas City; Mrs. Lillian Meyers of Maryville, Mo.; Dr. J. H. Cox, Omaha, Neb.; Bert Stratford, Tex.; R. L.Lubbeck, Tex.; Walter, Union, Ore; Mrs. J. W. Shy, Cheyenne Wells, colo. Dr. and Mrs. Geo. Gilkison and Mrs. Meyers were in Clinton for the funeral.
according to the obit she was later buried in Englewood Cemetery.
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Missouri Death Certificate # 27317,
Amanda age 93 years had lived in Clinton, for 93 years, female, white, single.
daughter of Nathan Fields and Betty Graham,
Burial was on the 28 Jul, 1937 in Fields Cemetery,
Undertaker- Fred Wilkinson of Clinton.
Per Henry Co., Obit
Clinton, Mo, July 1937-
The folds of mortality slipped from the frail shoulders of Miss Amanda Fields while she slept Tuesday night at her home five miles northwest of Clinton, leaving her, as she had lived, serene and peaceful in death. So her nephew and wife, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Billingsbey, who cared for her, found her when they went to her bedside about five o'clock in the morning. Miss May, as she was generally called, had been in delicate health for many moths, having broken her arm last winter, and had been confined to her bed for more than a year. With the passing of this aged resident of Henry County the last of the Nathan Fields children are gone. Nathan Fields, a man of importance and wealth, was one of the earliest pioneers of the county, having come here in 1834, the oldest settler in Fields Creek Township, born in Grayson County, VA. He was the first deputy sheriff of Henry County, appointed by the governor of the state. He early entered about 1,600 acres of land, owning some 700 at the time of his death. He was married to Miss Mary E. Graham, also a Virginia who had come with her parents to Johnson County in 1833, and to them were given eleven children. The Church, school, creek and township were named after Mr. Fields who importance was long felt through his children after his death. His daughters, Misses May, Sallie and Helen, longest lived of the family, resided at the old home place and were known as the Fields Sisters. Miss Helen died in 1928 and Miss Sallie Three years ago, leaving Miss Amanda, who ws born June 10, 1844, and the oldest of the three, alone. Each one had made a will, leaving a life interest in her third of the farm to the survivors, and at the end, what was left, was to be divided among nieces and nephews. More than a year and half ago Robert Billingsbey came to the home to manage the farm and care for her, which he and his wife did, kindly and with pleasantness. Miss May, who had attended the Fields Creek school as a girl and grew up in the fields creek Cumberland Presbyterian church, as all her life a home body, quiet and retired, religious and good. Her home was her haven, and there she found her pleasure and diversion, reading her Bible, doing fine needle work, finding no interest in coming to town or going other places. In the old house, typical of years gone by and well remembered by many Henry Countains, she and the other sisters were surrounded by lovely old things they had prized thru the years, handsome antique furniture, fine, rich silks made up into beautiful dresses and hangings; laces; silver, heavy and ornate; china; shawls of exquisite paisley and cashmere that different great nieces loved and had been promised all things antique collectors had in vain tried to buy. These were lost, however, one night about six years ago when late in November, the house caught fire and Miss Sallie and Miss May escaped with little more than their night clothing. Hurt and distressed over their loss, they did not grieve over it as much as had they been younger, and came to town to a house on North Third street where they lived until a little modern four room house was built on the same site as the old, to which they went back as soon as complete. It held nothing of the past and while they had been unhappy in town it was nothing to the loneliness they suffered in the new home. The furniture was modern and stiff, nothing they had known and loved was there, and their hearts were near to breaking. The old house had peopled with memories, the forms of parents long asleep in the nearby church yard, moved through its high cellinged rooms, the voices of little brothers and sisters and girlhood companions rang up the stairs. Everything they touched and used was endeard to them by happy association and they were never lonesome though sometimes years would pass and they were never off the place. When Miss Sallie laid down her burden of years, Miss Amanda said goodbye to all she had loved and with her Bible, her companion, she lived in the past, to fragile to struggle against the new, fond of her kinspeople of later generations yet never in tune with her changed world. Thus Ill health found her and thus her life wore out its length of days. The funeral services were conducted Wednesday at the Wilkinson Chapel and the body was laid to rest in the Fields Cemetery beside others of her family. Amog surviving nieces and nephews are Mrs. Robert Montgomery of Clinton, Miss Eugenia and Miss Maggie McLeod and Sidney of Garland; Mrs. Walton Everman of Bartlesville, Okla; Robert Billingsbey of northwest of Clinton, and the Cox Family- Mrs. Ella Gilkison, and Mrs. Effie Bryant of Kansas City; Mrs. Lillian Meyers of Maryville, Mo.; Dr. J. H. Cox, Omaha, Neb.; Bert Stratford, Tex.; R. L.Lubbeck, Tex.; Walter, Union, Ore; Mrs. J. W. Shy, Cheyenne Wells, colo. Dr. and Mrs. Geo. Gilkison and Mrs. Meyers were in Clinton for the funeral.
according to the obit she was later buried in Englewood Cemetery.
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Missouri Death Certificate # 27317,
Amanda age 93 years had lived in Clinton, for 93 years, female, white, single.
daughter of Nathan Fields and Betty Graham,
Burial was on the 28 Jul, 1937 in Fields Cemetery,
Undertaker- Fred Wilkinson of Clinton.
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