1850 Lower Okaw Twp, Coles Co, IL. Fields was listed as a female,liv ing with his mother.
1860 Coles Co, IL. He was still at home with his widowed mother, asa f arm laborer.
1870 N Okaw Twp, Coles Co, IL. He was back home with his mother andb rother in the census as a farmer without property.
6/26/1880 Same place. That year he was 53 years old, still farming,a nd lived with brother John.
The 1860 census says he was born in KY.
He was named in court records of Coles Co, IL, involving guardianship.
