Diehl - Fields Family

Submitted by: Aletha Fields

Ellerson FIELDS was born 17 Aug 1820 in Butcher's Valley, Hawkins Co.,TN, son of Judida FIELDS. At about the age of 13 yrs he moved with his mother, Judida, and his brothers & sister to Indiana. On the 10th ofMarch, 1842 in Jackson Co., IN he met and married Mary Ann DIEHL. They had 14 children, 11 of whom were born in IN. Around 1864 the Ellerson FIELDS family moved to WI, residing there 3 yrs, and twin boys being born to them there. In 1868 they homesteaded land in Kansas. A daughter, Mary Martha, was born in Silver Lake, Jackson Co., KS. Ellerson FIELDS died in Havensville, Pottawatomie Co., KS, 23 May 1890.

The persons in the picture: Back Row: L-R are Sons, Eli, Lewis, Hiram, John, Charles Diehl, Ephraim, Leander. Front Row: L-R is Daughter, Minerva, Ellerson FIELDS, wife, Mary Ann DIEHL FIELDS, and daughter, Mary Martha. Picture taken approximately 1889.

THE TWO TOMBSTONES OF ELLERSON FIELDS
By Aletha Anderson Fields, 1970

In November 1970, in the Havensville Cemetery, Havensville, Kansas and in separate areas of the cemetery there were two tombstones for Ellerson Fields; both say he died the 23rd of May in the year 1890, aged 69yrs, 9m, 6ds. Why two gravestones? The single stone was the original and when Ellerson's wife, Mary Ann Diehl, died the 22nd of April in the year 1912, the single stone was replaced with a double one, and the original stone was placed in the barn. When Taylor Bassinger, husband of Harriet Fields, died (date unknown) the stone was given to his family with the understanding that it was to be redone: but to this date, November 1970, Taylor Bassinger's final resting place is under his father-in-law's original stone. Taylor's wife, daughter of Ellerson, is buried somewhere in western Kansas. This story was told to C.W. Fields in November of 1970 by Mrs. Lila Fields Blackburn in Havensville, Kansas. She is the granddaughter of Ellerson Fields and C.W. Fields is his great grandson through Charles Diehl Fields and Albert E. Fields.

Mary Ann DIEHL FIELDS - b. 15 Nov 1821 in Butler Twp, Columbiana Co., OH to Charles DIEHL and Mary Elizabeth SHEETS. She married Ellerson FIELDS 10 Mar 1842 in Jackson Twp, Randolph Co., IN. The family settled on their homestead, Certificate #2372, in Havensville, Pottawatomie Co., KS the 12 Apr 1870, having emigrated from WI to KS in 1868. Mary Ann DIEHL FIELDS died in Onaga, Pottawatomie Co., KS, 22 Apr 1912.

Mary Ann DIEHL FIELDS & a few of her descendants

Picture taken after 1890 and before 1908

Left to Right Front Row - Mary Ann DIEHL FIELDS (wife of Ellerson FIELDS, deceased); Martha "Mattie" FIELDS BATEMAN; Mother of Charles A. BATEMAN (husband of Martha FIELDS); Della BASSINGER FLOWERS (daughter of Harriett FIELDS & Taylor BASSINGER); Grandma DENNIS (mother of Sarah Jane DENNIS, wife of John William FIELDS); Sarah Jane ELLISON (wife of Hiram FIELDS).
Second Row - Richard BATEMAN and Nata BATEMAN (children of Martha FIELDS & Charles BATEMAN);
Third Row - Garnet FLOWERS (dau. of Della BASSINGER & Marion FLOWERS (g daughter of Harriet FIELDS & Taylor BASSINGER); Lucinda Victoria MORRIS (wife of Charles Diehl FIELDS); Mary MORRIS CAREY (sister of Lucinda V. MORRIS FIELDS); Martha Jane MILLER (wife of Lewis FIELDS);
Fourth Row - Minerva FIELDS JONTRA; Sarah Jane DENNIS (wife of John William FIELDS); Clara WITHAM (wife #1 of Leander "Lank" FIELDS); Charles Diehl FIELDS; Leander "Lank" FIELDS;
Back Row - Charles A. BATEMAN (husband of Martha "Mattie" FIELDS); John William FIELDS; Hiram FIELDS; Lewis JONTRA (husband of Minerva FIELDS); Lewis FIELDS

Charles Diehl FIELDS Family 

Back Row - John Walter, Frederick Ephram, Estella. Front Row - Clarence C., Charles Diehl FIELDS, Lucinda Victoria MORRIS FIELDS, Floy & Albert E.  Picture taken approximately 1889.

Charles Diehl FIELDS, son of Ellerson and Mary Ann DIEHL FIELDS, was born in Grant Co., IN the 18th of February, 1849. When he was about 15 years old, he moved to Wisconsin with his parents and about four years later he preceded his parents to Kansas. He was a farmer in Blue Rapids, Marshall Co., Kansas in 1868 and it was there that he married Lucinda Victoria MORRIS, daughter of A. Joseph MORRIS and Ellen C. BUTCHER, on the 14th day of December 1873. She was 16 years of age. Lucinda Victoria was born in Bates Co., MO the 10th of February 1857, and before 1860 had moved to Ellis County, Texas with her parents. Lucinda's father died in 1870 and about 1871 her mother moved the family to Blue Rapids, Kansas. Her mother, Ellen C. BUTCHER MORRIS, moved to Havensville in 1887 and is buried there. Charles Diehl and Lucinda Victoria lived in Osage City, Noesho Rapids and Horton before settling in Havensville by 1875. They lived on a farm just east of town and he was in partnership with C.H. MILLER, in the MILLER & FIELDS MERCANTILE business in Havensville, Kansas. Their eight children were John Walter, Frederick Ephram, Estelle, Clarence, Albert and Floy Alice. A daughter, May, died at the age of 14 months. Charles DIEHL FIELDS died 28 Jul 1934 in Gage, Ellis Co., OK. Lucinda Victoria MORRIS FIELDS died 25 Sep 1916 in Gage, Ellis Co., OK. They are both buried in Stillwater, Payne Co., OK.