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Martoccia Feb. 1999 ======================================================================== WILLIAM COFFIELD FIELDS BIBLE Copy of BibleRecords found at Heritage Place, Lenoir County Community College, Kinston, North Carolina Vertical File Fields 06461-9 We thank the staff at LCC for their permission to copy selected documents from their files to place on the internet. It is requested that researchers give appropriate credit when using these documents. Permission to combine said documents together in printed form is not given. Dates later than 1910 have been omitted for privacy. The Fields Bible This file is a typed copy of the Records. No signature of the transcriptionist. Records copied from the Bible of William Coffield Fields, who lived in Cedar Creek Township, Cumberland County, North Carolina, having been born in Goldsboro, North Carolina. The Bible is inscribed "William Coffield Fields, A Present from his mother, January 1st, 1867, Goldsboro, No.Car." Dates covered 1813-1955 Bible was in the possession of William Coffield Fields, Jr. son of the original owner, Route 5, Fayetteville, NC at the time the copy was originally made. Records Wm. B. Fields and Mary Frances King were married 5th June 1855. Mary Louisa Fields and Frank W. Hancock were married Jan. 14th 1880, Rev. C.B. Hassell officiating. William C. Fields and Maggie P. Wimberley were married February 21 1884- -Rev. J. B. Cheshire, D.D. officiating. William C. Fields, Jr and Elizabeth Gibson were married (Private) Thomas Gibson Fields, son of Elizabeth G. and William C. Fields, Jr., married in Paris, France ( Date is Private), Countess Nathalie de Lazareff, daughter of Count Nicolai and Countess Nathalie de Lazareff. Joseph Wimberley Fields, son of William C. and Elizabeth G. Fields, married (private), Elease B. Horne, daughter of David and Elizabeth Horne, Rev. Walker B. Healy officiating. William Coffield Fields was born Tuesday evening 14th October 1856, son of Wm. B. and Mary F. Fields. Mary Louisa Fields daughter of William B. and Mary F. Fields was born Friday morning 30th Sept 1858. Charles B. Fields, son of William B. and Mary F. Fields, was born Friday morning 31st May 1862. Thomas Harvey Fields son of William B. and Mary F. Fields was born Saturday morning 26th March 1864. Katherine Tucker Fields, daughter of Wm B. and Mary F. Fields was born Jan 31st 1869. Lula Hancock Fields daughter of William C. and Maggie P. Fields, was born Aug. 2nd 1887. William Coffield Fields, Jr. son of William C. and Maggie P. Fields was born March 21st 1889. Margaret Powell Wimberley, daughter of Jos. W. and Martha L. Wimberley, was born March 27th 1863. William Coffield Fields 3rd son of William C. Jr. and Elizabeth Fields, was born (Private) Joseph Wimberley Fields and Thomas Gibson Fields, twin sons of William C. Jr., and Elizabeth Gibson Fields were born (private) Mary Frances King, daughter of Coffield and Louisa King, was born April 11th 1826. William Brickle Fields, son of Jeremiah Fields and his wife Mary, was born the fourth day of July, 1813 Irene Elizabeth Fields, daughter of Thomas G. and Nathalie de L. Fields, was born in Paris , France (private) Christine Monica Fields, daughter of Thomas G. and Nathalie de L. Fields, was born in New York, NY. (private) Karen Elease Fields, daughter of Joseph W. and Elease H. Fields, was born in Fayetteville, NC (private) Carolyn Fields, daughter of Joseph W. and Elease H. Fields, was born in Fayetteville, NC (private) Thomas Harvey son of William B. and Mary F. Fields died Wednesday morning 31st May 1865. Charles Brickle son of William B. and Mary F. Fields died Thursday evening 1st June 1865. Wm. B. Fields departed this life, Saturday, May 11th 1878 at ll o'clock PM Mary Louisa Hancock, wife of F. W. Hancock, and daughter of W. B. and Mary F. Fields, departed this life, Thursday November 1st 1883 at 6 1/2 o'clock A.M. Lula Hancock Fields daughter of Wm. C. and Maggie P. Fields, departed this life, Tuesday, Aug. 20th, 1889 at 6 o'clock PM age 2 years and 18 days. Cause of death "match poison". "The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away." Mary F. Fields, wife of Wm. B. Fields, daughter of Coffield and Louisa King, departed this life Wednesday, Jan. 3rd 1900 at 2 1/2 o'clock, PM aged 74 years Maggie P. Fields, wife of W.C. Fields, and daughter of Jos. W. and Martha L. Wimberley departed this life Tuesday Aug 20th 1918 at 11 o'clock PM aged 55 years. William Coffield Fields, son of William B. and Mary F. Fields departed this life at 7:15 o'clock AmM. Wednesday, January 28th 1925, aged 68 years. Katherine Tucker Fields Grannis, daughter of William B. and Mary F. Fields and wife of J. Kidwell Grannis, died 31 January 1951