OBIT: John Geary FIELDS, 1918, Tyrone, Blair County, PA

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TYRONE
J. G. FIELDS DEAD

  John Geary Fields, a well known veteran of the Civil war and member 
of Col. D. M. Jones Post No. 72, G.A.R., died at his home in Alley "B," 
between Twelfth and Thirteenth streets yesterday afternoon at 1 o'clock 
from leakage of the heart, from which he had been a sufferer for over a 
year.  He was born in Centre county, July 6, 1849 and came to Tyrone in 
1916.  He was twice married, his first wife passing away in 1912.  He 
was again married on August 11, 1914.  To his wife [sic] he leaves six 
children, who are: Frank Fields of Bellwood, Pa., Adolph of Scotia; 
Blanchard of Sixteenth street, Tyrone; Roland of Sewickley; Mrs. Maude 
Douglas of Sixteenth street, Tyrone.  For a number of years he was a 
rural mail carrier in Centre county, but later was employed in the 
Bellwood foundry and machine shops.  He served two years in the Civil 
war and took part in a number of the latter engagements.  Mr. Fields 
leaves a brother-in-law named John Coho of Altoona, whose local address 
is not known by the bereaved.  Funeral arrangements have not been 
settled, although it was his last wish that he be interred in the Grand 
Army plot.

Altoona Times, Altoona, Pa., Thursday Morning, December 12, 1918