Obit: Fields, Hattie (1893 - 1963)

Contact: Dolores (Mohr) Kenyon

Email: dolores@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

Surnames: Fields, Sparks, Todd, Parker

----Source: Clark County Press (Neillsville, Clark Co., WI.) May 30, 1963

Fields, Hattie (24 January 1893 - 22 May 1963)

Funeral services were conducted Saturday from the Gilbertson Funeral Home in Granton for Mrs. Reuben Fields, 70, of rural Pittsville, who died Wednesday in Neillsville following a stroke.  The Rev. Edgar Parker of Wisconsin Rapids officiated. Burial was made in the Sherwood Cemetery.

Mrs. Fields, the former Hattie Sparks, was born January 24, 1893, in Sherwood. She attended the Sherwood Schools and had spent most of her lifetime in that area.

January 1, 1916, she was married to Reuben Fields.

Surviving are her husband; two sons, Wilbur Fields of Granton and Alfred Fields of Pittsville; a sister, Mrs. Andrew (Edith) Todd, of Granton; and a brother, Daniel Sparks of Owen. 

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----Sources: Clark County Press, Neillsville, Wis.; Jan 28th 1954 & 30 May 1963

Hanford Sparks of Tomahawk, and Clifford Sparks of California. Were Saturday night guests of Mr. and Mrs. Rueben Fields. Clifton Sparks lived west of Sherwood town hall years ago and this was his first visit here since 1916. Clark Co. Press, Jan 28th 1954
 

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1900 Federal Census, ED 26 Sherwood Forest & Lynn towns, Clark, Wisconsin, pg. 1, family 6

Name: Hattie M Sparks, single white female

Household Members
Head Jesse Sparks M 46 (Nov 1854) New York
Wife Laura L Sparks F 27 (Jun 1873) Wisconsin
Daughter Hattie M Sparks F 7 (Jan 1893) Wisconsin
Daughter Edith Ethel Sparks F 6 (Dec 1894) Wisconsin
Daughter Ester N Sparks F 3 (Mar 1897) Wisconsin
Daughter Hazel A Sparks F 1 (May 1899) Wisconsin
Daughter Helen O Sparks F 1 )May 1899) Wisconsin
Brother James Sparks M 49 (Oct 1851), New York

Sherwood Twp., Clark Co., Wis. Cemetery grounds