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Sarah Catherine Rogers & Richard Bennett revisited

30 Sunday Nov 2014

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As I was making one last check of everyone associated with my Fielden line, I noticed that Ancestry had provided me with more potential data on Sarah Catherine Rogers.  One source, a memorial for Sarah Rogers on findagrave.com blew a whole in my findings for June Bennett Fielden’s parentage.

First, the memorial for Sarah doesn’t mention a daughter named June Bennett.   Then I finally found the 1880 census records for Richard Bennett and his first wife Mary Jane Briscoe.  It’s highly unlikely that Mary Jane died, Richard married Sarah and had June all in a year.  Sarah was a widow in 1880, listed as Sarah Brown.  The newspaper article about Richard listed her as Sarah Catherine (Rogers) Maddox so somewhere during 1881 she had to have been married to a Maddox fellow as well.  Not very realistic.

The memorial on Find A Grave also lists her Maddox husband as Daniel Maddox who died in 1896.  Not a lot of divorces back then, so that meant she probably didn’t marry Richard Bennett until after 1896.  The newspaper article stated that Richard died in 1897, so that would mean that they weren’t married for long.

On top of all that, the 1880 census data indicated that Richard was born in 1846, not 1810.  This was confirmed further in the Kentucky Death Records database which also provided a date of death in 1901, not 1897.  This date of death was also confirmed by the database for Headstones Provided for Deceased Union the Civil War Veterans.  This, in conjunction with a 1900 census entry for Richard and Sarah made the 1898 marriage record for them more believable.

Based on all this, June Bennett’s mother is not Sarah Catherine Rogers, but Mary Jane Briscoe.  Moral of this story:  Don’t make random assumptions, and don’t always believe what you read in the newspaper, or on the internet.

Frank Fielden

17 Monday Nov 2014

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Iva and Frank Fielden

Iva and Frank Fielden

Last week, my sister Brenda went on a tear and starting scanning and emailing me a bunch of old family pictures she’d dug out.  One of the pictures she sent me is the one on the left of Iva and Frank Fielden.  She then asks, “Who are they?”

Considering that I hadn’t spent much time on that part of the family in the past couple weeks, I couldn’t give her a solid answer.  I knew that Frank was our great-grandfather.  Iva, however, was causing me to draw a blank.  So, without further ado, here is my very meager attempt at a biography for Frank Fielden.

Frank was born January 29, 1898 in Kentucky to Arley and June (Bennett) Fielden.  At some point between 1898 and 1910, the family moved to Jasonville, Greene County, Indiana.  Frank married Zeda Mattox in Clay County, Indiana in the summer of 1917.  The following year, they had a daughter, Edeine.  According to Frank’s World War I draft card, and some census records, he supported his family as a coal miner.  On June 11, 1920 Zeda died, and Frank was left with a toddler to raise.  As was the norm back then, he handed her off to someone else to raise.  Edeine was raised by Zeda’s sister Iva and her husband Lester Bemis.  According to my aunt, Frank would visit Edeine, but she would cry when she saw him, so he moved out of the area.

In 1929, Frank married Julia Beatty and they lived in Hymera, Sullivan County, Indiana.  In 1933, they had a son George followed by Bobby two years later.  Julia died in March 1945.

Sometime between 1945 and 1958, Frank married Iva, pictured above.  The reason I give that date range is (a) after Julia died, and (b) my aunt remembers first meeting Frank between the years of 1958 and 1961, which is when the picture was probably taken.  The Frank in the picture looks to be in his 50’s or early 60’s which would confirm this.  At some point along the way, Frank moved to Pontiac, Michigan where he would live out his remaining days.  I vaguely remember meeting him once, probably at my grandmother’s funeral in 1979.  Frank died in 1982 at the age of 84.

Sarah Lewis Fielden

16 Sunday Nov 2014

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Sarah Lewis Fielden is my 3rd great grandmother.  Census records have her born in Tennessee in May 1841, possibly in Monroe County.  Her parents are currently unknown and there is some question as to whether her maiden name is Lewis or Frye.  Her marriage record to John Wesley Fielden, entered on August 21, 1856 in Jefferson County, Tennessee, has her listed as Sarah Lewis.

Sarah and John had eight children.  Some stayed in Eastern Tennessee while at least three of the sons moved north to Kentucky.

  • Alexander (ca 1857-?)
  • John L (1862-1927)
  • Calvin (1864-?)
  • Martha (1867-?)
  • Thomas (1869-1945)
  • Stewart (1871-?)
  • Arley (1874-1918) my 2nd great grandfather, married June Bennett.
  • Ethel (1883-?)

Sarah and John lived their entire lives in Jefferson County.  She died sometime between 1900 and 1910, based on census records.

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Monroe County, TN is located south of Knoxville, on the western side of the Smokey Mountains.
Jefferson County, TN is northeast of Knoxville.

Richard O and Sarah Rogers Bennett

15 Saturday Nov 2014

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Today I am looking into the ancestors of Richard O. Bennett and his second wife Sarah Rogers Bennett.  They are my 3rd-great grandparents.  Much of the information I have is based on an article found in the Ohio County (KY) Times on August 5, 1971, written by Agnes D Ashby.  The Bennetts and their descendants settled in and around Ohio County, Kentucky which is one county southeast of Owensboro, KY.

Richard Bennett was born August 1, 1810 in Kentucky to Joseph and Susanna Ceckerell Bennett.  I have no information on Joseph or Susanna.  Richard was first married to Mary Jane Briscoe, supposedly in Virginia.  They had 5 children: George, Ophelia, Ethel, Sallie Ann, and Samuel.  Richard’s second marriage was to Sarah C. Rogers.  She had been married twice previously, once to a Brown and then to a Maddox.  Richard and Sarah had one daughter, June, who is my great-great-grandmother.  Richard died March 1, 1897.

Interestingly enough, three of the daughters married Fielden brothers.  June married Arley on August 14, 1895; Ethel married John on September 23, 1885; and Sallie married Thomas on February 28, 1895.

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