Samuel R. Fields
Samuel R. Fields, of Wamsley. was bom at Sugar Tree Ridge. Highland County. Ohio April 17, 1845. He is a son of Richard Fields and Janes Williams. His boyhood days were spent on Scioto Brush Creek, attending school in the Winter, and helping on the farm the remainder of the year. He enlisted at Camp Hamer, at West Union, in the service of the United States for a term of three years, October, 1861, in Company B. Capt. Summers, 70th Regiment O. V. I., Col. Cockerill. At the expiration of his term he reenlisted in Company B, O. V. I., Capt. Edgington. and served till the close of the war. He was at Shiloh and all the important engagements in which his regiment participated. Was honorably discharged June 13, 1885, having never made application until that time.
August 3, 1865, he was united in wedlock to Miss Annie E. Williams, a descendant of a pioneer family of Adams County. She has borne him fourteen children, of which there are two pairs of twins. Each child's name begins with the letter E. They are: Elmer, Ettie, Evalena, Effie, Esther and Ezra, twins, Eska, Elvil. Esla, Elgar, Edna. Edgar and Edith, twins, and Elry.
Mr. Fields is a Methodist and an ardent Repuhlican. He has held many local offices, and is a man of prominence in the community in which he resides. He belongs to Bailey Post, G. A. R., at Blue Creek.
From History of Adams County, Ohio from its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time - by Nelson W. Evans and Emmons B. Stivers - West Union, Ohio - Published by E. B. Stivers - 1900