Have the Blytheville Newspaper Article which read: EARLY RESIDENT OF LONE OAK AREA SUCCUMBS Services for J. W. (Jim) fields, 78, a pioneer Resident of this area, were held at 11 A.M. today at First Presbyterian Church. The rev. Martin Wilkinson and the Rev. J. C. English officiated. Mr. Fields was born and reared in Lone Oak Community near Blytheville, Mississippi Co., Arkansas where his parents settled. He was active in the settlement of Lone Oak Community and was a member of the first School board, was the first road overseer and was instrumental in getting the first telephone and power lines established. DEACON He was associated with the R.D. Hughes Gin Company for several years until his retirement in 1942. He was a Presbyterian and a deacon of the First Presbyterian Church in Blytheville, Mississippi Co., Arkansas. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Lydia Boney Fields, and six daughters, Miss Lois Fields, Mrs. Arnold Miller, Mrs. Frank Grigsby and Mrs. James McMullin, all of Blytheville; Mrs. T. O. Huey, Lake Alfred, Florida, and Mrs. J. W. Coker, Memphis, Tennessee, and five grandchildren. Pallbearers will be Ross D. Hughes, Jr., Ernest Haynes, Glen Alexander, Elbert Huffman, J. C. Walters and Jim Morgan. Burial will be in Maple Grove Cemetery, with Cobb Funeral Home in Charge. Some Addition information on Blytheville, Mississippi Co., Arkansas: The Rev. Henry T. Blythe, the founder of Blytheville, Mississippi Co., Arkansas was born in 1816 in Southampton Co., Virginia. The fourth of 10 children, born to John and Elizabeth Cobb Blythe, he and his family moved to Henry Co., Tennessee in 1826. At the age of 18, Blythe struck out on his own, living among the Choctaw Indians in north Mississippi for several years. In 1841, Blythe lived in Lauderdale Co., Tennessee In 1853, Blythe moved across the Mississippi River to the Crooked Lake area, in Mississippi Co., Arkansas, clearing 80 acres of timberland.