Kathy Kelly inquired about African American KELLY and FIELDS from Cooper County, Missouri kelly and fields families of boone and cooper coun Posted By: kathy kelly <kathykelly78@hotmail.com> Date: Wednesday, 17 April 2002, at 9:28 a.m. I'm trying to do my husbands family tree, we don't have much to go on at this point but here is what I have so far Cecil Kelly 1886-1965 from around Versailes or California Mo. area married to Elsie Fields 1911-1962. Elsies parents were Harry and Mamie Fields. also Elsie had a brother named Joseph 1917-1975 he was WWII Vet. disabled. Please help out if you can. Dear Kathy: I believe your MAMIE FIELDS connects into my family as well. Her parents could likely be George and Betty Fields...parent of Ray Fields? Anyway.. my notes say Leckie nee CRUMP married Ray Fields and Ollie Jones. Her FIELDS marriage produced the following children: Porter Fields m Eva Hinckle and 2) Dorothy? (Unsure on both) Alonzo Fields (never married) Arthur Fields m. Maria Shobe (spoke to him a couple of years ago 00 he lives in Kansas City, MO) Mayola Fields m. Rueben Paige (there are PAIGE ancestors in Joliet, IL) who can help us tie the FIELDS pieces together Ray Fields Jr. m. Gaye Gwendolyn Fields m. Gilbert Wright Colita Fields m. Sterling Henderson RAY FIELDS parents were: George and Betty Fields. On the 1920 census.. Leckie is living next door to Ollie Jones and wife Bessie? and their 5 children: I can only make out the names Purcie, ALbert, Oscar, looks like a daughter named Lottie? and another son whose name I can't transcribe. On this census they live on VINE Street in Bunceton - neighbors to my other relatives William and Millie Smith (nee Miles; Pender and Dennis Jackson and Dea Miles. All of these folks are related in one way or another. Dea Miles is married to Leckie's sister Lemmie. Millie Smith is my great great grandmother. William and Millie's daughter Ruth married my great grandfather Nathaniel Powell Wilson -- whose father Marion Wilson worked for Edwin Patterson on Nathaniel Leonard farm Ravenswood. The architect of the post civil war Ravenswood was named Angelo Powell. YOu can see how Marion named his son Nathaniel Powell. Marion's sister Millie was a slave on Ravenswood.. she had several children with Achilles Johnson. These JOHNSON relatives also married into the CRUMPs. Leckie's Parents were: Ed Crump and Belle Larry and their children: Lemmie Crump m. William Dea Miles Estelle Crump m. ? Dorris Marybell m. and Stephenson Beluah m. Leckie married a Fields and Jones Lillie m. Frank Hardin ***(FYI -- William Dea Miles parents: Thorton Miles and Mahalia Guire were owned by the TUTT family and around 1880 changed their surname to MILES from TUTT. Their children were: William Dea Miles m. Lemmie CRUMP; Robert Price (son of Gen. Sterling Price) m. Lillian Johnson; Louise Miles, Lester Miles, Millie Miles (above); Minnie Milles m. Moss Johnson (married youngest son of Achilles Johnson and Millie Wilson -- they moved to Buxton Iowa); Ella and Sally m. Charley Wright) Ed's siblings: Birdie Crump had a daughter named Lottie Henderson; Lottie had son named Ural Gray Jake Crump m. Georgia Warrick Addie Steve Crump m. Cassie Wright (SEE WRIGHTS BELOW) Belle's surname is LARRY or LARRE As for your KELLYS here they are on the 1930 census: Larry, Fanny (head) Kelly, Mary (daughter)35 Kelly, Cecil (son-in-law) 43 Kelly, Cordelia (grand-daughter) 4 1/2 Larry, Ernest (son) 32 Wright, Fannie (grand daughter) 12 Steward, Ernest (grand son) 5 They live just a few doors down from Fields, Harry (47) Fields, Mammie (wife) 45 Fields, Elsie 18 Fields, Helen 9 Fields, Ruth 7 Fields, Harold 15 Fields, Eugene 17 Fields, Joseph 12 Newman, Lula (20) Newman, William J. (grandson) 3 1/2 Newman, Rosetta (granddaughter) 1 yr. The WRIGHTS were a big family Robert Wright obtained the land from Benjamin Hickman (a slaveowning family with deep Central MO ties) His children: Ed Wright m. Clara Henderson Jim Wright m. Alfa Gilliam Will Wright m. Anna Gather or (Gaither) Tom Wright m. Lucy Henderson Charley Wright m. Sally Miles Saint Wright m. Ida Woodson Anna Wright m. Jules Shields Cassie Wright m. Steve Crump (see above) (their daughter Mamie Crump m. Sam Smith (son of Jim and Ada Henderson Smith) One of Achilles Johnson and Millie Wilson's daughters Katherine married a William Henderson. She died before the 1910 census. Don't know if there is a connection here or not. On the 1900 census she and William have children; Della, Willie, Effie and Mary -- a grandson named Leverant Miles. Leverant was also the name of one of the children Nathaniel Leonard owner of Ravenswood.) Mamie Wright m. Harrison Harris Ella Wright m. John Lewis Tracing African American ancestors is tricky business... so if any of you know these families and can make corrections or connections -- please let me know. Best regards, Traci Wilson-Kleekamp African Americans in Missouri http://www.missouri-slave-data.org And YES.. I will finally be updating my website!