Wayne County, NC GenWeb

Death Certificate
Full Name: John Lemuel Fields
Residence: Goldsboro, NC
Widow: Susan Elizabeth Lewis
Born: January 6, 1862
Death: October 27, 1929
Occupation: Farmer
Father: Josiah Fields
Mother: Caroline Lane
Informant: Mrs. Wilford Lynch
Buried: Joe Woodard Cemetery October 28, 1929
Undertaker: Ed A. Holt, Princeton

Josiah's second wife's name was Lovey in the 1870 census. It is proposed she was the Lovey Lane in the following deed in 1860 and would have been in Josiah's neighborhood. This may have been the mixup with the incorrect surname for Caroline on the death certificate.

Indenture made 21 Nov 1860 between James Addison Fields and Lovey Lane, for $112 land in Wayne on the east side of the W & W RR known as a part of Richard Casey land bounded as follows: near run of Marshy Branch, (Newman) Potts corner, Potts line, head of Casey Mill Pond. Witnesses: Wm. Vernon and Wm. B. Fields. Registered October 1, 1869. Wayne County, NC Register of Deeds; Bk 27, pg 28.