Sarah Gowin

  Research Notes:

All three of her sons served the Confederacy in the Civil War. Her youngest son, William Harrison Fields, was fatally wounded at Gettysburg. All three of them are mentioned in " There Never Were Such Men Before " By Ruth Peebles.
Both Sarah and her husband, Isaiah S. Fields, are buried in unmarked graves in Fields Cemetery in Liberty Co. Texas. This cemetery is located on land he had set aside, out of his original Mexican land grant for a family cemetery and an Historical Marker was placed inside the cemetery.

  Noted events in her life were:

• 1840 Census: Republic of Texas,: Texas.

• Legal: Affidavitt of Mrs. Vernal McNuly, 18 Jun 1846. Regardind Isaiha Fields

• Land: Deed, 1848, Liberty Co., Texas. Deed to Wm. H & Vernal B Fields

• 1860 US Census: Grand Cane, Liberty Co., Texas.

• Application Veteren's Widows Pension, 19 Feb 1879.

• Will: Thomas Goins Will, 1 Apr 1872, Liberty Co., Texas. Will recorded Book D
pages 120-122

• 1880 Federal Census: Liberty Co., Texas.

• Application Veteren's Widows Pension: 2nd Application, 28 Mar 1883.

Sarah married Isaiah S. Fields in 1820 in Jefferson Co., Va.