Obituary for Laura Jane Hampton Fields

This is another of the documents that we copied while visiting Grove in September. Laura Jane Hampton Fields was the daughter of H. H. Hampton. Her obituary was published in the Grove Sun in Grove, Delaware County, Oklahoma on Sunday, April 12, 1951.

A scan of the obituary has been placed here.

PIONEER MOTHER PASSES

Laura Jane Hampton was born in Cherokee County, North Carolina, June 4th, 1858, passed away at her home 3 1/2 miles east of Grove, April 5th, 1951, at the age of 92 years, 10 months and one day.
At the age of thirteen years she moved with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Harvey H. Hampton from North Carolina to the Indian Territory, where she lived until her death.
She was united in marriage to Timothy Richard Fields, Sept. 14th 1879. To this union were born ten children. Her husband and five children proceeding her in death.
At an early age she accepted Christ as her personal Savior, and became a member of the Methodist Church. She lived a devoted, active Christian life until her death.
Although bedfast for seven years, she was always cheerful and never complained of her condition.
In her younger life, in the Territorial days, she was always willing and happy to help those who were less fortunate than she, often going day or night to help her neighbors in time of sickness.
Laura Jane was the eldest of thirteen children, all having preceded her in death.
She leaves to mourn her passing, five children: Mrs. S. E. Nix, Hollywood, Calif; Lee Fields, Grove; Mrs. George W. Hoggatt, Tulsa; Virgil Fields, Jay; Marshall Fields, Grove; 20 grandchildren, many relatives and friends, we can say: “Our loss is heaven’s gain. One day we shall meet her in the Father’s House.”

[Originally written November 17, 2004. Brought to new site Memorial Day, 2007.]