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William Miller Fields (Boyle County, Kentucky, merchant and hotelkeeper)

b. 1815 d. 1888

Boyle County, Kentucky, merchant and hotelkeeper. Kentucky native. Son of Henry Fields and Susan Ripperdan Fields. Married to Ann Thorn Fields in Mercer County, Kentucky, in April 1836. Father of Harriet R. Fields, Ellen D. Fields, Sarah R. Fields, Lewis B. Fields, William M. Fields, Thomas T. Fields, Ann F. Fields, and Carrie B. Fields. Merchant in Boyle County in 1850. Owned three enslaved persons in Boyle County in 1850. Hotelkeeper in Boyle County in 1860. Owned one enslaved person in Boyle County in 1860.

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Sex
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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Boyle County, District 2, p. 353A.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Boyle County, District 2, p. 5.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Boyle County, Danville, p. 895.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Boyle County, Danville, p. 10.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Mercer County Marriages, Film #000191855, p. 29.

North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000, Lineage Book: National Society Daughters of the American Revolution, Vol. 151 (1919), p. 190.

Citation

Fields, William Miller. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32202860 (November 12, 2026).

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