Clay County Cemetery Records,
Volume II

Source: Ancestry.com

Field Graveyard

This graveyard is one of the very few found on farms that has been preserved. Enclosed in a concrete wall near the old home. Here Judge Joseph Thornburg Field settled when he came to Clay county. Born in Madison county, Virginia, the eldest of nine children, later settled in Boone county, Ky., from whence he emigrated to Clay county. In 1845 he was married to Miss Mary A. Thompson of Caldwell county, Mo., she survived her marriage on a short time leaving him a daughter, Mary Margaret Wymore became his second wife. A third time he married Amanda Jane Brassfield. Of this union four children were born.

Located SE1/4, NW1/4; section 2, township 51, range 31


Name: Judge Joseph Thornburg Field
Birth Date: 10 Dec 1798
Death Date: 19 Mar 1881
Comment: born Madison county, Va.; died Clay Co., Mo.

Name: Mary Wymore Field
Death Date: 184 (?)
Comment: second wife; no children to this union

Name: Amanda Jane Brasfield
Birth Date: 11 Sep 1819
Death Date: 13 Apr 1915
Comment: third wife

Name: Daniel B. Field
Birth Date: 09 May 1851
Death Date: 17 Mar 1917

Name: Lucy T. Field
Death Date: 05 Jul 1930
Comment: wife of Daniel B. Field


All bured in the above location except Mary A. Thompson Field, the first wife,
who is buried on Field land now owned by a descendant John Clarke.
A letter dated Sept. 2, 1946 from Edna McKinley to Mrs. Alice Houts:
"I am enclosing a correction in dates of the Field graveyard:


Name: Daniel B. Field
Birth Date: 09 May 1857
Death Date: 17 Mar 1928

Name: Amanda Jane Brasfield
Death Date: 13 Apr 1895

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