W.J. & Viola Gibbons Fields

W.J. Fields, born in 1868, came to Sutton Co. from his home in Manor, TX. in 1887 to operate ranch land his father Dr. J.D. Fields of Manor had owned since 1883. The land remained in the family in 1990. “Will” met Viola, daughter of Emory Gibbons, in Sonora. They married in 1894 and had these children: Thelma Fields Johnson, Eleanor Fields Hopkins, John David Fields, Margaret Annie Fields, Mary Fields Perrine, William John Fields, Jr., and Herbert Wardlaw Fields.

Sonora, Texas · United States