When William John Fifield was born on 17 April 1846, in St. Louis, Missouri, United States, his father, Levi Joseph Fifield, was 42 and his mother, Sarah Ann Smith, was 18. He married Mercy Ward on 2 August 1879, in Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States. He lived in Weber, Utah, United States in 1850 and Kane Township, Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States in 1860. He registered for military service in 1861. He died on 14 March 1905, in Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States, at the age of 58, and was buried in Fairview Cemetery, Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States.
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The Great Seal of the State of Iowa was created in 1847 and depicts a soldier standing in a wheat field surrounded by symbols including farming, mining, and transportation with the Mississippi River in the background. An eagle overhead bears the state motto.
Historical Boundaries: 1850: Utah Territory, United States 1851: Weber, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Weber, Utah, United States
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
English: habitational name from any of various places called Fifield or Fyfield, of which there are instances in Berkshire, Essex, Oxfordshire, Hampshire, Gloucestershire, Somerset, Dorset and Wiltshire, all so named from Old English fīf ‘five’ + hīde ‘hides’ (a hide being an Anglo-Saxon measurement of land area).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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