When Octavia Batcheldor Goding was born on 29 August 1819, in Jay, Franklin, Maine, United States, her father, Jonas Coolidge Goding, was 29 and her mother, Patience Tollman, was 28. She married George Cutler Fields about 1845, in Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. She lived in Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States for about 10 years and Illinois, United States in 1870. She died on 26 December 1899, in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States, at the age of 80, and was buried in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States.