05 OCT 2021 SAC to add year of marriage.~
Born in Indian Territory; Wife of Franklin Pierce Milligan. Dau. of Moses and Mahala Fields; grand-daughter of Chief Richard Fields, Jr. & Jennie Buffington, Cherokee Nation.
Her father's Maysville (Arkansas) Inn and Store on the Military Road, was the setting for high level parley between (Brigadier) General Stand Watie, CSA, and the Union General Buell and staff, attempting peaceful exchange of prisoners after the Neosho battle, and during the Civil War strife. etc. Both Watie's and Buell's staff and soldiers stood down during this. Sophronia, in her memoirs, remembered the tension as being very high; she never forgot it. The family finally fled to another town for safety. She returned to Maysville with her mother; the Fields' hotel had been burned down. The family rebuilt the home and stores which she and her mother managed for years. [Note about Stand Watie: Sophronia had a teenager's crush on this mannerly man with the dynamic personality and they were pals until his death, living nearby.]
05 OCT 2021 SAC to add year of marriage.~
Born in Indian Territory; Wife of Franklin Pierce Milligan. Dau. of Moses and Mahala Fields; grand-daughter of Chief Richard Fields, Jr. & Jennie Buffington, Cherokee Nation.
Her father's Maysville (Arkansas) Inn and Store on the Military Road, was the setting for high level parley between (Brigadier) General Stand Watie, CSA, and the Union General Buell and staff, attempting peaceful exchange of prisoners after the Neosho battle, and during the Civil War strife. etc. Both Watie's and Buell's staff and soldiers stood down during this. Sophronia, in her memoirs, remembered the tension as being very high; she never forgot it. The family finally fled to another town for safety. She returned to Maysville with her mother; the Fields' hotel had been burned down. The family rebuilt the home and stores which she and her mother managed for years. [Note about Stand Watie: Sophronia had a teenager's crush on this mannerly man with the dynamic personality and they were pals until his death, living nearby.]
Family Members
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James Sanford Fields
1835–1896
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Samuel Igo Fields
1838–1909
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Martha Emeline Fields Horsley
1840–1919
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Sarah Penelope Fields Smith
1842–1928
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Laura Victoria Fields Yeager
1844–1900
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Moses Albert Fields Jr
1846–1864
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Emma A. Fields
1850–1851
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Franklin Pierce Fields
1850–1850
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Josephan Fields
1852–1852
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John F. Fields
1855–1856
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