Clifton Leslie Fields was born September 3 1907 in Jack County Texas. Walter and Mary Louise Tripp Fields were the parents of this 4th child of 13 ...He was raised on the Fields lands southeast of Bryson. He rode stickhorses as a child and made his own toys from things of nature.There was hunting from the time he could walk with his brothers and father.He had brown hair, brown eyes that twinkled, always smiling. He had an 8th grade education and from there went to the oilfields as a rotary driller.

C L went to the army to fight WWII Jan 10 1942.. His specialty was lineman 641, and he helped lay the cable lines for communication between battalions... He saw Naples, Foggia, Rhineland, Rome and Southern France. He brought home a lot of medals from the war, Good Conduct, Bronze Star, Purple Heart as he was injured in Feb 1944 buried alive in an explosion in Italy. He dug his way out with several fractured ribs and continued to lay lines with his co-workers until he was ordered to leave and seek medical help.

After coming home from the war, he joined Southwestern Bell Telephone Company and remained in their workforce until he retired some 22 years later.He married a Victoria Barger Sullivan in Wheeler Texas. They had no children.

In about 1953 , they acquired a girl child, his brother Guy Fields daughter, Carolyn Ann Fields who was 13 months old at this time... They lived in Wichita Falls, then Charlie Texas.
After Carolyn grew up and married, Victoria and C L divorced. He then married a Maxine Rowland and lived in Wichita Falls, Bryson and finally, Newport, Texas.

C L had many hobbies and loved to travel across Texas. He traded livestock, ran Walker and July hounds after coyotes in the night, He chewed Days Work chewing tobacco. He frequented small cafes and had a few waitress girlfriends. He lived a good life and was 78 years old when he had a final heart attack. He died in Bowie, Texas .