Veteran of Civil War Union Army.
Death certificate 22066. Father George Fielder. Mother Miria (nee Ford) Fielder.
A Clarksville deputy sheriff but his job as a father may have been more challenging when he dealt with his seventeen-year-old daughter who was promised to one man and eloped with another.
The story made the St. Louis Globe Democrat newspaper in 1894, telling of the anxious father, Thomas Fielder, and a distraught young man, John Pimpel, just weeks from his wedding day with Miss Maude Fielder. Mr. Pimpel had given Maude "$75 to buy her trousseau with and on the following night, he says, she turned the money over to (Frank) Rickard, who used it to defray the expenses of the elopement and marriage."
Rickard who may also have gone by the name of Glass, eloped with Maude to Belleville then the young couple headed to St. Louis. At some point, Rickard came back to Clarksville without his bride and that's when his father-in-law caught up with him and demanded his daughter back. Rickard gave him an address in St. Louis where Maude was and Fielder and the Pimpel headed to the city only to find that Maude was not there and had never been living at the address. Fielder "accordingly reported the matter to the police. As Chief Reedy was out at the time the bereaved father and the badly treated swain called, they were referred to Capt. Joyce of the Third District." After hearing the story of the elopement his response was to send an officer out to find Rickard (who had followed Fielder and Pimpel from Clarksville), a detective was sent to get Maude, a special license was issued, a justice of the peace summoned and by authority of which Miss Fielder was made Mrs. Rickard as witnessed by her father and ex-fiancé.
"During the ceremony, Mr. Pimpel, the cast-off beau of the girl, stood by and watched the proceedings without uttering a word. When the wedding was over, he heaved a sigh and remarked, as he left the happy couple: "In my case the course of true love hasn't run smooth, but nevertheless I wish you happiness."
It appears Maude's love life didn't stop there. Public records indicate that by 1911, at the time of her father's death, his last will and testament referred to her as Maude Wileman and in 1952 social security documents identified her as Maude Barnard.
Thomas L. Fielder 1841-1911, Civil War veteran, Greenwood Cemetery
Virginia Fielder 1849-1916, Greenwood Cemetery
Fielder Children:
Harry M. 1872 – 1927 Greenwood Cemetery
Frederick 1874 – 1966 Greenwood Cemetery
Maude C. Fielder Rickard Wileman Bernard 1878 -?
Additional children listed by name in Thomas Fielder's Will are:
Richard Fielder, Homer Fielder, Josie Fielder & William Fielder died previous to their father's death, Chester Fielder, James Fielder was named as executor, and Cassie Clyde Todd.
Death certificate 22066. Father George Fielder. Mother Miria (nee Ford) Fielder.
A Clarksville deputy sheriff but his job as a father may have been more challenging when he dealt with his seventeen-year-old daughter who was promised to one man and eloped with another.
The story made the St. Louis Globe Democrat newspaper in 1894, telling of the anxious father, Thomas Fielder, and a distraught young man, John Pimpel, just weeks from his wedding day with Miss Maude Fielder. Mr. Pimpel had given Maude "$75 to buy her trousseau with and on the following night, he says, she turned the money over to (Frank) Rickard, who used it to defray the expenses of the elopement and marriage."
Rickard who may also have gone by the name of Glass, eloped with Maude to Belleville then the young couple headed to St. Louis. At some point, Rickard came back to Clarksville without his bride and that's when his father-in-law caught up with him and demanded his daughter back. Rickard gave him an address in St. Louis where Maude was and Fielder and the Pimpel headed to the city only to find that Maude was not there and had never been living at the address. Fielder "accordingly reported the matter to the police. As Chief Reedy was out at the time the bereaved father and the badly treated swain called, they were referred to Capt. Joyce of the Third District." After hearing the story of the elopement his response was to send an officer out to find Rickard (who had followed Fielder and Pimpel from Clarksville), a detective was sent to get Maude, a special license was issued, a justice of the peace summoned and by authority of which Miss Fielder was made Mrs. Rickard as witnessed by her father and ex-fiancé.
"During the ceremony, Mr. Pimpel, the cast-off beau of the girl, stood by and watched the proceedings without uttering a word. When the wedding was over, he heaved a sigh and remarked, as he left the happy couple: "In my case the course of true love hasn't run smooth, but nevertheless I wish you happiness."
It appears Maude's love life didn't stop there. Public records indicate that by 1911, at the time of her father's death, his last will and testament referred to her as Maude Wileman and in 1952 social security documents identified her as Maude Barnard.
Thomas L. Fielder 1841-1911, Civil War veteran, Greenwood Cemetery
Virginia Fielder 1849-1916, Greenwood Cemetery
Fielder Children:
Harry M. 1872 – 1927 Greenwood Cemetery
Frederick 1874 – 1966 Greenwood Cemetery
Maude C. Fielder Rickard Wileman Bernard 1878 -?
Additional children listed by name in Thomas Fielder's Will are:
Richard Fielder, Homer Fielder, Josie Fielder & William Fielder died previous to their father's death, Chester Fielder, James Fielder was named as executor, and Cassie Clyde Todd.
Veteran of Civil War Union Army.
Death certificate 22066. Father George Fielder. Mother Miria (nee Ford) Fielder.
A Clarksville deputy sheriff but his job as a father may have been more challenging when he dealt with his seventeen-year-old daughter who was promised to one man and eloped with another.
The story made the St. Louis Globe Democrat newspaper in 1894, telling of the anxious father, Thomas Fielder, and a distraught young man, John Pimpel, just weeks from his wedding day with Miss Maude Fielder. Mr. Pimpel had given Maude "$75 to buy her trousseau with and on the following night, he says, she turned the money over to (Frank) Rickard, who used it to defray the expenses of the elopement and marriage."
Rickard who may also have gone by the name of Glass, eloped with Maude to Belleville then the young couple headed to St. Louis. At some point, Rickard came back to Clarksville without his bride and that's when his father-in-law caught up with him and demanded his daughter back. Rickard gave him an address in St. Louis where Maude was and Fielder and the Pimpel headed to the city only to find that Maude was not there and had never been living at the address. Fielder "accordingly reported the matter to the police. As Chief Reedy was out at the time the bereaved father and the badly treated swain called, they were referred to Capt. Joyce of the Third District." After hearing the story of the elopement his response was to send an officer out to find Rickard (who had followed Fielder and Pimpel from Clarksville), a detective was sent to get Maude, a special license was issued, a justice of the peace summoned and by authority of which Miss Fielder was made Mrs. Rickard as witnessed by her father and ex-fiancé.
"During the ceremony, Mr. Pimpel, the cast-off beau of the girl, stood by and watched the proceedings without uttering a word. When the wedding was over, he heaved a sigh and remarked, as he left the happy couple: "In my case the course of true love hasn't run smooth, but nevertheless I wish you happiness."
It appears Maude's love life didn't stop there. Public records indicate that by 1911, at the time of her father's death, his last will and testament referred to her as Maude Wileman and in 1952 social security documents identified her as Maude Barnard.
Thomas L. Fielder 1841-1911, Civil War veteran, Greenwood Cemetery
Virginia Fielder 1849-1916, Greenwood Cemetery
Fielder Children:
Harry M. 1872 – 1927 Greenwood Cemetery
Frederick 1874 – 1966 Greenwood Cemetery
Maude C. Fielder Rickard Wileman Bernard 1878 -?
Additional children listed by name in Thomas Fielder's Will are:
Richard Fielder, Homer Fielder, Josie Fielder & William Fielder died previous to their father's death, Chester Fielder, James Fielder was named as executor, and Cassie Clyde Todd.
Death certificate 22066. Father George Fielder. Mother Miria (nee Ford) Fielder.
A Clarksville deputy sheriff but his job as a father may have been more challenging when he dealt with his seventeen-year-old daughter who was promised to one man and eloped with another.
The story made the St. Louis Globe Democrat newspaper in 1894, telling of the anxious father, Thomas Fielder, and a distraught young man, John Pimpel, just weeks from his wedding day with Miss Maude Fielder. Mr. Pimpel had given Maude "$75 to buy her trousseau with and on the following night, he says, she turned the money over to (Frank) Rickard, who used it to defray the expenses of the elopement and marriage."
Rickard who may also have gone by the name of Glass, eloped with Maude to Belleville then the young couple headed to St. Louis. At some point, Rickard came back to Clarksville without his bride and that's when his father-in-law caught up with him and demanded his daughter back. Rickard gave him an address in St. Louis where Maude was and Fielder and the Pimpel headed to the city only to find that Maude was not there and had never been living at the address. Fielder "accordingly reported the matter to the police. As Chief Reedy was out at the time the bereaved father and the badly treated swain called, they were referred to Capt. Joyce of the Third District." After hearing the story of the elopement his response was to send an officer out to find Rickard (who had followed Fielder and Pimpel from Clarksville), a detective was sent to get Maude, a special license was issued, a justice of the peace summoned and by authority of which Miss Fielder was made Mrs. Rickard as witnessed by her father and ex-fiancé.
"During the ceremony, Mr. Pimpel, the cast-off beau of the girl, stood by and watched the proceedings without uttering a word. When the wedding was over, he heaved a sigh and remarked, as he left the happy couple: "In my case the course of true love hasn't run smooth, but nevertheless I wish you happiness."
It appears Maude's love life didn't stop there. Public records indicate that by 1911, at the time of her father's death, his last will and testament referred to her as Maude Wileman and in 1952 social security documents identified her as Maude Barnard.
Thomas L. Fielder 1841-1911, Civil War veteran, Greenwood Cemetery
Virginia Fielder 1849-1916, Greenwood Cemetery
Fielder Children:
Harry M. 1872 – 1927 Greenwood Cemetery
Frederick 1874 – 1966 Greenwood Cemetery
Maude C. Fielder Rickard Wileman Bernard 1878 -?
Additional children listed by name in Thomas Fielder's Will are:
Richard Fielder, Homer Fielder, Josie Fielder & William Fielder died previous to their father's death, Chester Fielder, James Fielder was named as executor, and Cassie Clyde Todd.
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