ID: Enos Fairfield 1900 census (Gen. 8: John-Walter-William-Skipper-Abraham-Abraham-Simon-Enos)

Source: original image, Township 2, Lassen Co., CA

Transcription:

Fairfield, Enos, head, born July 1826, 73, widow, bp MA, parents bp RI, farmer

Notes: Enos was the son of Simon and Phebe (Churchill) Fairfield. He was born July 1826 in Douglas, Massachusetts. He married Sarah Luvan Parker in 1852. They moved West, to Iowa, Illinois, and California, in the mid-1800s. Of their two children, Asa Merrill and Phebe Ellen, only Asa survived to adulthood. Asa is the author of Fairfield's Pioneer History of Lassen County California. In that account, Asa stated that his mother's parents were "Captain Abel and Sarah W. (Darling) Parker, both of whom died in this county [Worcester, MA]. She [Sarah L. Parker] was the third generation from James and Eunice (Emerson) Parker. He was an Englishman who settled in Douglas, Mass. The children of their son Prince and his wife Olive were Joseph, Prince, Abel, Lovel, Zary, and Polly." Asa also explained that his paternal "grandmother, Phebe (Churchill) Fairfield was a descendant of Roger Williams, her mother's maiden name being Williams. Her father, Joseph Churchill, served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War, probably in the Rhode Island Line." And about his family's migration pattern Asa wrote that his "father [Enos], who was a machinist by trade, concluded to leave the shop and go West. In the fall of 1855, the family moved onto a farm near Rockford, Illinois. January 28, 1857, a daughter, who was named Phebe Ellen, was born to them. In the spring of 1857 the family moved to the little town of Jefferson in Bremer County, Iowa, twelve miles north of Waterloo. They lived there four years. Here [Enos'] the father's health failed, and in 1865 they crossed the plains with a team to Honey Lake valley [CA]. The mother's [Sarah's] family, the Parkers, who also came to Rockford and then to Jefferson, had emigrated to this valley in 1862. the Fairfields lived with them two miles northwest of Millford during the winter of 1865-66, and the children [Asa and Phebe] attended the first public school taught in that district. In the summer of 1869 they returned to Iowa, going by the newly constructed railroad, and settled in Waverly, Bremer county. The daughter [Phebe] died at this place in August, 1871. The son [Asa] went to school in Waverly about a year and a half and in the spring of 1871 began teaching. He taught three short terms of school in Iowa. In the fall of 1873 the family came back to Honey Lake valley [CA] and in the spring of 1875 settled on a place about three fourths of a mile southeast of Janesville. The mother [Sarah] died there in 1893 and the father [Enos] died at Janesville in 1904.