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Family
Marriage: Children:

  1. Ruben Washington Vanhowten: Birth: 13 SEP 1888 in Texas. Death: 12 AUG 1965 in Waller, Waller Co., Texas

  2. Hattie Vanhowten: Birth: MAR 1891.

  3. Rosalia Vanhowten: Birth: JUL 1893.

  4. Josephine Vanhowten: Birth: 25 DEC 1898 in Waller, Waller Co., Texas. Death: 5 JUL 1966 in Medical Arts Hospital, Baytown, Harris Co., Texas


Family
Marriage: Children:

  1. John Lawrence Sheffield: Birth: 7 JAN 1886 in Seabrook, Harris Co., Texas. Death: 11 JUN 1968 in Windsor Estate Nursing Home, Harris Co., Texas


Sources
1. Title:   Application for Social Security Account Number for Josephine Vanhowten Clepper
2. Title:   1870 Oct. 3, Harrisburg, Harris Co., Texas, pg. 506B, line 38
3. Title:   Emma Lou Cline Gilmore, 110 Meadow Gate Drive, League City, Texas 77573-0846
4. Title:   1880 Census, Harris Co., Texas, Vol. 16, Sheet 39, ED 78, Line 22
5. Title:   Death certificate

Notes
a. Note:   Informant on death certificate was J. L. Sheffield.
  The correct name of the cemetery is Fields Store Cem. which is actually in Fields Store, Waller Co., Texas. From The Handbook Of Texas: Fields (Field's) Store is at the junction of Farm roads 1488 and 362, ten miles northeast of Hempstead in northeast Waller County. It existed as early as 1872 and received its name from Andrew Field and his son Druey Holland Field, the first of several Field family members to operate a general store in the area. By 1874 the community had a post office called Field's Store operated by Isaac Newton Jones, Druey's son-in-law. In 1895 the post office dropped the apostrophe from the name. Thirty residents lived in the community during the 1880s; in the next decade the town had a population of 150, three general stores, at least one church, and a physician. In 1905 Fields Store School enrolled 179 students who were instructed by four teachers. A local Masonic lodge existed during the same period, and by 1907 a Woodman of the World chapter had received its charter. A cotton gin also served local farmers.
  Fields Store declined when the neighboring communities of Myrtle Grove and Joseph developed gins and opened post offices. The Fields Store post office closed in 1909, and most residents began receiving mail from Waller. During the 1930s sixty-nine students attended primary school at Fields Store; high school students rode the bus to Waller. In 1953 the Fields Store school was consolidated with the Waller schools, where area children still attended school in 1990. The old Fields Store school building, completed in 1923, served as the Fields Store Community House in 1990. Pleasant Hill Masonic Lodge No. 380 still met at the meeting hall in Fields Store, and an active cemetery association continued to raise money from July 4 picnics and an annual rodeo. The picnics served as community reunions. New Hope United Methodist Church continued to hold services in 1973. The Texas Historical Commission has placed markers at the site of the old store and at the cemetery.
  1910 Texas Justice Precinct 3, Waller Co., pg. 250, line 74 Sheffield, John married 1 yr. 24 Texas Texas LA farmer general Bertha G 19 Texas Texas Texas Vanhouten, Mary R mother 43 10 children 5 living LA LA LA Rosie L stepsister 13 Texas Texas LA Josephine stepsister 11 Texas Texas LA Fronie stepsister 8 Texas Texas LA 1920 Texas, Justice Precinct 3, Waller Co., pg. 46, line 12 Sheffield, John L 34 Texas Birt J 29 Mattie A 8 Virgie A 6 Mary L 1/12 Vandantin, Mary R mother 54
  1930 Texas, Pct. 3, Waller Co., pg. 243, line 38 Sheffield, John 43 wd Virgie 17 Lenora M 10 Van Hanten, Mary R mother 65

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