Selected excerpts from
Cumberland Furnace, A frontier Industrial Village
by : George E. Jackson

The following letter was written by Silas Tidwell to his son John Benton Tidwell at the close of the Civil War. It was in possession of a granddaughter of John Benton and Winnie (Richardson) Tidwell and daughter of Missour K. (Tidwell) Harlan. This granddaughter is 95 years old, still in good health and lives in Oklahoma in the year 1996.

George Southerland was born in Scotland, January 28, 1773. It is not know whether he came to America as a child or as an adult. Before 1800, he married a woman named Mary (last name unknown, born in 1762).

My grandfather, John Wesley Field, often told of a conversation he had as a youth. When he was small, his parents, Jesse A. M. and Susie Murrell Field, purchased and moved their family to what was known as "The Old Springer Place". Shortly after they moved, Wesley was sitting o­n the fence in front of the house when a man walked by. They began a conversation. After a while, the older man asked the youth, "What's your name, Son?" My grandfather's reply was, "It used to be Field but I reckon it's Springer now."

Kimbro-Field: A History of the Kimbro and Field Families of Middle Tennessee by Kenneth Kimbro, 1992, pages 103-104.

1914-1995
Geneva Lucille, the oldest child of Wesley and Eva Field, was born November 5, 1914. o­n November 18, 1935, she married James Edward Kimbro. They made their home in Dickson County until 1951, when they relocated in Davidson County. Today, Lucille lives in Goodlettsville, Sumner County, Tennessee, where she is an active member of Connell Memorial United Methodist Church.