The Fayette County, Tennessee property on which this burial ground is located had been owned by Charles Grandison Feild at the time his wife Agnes M. Steel died, though he later moved a short distance away to Haywood County, Tennessee. In approximately May 1977 on a rainy day during a visit to the area, I visited the burial ground and saw the three gravestones for Charles Grandison Feild, his first wife Agnes M. Steel, and his second wife Catherine Malvina Hess. Several times over the last few years the general area was searched but no gravestones were located and it was wondered if the gas station was over the burial site. In a recently found video created in 1999, my father was filmed driving in the area pointing out places of interest, including a clump of trees where he said the Field burials were located, though no stones noted at that time. I reconstructed his route and on a recent trip to Tennessee I drove to the spot and luckily the owner was there harvesting his cotton; his family has owned the property since the 1890s. When I asked permission to go on the property because I thought my ancestors were buried there he immediately pointed to that clump of trees, stating that when he was young he saw the three gravestones. Unfortunately at this time the gravestones have not been located despite searches by multiple people, even probing the top 6" of the soil. Though the search will continue, high probability that the gravestones were stolen, a practice that occasionally happens in the area.
Note: Even though there had been a gravestone for Catherine Malvina Hess, she remarried after Charles' death and is buried with her second husband James McConnell in Elmwood Cemetery, FAG # 153067698.
Directions: Exit I40 at route 222 and head south. In 0.15-.3 miles turn left (east) onto Hebron Drive. Travel 0.3 miles; the burial ground is in the clump of trees in the field on the left (north) side of the road. The burial ground is on private property.