Townships of Jefferson County Illinois

   Field township is bordered on the north by Marion county, west by Rome township, both timber and prairie, good soil and a fair class of farmers. Casey's Fork and East creek are the principal streams, with others amply sufficient for drainage. It has no railroads nor public works, is simply agricultural.
   Among its first settlers were the Fields, for whom the township was named. There were Nathan, James, and Henry. Thomas Jordan came early and kept tavern on the old Goshen road which ran through the township. James Foster, Maxwell and Dave Garrison were soon here and Alfred Finn, John and Ben Hawkins, D. Easley, were of the first settlers. John McConnell, a Mexican soldier, was a great stock raiser and noted farmer of this township. The township is well supplied with school-houses and churches and the citizenship of the township is a good average of any other part of the county. John McConnell was its first Supervisor.
   Its present prominent people are the Garrisons, the Rollisons, the Hawkins, the Simmons, the Browns, the Howards, the Wimberlys, the Raynors, the Padgets, the Fraziers and others to numerous to mention. Oak Grove, Baptists, Mount Zion, Methodist, Panther Fork churches and another new building show that the people of Field are keeping up with the procession, religiously, with school-houses plentiful. Texico, a nice little business place, is the capital, located on the Chicago & Eastern Railroad, near the county line.