William Jason FIELDS, Congress, KY (1874-1954) FIELDS William Jason , a Representative from Kentucky; born in Willard, Carter County, Ky.,
December 29, 1874; attended the public schools, and the University of Kentucky at Lexington;
studied law; engaged in agricultural pursuits and also in the real estate business at Olive Hill,
Ky.; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-second and to the six succeeding Congresses and served
from March 4, 1911, to December 11, 1923, when he resigned, having been elected Governor;
Governor of Kentucky from December 1923 to December 1927; returned to Olive Hill and was
admitted to the bar in 1927; Commonwealth s attorney for the thirty-seventh judicial district of
Volunteers clean graves of African American Civil War veteran in Mount Sterling
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MONTGOMERY COUNTY, Ky. (LEX 18) â Montgomery County High School students cleaned African American graves from the Civil War era at Olive Hill Cemetery on Friday.
âThis is teaching me the history of Mount Sterling. I had no idea so many people had fought for their freedom here,â said senior McKenna Shrout.
The DuBois Community Center organized the service opportunity as part of a community project to record and honor African American history in Montgomery County.
âOur students are realizing the importance of bridging the gap of our American history by knowing the importance of what our African Americans have done in our history,â said organizer Valerie Scott.