Descendants of John Maxfield
of Salisbury, Massachusetts
Fifth Generation

WILLIAM⁵ MAXFIELD (Benjamin⁴, Joseph^3-2, John¹) was born at New Hampshire on 17 June 1802 a son of Benjamin Maxfield and his wife Polly Sargent. He died at Jefferson Township, Knox County, Ohio, on 2 December 1880.^[1] He married on 26 November 1823 RHODA HOSKINS.^[2] She was born at New York on 5 February 1801 and died on 11 July 1881.^[3]

It is very likely that William was a son of Benjamin. William appeared in the 1830 census in the same town in New York state where Benjamin was reported in 1820. William is consistently described as born at New Hampshire, and he fits into an age-sex category in the household of Benjamin in the 1810 census.

William Maxfield was born at New Hampshire in 1802. His early years were spent in the towns of Warner and Fishersfield, Hillsborough County. When William was perhaps eight years old the family moved to Massachusetts, when he was about twelve they moved to Onondaga County, New York. William married and started a family in central New York. By 1840 he and his family moved to the township of Jefferson, in Knox County, Ohio. As their children grew up, they moved on; at least five of their seven children found their way to Nebraska. William Maxfield was a farmer.

The 1830 census found the family at the town of Onondaga, Onondage County, consisting of a man and a woman in their twenties, a girl between five and ten, and three girls under 5.^[4] This can easily be explained as William and Rhoda and the first two children of which we have knowledge. I cannot identify the other two girls.

William Maxfield purchased from Richard and Martha Birch, for $300 land in the town of Onondaga, part of lot #71, on 4 May 1830. On 8 February 1831 William and Rhoda sold this land, or at least part of it, for $170 to Aaron Fay.^[5] The Maxfields continued to live in Onondaga for several years after that.

The 1850 census reported the parents and all seven children of which we have knowledge at Jefferson Township, Knox County:^[6]

Line	Name	Age	Sex	Occupation	Birthplace	Other
14	William Maxfield	49	M	farmer	NH	real estate of $800
15	Rhoda Maxfield	49	F		NY
16	Mary Ann Maxfield	24	F		OH
17	Rhoda E. Maxfield	22	F		OH
18	John Maxfield	17	M	farmer	OH	school
19	Jenett Maxfield	15	F		OH	school
20	Matilda Maxfield	13	F		OH	school
21	William E. Maxfield	11	M		OH	school
22	Elenor Maxfield	9	F		OH	school

Most other sources, including census records, locate the births of all the children except Eleanor at New York.

In the decade of the 1850s daughter Rhoda married, and John moved west, to Indiana, where he married, then to Kansas and Nebraska. The 1860 census reported the remainder of this Maxfield family at Jefferson Township, consisting of William, 58, farmer, Rhoda, 59, Mary Ann, 35, domestic, Jennette, 34, school teacher, Matilda, 28, school teacher, William, 21 "domestic" and attending school, and Eleanor, 19, attending school. All of the children except Eleanor were born at New York.^[7]

By 1870, Myrtle, William and Eleanor had married, the latter two moving west. I cannot locate Jeanette. Only Mary Ann remained at home with her parents. The Maxfield household in Jefferson Township consisted of William, 68, farmer, Rhoda, 69, and Mary 44.^[8]

The census on 1 June 1880 showed no change. The household consisted of William Maxfield, 78, farmer, suffering from old age, Rhoda, 79, wife, and Mary Ann, 54, daughter and housekeeper.^[9] Change came rapidly after this. William Maxfield died at Jefferson Township on 2 December 1880, age 79 years and 24 days. Rhoda died on July 11, 1881, age 80 years 5 months and 6 days. They are both buried at Brinkhaven Cemetery in Brinkhaven, Knox County.^[10] Mary Ann, who had remained at home to care for her parents, married on 1 January 1882, aged 55 years, to William A. Tharpe.^[11] They soon moved west to Iowa. After her husband's death, Mary Ann joined her other family members in Nebraska.

Religion played an important part in the lives of this family. Mary Ann was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church for over sixty years.^[12] Her obituary fills in some of the details of her life:

Obituary of Mary Ann (Maxfield) Tharpe
from Herald-Patriot, Chariton, Iowa
transcribed by Deborah Brownfield-Stanley
placed on Maxfield Family Genealogy Forum

Richfield, Neb., March 27 - Mary A. Maxfield was born in Syracuse, N. Y., January 11, 1826. She moved, with her parents, to Mount Vernon, Ohio, when she was 14 years of age. Here she was united in marriage to William A. Tharp in 1882 and with her husband came to Chariton, Iowa, where her husband lived. They lived together there till he was taken, in 1898, to the other world. After the death of her husband she came to Nebraska to live with her relatives.

At the time of her death she was living with her brother, William, on his farm, near Richfield, Neb. She leaves to mourn her departure, one brother and one sister, Mrs. Jacob Gann of Brickhaven, Ohio, and a host of friends. Her brother, Rev. J. B. Maxfield, went before her to the heavenly home. Rev. Maxfield was a prominent figure in the Methodism of this state. He was presiding elder of Omaha District for two terms. Our departed sister was a member of the M. E. Church for over 60 years, having joined in her youth. She departed this life March 24th 1906 at the age of 80 years, 2 months and 18 days. . . .

John B. Maxfield experienced a religious conversion in 1856 and united with the Methodist Episcopal Church. He was ordained into the ministry of that denomination at Nebraska in 1861, and became one of the fathers of Methodism in Nebraska. His life and ministry are described in the following two biographical articles:

The Rev. John B. Maxfield
from The Christian Advocate^[13]

John B. Maxfield was born in Syracuse, New York, February 24, 1833. He was converted at a revival held by the Wesleyan Methodists at Waddell's Meetinghouse, in Knox County, O., in February, 1856, and united with the Methodist Episcopal Church at Waymanville, Indiana, in April 1856. In 1857 he went to Kansas, but soon after found his way to Nebraska, where, after nearly a year's severe illness, during which he was often near death's door, he yielded to the call to the ministry, and in 1861 joined Nebraska Conference on trial. His first appointment was as junior preacher on Beatrice Circuit, the Rev. Joel Mason being his senior preacher. His next charge was old De Soto Circuit, lying along the river north of Omaha, to which he was appointed in 1862. In 1863 he was received into the Conference and ordained deacon by Bishop E. R. Ames, and appointed to Decatur Charge. But after a single round on this circuit he was appointed to the superintendency of the Pawnee Indian Manual Labor School at Genoa, Neb., where he remained four years. After this he served the following pastorates: Bellevue, Mount Pleasant and Platsmouth. In 1871 he was appointed presiding elder of Beatrice District, and after four successful years was at once appointed to the presiding eldership of North Nebraska District, serving the full term there also. In 1879 he was appointed to First Church, Omaha. At the end of the second year in this important charge his official board unanimously asked for his return but the Conference, being divided that year, Bishop Foster, against his protest, appointed him presiding elder of Omaha District. At the end of a full term he was elected the first president of Central Nebraska College. He came to this institution in his prime, and gave it nearly two years of excellent service. But the nervous strain was too great for even his strong constitution, and, after getting the institution well organized, he was compelled by reason of ill health to resign.

After a few months rest he was appointed to Norfolk District, where he served the full term of six years. He was then assigned to Omaha District. A few months before he closed his full term on this district, he suffered a severe stroke of paralysis, which rendered him almost helpless, and nearly destroyed his power of speech. However, he was in his place at the opening of the succeeding conference at Omaha, to do as he had done every Conference for nearly forty years, answer to the roll call. He asked and was granted a supernumerary relation. It was with a feeling of universal regret and most tender sympathy that the members of the Conference saw their heroic and successful leader retire from the active work.

He was five times elected delegate to the General Conference, in which body he took high rank from the first, serving on most of the important committees. He also served one term as member of the General Missionary Committee, in which his superior knowledge of the West and its needs was of great value. He was a member of the first Board of Regents of the Nebraska State University, and helped to organize that institution. He was also a member of the commission that located Nebraska Wesleyan University at Lincoln, and had been an influential member of the Board of Trustees from the first, rendering valuable service in making that the great institution it is. In 1882 the degree of Doctor of Divinity was conferred on him by Hedding College of Abington, Ill.

John B. Maxfield was one of the most important human factors in rearing the goodly structure of Nebraska Methodism. Indeed, if we consider the extent of the territory over which his work as presiding elder extended during the formative period of the Church, it is probably not too much to say that he was the chief factor. There is scarcely a church in much of this territory that has not in some way felt the touch of this strong man, and felt it for good.

Dr. Maxfield was a preacher of great ability. His sermons were characterized by profound thought, convincing logic, and great clearness and beauty of expression, the result of a marvelous command of language. Thus it came about that all were pleased and instructed, and some were mightily stirred and deeply impressed. He also possessed in rare measure executive and organizing ability, which made him a great success as a presiding elder. He had distinct convictions and deep opinions, and, withal, the courage to express them. His religious life, while free from cant, was genuine and thorough. It seemed providential that, only a few years after the first sermon was preached in Nebraska, where organizing ability was so much needed, John B. Maxfield could and did bring his forceful personality, richly endowed by the very qualities required by the times, and dedicated a lifetime of faithful and efficient service to the Church. Wisely has the Church utilized this force by keeping him in the presiding eldership twenty-four years and at the head of institutions of learning five years, positions furnishing a field for his special talents.

The last year of his life was one of great suffering. In the summer of 1899 a third stroke of paralysis robbed him of that power of speech that had meant so much to himself and his friends and to the Church. As a last resort, on the advice of his physician, he was taken to a sanitarium at Boulder, Colo., accompanied by his wife and brother. He seemed to rally for a day, but apoplexy occurred and the great life of John B. Maxfield went out Sept. 11, 1900.

Appropriate services were held at Boulder, and his remains were then taken to Van Wert, O., the early home of his wife. The funeral services were conducted by the Rev. P. P. Pope, pastor of the Methodist Episcopal Church, assisted by the pastor of the Presbyterian church. "Know ye not that there is a prince and a great man fallen this day in Israel?" The writer, in common with many others, has a deep sense of personal bereavement, but all bow in humble submission to the Father's will.

from History of Nebraska Methodism^[14]

Of the other member of the ecclesiastical triumvirate, John B. Maxfield, it may be said that for the range of territory over which his work extended in the course of his career, in the peculiar talents which he brought to the work, in the strength of his great personality and in the results achieved, he stands second to no one in Nebraska. He was by nature richly endowed with a strong mind that could readily grasp the great truths of the Gospel, and possessed a command of language that never failed to give clear, forceful, and often most attractive expression to these truths. This was true in the very beginning of his career. Such men as J. B. Weston, of Beatrice, who heard him when on his first circuit (Beatrice, 1861), rated his sermons then as far above the average. With a wonderful mental capacity for quickly and clearly grasping the meaning of an author; with a most tenacious memory by which he retained the contents of a book, and being a diligent student, he made rapid progress. With what would be called a good education to begin with, though not a graduate, he reached a commanding position among his brethren and a high rank as a preacher of the Gospel, which was at once recognized by all classes who heard him, as the following pages will amply demonstrate. Indeed, as a preacher, it may be questioned if he has had a superior in the pulpit in Nebraska, in our own or any other denomination.

We would be glad to peer into the early life of this strong personality and trace the influences which wrought to make him what he was, but we are only in possession of a few simple facts. He was born in Syracuse, New York, February 24, 1833. He was converted at a meeting held by the Wesleyan Methodists at Waddell Meetinghouse, in Knox County, Ohio, in February, 1856, and united with the Methodist Episcopal Church at Waymanville, Indiana, in the following April. He soon felt the call to preach the Gospel, but, as in the case of many others, this was not to be without a struggle extending over several years. He was then twenty-three years old and may already have had other plans of life. The next year, 1857, he fell in with the currents that set in toward Kansas and Nebraska at that time, and soon plunged into the rough life on the frontier, first in Kansas and then in 1858 coming to Nebraska. But all who knew him said he bravely met some of the severest hardships incident to life in a new country. He came to know what poverty meant. At one time he must part with his gun to pay his board-bill. And he knew what sorrow meant. It was here in the vicinity of Blue Springs, Nebraska, that he lost his first wife, the daughter of Dr. Summers, and soon he, himself, passed through a long siege of sickness, often hovering very near the verge of eternity. Good Mrs. Knight, who is still living, and who nursed him through this spell of sickness, says that the call to the ministry that had come to him in Indiana soon after conversion, came again, and he yielded. But though he had, up to this time, not yielded to the call to the ministry, Mrs. Knight and mother Shaw and all who knew him, agree in saying that he had all this while maintained his Christian integrity. After his recovery from his illness, and receiving license, he preached occasionally during the winter of 1860-61.

They tell the story that at the first service he conducted he was so embarrassed that forgetting himself, he turned his back on his congregation when he knelt to pray. We can hardly believe this of the self-poised Maxfield that most of us knew in later years, but as a sidelight, served to explain in part, at least, his long hesitancy about entering the ministry. His sense of the great responsibility in preaching the Gospel and a feeling of inadequacy to the task made him hesitate, and overwhelmed him with embarrassment at the first attempt, as it has so many other strong men.

He was recommended for admission on trial and received at the Conference of 1861. Perhaps of all the little band of twenty-one whom Bishop Morris sent out from the first Nebraska Conference to their several fields, none went to a harder or more discouraging post than did John B. Maxfield when he went as junior preacher to the Beatrice circuit, which was on the extreme frontier, there being nothing further west. His senior, Joel Mason, had been on the circuit the year before and had received only $150 of the $300 promised. Now there were two of them to divide the $150, if they received so much, which, as it turned out, they did not, and the amount that J. B. Maxfield received for his first year�s preaching from the people he served, did not exceed thirty dollars, the whole amount for both being sixty dollars. His share of the missionary money would be $112.50, assuming that the junior preacher received half of the allowance of $225. But this strong man, to whom the world was beckoning with much more enticing offers in a worldly way, �chose rather to suffer affliction with the people of God,� rode forth on his little white pony and began at the bottom that great career as a Methodist minister, asking no favors except a fair chance to win his way and by the blessing of the great Head of the Church do his work �and make full proof of his ministry.� As might be expected of so well equipped and forceful a personality, he soon finds, and easily maintains his place among the leaders for over forty years, as pastor, presiding elder, college president, member of General Missionary Committee, or as delegate to the General Conference, and is listened to with respect and interest.

Of the standing which he won in the General Conference, and with the church at large, we have an intimation in the following editorial by Dr. Buckley: �The Rev. Dr. Marquette has contributed to this paper a memorial on the career of the late Dr. John B. Maxfield. With Dr. maxfield we had as intimate acquaintance as was possible to be maintained by men separated by half the continent. In the General Missionary Committee, and in the five General Conferences of which he was a member, we met hjim frequently. As an extemporaneous orator he was far above the average. In the Committee on Episcopacy, in 1892, in a debate that sprang up unexpectedly, and for which he could have made no preparation, he delivered an address which was, from one end to the other, a rolling current of true eloquence. . . .

In the course of his life he had two severe attacks of paralysis, and so great was his general strength that not until the third, which occurred in the summer of 1899 . . ., was he robbed of that power of speech that had meant so much to himself and his friends and the Church. His efficiency in every sphere was fully equal to his power as a public speaker, pastor, and presiding elder. Until paralysis had destroyed the mobility of one side of his face, he was a magnificent looking man, stalwart, well proportioned, and had his voice exactly adapted to his style of thought and expression.�

Eleanor first went to Nebraska to teach at the Pawnee Indian Reservation. Her obituary fills in more information:

Obituary of Eleanor (Maxfield) McKenzee
from Omaha Daily Bee^[15]

Death Record
Mrs. George McKenzie

Mrs. George McKenzie, born January 16, 1841, in Knox county, Ohio, died February 2, 1900, at 4804 North Twenty-fourth street, where she, with her husband and family, had resided continuously for twenty-seven years. She came to Nebraska as Miss Eleanor Maxfield in 1866, as a teacher on the Pawnee Indian Reservation. She married George McKenzie, jr., at De Soto in August 1867. They came to Omaha in 1869 and in 1873 moved to their present home. Besides a husband, father, five sons and one daughter to mourn her loss, she left a host of friends

Methodist pastor John B. Maxfield married three times, but had no children. His first wife, Orpha Summers, was 17 when she married 24 year old John Maxfield in Indiana. She accompanied him west, but died in Nebraska at the age of 20. In 1863 he married Elizabeth (Higley) Seely, who died in 1876. He married Mary M. Elcock at her home community in Van Wert County, Ohio, in 1878.^[16] She was 27, he 45. She had taught school in Van Wert and in Omaha. John Maxfield had acquired some wealth, and left most of it to his widow. Guy McKenzie and some of his siblings, children of Eleanor (Maxfield) McKenzie, challenged the will, but the court ruled that Maxfield was of sound mind when he made the will.^[17]

John Maxfield's widow, Mary, continued to live at Omaha, Douglas County, Nebraska. In 1910 Mary Maxfield, 59, headed a household that included her sisters. Elizabeth (54) and Lucy A. (52) Elcock, both public school teachers.^[18] In 1920 Mary Maxfield, 69, and her sister Elizabeth Elcock, 64, were at the same residence.^[19] They were also reported there in 1930 and 1940.^[20] The sisters died tragically of gas inhalation on 2 July 1942, as described in the following newspaper article::^[21]

2 Aged Former Local Women Are Found Dead
Mrs J B Maxfield, Miss Elizabeth Elcock, gas asphyxiation victoms

A double tragedy closed the lives of two aged sisters and former teachers in the Van Wert City Public Schools, Mrs. J. B. Maxfield and Miss Elizabeth Elcock of Omaha, Neb. Mrs. Maxfield and her younger sister were found dead in their home, Friday, the victims of gas asphyxiation.

According to word received here by friends, Mrs. Maxfield, who was past 90 years of age, and Miss Elcock, who was about 85 years of age, were found dead by a colored maid who worked one day each week for the sisters.

The body of Mrs. Maxfield was found in bed and that of Miss Elcock was on the floor. Indications were, that the younger sister, sensing the gas, had endeavored to reach a telephone before she was overcome. They were last seen by friends on June 29.

The bodies arrived this afternoon and were removed to the Gamble & Alspach Funeral Home. Funeral services will be held Tuesday at 10:30 A. M. at the Presbyterian Church, conducted by Dr. J. H. Lamy and burial will be in Woodland cemetery. Friends may view the bodies until 9:00 A. M. at the funeral home.

The sisters were born and reared in Van Wert and their father, the late Thomas Elcock, was the first Presbyterian church minister in this city. Many years ago Mrs. Maxfield served three years as assistant high school teacher here and then went to Omaha where she continued teaching until her marriage.

Miss Elcock taught school in this city and later went to Omaha where she resided with her sister. She taught in the Omaha schools until her retirement. The sisters came to Van Wert nearly every summer and lived at their old home on Crawford Street.

Both Mrs. Maxfield and Miss Elcock attended the Presbyterian Church. Their only survivors are two nieces and three nephews.

William Maxfield and his wife Rhoda Hoskins had the following children:

MARY ANN⁶ MAXFIELD b. at Syracuse, Onondaga County, on 11 January 1826; d. at Richfield, Sarpy County, Nebraska, on 24 March 1906;^[22] m. at Knox County on 1 January 1882 WILLIAM A. THARPE,^[23] b. at Pennsylvnis on 20 May 1821, d. at Chariton, Lucas County, Iowa, on 11 May 1898.^[24] William had previousle married MARGARET ______ The 1900 census reported at Papillion, Sarpy County, Mary A. Thorpe, born January 1826, widow, and Janette Webb, her sister, born January 1853, widow. Both were childless and both were born at New York to a father born at New Hampshire and a mother born at New York.^[25]

RHODA A.⁶ MAXFIELD b. at New York about 1827-8;^[26] d. before 1906 (not listed as a survivor in sister Mary Ann's obituary); m. at Knox County on 30 January 1851 ELI THARPE.^[27]

Rev. Dr. JOHN B.⁶ MAXFIELD b. at Syracuse on 24 February 1833;^[28] d. at Boulder, Boulder Cunty, Colorado, on 11 September 1900;^[29] m. (1) at Bartholomew County, Indiana, on 13 August 1857 ORPHA J. SUMMERS,^[30] b. on 8 October 1839, d. on 26 September 1860;^[31] m. (2) at Washington County, Nebraska, on 29 April 1863 ELIZABETH (HIGLEY) SEELY,^[32] b. at Indiana on 7 April 1837, d. on 7 December 1876;^[33] m. (3) at Van Wert County on 8 May 1878 MARY M. ELCOCK,^[34] b. at Van Wert County on September 1850, d. at Omaha, on 3 July 1942,^[35] child of Thomas Elcock, Presbyterian minister at Van Wert.

JANETTE⁶ MAXFIELD b. at New York on January 1835;^[36] d. before 1906 (not listed as a survivor in sister Mary Ann's obituary); m. at Beatrice, Gage County, on 21 October 1873 HIRAM P. WEBB,^[37] b. at Sangamon County, Illinois, on 14 March 1842, child of Hiram Luther Webb and Martha B. Bates.^[38]

MYRTILLA J.⁶ MAXFIELD "Matilda" b. at New York on 23 January 1837; d. at Union, Knox County, on 3 April 1917;^[39] m. at Knox County on 11 March 1866 JACOB GANN,^[40] b. at Sycamore, Greene County, Pennsylvania on 3 October 1832, d. at Knox County on 31 July 1910.^[41]

WILLIAM EDWIN⁶ MAXFIELD b. at Syracuse on 13 January 1839.

ELEANOR⁶ MAXFIELD b. at Knox County on 16 January 1841; d. at Omaha on 2 February 1900; m. at De Soto, Washington County, on August 1867 GEORGE McKENZIE,^[42] b. at Aberdeen, Scotland on 23 July 1836, died on 6 April 1914.^[43] Children of Eleanor and John:^[44]

William McKenzie b. at Nebraska about 1868-9.
David McKenzie b. at Nebeaska about 1869-70.
Lizzie McKenzie b. at Nebraska about 1871-2.
Charlie McKenzie b. at Nebraska about 1874-5.
Guy McKenzie b. at Nebraska about 1876-7
Collin McKenzie b. at Nebraska on February 1880.

NOTES

^{1Family Search (familysearch.org : accessed 19 May 2023).

²Eugene Howard Maxfield, "Maxfield Connections," database, Maxfield Genealogy (http://www.users.fast.net/~max/: accessed 6 September 2013), Querry of Susan Roberts srebert103@everett.com. No loger available.

³Brinkhaven Cemetery, Brinkhaven, Knox County, Ohio, Find a Grave, digital images (findagrave.com : accessed 10 April 2019), Rhoda Maxfield; Created by: Sue Engelhardt Snodgrass, Photo added by Nancy Ann Mull Buchanan.

⁴Fifth Census of the United States: 1830, population, Onondaga, Onondaga County, New York, p. 173, William Maxfield; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 21 September 2012); NARA microfilm publication M19, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C.

⁵New York, Land Records, 1629-1971: Onondaga County, RR:145-46; TT:40-41; digital images, Family Search (familysearch.org : accessed 26 February 2014).

⁶Seventh Census of the United States: 1850, population, Jefferson, Knox County, Ohio, p. 448A, household 3169, William Maxfield family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 12 October 2012); NARA microfilm record group M432, Record Group 29; National Archives, Washington, D.C.

⁷Eighth Census of the United States: 1860, population, Jefferson, Knox County, Ohio, p. 351, household 150, William Maxfield family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 30 August 2014); NARA microfilm record group M653; Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration.

⁸Ninth Census of the United States: 1870, population, Jefferson, Knox County, Ohio, p. 310A, household 48, William Maxfield family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 10 February 2013); NARA microfilm record group M593; Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration.

⁹Tenth Census of the United States: 1880, population, Jefferson, Knox County, Ohio, enumeration district (ED) 157, p. 229B, household 51, William Maxfield family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 19 March 2013); NARA microfilm publication T9, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C.

¹⁰Brinkhaven Cemetery, Brinkhaven, William Maxfield; Rhoda Maxfield; Created by: Sue Engelhardt Snodgrass, Photo added by Nancy Ann Mull Buchanan.

¹¹Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2016, Knox County Marriages, 1882, Tharp-Maxfield, 1882; digital images, Family Search (familysearch.org : accessed 13 May 2023).

¹²Deborah Brownfield-Stanley, "[obituary]" Maxfield Family Genealogy Forum, discussion list, 13 November 2004, # 606 (genforum.genealogy.com/maxfield : accessed] 7 September 2013), transcription of obituary from Herald-Patriot, Chariton, Iowa.

¹³"Memoirs: The Rev. John B. Maxfield," The Christian Advocate, 1 November 1900; online images, Google Books (books.google.com : accessed 30 March 2014), Published by the Methodist Episcopal Church; David Marquette. p. 38.

¹⁴David Marquette, A History of Nebraska Methodism: First Half-Century, 1854-1904 (Cincinnati: The Western Methodist Book Concern Press, 1904); digital images, Google Books (books.google.com : accessed 26 March 2014.

¹⁵"Death Record: Mrs. George McKenzie," Omaha Daily Bee, 4 February 1900; Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers (chroniclingamerica.loc.gov : accessed 30 August 2014). p. 3.

¹⁶Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2016, Van Wert County Marriages, 1878-80, v. 5, Maxfield-Elcock, 1878.

¹⁷"Monday Mention," Norfolk Weekly News-Journal, 18 January 1901; Chronicling America (chroniclingamerica.loc.gov : accessed 30 March 2014); Image provided by: University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries, Lincoln, NE. p. 9.

¹⁸Thirteenth Census of the United States: 1910, population, Omaha, Douglas County, Nebraska, enumeration district (ED) 92, p. 6A, household 99, Mary M. Maxfield family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 5 September 2013); NARA group T624, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C..

¹⁹Fourteenth Census of the United States: 1920, population, Omaha, Douglas Co, enumeration district (ED) 22, p. 4A, household 72, Mary N. Maxfield family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 15 February 2014); NARA microfilm record group T625, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C.

²⁰Fifteenth Census of the United States: 1930, population, Omaha, Douglas County, Nebraska, enumeration district (ED) 17, p. 7A, household 92, Mary Maxfield family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 30 March 2014); NARA record Group T626; Sixteenth Census of the United States: 1940, population, Omaha, Douglas County, Nebraska, enumeration district (ED) 94-25, p. 8A, household 143, Mary M. Maxfield family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 31 March 2014); microfilm record group T627.

²¹"2 Aged Former Local Women Are Found Dead," Van Wert Times-Bulletin, 6 July 1942; Newspaper Archive (newspaperarchive.com : accessed 30 March 2014).

²²Fairview Cemetery, Papillion, Sarpy County, Nebraska, Find a Grave, digital images (findagrave.com : accessed 4 November 2018), Mary A. Maxfield Tharpe; Created and photo by: kweaver.

²³Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2016, Knox County Marriages, 1882, Tharp-Maxfield, 1882.

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²⁴Derby Cemetery, Derby, Lucas County, Iowa, Find a Grave, digital images (findagrave.com : accessed 4 May 2017), William-Margaret Tharp; created by Skip, photo by Doris Christensen.

²⁵Twelth Census of the United States: 1900, population, Papillion, Sarpy County, Nebraska, enumeration district (ED) 120, p. 14A, household 277, Mary Thorpe family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 30 August 2014); NARA microfilm group T623; Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration.

²⁶1850 Census, Jefferson, Knox County, Ohio, p. 448A, household 3169, William Maxfield family

²⁷Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2016, Knox County Marriages, 1841-52, v. C, Tharp-Maxfield, 1851.

²⁸Marquette, A History of Nebraska Methodism, 137-38.

²⁹Ibid..

³⁰Indiana Commission on Public Records, Indianapolis, Indiana, Indiana Marriages, 1811-2019, p. 195, Maxfield-Summers, 1857; digital images, Family Search (familysearch.org : accessed 19 September 2023).

³¹Blue Springs Cemetery, Blue Springs, Gage County, Nebraska, Find a Grave, digital images (findagrave.com : accessed 3 November 2018), Orpha Maxfield; Created by: Charla Carter, Photo added by The Busbooms.

³²Nebraska State Historical Society, Lincoln, Nebraska., "Nebraska Marriage Records, 1855-1908," digital image of register, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 12 September 2023), Washington County, Maxfield-Seely 1863.

³³Blair Cemetery, Blair, Washington County, Nebraska, Find a Grave, digital images (findagrave.com : accessed 4 November 2018), Lizzie Maxfield; Created by: John Rueter, Photo added by MrsB.

³⁴Ohio County Marriages, 1789-2016, Van Wert County Marriages, 1878-80, v. 5, Maxfield-Elcock, 1878.

³⁵1900 Census, Omaha, Douglas County, Nebraska, ED 69, p. 2A, household 24, John B. Maxfield family; "2 Aged Former Local Women Are Found Dead."

³⁶1900 Census, Papillion, Sarpy County, Nebraska, ED 120, p. 14A, household 277, Mary Thorpe family.

³⁷Nebraska State Historical Society, Lincoln, "Nebraska Marriages, 1855-1995," database, Family Search (familysearch.org : accessed 13 September 2023), Webb-Maxfield, 1873.

³⁸The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints [LDS], "Pedigree Resource File," database, Family Search (familysearch.org : accessed 2014), ; submitted by clogan2716253, submitted 21 January 2000.

³⁹Genealogical Society of Utah, Ohio Deaths, 1908-1953, Knox County, Martilda Gann, 1917; digital images, Family Search (familysearch.org : accessed 23 May 2023).

⁴⁰Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2016, Knox County Marriages, 1860-8, v. 1, Gann-Maxfield, 1866.

⁴¹Brinkhaven Cemetery, Brinkhaven, Jacob-Myrtilla Gann; Created and photo by: WOLFCREEKFOX#2. For more on Jacob Gann see: N. H. Hill, History of Knox County, Ohio: its past and present, containing a condensed, comprehensive history of Ohio, including an outline history of the Northwest, a complete history of Knox County, its townships, cities, towns, villages, schools, churches, societies, industries, statistics, etc., a record of its soldiers in the late war, portraits of its early settlers and prominent men, views of its finest buildings, miscellaneous matter, map of the county, biographies and histories of pioneer families, etc. (Mount Vernon, Ohio: A. A. Graham & Co., 1881), 669; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 24 August 2013.

⁴²"Death Record: Mrs. George McKenzie."

⁴³Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Omaha, Douglas County, Nebraska, Find a Grave, digital images (findagrave.com : accessed 2 November 2018), George L. McKenzie; Created by: phillipsp, Photo added by KDQ.

⁴⁴1880 Census, Saratoga, Douglas County, Nebraska, ED 27, p. 372D, household 67, George McKenzie Jr., family.}

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