Descendants of John Maxfield
of Salisbury, Massachusetts
Sixth Generation

OLIVER6 MAXFIELD (Enoch,5, John,4, Michael,3 John2-1) was born at Gilmanton, Strafford County, New Hampshire, on 3 June 1824 a son of Enoch Maxfield and his wife Sarah Thompson . He died at Loudon, Merrimack County, New Hampshire, on 19 September 1893.[1] He married at Manchester, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, on 10 January 1850 SABRINA ANN TOWLE.[2] She was born at Ellsworth, Grafton County, New Hampshire, on 28 July 1828, a daughter of John Towle. She died at Manchester on 16 April 1902.[3]

Oliver Maxfield was born to his parents about nine months before they married. He was the first of at least eleven children, nine of whom lived to adulthood. Oliver was twenty-three years old when his last sibling was born. This large family grew up in Gilmanton, where their father farmed.

When Oliver and Sabrina Ann married at Manchester, he was twenty-five, she twenty-one. Within three months of their marriage, their first child arrived.

Oliver and Sabrina Ann and family at first lived at Chichester, Merrimack County, as reported in the 1850 census, and Oliver farmed.[4] However, by 1854, according to the birth records of children, they had moved to Loudon. Oliver farmed all his life. Oliver and Sabrina Ann had at least eight children over the first seventeen years of their marriage, however only five lived to adulthood.

Ten years after their marriage, the 1860 census reported the family at Loudon, consisting of Oliver, 35, Sabrina, 34, Georgiana, 10, George, 7, and Oliver A., 5.[5] Their second child, Judah, had only lived seven months in 1851. Their fourth child, here called "Oliver A." was more frequently called Alva Oliver. Thir fifth child, Aray, had only lived a year and a half, and died in 1859. Their sixth child, an unnamed daughter, born a year before the census, was not mentioned, and so had probably died.

The 1870 census reported this family at Loudon as follows:[6]

Line Name Age Sex Race Occupation R.E. P.E. Birth
26. Maxfield, Oliver 45 M W farmer NH
27. Maxfield, Sabrina A. 43 F W keeping house NH
28. Maxfield, Frank A. 6 M W at home NH
29. Maxfield, George H. 3 M W at home NH
30. Maxfield, Elmer L. 9 F W at home NH
31. Maxfield, Oliver A. 15 M W farm laborer NH

This record also reported that Frank and "Elmer" were attending school. Oliver A. is elsewhere called Alva Oliver. Edna L. would appear to be the person elsewhere called Alma. First child Georgia had married in 1868. The George reported in 1860 had died in 1864; the George reported in this census was another child given the name after the first George had died.

The 1880 census reported a smaller household of Oliver, 58, Ann [Sabrina Ann], 52, and George H., 13.[7] Alva Oliver had married in 1877 I have not found son Frank in the 1880 Census; he married in 1883. Alma may have married by then; I do not find her in the census.

Oliver Maxfield died in 1893 from bilious dysentery.[8] Daughter Alma (Maxfield) Chaplain died in 1894, age 33, from suicide from hanging.[9] Son Alva Oliver died in 1897, age 41, from diabetes melitus.[10]

In 1900, out of this family, only the mother, now calling herself Ann, and two children survived, Georgia and George. Ann lived with her son George, George's wife Tessa, and their son Ernest, in Manchester.[11] Ann died there in 1902 from peresis.[12]

Oliver Maxfield's estate was not brought before probate court until 25 March, 1902, about three weeks before his widow's death. George H. Maxfield of Manchester, and Georgia A. Perkins of Pittsfield, children of Oliver Maxfield, waive their rights of administration and recommend John M. Tucker of Pittsfield for that position. The widow of the deceased was not of capacity to sign the petition.[13]

There is conflicting evidence regarding whether Alma is the same person whose birth is recorded in 1859, or whether they are two different people. The 1900 census reported that Ann Maxfield had eight children, only two of whom were living. This would require that Alma and the unnamed child were the same person. The birthdate of Alma in 1860 is derived from her age at death on her death record. It is only one year less nine days after the recorded birth record of the unnamed child. The age could be a miscalculation. On the other hand, the 1860 census did not report the existence of this child. Based on the age at death, Alma was born fifteen days after the date of the census. Her age of nine in the 1870 census also points to a birth after the 1860 census. I will list them as two different persons until more evidence can be found.

Oliver Maxfield and his wife Sabrina Ann Towle had the following children:

  1. GEORGIA A.7 MAXFIELD b. at Chichester on 26 March 1850 ; d. at Pittsfield, Merrimack County, on 9 May 1926;[14] m. at Gilmanton on 16 October 1868 CHARLES E. PERKINS,[15] b. at Pittsfield on 28 May 1848,[16] d. at Concord, Merrimack County, on 27 July 1935,[17] child of Samuel R. Perkins and Mary J. Sanders.
  2. JUDAH M.7 MAXFIELD b. about April 1851; d. on 5 December 1851.[18]
  3. GEORGE H.7 MAXFIELD b. at New Hampshire on 12 December 1851; d. on 23 July 1864.[19]
  4. ALVA OLIVER7 MAXFIELD b. at Loudon on 20 April 1854;[20] d. at Loudon on 16 April 1897;[21] m. at Barnstead, Belknoa County, New Hampshire, on 29 December 1877 CLARA JEWETT, b. at Rochester, Strafford County, about 1853-4.[22]
  5. ARAY A.7 MAXFIELD b. about June 1858; d. on 2 January 1859.[23]
  6. (unnamed)7MAXFIELD b. at Loudon on 25 June 1859.[24]
  7. ALMA7 MAXFIELD b. at Loudon on 16 June 1860; d. at Canterbury, Merrimack County, on 6 March 1894;[25] m. WARREN H. CHAPLAIN, b. at Canterbury on 18 October 1859, d. at Canterbury on 8 February 1928,[26] child of Francis S. Chaplain and Mary E. Rogers. He m(2). at Canterbury on 26 December 1894 LIZZIE M. (PICKARD) NEAL, b. at Rowley, Essex County, Massachusetts, about 1852.[27] He m(3). at Belmont, Belknap County, on 12 December 1923 MYRTLE M. (HUDSON) GARLAND,[28] b. at Wellsville, Yellow Creek Township, Columbiana County, Ohio, on 4 May 1873. She had m(1). at Stark County, Ohio, on 3 January 1909 R. LEA GARLAND, b. at Wolfboro, Carroll County, New Hampshire, on 2 August 1870.[29]
  8. FRANK A.7 MAXFIELD b. at Loudon on 31 May 1864.
  9. GEORGE HARRISON7 MAXFIELD b. at Loudon on 8 April 1867.

NOTES

1New Hampshire, State of. Division of Vital Records, Concord, New Hampshire, New Hampshire: Births to 1901, Deaths and Marriages to 1937, index card 6180, Death, Oliver Maxfield, 1893; digital images, New England Historic Genealogical Society, American Ancestors (americanancestors.org : accessed 25 January 2017).
2New Hampshire: Births to 1901, Deaths and Marriages to 1937, index card 9934, Marriage, Maxfield-Towle, 1850.
3New Hampshire: Births to 1901, Deaths and Marriages to 1937, index card 15279, Death, Ann Maxfield, 1902.
4Seventh Census of the United States: 1850, population, Chichester, Merrimack County, New Hampshire, roll 436, p. 20A, household 8, Oliver Maxfield family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 10 October 2012); NARA microfilm record group M432.
5Eighth Census of the United States: 1860, population, Loudon, Merrimack County, New Hampshire, roll 676, p. 90, household 700, Oliver Maxfield household; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 9 November 2012); NARA microfilm record group M653.
6Ninth Census of the United States: 1870, population, Loudon, Merrimack County, New Hampshire, roll 846, p. 380B, household 107, Oliver Maxfield family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 8 February 2013); NARA microfilm record group M593.
7Tenth Census of the United States: 1880, population, Loudon, Merrimack Co., NH, enumeration district (ED) 184, roll 766, p. 371B, household 225, Oliver Maxfield family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 13 March 2013); NARA microfilm publication T9.
8New Hampshire: Births to 1901, Deaths and Marriages to 1937, index card 6180, Death, Oliver Maxfield, 1893.
9New Hampshire: Births to 1901, Deaths and Marriages to 1937, index card 7585, Death, Alma Chaplain, 1894.
10New Hampshire: Births to 1901, Deaths and Marriages to 1937, index card 6130, Death, Alba Oliver Maxfield, 1897.
11Twelth Census of the United States: 1900, population, Manchester ward 7, Hillsborough Co., NH, enumeration district (ED) 107, 947:7B, 137, digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 29 July 2013); NARA microfilm group T623.
12New Hampshire: Births to 1901, Deaths and Marriages to 1937, index card 15279, Death, Ann Maxfield, 1902.
13Merrimack County, New Hampshire, Probate Records, vol. 105 p. 317, estate of Oliver Maxfield; "New Hampshire, County Probate Records, 1660-1973," digital images, Family Search (familysearch.org: accessed 13 January 2014).
14New Hampshire: Births to 1901, Deaths and Marriages to 1937, index card 14754, Death, Georgia A. Perkins, 1926.
15New Hampshire: Births to 1901, Deaths and Marriages to 1937, index card 11802, Marriage, Perkins-Maxfield, 1868.
16New Hampshire: Births to 1901, Deaths and Marriages to 1937, index card 11229, Birth, Charles E. Perkins, 1848.
17New Hampshire: Births to 1901, Deaths and Marriages to 1937, index card 14386, Death, Charles E. Perkins, 1935.
18Sabattus Heights Cemetery, Loudon, Merrimack County, New Hampshire, Find a Grave, digital images (findagrave.com : accessed 29 November 2014), submitted by StephanieH; Judah M. Maxfield.
19Sabattus Heights Cemetery, Loudon, Merrimack County, New Hampshire, Find a Grave, submitted by StephanieH; George H. Maxfield.
20New Hampshire: Births to 1901, Deaths and Marriages to 1937, index card, Birth, (female) Maxfield, 1854.
21New Hampshire: Births to 1901, Deaths and Marriages to 1937, index card 6130, Death, Alba Oliver Maxfield, 1897.
22New Hampshire: Births to 1901, Deaths and Marriages to 1937, index card 9809, Marriage, Maxfield-Jewett, 1877.
23Sabattus Heights Cemetery, Loudon, Merrimack County, New Hampshire, Find a Grave, submitted by StephanieH; Aray A. Maxfield.
24New Hampshire: Births to 1901, Deaths and Marriages to 1937, index card, Birth, (female) Maxfield, 1859.
25New Hampshire: Births to 1901, Deaths and Marriages to 1937, index card 7585, Death, Alma Chaplain, 1894.
26New Hampshire: Births to 1901, Deaths and Marriages to 1937, index card 15369, Death, Warren Chaplain, 1928.
27New Hampshire: Births to 1901, Deaths and Marriages to 1937, index card 11576, Marriage, Chaplain-Rogers, 1894.
28New Hampshire: Births to 1901, Deaths and Marriages to 1937, index card 9273, Marriage, Chaplain-Garland, 1923.
29Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-1994, Stark County, p. 155, Marriage, Garland-Hudson, 1909; digital images, Family Search (familysearch.org : accessed 8 February 2017).

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