Descendants of John Maxfield
of Salisbury, Massachusetts
Sixth Generation

CHARLES H.6 MAXFIELD (Enoch,5 John,4 Michael,3 John2-1) was born at Gilmanton, Strafford County, New Hanpshire, on 5 December 1830 a son of Enoch Maxfield and his wife Sarah Thompson. He died at Gilmanton on 17 April 1889.[1] He married at Gilmanton on 21 March 1865 MARIA S. PIERCE.[2] She was born at Gilmanton on 16 January 1846, a daughter of Henry J. and Mary E. Pierce. She died at Hillsborough, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, on 4 March 1908.[3] NOTE: The town of Gilmanton was transferred from Strafford County to Belknap County in 1840.

Charles H. Maxfield grew up in Gilmanton, the fifth of eleven children. As a young adult he farmed in various locations, none very far from his family home. The 1850 census reported him, age 18, a farmer, in the household of Jonathan and Olive Clough of Loudon, Merrimach County, New Hampshire.[4] The 1860 census reported Charles back with his parents in Gilmanton.[5]

Charles H. Maxfield was thirty-four years old when he married nineteen-year old Maria Pierce. Their new family was reported in the 1870 census at Gilmanton:[6]

Line Name Age Sex Race Occupation R.E. P.E. Birth
31. Maxfield, Chas. H. 35 M W farmer $1500 $500 NH
32. Maxfield, Mariah 24 F W keeping house NH
33. Maxfield, Walter N. 4 M W at home NH
34. Pinkham, Henry 9 M W at home NH
35. McMurphy, Frank A. 14 M W works on farm NH

This household was followed immediately by the farm of Charles' brother, Hiram Maxfield, who was followed, after two intervening farms, by their father Enoch Maxfield.

At some point in the next decade, Enoch Maxfield moved in with his son, or the other way around. This fuller three-generation family was reported in the 1880 census:[7]

Line Name Race Sex Age Related MS Occupation B FB MB
45. Maxfield, Enach W M 85 Wd farmer NH NH NH
46. Maxfield, Charles H. W M 48 son M farmer NH NH NH
47. Maxfield, Mariah S. W F 34 son's wife M keeping house NH NH NH
48. Maxfield, Walter N. W M 13 grandson S at home NH NH NH
49. Maxfield, Herbert A. W M 9 grandson S at home NH NH NH
50. Maxfield, Luella W F 7 granddaughter S at home NH NH NH
1. Maxfield, Horace C. W M 5 grandson S at home NH NH NH

All four children were attending school. The Hiram Maxfield household was reported next to this household.

In 1882 Enoch died. Son Walter married in 1885. In 1889 Charles died, age 58, from pneumonia.[8] He left Maria, a widow age 43, with children at home aged 19, 16, 14, and a new daughter age 2 months.

The 1900 census reported Maria (Pierce) Maxfield living with her son Herbert in Belmont, Belknap County. Also in the household were Maria's two youngest children, Horace and Charla, and Horace's new wife.[9] Maria died at Belmont in 1908, at the age of 62, from pneumonia.[10] By then all of her children were married, Charla having married in 1907.

Charles H. Maxfield and his wife Maria S. Pierce had the following children:

  1. WALTER N.7 MAXFIELD b. at Gilmanton on 26 February 1866.
  2. HERBERT A.7 MAXFIELD b. at Gilmanton on 3 December 1870;[11] d. at Henniker, Merrimack County, on 16 June 1919;[12] m. at Belmont on 11 November 1905 ROSE EDITH WAWKES,[13] b. at Cliftondale, Saugus, Essex County, Massachusetts, on 7 April 1870, d. at Deering, Rockingham County, New Hampshire, on 31 March 1915,[14] child of Albridge Hawkes and Rose Richardson.
  3. LUELLA7 MAXFIELD b. at Gilmanton on 24 February 1873; d. at Laconia, Belknap County, on 26 February 1947;[15] m. at Belmont on 6 January 1900 RALPH SYLVESTER BRYANT,[16] b. at Belmont on 17 October 1875, d. at Laconia on 11 August 1956,[17] child of George C. Bryant and Belinda A. Bean.
  4. HORACE CLINTON7 MAXFIELD b. at Gilmanton on 14 march 1875.
  5. CHARLA G.7 MAXFIELD b. at Gilmanton on 11 February 1889;[18] d. at Laconia on 16 January 1952;[19] m. at Belmont on 17 November 1907 FRANK A. HARVEY,[20] b. at Elkins, Merrimach County, on 23 April 1886, d. on March 1974,[21] child of Edgar A. Harvey and Irene F. Richardson.

NOTES

1Smith Meeting House Cemetery, Gilmanton, Belknap County, New Hampshire, Find a Grave, digital images (findagrave.com : accessed 7 December 2012), submitted by Scott B., Charles H. Maxfield. New Hampshire, State of. Division of Vital Records, Concord, New Hampshire, New Hampshire: Births to 1901, Deaths and Marriages to 1937, index card 6140, Death, Charles Maxfield, 1889; 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 9837, Marriage, Maxfield-Pierce, 1865.
3Smith Meeting House Cemetery, Gilmanton, Belknap County, New Hampshire, Find a Grave, submitted by Scott B., Maria Maxfield. New Hampshire: Births to 1901, Deaths and Marriages to 1937, index card 15183, Death, Maria S. Maxfield, 1908.
4Seventh Census of the United States: 1850, population, Loudon, Merrimack County., New Hampshire, roll 436, p. 6A, household 90, Charles Maxfield; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 9 October 2012); NARA microfilm record group M432.
5Eighth Census of the United States: 1860, population, Gilmanton, Belknap County, New Hampshire, roll 666, p. 266, household 475, Enoch Maxfield family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 9 November 2012); NARA microfilm record group M653.
6Ninth Census of the United States: 1870, population, Gilmanton, Belknap County, New Hampshire, roll 836, p. 111A, household 48, Chas. H. Maxfield family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 8 February 2013); NARA microfilm record group M593.
7Tenth Census of the United States: 1880, population, Gilmanton, Belknap County, New Hampshire, enumeration district (ED) 7, roll 760, p. 89B, household 216, Enoch 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 6140, Death, Charles Maxfield, 1889.
9Twelth Census of the United States: 1900, population, Belmont, Belknap County, New Hampshire, enumeration district (ED) 3, roll 944, p. 8A, household 119, family of Herbert A. Maxfield; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 28 July 2013); NARA microfilm group T623.
10New Hampshire: Births to 1901, Deaths and Marriages to 1937, index card 15183, Death, Maria S. Maxfield, 1908.
11New Hampshire: Births to 1901, Deaths and Marriages to 1937, index card, Birth, Herbert A. Maxfield, 1870.
12New Hampshire: Births to 1901, Deaths and Marriages to 1937, index card 15149, Death, Herbert A. Maxfield, 1919.
13New Hampshire: Births to 1901, Deaths and Marriages to 1937, index card 10270, Marriage, Maxfield-Hawkes, 1905.
14New Hampshire: Births to 1901, Deaths and Marriages to 1937, index card 15215, Death, Rose E. Maxfield, 1915.
15New Hampshire Division of Vital Records, Concord, New Hampshire Death Certificates, 1938-1959, Luella Maxfield Bryant, 1947; digital images, Family Search (familysearch.org : accessed 14 February 2017).
16New Hampshire: Births to 1901, Deaths and Marriages to 1937, index card 10483, Marriage, Bryant-Maxfield, 1900.
17New Hampshire Death Certificates, 1938-1959, certificate 563633, Ralph Sylvester Bryant, 1956.
18New Hampshire: Births to 1901, Deaths and Marriages to 1937, index card, Birth, Charla Maxfield, 1889.
19New Hampshire Death Certificates, 1938-1959, ceritficate 52-0010, Charla Maxfield Harvey, 1952.
20New Hampshire: Births to 1901, Deaths and Marriages to 1937, index card 6624, Marriage, Harvey-Maxfield, 1907.
21Maple Avenue Cemetery, Hillsboro, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, Find a Grave, digital images (findagrave.com : accessed 8 December 2012), submitted by Amy Levesque, Frank Harvey marker. Social Security Administration, "U.S. Social Security Death Index," database, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 14 February 2017), Frank A. Harvey, 001-07-4899.

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