Descendants of John Maxfield
of Salisbury, Massachusetts
Sixth Generation

GILBERT BELCHER⁶ MAXFIELD (William⁵, David⁴, Eliphalet³, Nathaniel², John¹) was born at Fairfax, Franklin County, Vermont, on 12 July 1785 a child of William Maxfield and his wife Abigail Belcher. He died at Mount Vernon, Knox County, Ohio, on 8 October 1832.^[1] He married at Fairfax on 17 May 1810 AMELIA GRAVES.^[2] Ameila was born at Georgia, Franklin County, on 22 September 1790, a child of Luman Graves and his wife Abigail Todd; she died at Mount Vernon on 18 April 1840.^[3] Amelia married second at Knox County on 12 August 1834, OLIVER LORD.^[4]

Gilbert grew up in northwestern Vermont, the second of ten children. and the first to survive to adulthood. Two months after marriage they appeared in the 1810 Census at Middle Hero, then part of Franklin County, as one male and one female between the ages of 16 and 25.^[5] Gilbert became a physician and moved to Fredericktown, Knox County, in 1813.^[6] It was reported in a paper, on 14 August 1914, "Dr. G. B. Maxfield informs the citizens that he has opened an office in Fredericktown for the practice of his profession, and that he has taken board at the house of John Kerr."^[7] In 1818 he moved to Mount Vernon.^[8]

The 1820 Census reported Dr. G. B. Maxfield at Wayne, Knox County, with a household consisting of 2 men between 26 and 45, a woman between 16 and 26, and three girls under ten.^[9] Perhaps Amelia's age was underestimated. The other man is not identified, and son Lyman, age 9, is not indicated.

The 1830 census reported the family at Mount Vernon as follows:^[10]

If Lyman's age was overestimated, and Mary's age underestimated, this record corresponds to the composition of the family as we have it from other records.

Gilbert was elected to the Mount Vernon City Council in 1831.^[11] He died the following year from cholera, at the age of 47. Niece Julia (Maxfield) Lamb shared her recollection of the story in this way:

I remember well the time he was called to the bedside of a man suffering from real Asiatic Cholera, there he contracted the disease which for years he dreaded. I often heard him say if the Cholera should come to this country he knew he would die with it which proved true. This was the first case he treated. The patient lived 7 miles out in the country, he lost his way in the woods, and was caught in a drenching rain. He was so fatigued when he arrived there [which] helped to bring on the terrible malady. In a few hours he came home, opened the door. Falling on the floor he said in suppressed tones 'I got the Cholera,' and about 15 hours of terrible suffering he succumbed to the demand of insatiable death leaving his loving Mother and a large circle of near relatives.^[12]

Amelia remarried almost two years later. Five and a half years later she died, at the age of 49. She left unmarried children ages 23, 21 (married later that year), 10 and 8.

Gilbert B. Maxfield and his wife Amelia Graves had the following children:

1. CAROLINE L.⁷ MAXFIELD b. at Vermont on 22 October 1811, d. at Chester, Meigs County, Ohio, on 24 February 1877;^[13] m. at Morrow County, Ohio, on 2 May 1831 RICHARD E. LORD^[14] b. at Marietta, Ohio, on 2 May 1803, d. at Chesterville, Morrow County, in 1860.^[15] Children of Caroline and Richard:^[16]
   1. James M. Lord b. on 23 January 1822, d. on 13 August 1869.
   2. Amelia Lord b. on 28 October 1833.
   3. Gilbert M. Lord b. on 22 October 1835.
   4. Clarinda Lord b. on 5 June 1838.
   5. Thomas G. Lord b. at Ohio on 16 September 1840.
   6. Mary E. Lord b. at Ohio on 21 October 1842, d. on 27 June 1865.
   7. William O. b. on 14 July 1847.
2. LYMAN H.⁷ MAXFIELD b. at Georgia in 1811
3. EMELINE⁷ MAXFIELD b. at Vermont in 16 June 1813, d. at Rohnerville, Humboldt County, Ohio, on 7 May 1894;^[17] m. CHARLES CADMAN DRAKE, b. at LeRoy, Genesee County, New York, on 1 January 1810, d. at Rohnerville on 12 October 1886.^[18] Children of Emeline and Charles:^[19]
   1. Mary A. Drake b. at Wisconsin about 1841-2.
   2. Cecil Drake b. at Wisconsin about 1843-4.
   3. Minerva Drake b. at Wisconsin about 1844-5.
   4. Charles Drake b. at Wisconsin about 1851-2.
   5. Ada Drake b. at Wisconsin about 1853-4.
4. MARY⁷ MAXFIELD b. at Morrow County in 1815,^[20] d. before 1818 (before birth of another child given same name)
5. ABIGAIL⁷ MAXFIELD b. at Morrow County in 1817,^[21] d. after 1880.
6. MARY ELIZA⁷ MAXFIELD b. at Fredericktown, Konx County, on 18 August 1818, d. at Center Point, Linn County, Iowa, on 14 July 1885;^[22] m. at Chesterville, Knox County, on 5 November 1840 JOHN FERRIS WILSON^[23] b. at Emmetsburg, Frederick County, Maryland, on 17 August 1812, d. at Center Point on 10 May 1881.^[24]
7. WILLIAM E.⁷ MAXFIELD b. at Morrow County in 1819.^[25] d. before 1832 (before birth of another child given same name) probably before 1830 (not indicated in census record).
8. DORSEY⁷ MAXFIELD b. at Mount Vernon on 23 November 1829
9. WILLIAM CULLEN⁷ MAXFIELD b. at Ohio on 29 January 1832.

¹History of Morrow County and Ohio: containing a brief history of the state of Ohio from its earliest settlement to the present time, embracing its topography, geological, physical and climatic features, its agricultural, stock-growing, railroad interests, etc. : a history of Morrow County, giving an account of its aboriginal inhabitants, early settlement by the whites, pioneer incidents, its growth, its improvements, organization of the county, its judicial and political history, its business and industries, churches, schools, etc. : biographical sketches, portraits of some of the early settlers and prominent men, etc., etc. (Chicago: O. L. Baskin, 1880), p. 605.
²Ibid.
³Mound View Cemetery, Mount Vernon, Knox County, Ohio, Find a Grave, digital images (findagrave.com : accessed 10 April 2019), Amelia Maxfield; Created and photo by: Todd James Dean.
⁴Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2016, Konx County Marriages 1808-38, Lord-Maxfield, 1834; digital images, Family Search (familysearch.org : accessed 12 May 2023).
⁵Third Census of the United States: 1810, population, Middle Hero, Franklin County, Vermont, p. 340A, Gilbert B. Maxfield; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 17 September 2012); NARA microfilm publication M25, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C.
⁶History of Morrow County and Ohio, p. 605.
⁷from Ohio Register, Clinton, Ohio, quoted in 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), 359; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 24 August 2013;
⁸History of Morrow County and Ohio, p. 605.
⁹Fourth Census of the United States: 1820, population, Wayne, Knox County, Ohio, p. 90, G. B. Maxfield; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 1 December 2011); NARA microfilm publication M33, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C.
¹⁰Fifth Census of the United States: 1830, population, Mount Vernon, Knox County, Ohio, p. 264, G. B. Maxfield; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 22 September 2012); NARA microfilm publication M19, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C.
¹¹Hill, History of Knox County, Ohio, p. 371.
¹²Letter from Julia Maxfield Lamb to William Cullen Maxfield, 30 March 1903; held in by Jack Bilow, Plattsburgh, New York; copy included with correspondence to Charles A. Maxfield, 31 October 2012.
¹³Ohio County Death Records, 1840-2001, Morrow County Deaths, p. 102, e. 98, C. L. Lord, 1877; digital images, Family Search (familysearch.org : accessed 24 May 2023).
¹⁴Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2016, Knox County Marriages 1808-38, Lord-Maxfield, 1831.
¹⁵Daughters of the American Revolution, "DAR Genealogical Research System: Descendant Database Search," database, Daughters of the American Revolution (dar.org, accessed ), No. 806196.
¹⁶History of Morrow County and Ohio, p. 605.
¹⁷Rohnerville Pioneer Cemetery, Rohnerville, Humboldt County, California, Find a Grave, digital images (findagrave.com : accessed 20 November 2012), Charles-Emeline Drake; created by Smilydino; photo by Cristy.
¹⁸Ibid.
¹⁹Eighth Census of the United States: 1860, population, Millville, Grant County, Wisconsin, p. 451, household 828, Charles C. Drake family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 28 July 2022); NARA microfilm record group M653; Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration.
²⁰Cynthia Herrin, ed., "Morrow County, Ohio Vital Records, 1830-93," database online (1999), Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 23 December 2013).
²¹Ibid.
²²Center Point Cemetery, Center Point, Linn County, Iowa, Find a Grave, digital images (findagrave.com : accessed 17 December 2023), John-Mary Wilson; Created by: Churndash, Photo added by Gail Wenhardt.
²³Ohio County Marriages, 1789-2016, Knox County Marriages 1840, Willson-Maxfield, 1840.
²⁴Center Point Cemetery, Center Point, John-Mary Wilson; Created by: Churndash, Photo added by Gail Wenhardt.

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Hill, N. H. 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. Digital images. Ancestry. ancestry.com : 2013.

History of Morrow County and Ohio: containing a brief history of the state of Ohio from its earliest settlement to the present time, embracing its topography, geological, physical and climatic features, its agricultural, stock-growing, railroad interests, etc. : a history of Morrow County, giving an account of its aboriginal inhabitants, early settlement by the whites, pioneer incidents, its growth, its improvements, organization of the county, its judicial and political history, its business and industries, churches, schools, etc. : biographical sketches, portraits of some of the early settlers and prominent men, etc., etc. Chicago: O. L. Baskin, 1880.

Lamb, Julia Maxfield. Letter. 30 March 1903 to William Cullen Maxfield. Privately held by Jack Bilow, Plattsburgh, New York.

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United States Department of the Census. Third Census of the United States: 1810, population. Digital images. Ancestry. ancestry.com : 2012.

________. Fourth Census of the United States: 1820, population. Digital images. Ancestry. ancestry.com : 2011.

________. Fifth Census of the United States: 1830, population. Digital images. Ancestry. ancestry.com : 2012.

________. Eighth Census of the United States: 1860, population. Digital images. Ancestry. ancestry.com : 2022.