Descendants of John Maxfield
of Salisbury, Massachusetts
Sixth Generation

IRA H.⁶ MAXFIELD (Obadiah⁵, David⁴, Eliphalet³, Nathaniel², John¹) was born at Vermont on 8 March 1806, a child of Obadiah Maxfield and his wife Eunice. He died at Lamont, Tallmadge Township, Ottawa County, Michigan, on 25 March 1874.^[1] He married at Mooers, Clinton County, New York, on 25 August 1829 LUCINDA ANGELL.^[2] She was born at Mooers on 28 May 1809, and died at Lamont on 18 May 1891.^[3]

The 1830 census reported the Ira Maxfield household at Mooers, Clinton County, New York, consisting of one male and one female, in their 20s.^[4]

On 26 June 1830, Ira Angell and Sarah his wife of Mooers, sold to Ira H. Maxfield of Mooers for $382.50 land in Mooers, part of lot #24.^[5]

The Ira Maxfield family moved to Ohio in 1834, and then settled at Lamont in 1836, just a year after the first settlers. In 1838 the Township of Tallmadge was organized, and Ira was named one of five Justices of the Peace.^[6] Ira H. Maxfield was a steward of the First Methodist Episcopal Church of Grand Rapids, Michigan, in 1840.^[7]

The Ira Maxfield family was reported in Tallmadge Township in the 1840, 1850, 1860, and 1870 censuses. Ira was a farmer. The 1840 Census reported a male in his 30s, a male and a female in their 20s, and two girls, one between 5 and 9, the other under 5.^[8] Lucinda's age could have been slightly underestimated, and a male in his twenties not of the immediate family was present. In 1850 the first five children had been born and were all at home.^[9] In 1860 the first two children were gone, but the remaining four were at home.^[10] In 1870 the youngest two children were still at home: Charles, age 23, was an engineer on a boat; Jennie, listed under her married name as Jennis Howe, was listed as a "servant girl."^[11]

Ira Maxfield died at Lamont on 25 March 1874. Lucinda Angell Maxfield, reported living with her son John at Tallmadge Township in the 1880 census,^[12] died at Lamont on 18 May 1891. For her full obituary see below.

Ira Maxfield and his wife Lucinda Angell had the following children:

1. HARRIET MATILDA⁷ MAXFIELD b. at Mooers on 28 March 1831, d. at Allendale, Ottawa County, on 8 July 1919;^[13] m. at Tallmadge on 2 November 1852 JOSEPH A. BLAKENEY^[14] b. at New York on 8 February 1827, d. at Allnedale on 29 June 1904.^[15]
2. CORNELIA L.⁷ MAXFIELD b. at Lamont on 1838, d. at Imperial County, California, on 23 February 1913;^[16] m. at Kent County, Michigan, on 4 July 1857 WILLIAM HENRY SCOTT^[17] b. at New York on 16 November 1834, d. at Santa Ana, Orange County, California, on 4 March 1918.^[18]
3. LEMUEL PEAK⁷ MAXFIELD b. at Lamont on November 1841
4. JOHN ALLEN⁷ MAXFIELD b. at Lamont on 11 March 1842
5. CHARLES W.⁷ MAXFIELD b. at Lamont on June 1847
6. JENNIE ALMIRA⁷ MAXFIELD b. at Lamont on 10 July 1850, d. at Alexandria, Douglas County, Minnesota, on 30 November 1914;^[19] m. at Lamont on 27 January 1869 CHARLES THADDEUS HOWE^[20] b. at Ithaca, Tompkins County, New York, on 18 February 1846, d. at Douglas County on 29 March 1930.^[21]

Mrs. Lucinda Maxfield, widow of the late Ira Maxfield, of Tallmadge, died at the residence of her son, John A. Maxfield, near Lamont, this county, May 18, 1891. Her funeral took place at Lamont, on Thursday of last week, Rev. Williams officiating.

Mrs. Maxfield, maiden name, Lucinda Angell, was born at Mooers, NY, May 29, 1809. She was married to Ira H. Maxfield August 25, 1829. Mr. and Mrs. Maxfield resided in the state of New York until the year 1834, when they removed to Ohio. In the fall of 1835, her husband came on foot to Michigan, then a territory, made preemption on a claim of government land; built a shanty and went back to Ohio for his wife and two children. They made the journey with an ox team, arriving at their claim Feb. 13, 1836 . That claim has developed into the fine farm now owned by her son, J. A. Maxfield, and had been the home of the mother for upwards of 55 years. The last twelve miles of the journey of Mr. and Mrs. Maxfield from Ohio to that future home was made on the ice on Grand River, there being as yet no roads that could be used with teams. An Indian trail was the only passageway through the dense forests to the settlers west of Grand Rapids. Many days and nights Mrs. Maxfield spent bravely and hopefully with her little children in the little log hut in the wilderness, surrounded by Indians and wolves, while the husband and father paddled his canoe up or down Grand River to the small villages of Grand Rapids or Grand Haven for food and necessary family supplies.

Mrs. Maxfield experienced religion and united with the M. E. church in her youth and continued a member of that church until her death. She was a widow seventeen years. She leaves six children, Mrs. J. A. Blakeney and Mrs. Wm, H. Scott, of Allendale — the later being the first white child born in the Grand River Valley, between Grandville and Grand Haven — Lemuel P. Maxfield, Helena, Arkansas; J. A. Maxfield, Omaha, Nebraska, and Mrs. Jennie Howe, Pipestone, Minnesota. The deceased had at the time of her death 29 grandchildren and 16 great-grandchildren. She departed greatly beloved by friends and neighbors for her generous and noble character as a mother and as a Christian, true and sincere.

Transcribed by Joan Van Spronsen; Created: 7 Sep 2010
URL: http://ottawa.migenweb.net/obits/k-r/maxfieldLucinda.html
Taken from Coopersville Observer Obituaries by Loekie Boersma

¹Howell B. Edwards, comp., Butcher-Totty Families: (Pioneers West) (1994), 79; digital images of typed manuscript, Family Search (dcms.lds.org : accessed 4 January 2014.
²"Ottawa County Obituaries," Michigan Genealogy on the Web (MI GenWeb), information sharing site, 7 September 2010 (migenweb.net : accessed] 20 September 2011), Obituary of Lucinda Maxfield, from Coopersville Observer, 29 May 1891.
³Ibid.
⁴Fifth Census of the United States: 1830, population, Mooers, Clinton County, New York, p. 290, Ira 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, 1630-1975: Clinton Co., T:135-36; digital images, Family Search (familysearch.org : accessed 23 June 2014).
⁶Frank Hedges, "History of Lamont, 1835-1935," Michigan Genealogy on the Web (MI GenWeb), information sharing site, 16 August 2003 (migenweb.net : accessed] ).
⁷Albert Baxter, History of the City of Grand Rapids, Michigan (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Munsell, 1891), 307; digital images, Google Books (books.google.com).
⁸Sixth Census of the United States: 1840, population, Talmadge, Ottawa County, Michigan, p. 169, I. H. Maxfield; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 25 September 2012); NARA microfilm publication M704, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C.
⁹Seventh Census of the United States: 1850, population, Tallmadge, Ottawa County, Michigan, p. 11B, household 72, Ira H. Maxfield family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 4 October 2012); NARA microfilm record group M432, Record Group 29; National Archives, Washington, D.C.
¹⁰Eighth Census of the United States: 1860, population, Talmadge, Ottawa County, Michigan, p. 323, household 563, Ira Maxfield family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 5 November 2012); NARA microfilm record group M653; Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration.
¹¹Ninth Census of the United States: 1870, population, Tallmadge, Ottawa County, Michigan, p. 288A, household 272, Ira Maxfield family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 6 February 2013); NARA microfilm record group M593; Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration.
¹²Tenth Census of the United States: 1880, population, Tallmadge, Ottawa County, Michigan, enumeration district (ED) 240, p. 415B, household 242, John A. Maxfield family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 9 March 2013); NARA microfilm publication T9, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C.
¹³Michigan Department of Community Health, Division for Vital Records and Health Statistics, Lansing, Michigan, Michigan, Death Records, 1867-1952, Ottawa County, certificate 11, Harriett M. Blakeney, 1919; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 30 June 2023).
¹⁴Michigana (Genealogical Society of Western Michigan, Grand Rapidsd, Michigan): 28:25.
¹⁵Allendale Township Cemetery, Allendale, Ottawa County, Michigan, Find a Grave, digital images (findagrave.com : accessed 4 December 2012), J. A. Blakeney; Originally Created by: Jack Vander-Schrier, Maintained by: J. Pacholke, Photo added by Dennis Allen.
¹⁶Evergreen Cemetery, El Centro, Imperial County, California, Find a Grave, digital images (findagrave.com : accessed 14 March 2017), Cornelia L. Scott; created and photo by Ramona & Serena.
¹⁷Jordan Dodd, Liahona Research, comp., "Michigan Marriages, 1851-1875," Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 3 September 2013).
¹⁸Evergreen Cemetery, El Centro, Wm. Henry Scott; created by Ramona & Serena
¹⁹Kinkead Cemetery, Alexandria, Douglas County, Minnesota, Find a Grave, digital images (findagrave.com : accessed 21 October 2018), Jennie A. Howe; Created by: kj, Photo added by 47962105.
²⁰Michigan Department of Community Health, Division for Vital Records and Health Statistics., Michigan, Marriage Records, 1867–1952, Ottawa County, p. 84, e. 20, Howe-Maxfield, 1869; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 19 June 2023).
²¹Kinkead Cemetery, Alexandria, Charles T. Howe; Created by: kj; Photo added by 47962105.

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