Descendants of John Maxfield
of Salisbury, Massachusetts
Sixth Generation

RIMMON⁶ MAXFIELD (Henry⁵, David⁴, Eliphalet³, Nathaniel², John¹) was born at Georgia, Franklin County, Vermont, on 18 February 1815, a child of Henry and Minerva Maxfield. He died at Fairfax, Franklin County, on 29 January 1889.^[1] He married first before 1847 (birth of child) MARY POTTER, who was born at Milton, Chittenden County, Vermont, on 7 July 1826 and died at Elmore, Lamoille County, Vermont, on 20 October 1876.^[2] Rimmon married second at Underhill, Chittenden County, on 30 June 1878 MARIA (LEARNED) AUSTIN,^[3] a daughter of Joseph Leonard, who was born at Milton on 4 January 1804 and died at Fairfax on 22 July 1895.^[4]

Rimmon Maxfield served in the Army from 21 February 1840 to 21 February 1845. He was a private, stationed at Fort Preble, near Portland, Cumberland County, Maine. During this time the "Aroostook War," a border dispute between Maine and New Brunswick, was resolved without a fight. Rimmon was described as having blue eyes, light hair, light complexion, height 5' 9".^[5]

On 24 August 1846 Sanford and Rimmon Maxfield, sons of Henry and Minerva Maxfield, transfered a half lot in Milton. In consideration the Town discharged Sanford and Rimmon from a suit pending in Chittenden County. Sanford and Rimmon were released from liability to support parents.^[6]

Rimmon and Minerva Maxfield appear to have lived at Crown Point, Essex County, New York, from 1850 to 1855, according to the birth informatiom for their children. I have not found him in the 1850 Census.

The 1860 census reported this family at Milton as follows:^[7]

Rimmon Maxfield served in the Civil War for almost a year, and received a disability discharge. He enlisted in Company A, 1st Cavalry Regiment Vermont on 19 Nov. 1861, and was discharged on 26 October 1862.^[8] This unit saw action in the Shenandoah Valley.

Rimmon and Mary's first child, Ellen, died in 1865 from typhoid fever.^[9]

On 11 April 1867, Rimmon Maxfield published the following notice in the Burlington Free Press:^[10]

The 1870 census reported the Rimmon Maxfield family at Cadys Falls Post Office, Elmore, as follows:^[11]

There is no explanation for how Lucina aged only 2 years in a decade. The other children were all working and dispersed in other homes. Sanford, 19, was a farm laborer in the household of Ward and Mary Harris, Morristown, Lamoille County (Cady Falls Post Office).^[12] George, 19, was a farm laborer in the household of Darman and Jennie Bridgman of Woodbury, Washington County, Vermont.^[13] Persis, listed as 13, was a domestic servant in the home of John and Ellen Batchelder, of Barre, Washington County.^[14] Emma, 15, was a domestic servant in the home of Charles and Eliza Parker, of Elmore (Cadys Falls Post Office).^[15]

Mary (Potter) Maxfield died in 1876 with paralysis.^[16] Twenty months later widower Rimmon Maxfield married widow Marie (Learned) Austin. He was 63 years old, she was 74.

The 1880 census reported Rimon Maxfield, age 66, and his wife Mariah, age 76, living at Fairfax, Vermont. Rimon was a farmer, Mariah was keeping house, both of them and all of their parents were born in Vermont.^[17] Sanford, married in 1876, was reported in 1880 farming and living with his wife in Morristown.^[18] George, married in 1879, lived in 1880 with his wife, her parents, and her child by a previous marriage, at Underhill; George and his father-in-law were carpenters.^[19] Persis, married in 1876, lived in 1880 with her husband and their son at Jericho.^[20] Emma, married in 1876, lived in 1880 with her husband and daughter at Morristown.^[21] Lucena, 18, was a servant in the home of George and Jane Smith of Jericho in 1880;^[22] five months after the census she would marry her first cousin, Heman Maxfield.

Rimmond Maxfield died at the age of 73 from chronic diarrhea.^[23] His second wife, Maria, died at the age of 91 with general debility.^[24]

Rimmon Maxfield and his first wife Mary had the following children:

1. ELLEN⁷ MAXFIELD b. at Milton on 2 December 1847, d. at Westford on 25 August 1865.^[25]
2. SANFORD P.⁷ MAXFIELD b. at Crown Point about July 1850
3. GEORGE H.⁷ MAXFIELD b. at Crown Point on April 1851.
4. SARAH⁷ MAXFIELD b. at Vermont about 1851-2.^[26]
5. PERSIS A.⁷ MAXFIELD b. at Crown Point on 20 August 1853; d. at Barre on 14 February 1933;^[27] m. at Elmore on 2 October 1876 LAWSON R. MOREHOUSE^[28] b. at Crown Point on 12 November 1856, d. at Barre on 22 November 1943.^[29] Children of Persis and Lawson:^[30]
   1. George Morehouse b. at Underhill on 14 June 1877, d. at Los Angeles County, California, on 18 April 1955; m. at Barre on 8 April 1901 Lizzie Spooner b. on 2 March 1883, d. at Los Angeles County on 17 April 1948.
   2. John Harlie Morehouse b. on 2 April 1881, d. at Los Angeles County on 7 April 1956; m. at Barre on 8 April 1903 Florence P. LaPage b. on 22 November 1884, d. on 29 April 1974.
   3. Carrie Morehouse b. at Vermont on 9 September 1894, d. on 15 August 1979; m(1) at Barre Town on 15 September 1914 Ernest Guy Raymo b. on 20 April 1894, d. on 7 January 1925. Carrie m(2). at Barre on 26 October 1925 Raymond Deimer b. on 11 April 1900, d. on 19 February 1973. Child of Carrie and Ernest:
      1. Eva D. Raymo b. at Vermont about August 1915.
6. EMMA R.⁷ MAXFIELD b. at Crown Point on 5 March 1855, d. at Morristown on 6 February 1927;^[31] m. at Morristown on 3 December 1876 CARLOS N. DYKE^[32] b. at Morristown on August 1854, d. on 1921. Children of Emma and Carlos:^[33]
   1. Ella A. Dyke b. at Vermont about 1877-8.
   2. Homer Marquis Dyke b. on 11 December 1887, d. at Morristown on 3 April 1963; m. at Morristown on 20 April 1915 Ella McKee b. on 1895, d. on 1964.
   3. Weld Terril Dyke b. on 28 April 1889, d. at Morrisville, Morristown, on 26 May 1954; m. at Morristown on 10 August 1918 Denice Lamohere b. on 10 September 1899, d. on 8 January 1961.
   4. Alice Belle Dyke b. on 16 November 1890. d. at Hardwick, Caledonia County, Vermont, on 3 May 1961; m. at Woodbury on 3 July 1908 William D. Cookson b. on 26 September 1884, d. on January 1964.
   5. Allie J, Dyke b. on 4 February 1895, d. at Burlington, Chittenden County, on 20 July 1977; m. at Morristown, on 19 April 1914 Hiram D. McKee b. on 17 December 1887, d. on 27 June 1960.
7. LUCENA A.⁷ MAXFIELD b. at Milton on 17 November 1860;^[34] m at Westford HEMAN A. MAXFIELD

¹Vermont State Archives and Records Administration, Vermont Births, Marriages and Deaths to 2008, index card 4532, Death, Remmon Maxfield, 29 January 1889; digital images, New England Historical and Genealogical Society, American Ancestors (americanancestors.org : accessed 6 December 2016).
²Vermont Births, Marriages and Deaths to 2008, index card 4527, Death, Mary Maxfield, 1876.
³Vermont Births, Marriages and Deaths to 2008, index card 4769, Marriage, Maxfield-Austin, 1878.
⁴Vermont Births, Marriages and Deaths to 2008, index card 4526, Death, Maria Maxfield, 22 July 1895.
⁵"Register of Enlistments in the U.S. Army, 1798-1914," digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 30 August 2013), Rimmon Maxfield; Records of the Adjutant General’s Office, 1780’s-1917, Record Group 94; National Archives, Washington, D.C.
⁶Milton Town, Chittenden County, Vermont, Deeds, v. ?, p. 131, Indenture from Sanford Maxfield and Rimmon Maxfield to Town Selectmen, 24 August 1846; Milton Town Clerk, Milton, Chittenden County, Vermont.
⁷Eighth Census of the United States: 1860, population, Milton, Chittenden County, Vermont, roll 1319, p. 653, household 831, Rimmon Maxfield family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 16 November 2012); NARA microfilm record group M653; Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration.
⁸Historical Data Systems, comp., "U.S., Civil War Soldier Records and Profiles, 1861-1865," database, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 14 July 2013), Rimmon Maxfield.
⁹Vermont Births, Marriages and Deaths to 2008, index card 4392, Death, Ellen Maxfield, 1865.
¹⁰"Notice," Burlington Free Press, 26 April 1867; Chronicling America (http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov : accessed 23 October 2017), Historic American Newspapers.
¹¹Ninth Census of the United States: 1870, population, Elmore, Lamoille County, Vermont, roll 1621, p. 99B, household 76, Rimmon Maxfield family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 15 February 2013); NARA microfilm record group M593; Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration.
¹²1870 Census, Morristown, Lamoille County, Vermont, roll 1621, p. 160B, household 281, Ward B. Harris family.
¹³1870 Census, Woodbury, Washington County, Vermont, p. 328A, household 41, Darman Bridgman family.
¹⁴1870 Census, Barre, Washington County, Vermont, p. 12, household 104, John Batchelder family.
¹⁵1870 Census, Elmore, Lamoille County, Vermont, roll 1621, p. 101A, household 104, Charles S. Parker family.
¹⁶Vermont Births, Marriages and Deaths to 2008, index card 4527, Death, Mary Maxfield, 1876.
¹⁷Tenth Census of the United States: 1880, population, Fairfax, Franklin County, Vermont, enumeration district (ED) 102, roll 1344, p. 68D, household 298, Rimon Maxfield family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 23 March 2013); NARA microfilm publication T9, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C.
¹⁸1880 Census, Morristown, Lamoille County, Vermont, ED 127, roll 1345, p. 454C, household 101, Sanford Maxfield family.
¹⁹1880 Census, Underhill, Chittenden County, Vermont, ED 84, roll 1343, p. 321B, household 15, D. W. Morehouse family.
²⁰1880 Census, Jericho, Chittenden County, Vermont, ED 78, p. 5A, household 47, Lossen Morehouse family.
²¹1880 Census, Morristown, Lamoille County, Vermont, ED 127, p. 6B, household 65, Carlos N. Dike family.
²²1880 Census, Jericho, Chittenden County, Vermont, ED 78, p. 26B, household 303, George Smith family.
²³Vermont Births, Marriages and Deaths to 2008, index card 4532, Death, Remmon Maxfield, 29 January 1889.
²⁴Vermont Births, Marriages and Deaths to 2008, index card 4526, Death, Maria Maxfield, 22 July 1895.
²⁵Brookside Cemetery, Westford, Chittenden County, Vermont, Find a Grave, digital images (findagrave.com : accessed 22 December 2012), Ellen Maxfield; Created and photo by Barb Destromp; Vermont Births, Marriages and Deaths to 2008, index card 4392, Death, Ellen Maxfield, 1865.
²⁶1860 Census, Milton, Chittenden County, Vermont, roll 1319, p. 653, household 831, Rimmon Maxfield family.
²⁷Vermont Births, Marriages and Deaths to 2008, index card 15450-1, Death, Mrs. Persis Morehouse, 1933.
²⁸Vermont Births, Marriages and Deaths to 2008, index card 4767, Marriage, Morehouse-Maxfield, 1876.
²⁹Letter from Jack Billow to Charles A. Maxfield, 16 September 2019; held in by Charles A. Maxfield, Lansdale, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.
³⁰Letter, Jack Billow to Charles A. Maxfield, 16 September 2019.
³¹Vermont Births, Marriages and Deaths to 2008, index card 12153, Death, Emma Dyke, 1927.
³²Vermont Births, Marriages and Deaths to 2008, index card 4736, Marriage, Dyke-Maxfield, 1876.
³³Letter, Jack Billow to Charles A. Maxfield, 16 September 2019.
³⁴Vermont Births, Marriages and Deaths to 2008, index card 4380, Birth, (female) Maxfield, 1860.

Billow, Jack. Letter. 16 September 2019 to Charles A. Maxfield. Privately held by Charles A. Maxfield, Lansdale, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.

Brookside Cemetery, Westford, Chittenden County, Vermont. Find a Grave. Digital images. findagrave.com : 2012.

Burlington Free Press. Burlington, Chittenden County, Vermont. 26 April 1867.

Historical Data Systems, comp. "U.S. Civil War Soldier Records and Profiles, 1861-1865." Database. Ancestry. ancestry.com : 2013.

Milton Town, Chittenden County, Vermont. Deeds. Milton Town Clerk, Milton, Chittenden County, Vermont.

Unitred States Adjutant General’s Office. "Register of Enlistments in the U.S. Army, 1798-1914." Ancestry. ancestry.com : 2013.

United States Department of the Census. Eighth Census of the United States: 1860, population. Digital images. Ancestry. ancestry.com : 2012.

________. Ninth Census of the United States: 1870, population. Digital images. Ancestry. ancestry.com : 2013

________. Tenth Census of the United States: 1880, population. Digital images. Ancestry ancestry.com : 2013.

Vermont State Archives and Records Administration. Vermont Births, Marriages and Deaths to 2008. Digital images. New England Historical and Genealogical Society. American Ancestors. americanancestors.org : 2016.