Descendants of John Maxfield
of Salisbury, Massachusetts
Sixth Generation

ALFRED⁶ MAXFIELD (Henry⁵, David⁴, Eliphalet³, Nathaniel², John¹) was born at Milton, Chittenden County, Vermont, on 1 June 1829, the eleventh of eleven children of Henry and Minerva Maxfield. He died at Burlington, Chittenden County, on 19 March 1895.^[1] He married at Milton on 9 February 1861 MARY JANE HOLMES, a child of Manly Holmes and Mary J. Lamphere.^[2] She was born at Westford, Chittenden County, on 26 July 1843 and died at Andover, Essex County, Massachusetts, on 9 December 1916.^[3]

In the 1850 census Alfred was a farmer, age 21, living at Milton with his parents, listed as paupers, in the household of Alfred and Jane Copper.^[4]

I have not found Alfred Maxfield in the 1860 Census. He married in 1861 at tha age of 31; his bride was 17. Alfred was consistently called a shoemaker in his marrige record and in all future records.

The 1870 census reported this family at the town of Westford, Essex Junction Post Office. The family included Alfred, age 40, boot and shoe maker, Mary Jane, 26, keeping house, Elmer E. [Elvira], 8, at school, Effie L. [Ethel], 5, at school, and Dora I., 2. All were born at Vermont.^[5]

The 1880 census reported the growing family at Westford, spelling a few names differently. It listed Alfred, 51, shoemaker, Jane, wife, 36, keeping house, Armina, daughter, 18, employed as a servant, Ethel, daughter, 15, Dora, daughter, 7, Arthur, son, 7, and Charley, son, 2. All family members and all of their parents were born at Vermont.^[6]

In 1882 Alfred Maxfield had a custom shoe shop on Main Street, Winooski, Chittenden County, and lived in Burlington.^[7]

Son Arthur died in 1891 at the age of 18 from pneumonia.^[8] Alfred died in 1895 at the age of 65 from La Grippe.^[9]

Ethel married in 1886, Elvira married in 1892, and Dora married in 1893. The 1900 Census reported widow Mary Maxfield, 56, living at Methuen, Essex County, with her youngest child, Charles, 21, a day laborer.^[10]

Charles died in 1902 from pneumonia.^[11] In 1910 widow Mary Maxfield, 66, resided at Burlington with her daughter Ethel, 45, and Ethel's second husband Charles Shambs, 39, machine hand in a bobbin shop.^[12]

Widow Mary Maxfield died in 1916 at Andover from paralysis agitans^[13] (Parkinson's Disease).

Alfred Maxfield and his wife Mary Jane Holmes had the following children:

1. ELVIRA A.⁷ MAXFIELD b. at Westford on 5 June 1862;^[14] m. at Burlington on 5 July 1892 CURTIS WILSON^[15] b. at Jericho, Chittenden County, on 19 February 1868. d. at Revere, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, on 1937. Children of Elvira and Curtis:
   1. Pearl Edward Wilson b. on 25 May 1895, d. at Revere on 1940; m. on 24 June 1933 Bertrude Bazil Maguire b. on 7 January 1895, d. on December 1968.
   2. Raymond Sidney Wilson b. on 11 April 1897, d. at Vance County, North Carolina, on 5 March 1981; m. on 16 June 1937 Alice Larymore Hewitt b. on 5 January 1909, d. on 27 February 1993.^[16]
2. ETHEL IRENE⁷ MAXFIELD b. at Westford on 8 January 1865,^[17] d. at Shoreham, Addison County, Vermont, on 2 August 1928;^[18] m(1). at Essex, Chittenden County, on 17 June 1886 John H. Slater b. at Essex about 1842-3;^[19] Ethel m(2). about 1895-6 Charles E. Shambs b. at New York about 1870-1;^[20] Ethel m(3). at Brandon, Rutland County, Vermont, on 24 August 1917 Gilmore P. Cobb^[21] b. on 1860, d. at Middlebury, Addison County, on 16 January 1938.^[22]
3. DORA ISABELL⁷ MAXFIELD b. at Westford on 17 April 1868,^[23] d. on 1943;^[24] m. at Burlington on 2 February 1893 Charles T. Manley b. at Virginia about 1847-8, d. before 1920.^[25]
4. ARTHUR JULIEN⁷ MAXFIELD b. at Westford on 7 November 1872,^[26] d. at Burlington on 27 May 1891.^[27]
5. CHARLES R.⁷ MAXFIELD b. at Westford on 25 June 1878,^[28] d. at North Andover, Essex County, on 1 April 1902.^[29]

¹Vermont State Archives and Records Administration, Vermont Births, Marriages and Deaths to 2008, index card 4503, Death, Alfred Maxfield, 19 March 1895; digital images, New England Historical and Genealogical Society, American Ancestors (americanancestors.org : accessed 7 December 2016).
²Vermont Births, Marriages and Deaths to 2008, index card 4276, Marriage, Maxfield-Johnson, 1861.
³Massachusetts, Commonwealth of, Secretary of the Commonwealth, "Vital Records of Massachusetts, 1916-1920," digital images, American Ancestors (american ancestors.org : accessed 20 January 2023), 1916 Deaths,, v. 2, p. 2274; Mary Jane Maxfield.
⁴Seventh Census of the United States: 1850, population, Milton, Chittenden County, Vermont, p. 187A, household 973, Alfred Coffee family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 17 October 2012); NARA microfilm record group M432, Record Group 29; National Archives, Washington, D.C.
⁵Ninth Census of the United States: 1870, population, Westford, Chittenden County, Vermont, roll 1618, p. 729A, household 69, Alfred Maxfield family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 15 February 2013); NARA microfilm record group M593; Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration.
⁶Tenth Census of the United States: 1880, population, Westford, Chittenden County, Vermont, enumeration district (ED) 85, roll 1343, p. 340A, household 84, Alfred Maxfield family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 24 March 2013); NARA microfilm publication T9, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C.
⁷"Business Directory: Winooski Village, Town of Colchester, Chittenden County, 1882-1883", database, Rootsweb (rootsweb.ancestry.com : accessed 26 January 2014). Also "Business Directory: Burlington, Chittenden County, 1882-1883", database, Rootsweb (rootsweb.ancestry.com : accessed 26 January 2014).
⁸Vermont Births, Marriages and Deaths to 2008, index card 4505, Death, Arthur J. Maxfield, 27 May 1891.
⁹Vermont Births, Marriages and Deaths to 2008, index card 4503, Death, Alfred Maxfield, 19 March 1895.
¹⁰Twelth Census of the United States: 1900, population, Methuen, Essex County, Massachusetts, enumeration district (ED) 409, roll 646, p. 13, household 268, Mary Maxfield family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 12 April 2013); NARA microfilm group T623; Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration.
¹¹Massachusetts Archives, "Vital Records of Massachusetts, 1841-1910," digital images, American Ancestors (americanancestors.org : accessed 12 September 2017), vol. 528, p. 639, e. 16, North Andover Deaths 1902, Charles R. Maxfield.
¹²Thirteenth Census of the United States: 1910, population, Burlington, Chittenden County, Vermont, enumeration district (ED) 72, roll 1613, p. 20B, household 423, Charles Shambs family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 12 December 2013); NARA group T624, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C.
¹³"Vital Records of Massachusetts, 1916-1920," 1916 Deaths,, v. 2, p. 204; Mary Jane Maxfield.
¹⁴Vermont Births, Marriages and Deaths to 2008, index card 4391, Birth, Elma A. Maxfield, 1862.
¹⁵Vermont Births, Marriages and Deaths to 2008, index card 4716, Marriage, Wilson-Maxfield, 5 July 1892.
¹⁶Letter from Jack Billow to Charles A. Maxfield, 16 September 2019; held in by Charles A. Maxfield, Lansdale, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.
¹⁷Vermont Births, Marriages and Deaths to 2008, index card 4379, Birth, (female) Maxfield, 1865.
¹⁸Vermont Births, Marriages and Deaths to 2008, index card 9176, Death, Ethel Irene Cobb, 1928.
¹⁹Vermont Births, Marriages and Deaths to 2008, index card 4738, Marriage, Slater-Maxfield, 1886.
²⁰1910 Census, Burlington, Chittenden County, Vermont, ED 72, roll 1613, p. 20B, household 423, Charles Shambs family.
²¹Letter, Jack Billow to Charles A. Maxfield, 16 September 2019.
²²Lake View Cemetery, Shoreham, Addison County, Vermont, Find a Grave, digital images (findagrave.com : accessed 6 November 2017), Gilmore-Ethel Cobb; Created by: Barb Destromp.
²³Vermont Births, Marriages and Deaths to 2008, index card 4389, Birth, Dora isabel Maxfield, 1868.
²⁴Lakeview Cemetery, Burlington, Chittenden County, Vermont, database, Find a Grave (findagrave.com : accessed 15 March 2016), Alfred Maxfield marker; Created and photo by: DebL.
²⁵Vermont Births, Marriages and Deaths to 2008, index card 4729, Marriage, Manley-Maxfield, 2 February 1893.
²⁶Vermont Births, Marriages and Deaths to 2008, index card 6601, Birth, Arthur Julien Maxfield, 1872.
²⁷Vermont Births, Marriages and Deaths to 2008, index card 4505, Death, Arthur J. Maxfield, 27 May 1891.
²⁸Vermont Births, Marriages and Deaths to 2008, index card 6604, Birth, Charles Maxfield, 1878.
²⁹"Vital Records of Massachusetts, 1841-1910," vol. 528, p. 639, e. 16, North Andover Deaths 1902, Charles R. Maxfield.

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

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