Descendants of John Maxfield
of Salisbury, Massachusetts
Sixth Generation

ALDICE MAHLON⁶ MAXFIELD (Joseph⁵, Benjamin⁴, Joseph^3-2, John¹) was born at Sodus Point, Wayne County, New York on 20 July 1845,^[1] a child of Joseph Maxfield and his wife Artemisia Munson. He died at Corvallis, Benton County, Oregon, on 3 October 1903.^[2] Aldice married at Austin, Mower County, Minnesota, on 20 May 1876 JOSEPHINE MARY MOLISON.^[3] She was born at English-speaking Canada in December 1855,^[4] and died at Portland, Multnomah Couty, Oregon, on 21 November 1926.^[5]

Aldice grew up during his early years in upstate New York, the third of six children. When he was about ten years old his family moved to Washington County, Wisconsin. When he was about seventeen years old his family moved to Mower County, Minnesota. At that time Mower County had been in existence for just six years.

Aldice and Josephine and their young family continued to follow the frontier westward. Their first child was born in 1878 at Minnesota. Their second child was born in 1884 at Dakota Territory. In 1891 they had a baby who lived just one year, and died from enterocolitis in 1892 at White Bear Lake, Ramsey County, Minnesota.^[6] According to research notes of Miriam Myers, Aldice and Josephine lived at White Bear Lake, where Aldice was a carpenter and builder, and a Republican.^[7] However, in 1894 they had a child born at Corvallis, and that is where the 1900 Census found the family:^[8]

This census report also indicated that Aldice and Josephine had been married 24 years, Josephine had given birth to five children, of whom three were still living, and she had come to the United States in 1870.

Daughter Vera married later in that census year, and Aldice died in 1903. The 1910 Census reported widow Josephine Maxfield living at Portland, with her two surviving sons. Royal, 26, called Roy D. by the census taker, was a mail clerk for a railway; Vern, 15, worked as a cashier for a wholesale fruit dealer. Josephine was 43, the mother of five children, three living. She was born in Canada to a father born in Scotland and a mother born in England.^[9]

Verne Miles Maxfield registered for the draft at Portland on 5 June 1917. At that time he worked as a salesman for Page & Son. He requested exemption on the basis of need to care for his mother whom he claimed as a dependant. Verne was tall, medium build, with blue eyes and light brown hair.^[10]

The 1920 Census is difficult to read because of an ink blot. However it does indicate Josephine Maxfield, 64, living at Portland with her son Vern, 25, who worked as a draftsman in a job mart. Curiously, that record lists another person in the family, Conrad Schmidt, 13, called a son of Josephine; he was of German-Russian origin.^[11]

Josephine Maxfield died in 1926. The 1930 Census reported Vern Maxfield, 35, at the Oregon State Insane Hospital in Salem, Marion County, Oregon.^[12]

Aldice and Josephine Maxfield had five children including the following:

1. VERA I.⁷ MAXFIELD b. at Minnesota in July 1878;^[13] m. at Benton County on 25 December 1900 AUBERT A. LEVENS.^[14]
2. ROYAL⁷ MAXFIELD b. at Dakota Territory (North Dakota) on September 1884.^[15]
3. (baby⁷ MAXFIELD b. on 14 July 1891, d. at White Bear Lake on 26 July 1892.^[16]
4. VERNE MILES⁷ MAXFIELD b. at Corvallis on 14 September 1894^[17], d. at Portland on 23 January 1935.^[18]

¹Meyers, Miriam, Research Notes (before 1996), privately held by William J. Barton, Tacoma, Washington, 2000. contained in a letter, Barton, William J., to Charles A. Maxfield, 7 November 2000. Crystal Lake Cemetery, Corvallis, Benton County, Oregon, Find a Grave, digital images (findagrave.com : database 3 October 2019), Aldice Mahlen Maxfield; Created by: Sue Wehnert Guss.
²Oregon State Archives and Records Center. Salem, Oregon, "Oregon Death Index, 1903-1998," database, Family Search (familysearch.org : accessed 22 April 2024), Aldice Mahon Maxfield, 1903.
³Minnesota County Marriages 1860-1949, Mower County, p. 188, Maxfield-Mollison, 1876; digital images, Family Search (familysearch.org : accessed 5 June 2023); County Courthouses, Minnesota.
⁴Twelth Census of the United States: 1900, population, Corvallis, Benton County, Oregon, enumeration district (ED) 1, p. 3A, household 48, Aldie Maxfield family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 10 April 2014); NARA microfilm group T623; Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration.
⁵"Oregon Death Index, 1903-1998," database, Family Search, Josephine M. Maxfield, 1926.
⁶Minnesota, County Deaths, 1850-2001, Ramsey County Deaths 1892, p. 54, baby Maxfield; digital images, Family Search (familysearch.org : accessed 7 June 2023); Multiple county courthouses, Minnesota.
⁷Meyers, Miriam, Research Notes.
⁸1900 Census, Corvallis, Benton County, Oregon, ED 1, p. 3A, household 48, Aldie Maxfield family.
⁹Thirteenth Census of the United States: 1910, population, Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon, enumeration district (ED) 231, p. 17B, household 389, Josephine Maxfield family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 11 April 2014); NARA group T624, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C.
¹⁰"World War I Selective Service System Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918," digital image, United States, Selective Service System, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 14 April 2014), Verne Miles Maxfield, Portland, Oregon, 5 June 1917; citing , No. 805.
¹¹Fourteenth Census of the United States: 1920, population, Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon, enumeration district (ED) 162, p. 2B, household 45, Josephine Maxfield; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 12 April 2014); NARA microfilm record group T625, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C.
¹²Fifteenth Census of the United States: 1930, population, Salem, Marion County, Oregon, enumeration district (ED) 66, p. 19A, Oregon State Insane Hospital; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 13 April 2014); NARA record Group T626.
¹³1900 Census, Corvallis, Benton County, Oregon, ED 1, p. 3A, household 48, Aldie Maxfield family.
¹⁴Oregon, Various County Courthouses, "Oregon County Marriage Index, 1851-1975," database, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 20 April 2024), Levens-Maxfield, Benton County, 1900.
¹⁵1900 Census, Corvallis, Benton County, Oregon, ED 1, p. 3A, household 48, Aldie Maxfield family.
¹⁶Minnesota, County Deaths, 1850-2001, Ramsey County Deaths 1892, p. 54, baby Maxfield.
¹⁷"World War I Selective Service System Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918," Verne Miles Maxfield, Portland, Oregon, 5 June 1917.
¹⁸"Oregon Death Index, 1903-1998," Verne Maxfield, 1935.

Crystal Lake Cemetery, Corvallis, Benton County, Oregon. Find a Grave. Digital images. findagrave.com : 2019.

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United States Department of the Census. Twelth Census of the United States: 1900, population. Digital images. Ancestry. ancestry.com : 2014.

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________. Fourteenth Census of the United States: 1920, population. Digital images. Ancestry. ancestry.com : 2014.

________. Fifteenth Census of the United States: 1930, population. Digital images. Ancestry. ancestry.com : 2014.

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