RICHARD PETER MAXFIELD (Joseph5, Benjamin4, Joseph3-2, John1) was born at Wayne County, New York on 13 November 1853 (Myers, 1900 census),[1] a child of Joseph Maxfield and his wife Artemisia Munson. He died at LeRoy, Mower County, Minnesota, on 6 May 1927.[2] He married at LeRoy on 28 December 1892 ANNA BLACKMER,[3] who was born at Michigan on September 1871.[4] She was most often called alled "Nanna."
Richard Peter Maxfield, the sixth of six children, in his infancy lived in upstate New York. When he was six months old his family moved to Washington County, Wisconsin. When he was about nine years old, they moved to Mower County.
The 1880 Census reported Richard, 26, farmer, living at LeRoy with his brother Joseph and sister Martha, all single.[5] In 1892 Richard Maxfield, 39, married Nannie Blackmer, 21. The 1895 Minnesota census reported Richard P. Maxfield, 41, livery man, and Anna A. Maxfield, 23, living at LeRoy. Richard had been a resident of the state and of LeRoy for 36 years and six months.[6]
The 1900 census reported this family in the village of LeRoy:[7]
| Name | Related | Race | Sex | Born | MS | B | FB | MB | Occupation |
| Maxfield, Richard P. | head | W | M | Nov 1853 | M | NY | NY | NY | |
| Maxfield, Nannie A. | wife | W | F | Sep 1871 | M | MI | VT | PA | |
| Maxfield, Miles W. | son | W | M | Oct 1896 | S | MN | NY | MI | |
| Maxfield, David E. | son | W | M | Nov 1898 | S | MN | NY | MI |
Richard and Nannie had been married seven years; she had two children, both living.
The 1910 census found the growing family at LeRoy village. Richard was manager of a livery stable. They had a third child, Kathryn, age 9. Nanny's age was estimated at 35. The household included a boarder, and a "brother-in-law" Horsey J. Baihr, age 55, widowed, born at Arkansas.[8]
After an interval of fifteen years, Richard and Nanny had a fourth child, Raymond, when Nanny was forty-six years old. Sons Miles and David both fought in World War I.[9]
The 1920 Census reported Richard P. Maxfield, 64, living again with his brother Joseph Miles Maxfield, 75, and sister Mattie A. Maxfield, 68, in LeRoy village.[10] Nannie and children were reported at a separate residence in LeRoy:[11]
| Line | Name | Related | Sex | Race | Age | MS | B | FB | MB | Occupation |
| 24. | Maxfield, Nannie | head | F | W | 48 | M | MI | VT | PA | none |
| 25. | Maxfield, Miles W. | son | M | W | 23 | M | MN | NY | MI | none |
| 26. | Maxfield, David C. | son | M | W | 21 | S | MN | NY | MI | none |
| 27. | Maxfield, Catherine J. | daughter | F | W | 18 | S | MN | NY | MI | none |
| 28. | Maxfield, Beulah | daughter-in-law | F | W | 23 | M | MN | MN | MN | none |
Son Miles W. Maxfield married Rosemary Boyer in 1925. According to the record, Miles W. Maxfield, of Des Moines, Polk County, Iowa, 29, student, married Rosemary Boyer, also of Des Moines, 21, child of Fred Boyer and Rose Cotter. This was Miles' second marriage, Rosemary's first.[12]
Richard Peter Maxfield died in 1927 from apoplexy.[13] His life was summarized in History of Mower County:[14]
Richard P. Maxfield, liveryman of LeRoy for thirty years, was born in Wayne county, New York, in November, 1853, and came to Washington county, Wisconsin, with his parents at the age of six months. The family located in section 36, LeRoy township, in 1862, and here, Richard P., who was the youngest of six, was reared to young manhood, remaining on the home farm until twenty years of age. Then he went to South Dakota and took up land, but a year and a half later returned and engaged in his present business. Mr. Maxfield married Nanie A., daughter of John R. and Catherine Blacmer, and they are the parents of three children: Miles W., David C., and Catherine. It is worthy of note that the great-great-grandfather of Richard P. Maxfield came from Scotland in the latter part of the eighteenth century. |
The last sentence is incorrect, unless it intends his great-great-great-grandfather, who I have indicated as coming from England. I know of no other source that places his birth in Scotland.
The 1930 Census reported Nan A. Maxfield, widow, 48, managing a hospital at Crawford, Dawes County, Nebraska. With her were two sons, David C., 27, and Raymond R., 12.[15] Son M. W. Maxfield, an osteopathic doctor, roomed at Dell Rapids, Minnehaha County, South Dakota. The census taker called him single.[16] Son David Maxfield, 31, described as a dentist, was a patient at Battle Mountain Sanitoroum, Fall River County, South Dakota.[17] He was admitted to the National Home for Disabled Veterans at Hot Springs, Fall River County, on 15 April 1930, with intestinal indigestion, chronic nephritis, and tentative colitis. This record indicates he enlisted in the United States Navy on 8 June 1917, and was discharged on 9 June 1919. He was described as 5' 9" tall, ruddy complexion, gray eyes, black hair, literate, no religion, dentist, single.[18]
Miles W. Maxfield married at Howard, Miner County, South Dakota, in 1935, to Edith Rainer. This would appear to be Miles' third marriage. Miles was 39, Edith 29, both residents of Dell Rapids.[19]
The 1940 Census reported Miles Maxfield, 43, and Edith, 33, at Sulphur Springs, Hopkins County, Texas. According to this record, Miles had completed five years of college and had a medical practice. Edith completed four years of High School. They were living at Sulphur Springs in 1935.[20] The 1940 Census also reported Nan A. Maxfield, 65, widow, at Crawford, described as a nurse at a convalescent hospital, Maxfield Convalescent Home, with five patients.[21] David C. Maxfield, 41, was reported in 1940 at Omaha, Douglas County, Nebraska, where he was in private practice as an anesthetist. He had completed five years of college, and was single.[22] David married Myra Standley on 17 September 1940. I have no further information on her.
The 1950 Census reported Miles and Edith Maxfield at Suplhur Springs; Miles was retired.[23] David was a neuropsychiatric patient at Veterans' Administration Hospital, Meade County, South Dakota.[24]
I have not found Nan Maxfield in the 1950 Census, neither have I found a death record. Miles died at Sulphur Springs in 1961 from a myocardial infarction.[25] David died in 1959 at Meade County.
Richard Peter Maxfield and his wife Anna Blackmer had the following children:
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.
2Minnesota, County Deaths, 1850-2001, Mower County Deaths 1927, p. 246, e. 155, Richard Peter Maxfield, ; digital images, Family Search (familysearch.org : accessed 7 June 2023); Multiple county courthouses, Minnesota.
3Minnesota County Marriages 1860-1949, Mower County, p. 434, Maxfield-Blackmer, 1892; digital images, Family Search (familysearch.org : accessed 5 June 2023); County Courthouses, Minnesota.
4Twelth Census of the United States: 1900, population, LeRoy, Mower County, Minnesota, enumeration district (ED) 90, p. 5B, household 253, Richard P. Maxfield family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 21 July 2013); NARA microfilm group T623; Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration.
5Tenth Census of the United States: 1880, population, Le Roy, Mower County, Minnesota, enumeration district (ED) 160, p. 472D, household 176, Joseph Maxfield family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 11 March 2013); NARA microfilm publication T9, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C.
61895 Minnesota State Census, LeRoy, Mower County, Minnestoa, p. 5, Richard P. Maxfield family; digital images, Family Search (familysearch.org : accessed 23 September 2013).
71900 Census, LeRoy, Mower County, Minnesota, ED 90, p. 5B, household 253, Richard P. Maxfield family.
8Thirteenth Census of the United States: 1910, population, LeRoy, Mower County, Minnesota, enumeration district (ED) 88, p. 1B, household 15, Richard P. Maxfield family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 26 September 2013); NARA group T624, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C.
9indicated on their respective 1930 Census records.
10Fourteenth Census of the United States: 1920, population, LeRoy, Mower County, Minnesota, enumeration district (ED) 91, p. 2A, household 36, Jospeh Miles Maxfield family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 29 September 2013); NARA microfilm record group T625, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C.
111920 Census, LeRoy, Mower County, Minnesota, ED 91, p. 4A, household 94, Marie Maxfield family.
12Iowa Department of Public Health, Iowa Marriage Records, 1880–1945, Des Moines County, Maxfield-Boyer, 1925; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 8 December 2023).
13Minnesota, County Deaths, 1850-2001, Mower County Deaths 1927, p. 246, e. 155, Richard Peter Maxfield.
14"Mower County: Biographies: Richard P. Maxfield," Minnesota GenWeb Project, information sharing site (rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mngenweb : accessed] 23 September 2013), from History of Mower County, 1911.
15Fifteenth Census of the United States: 1930, population, Crawford, Dawes County, Nebraska, enumeration district (ED) 9, p. 9B, household 240, Nan A. Maxfield family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 30 March 2014); NARA record Group T626.
161930 Census, Dell Rapids, Minnehaha County, South Dakota, ED 8, p. 1B, household 20A, Merton Haven family.
171930 Census, Township 7, Fall River County, South Dakota, ED 39, p. 1B, , Battle Mountain Sanitarium.
18"United States National Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, 1866-1938," images, Family Search (familysearch.org : accessed 29 November 2011), David C. Maxfield, no. 10189; National Archives and Records Administration, Washington D.C.
19South Dakota Department of Health, Pierre, South Dakota, South Dakota Marriage Certificates, 1905-1949, no. 1804, Maxfield-Rainer, 1935; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 25 April 2024).
20Sixteenth Census of the United States: 1940, population, Hopkins County, Texas, enumeration district (ED) 112-6, p. 7B, household 130, Miles W. Maxfield family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 9 September 2021); microfilm record group T627.
211940 Census, Crawford, Dawes County, Nebraska, ED 23-7, p. 7A, household 148, Nan A. Maxfield Convalescent Hospital.
221940 Census, Omaha, Douglas County, Nebraska, ED 94-52, p. 86B, Fontenelle Hotel.
23Seventeenth Census of the United States, 1950, population, Sulphur Springs, Hopkins County, Texas, enumeration district (ED) 112-3, p. 74, dwelling 78, Miles W. Maxfield family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 5 November 2022); Record Group 29. National Archives at Washington, DC., Washington, DC.
241950 Census, Meade County, South Dakota, ED 6-8, p. 23, , Veterans' Administration Hospital.
25Texas Department of State Health Services, Texas Death Certificates, 1903–1982, no. 52766, Miles W. Maxfield, 1961; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 18 January 2014).
26Ibid.
271920 Census, LeRoy, Mower County, Minnesota, ED 91, p. 4A, household 94, Marie Maxfield family.
28Iowa Marriage Records, 1880–1945, Des Moines County, Maxfield-Boyer, 1925.
29South Dakota Marriage Certificates, 1905-1949, no. 1804, Maxfield-Rainer, 1935.
30Restlawn Memorial Park, Sulphur Springs, Hopkins County, Texas, database, Find a Grave (findagrave.com : 6 January 2012), Edith R. Maxfield; Originally Created by: LeRoy Hanson, Maintained by: Leslyn Fletcher.
31Black Hills National Cemetery, Sturgis, Meade County, South Dakota, Find a Grave, digital images (findagrave.com : accessed 24 April 2024), David Cornelius Maxfield; Originally Created by: US Veterans Affairs Office, Maintained by: RH, Photo added by John Osnes.
32Nebraska State Historical Society, Lincoln, "Nebraska Marriages, 1855-1995," database, Family Search (familysearch.org : accessed 13 September 2023), Maxfield-Standley 1940.
33Minnesota Historical Society, "Births," database, Minnesota People Search (https://www.mnhs.org/search : accessed 6 June 2023), Catherine Jewells Maxfield, # 14743.
34Crawford Cemetery, Crawford, Dawes County, Nebraska, Find a Grave, digital images (findagrave.com : accessed 14 September 2023), Ray E Maxfield; Created and photo by: Kristal K.
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