Descendants of John Maxfield
of Salisbury, Massachusetts
Sixth Generation

HIRAM DANIEL6 MAXFIELD (Hiram5, Joshua4-3, Joseph2, John1) was born at New York on 17 October 1833 a son of Hiram Maxfield and his first wife Sarah Irish . He died at Richfield, Genesee County, Michigan, on 20 January 1885.[1] He married about 1865-6 HENRIETTA TRUAX.[2] She was born at Genesee County on 20 February 1847, a daughter of Harry Truax and Rebecca Allen. She died at Hadley, Lapeer County, Michigan, on 30 May 1917.[3]

The second of five children, Hiram Daniel Maxfield moved with his family to Michigan when he was about three years old. He married Henrietta Truax when he was 32 years old and she was eighteen. The 1870 Census reported them at Atlas, Genesee County (Grand Blanc Post Office), immediately before his parents. He was called "Danver Maxwell" age 36, with real estate valued at $2500 and a personal estate of $650. He was a farmer.[4]

The 1880 Census reported this family, with their three children, again at Atlas Township:[5]

Line Name Race Sex Age Related MS Occupation B FB MB
21. Maxfield, Hiram D. W M 47 M retired farmer NY NY NY
22. Maxfield, Henrietta W F 33 wife M keeping house MI NY NY
23. Maxfield, James E. W M 8 son S at school MI NY MI
24. Maxfield, Sarah R. W F 6 daughter S at school MI NY MI
25. Maxfield, Henry W. W M 3 son S MI NY MI

The 1894 Michigan state census reported Hiram D. Maxfield, 60, at Hadley, with his wife, Henrietta, 47, and children James E., 22 and Henry, 18.[6] Daughter Sarah was listed as a "hired girl," age 20, in the household of George and Sarah Gregory of Hadley.[7]

Son Janes married in February of 1900. The census in June of that year found James and his new wife with his parents:[8]

Line Name Related Race Sex Born MS B FB MB Occupation
51. Maxfield, H. D. head W M Oct 1832 M NY NH NY farmer
52. Maxfield, Henrietta wife W F Feb 1848 M MI NY NY
53. Maxfield, James partner W M Nov 1870 M MI NY MI farmer
54. Maxfield, Minnie daughter-in-law W F Mar 1870 M MI NJ NY
55. Maxfield, Henry son W M Jul 1876 S MI NY MI farm laborer

Other information on this record: Henrietta had three children, all of whom were living; H. D. and Henrietta had been married 34 years; James and Minnie had been married less than a year, and had no children. Sarah Maxfield, born February 1876, was working as a domestic servant in the home of Eugene and Florence Goodrich of Atlas Township.[9]

Sarah married in 1902, John Henry married about 1904-5. The 1910 Census reported parents Daniel and Harriet with their son Henry and his family at Hadley Township.[10] James and Minnie were living in Flint, Genesee County.[11]

Hiram D. Maxfield died in 1913 from a failure of vital forces following surgery on his hip after he slipped and fell off his porch, a distance of about two feet.[12] Henrietta died in 1917 from paralysis.[13]

James Emery Maxfield and his wife Minnie were recorded in the 1920 Census at Flint. He was a carpenter buiding houses.[14]

James Emery Maxfield died in 1922 from apoplexy. His death record described him as a retired foreman of an automobile factory.[15] Widow Minnie Maxfield was living alone at Flint in the 1930 Census.[16] When Minnie died in 1939 she had nephritis, also myocarditis and senility.[17]

Hiram Daniel Maxfield and his wife Henrietta Truax had the following children:

  1. JAMES EMERY7 MAXFIELD b. at Atlas on 24 November 1871;[18] d. at Flint on 3 July 1922;[19] m. at Flint on 21 February 1900 MINNIE MANN,[20] b. at Hadley on 1 March 1869, d. at Atlas on 30 January, 1939, child of John P. and Mary (Kerr) Mann.[21]
  2. SARAH R.7 MAXFIELD b. at Atlas on 23 February 1874;[22] d. at Flint on March 1969;[23] m. at Flint on 25 March 1902 FRANK FARRAND, b. at Michigan about 1866-7.[24]
  3. JOHN HENRY7 MAXFIELD b. at Goodrich on 10 July 1876.

NOTES

1Michigan Department of Community Health, Division for Vital Records and Health Statistics, Lansing, Michigan, Michigan, Death Records, 1867-1952, Lapeer County, certificate 13, Hiram D. Maxfield, 1913; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 30 June 2023).
2Twelth Census of the United States: 1900, population, Hadley, Lapeer County, Michigan, enumeration district (ED) 37, p. 5B, household 112, H. D. Maxfield family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 17 July 2013); NARA microfilm group T623; Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration. Her maiden name from death record.
3Michigan, Death Records, 1867-1952, Lapeer County, certificate 101, Henrietta Maxfield, 1917.
4Ninth Census of the United States: 1870, population, Atlas, Genesee County, Michigan, p. 410B, household 64, Danver Maxwell family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 6 February 2013); NARA microfilm record group M593; Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration.
5Tenth Census of the United States: 1880, population, Atlas, Genesee County, Michigan, enumeration district (ED) 65, p. 27C, household 283, Hiram D. Maxfield family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 9 March 2013); NARA microfilm publication T9, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C.
61894 Michigan State Census, , Hadley, Lapeer County, Michigan, Hiram D. Maxfield family; database, Family Search (familysearch.org : accessed 21 April 2022); Michigan State Archives, Lansing, Michigan.
71894 Michigan State Census, Hadley, Lapeer County, Michigan, George Gregory family.
81900 Census, Hadley, Lapeer County, Michigan, ED 37, p. 5B, household 112, H. D. Maxfield family.
91900 Census, Atlas, Genesee County, Michigan, ED 2, p. 9B, household 221, Eugene Goodrich family.
10Thirteenth Census of the United States: 1910, population, Hadley, Lapeer County, Michigan, enumeration district (ED) 42, p. 9B, household 235, Henry Maxfield family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 27 January 2014); NARA group T624, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C.
111910 Census, Flint, Genesee County, Michigan, ED 13, p. :6A, household 140, James E. Maxfield family.
12Michigan, Death Records, 1867-1952, Lapeer County, certificate 13, Hiram D. Maxfield, 1913.
13Michigan, Death Records, 1867-1952, Lapeer County, certificate 101, Henrietta Maxfield, 1917.
14Fourteenth Census of the United States: 1920, population, Flint, Genesee County, Michigan, enumeration district (ED) 38, p. 17A, household 381, James Maxfield family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 22 March 2014); NARA microfilm record group T625, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C.
15Michigan, Death Records, 1867-1952, Genesee County, certificate 225-1266, James Emery Maxfield, 1922.
16Fifteenth Census of the United States: 1930, population, Hadley, Lapeer County, Michigan, enumeration district (ED) 13, p. 1B, household 15, Henry Maxfield family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 23 March 2014); NARA record Group T626.
17Michigan, Death Records, 1867-1952, Genesee County, certificate 25-7453, Mrs. Minnie Maxfield, 1939.
18Michigan Department of Vital Records, Lansing, Michigan, "Michigan Births, 1867-1902," database, Family Search (familysearch.org : accessed 12 June 2023), Genesee County, 1871, p. 16, e. 3620, James E. Maxfield.
19Michigan, Death Records, 1867-1952, Genesee County, certificate 225-1266, James Emery Maxfield, 1922.
20Michigan Department of Community Health, Division for Vital Records and Health Statistics, Michigan, Marriage Records, 1867–1952, Lapeer County, p. 15, e. 2303, Maxfield-Mann, 1900; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 16 June 2023).
21Michigan, Death Records, 1867-1952, Genesee County, certificate 25-7453, Mrs. Minnie Maxfield, 1939.
22"Michigan Births, 1867-1902," Genesee County, 1874, p. 102- e. 4533, Sarah Maxfield.
23Goodrich Cemetery, Goodrich, Genesee County, Michigan, Find a Grave, digital images (findagrave.com : accessed 5 September 2018), Sarah R. Farrand; Created and photo by: Glenn & Anna Sakcriska.
24Michigan, Marriage Records, 1867–1952, Genesee County, p. 38, e. 5633, Farrand-Maxfield, 1902.

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