Descendants of John Maxfield
of Salisbury, Massachusetts
Sixth Generation

HENRY EDGAR⁶ MAXFIELD (Nathan⁵, Currier⁴, Joshua³, Joseph², John¹ ) was born at Goshen, Sullivan County, New Hampshire, on 16 June 1842 a son of Nathan Hurd Maxfield and his wife Lamira C. Cutts.^[1] He died at Newport, Sullivan County, on 10 February 1883.^[2] He married first at Newport on 24 December 1869 CELESTE L. CARR.^[3] She was born at Newport on 29 December 1843, a daughter of John Carr. She died there on 25 July 1879.^[4] Henry married second ELLA L. GOVE,^[5] who was born at Franklin, Merrimack County, New Hampshire, on 18 October 1856, and died there on 22 February 1935,^[6] a daughter of Alonzo Gove.

The second of four children, but the eldest to survive infancy, Henry grew up on a farm at Goshen. The 1860 Census reported him at Goshen, age 17, with his parents and two younger siblings.^[7]

When they married in 1869, Henry was 27 and Celeste, often called "Kate," was 25. The 1870 Census reported the newly married couple farming at Goshen (Mill Village Post Office), near his parents.^[8] They had three sons born in the 1870s. Kate died at the age of 35, leaving Henry with children ages 6, 4, and 3.

Henry and sons were reported in the 1880 Census at Newport as follows:^[9]

Within eleven months of Kate's death, Henry remarried. Henry was 37, Ella 23, at the time of this marriage. Within three years Henry died, from laryngeal and pulmonary phthisis.^[10] This left Ella with three step-sons, aged 9, 8, and 6. The court appointed Ella guardian of her stepsons.^[11]

Of the three sons, Berton became a lawyer, George became a doctor, and Lester remained a farmer.

The 1900 Census reported Lester Maxfield, 25, farming at Franklin. with him were his mother Ella, 42, a boarder who was a school teacher, and a farm laborer.^[12] George H. Maxfield, 23, was an officer at the Tewksbury Stete Hospital, Tewksbury, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, where he was described as a student.^[13] In 1897 he had become the third assistant to the doctor at the New Hampshire State Hospital.^[14] I have not found Berton in that census.

Berton Maxfield married in 1907 and was reported in 1910 at Brooklyn, Kings County, New York, as a lawyer with a general practice. The family consisted of Berton, 37, his wife Winifred, 33, and their son Berton, one year and eleven months.^[15] George H. Maxfield had received his Medical Doctorate from Harvard Medical School in 1903,^[16] and in the 1910 Census was reported as a physician at the Boston State Hospital, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachuestts.^[17] Lester continued to farm at Franklin, accompanied by his step-mother Ella.^[18]

George Maxfield married in 1910, and in 1913 began working as a doctor at the Soldiers' Home at Chelsea, Suffolk County.^[19] The other two brothers reported for the draft. Berton reported at Brooklyn on 12 September 1918. He was tall with light brown hair and gray eyes.^[20] Lester reported on that same date at Franklin; he was tall, medium build, with blue eyes and dark brown hair.^[21]

The 1920 Census found Lester C. Maxfield, 45, farmer, at Franklin, with his mother, Ella Maxfield, 53, and Merrill and Ada Morey, perhaps relatives of Ella; Merrill was also farming.^[22] Berton, 47, lawyer, was reported at Brooklyn with his wife Winifred, 43, and son Berton, 11.^[23] George H. Maxfield. 43, was reported at Chelsea, a surgeon at the Soldiers' Home. With him were his wife Helena, 38, and son Harold G., 6, and a servant, Lottie Mahan, 17.^[24]

Lester Maxfield married in 1920. He was 46, his bride, Caroline, was 37. The 1930 Census reported Lester Maxfield, 55, owner of his farm at Franklin; with him were his wife Carrie, 46, and mother, Ella, 73.^[25] Berton L. Maxfield's only son, also named Berton, died at the age of nineteen at Providence, Providence County, Rhode Island, where he was a student, from acute intestinal obstruction.^[26] The 1930 Census reported the childless parents, Berton, 58, and Winifred, 55, at Brooklyn, where Berton continued to practice law.^[27] The 1930 Census reported Dr. George H. Maxfield, 53, at Bridgewater, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, where he worked as a physician at the State Hospital (a.k.a. insane asylum). According to this record George was a veteran of the World War. With him were his wife Helena, 45, and son, Harold, 16.^[28]

Widow Ella (Gove) Maxfield died at Franklin on 1935 at the age of 78, from acute bronchitis.^[30] George Maxfield continued to live at Bridgewater with his wife and son.^[31] Lester continued to farm at Franklin, with his wife, and a hired hand, Fred Emerson.^[32]

Winnifred, the widow of Berton Maxfield, died at Watertown in 1946. The 1950 Census reported George Maxfield, 73, at Bridgewater, retired, with his wife Helena, 68.^[33] Their son Harold, 36, also lived in Bridgewarer, with his wife Ruth and daughter Ann.^[34]

Lester Maxfield died at Franklin in 1961 after a long illness. According to his obituary he had served two terms in the New Hampshire House of Representatives. He died from a coronary thrombosis.^[35] His widow Caroline died in 1964 from cardio-pulmonary collapse.^[36]

Henry Edgar Maxfield and his first wife Celeste L. Carr had the following children:

1. BERTON LEWIS⁷ MAXFIELD b. at Goshen on 16 March 1873,^[37] d. at Brooklyn on 25 May 1937;^[38] m. at Boston on 29 July 1907 WINNIFRED GERTRUDE HILL b. at Boston on 18 November 1876,^[39] d. at Watertown on 14 May 1946,^[40] child of William F. Hill and Henrietta Beckwith. Child of Berton and Winnifred:
   1. Berton Lewis Maxfield, Jr. b. at Brooklyn on 22 May 1908, d. at Providence on 25 March 1927.^[41]
2. LESTER CLARENCE⁷ MAXFIELD b. at Sunapee, Sullivan County, on 20 November 1874,^[42] d. at Franklin on 21 November 1961;^[43] m. at Franklin on 8 December 1920 CAROLINE MARDEN EMERSON^[44] b. at Franklin on 10 July 1883, child of Stephen H. Emerson and Martha Frost. d. at Franklin on 17 April 1964.^[45]
3. GEORGE HENRY⁷ MAXFIELD b. at Goshen on 13 June 1876;^[46] m. at Somerville, Middlesex County, on 14 December 1910 HELENA MARIE GARDE^[47] b. at Lowell, Middlesex County, on 28 December 1881, d. on January 1967.^[48] George and Helena had the following child:
   1. Harold G. Maxfield b. at Chelsea on 16 November 1913;^[49] m. Ruth ______ b. at Massachusetts about 1918-9. Child of Harold and Ruth:
      1. Ann L. Maxfield b. at Massachusetts on October 1949.^[50]

¹Elizabeth Wright, "John Maxfield of Salisbury, Massachusetts, 1652, and Some of His Descendants," The Nebraska and Midwest Genealogical Record (1928–1930): 7:70.
²New Hampshire, State of, Division of Vital Records, Concord, New Hampshire, New Hampshire: Births, Deaths and Marriages, index card 6159, Death, Henry E. Maxfield, 1883; digital images, New England Historical and Genealogical Society, American Ancestors (americanancestors.org : accessed 25 January 2017).
³Vermont Chronicle, 15 January 1870; 19th Century U.S. Newspapers (infotrac.galegroup.com : accessed ).
⁴Maple Street Cemetery, Newport, Sullivan County, New Hampshire, Find a Grave, digital images (findagrave.com : accessed 25 February 2023), Kate L. Carr; Created and photo by: BennHertz.
⁵"Marriages," Independent Statesman, 17 June 1880, p. 304; 19th Century U.S. Newspapers (infotrac.galegroup.com : accessed 23 September 2012); accessed through american ancestors.org.
⁶Hampshire: Births, Deaths and Marriages, index card 15121, Death, Ella L. Maxfield, 1935.
⁷Eighth Census of the United States: 1860, population, Goshen, Sullivan County, New Hampshire, roll 681, p. 875, household 649, Nathan Maxfield family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 9 November 2012); NARA microfilm record group M653; Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration.
⁸Ninth Census of the United States: 1870, population, Goshen, Sullivan County, New Hampshire, roll 850, p. 509A, household 70, Henry E. Maxfield family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 8 February 2013); NARA microfilm record group M593; Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration.
⁹Tenth Census of the United States: 1880, population, Newport, Sullivan County, New Hampshire, enumeration district (ED) 274, roll 768, p. 357C, household 28, Henry Maxfield family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 14 March 2013); NARA microfilm publication T9, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C.
¹⁰New Hampshire: Births, Deaths and Marriages, index card 6159, Death, Henry E. Maxfield, 1883.
¹¹Sullivan County, New Hampshire, Probate Records, 43:247; "New Hampshire, County Probate Records, 1660-1973," digital images, Family Search (familysearch.org: accessed 13 January 2014).
¹²Twelth Census of the United States: 1900, population, Franklin, Merrimack County, New Hampshire, enumeration district (ED) 163, roll 949, p. 13A, household 295, Lester C. Maxfield family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 29 July 2013); NARA microfilm group T623; Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration.
¹³1900 Census, Tewksbury, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, ED 1799, roll 666, p. 1, household 1, State Hospital.
¹⁴French, Harry Dana. Descendants of John Maxfield of Salisbury, Mass., New Hampshire Historical Society Library, Concord, New Hampshire, about 1952.
¹⁵Thirteenth Census of the United States: 1910, population, Brooklyn, Kings County, New York, enumeration district (ED) 626, p. 5B, household 116, Berton L. Maxfield family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 20 October 2013); NARA group T624, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C.
¹⁶French, Harry Dana. Descendants of John Maxfield of Salisbury, Mass.
¹⁷1910 Census, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, ED 1614, p. 7A, , Boston State Hospital.
¹⁸1910 Census, Franklin, Merrimack County, New Hampshire, ED 211, roll 864, p. 6B, household 145, Lester C. Maxfield household.
¹⁹French, Harry Dana. Descendants of John Maxfield of Salisbury, Mass.
²⁰"World War I Selective Service System Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918," digital image, United States, Selective Service System, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 4 May 2014), Berton Lewis Maxfield, Brooklyn, New York, 12 September 1918; citing , no. 2816.
²¹"World War I Selective Service System Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918," Lester Clarence Maxfield, no. 240.
²²Fourteenth Census of the United States: 1920, population, Franklin, Merrimack County, New Hampshire, enumeration district (ED) 87, p. 14BB, household 304, Lester C. Maxfield family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 11 August 2013); NARA microfilm record group T625, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C.
²³1920 Census, Brooklyn, Kings County, New York, ED 120, p. 30B, household 633, Berton L. Maxfield family.
²⁴1920 Census, Chelsea, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, ED 647, p. 1A, household 4, George H. Maxfield family.
²⁵Fifteenth Census of the United States: 1930, population, Franklin, Merrimack County, New Hampshire, enumeration district (ED) 34, roll 1304, p. 10A, household 244, Lester Maxfield family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 12 August 2013); NARA record Group T626
²⁶Rhode Island State Archives, Rhode Island, Vital Records, 1846-1898, 1901-1953, Providence, Return of a Death: Berton Lewis Maxfield, 1927; digital images, Family Search (familysearch.org : accessed 2 March 2023).
²⁷1930 Census, Brooklyn, Kings County, New York, ED 1266, p. 14A, household 193, Berton Maxfield family.
²⁸1930 Census, Bridgewater, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, ED 10, p. 10A, , State Hospital for Insane (Employees).
²⁹New Hampshire: Births, Deaths and Marriages, index card 15121, Death, Ella L. Maxfield, 1935.
³⁰Sixteenth Census of the United States: 1940, population, Watertown, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, enumeration district (ED) 9-576, p. 10B, household 248, Winifred H. Maxfield; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 13 June 2013); microfilm record group T627.
³¹1940 Census, Bridgewater, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, ED 12-10, p. 4A, household 85, George Maxfield family.
³²1940 Census, Franklin, Merrimack County, New Hampshire, ED 7-42, p. 13A, household 255, Lester C. Maxfield family.
³³Seventeenth Census of the United States, 1950, population, Bridgewater, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, enumeration district (ED) 12-10, p. 32, dwelling 350, George H. Maxfield family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 4 October 2022); Record Group 29. National Archives at Washington, DC., Washington, DC.
³⁴1950 Census, Bridgewater, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, ED 12-16, p. 73, dwelling 9, Harold Maxfield family.
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³⁶New Hampshire Death Records, 1960-1969, certificate 64- 1847, Carrie Marden Maxfield, 1964.
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⁴¹Rhode Island, Vital Records, 1846-1898, 1901-1953, Providence, Return of a Death: Berton Lewis Maxfield, 1927.
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⁴⁵New Hampshire Death Records, 1960-1969, certificate 64- 1847, Carrie Marden Maxfield, 1964.
⁴⁶New Hampshire: Births, Deaths and Marriages, index card, Birth, George H. Maxfield, 1876.
⁴⁷"Vital Records of Massachusetts, 1841-1910," vol. 595, p. 711, e. 836, Somerville Marriages, 1910, Maxfield-Garde.
⁴⁸Social Security Administration, "U.S. Social Security Death Index," database, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 22 March 2013), Helena Maxfield, 033-34-6406.
⁴⁹Massachusetts, Commonwealth of, Registry of Vital Records and Statistics, "Massachusetts Vital Records, 1911-1915," American Ancestors (americanancestors.org : accessed 19 January 2023), v. 617, p. 448; Harold G. Maxfield.
⁵⁰1950 Census, Bridgewater, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, ED 12-16, p. 73, dwelling 9, Harold Maxfield family.

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