Descendants of John Maxfield
of Salisbury, Massachusetts
Seventh Generation

The 1850 Census (266:279) reported David Maxfield at the Town of Greenbush in Penobscot County, Maine, in the household of John (age 51)and Margaret S. (age 48) Frees. David, age 24, was called a farmer. David Maxfield married ANNE FREEZE (NMGR 7:87) probably before 1853.

By the 1860 census (229:800) David and Anne Maxfield had moved to Goshen Township, Stark County, Illinois. David, 34, was a farmer, with real estate of $2600 and personal estate of $350. The rest of the family consisted of Ann M., 27, John F., 6, George W., 4, Franklin, 3, and Mary J., six months. David, Ann and John had been born in Maine, George, Franklin and Mary in Illinois. John and George had attended school. Based on the ages and birth places of the children, the family had migrated West in 1854 or 1855.

By the time of the 1870 Census (278:1:372A) this family at Goshen Township, LaFayette Post Office, Stark County, Illinois, had grown:

Anne (Freeze) Maxfield died about 1871/2. This is based on a biography of her son-in-law which states Helen was nine years old when her mother died (Snyder bio).

David Maxfield married MARY B. STURGIS about 1874/5. Mary was born at Illinois in July 1840 (1900 Census). By the time of the 1880 Census (372:466C) David and Mary were living in Monrovia, Atchison County, Kansas. David was a "huckster":

They evidently moved to Kansas before 1876 and the birth of Fred to this second marriage. They moved to Kansas City, Kansas, about 1881 (when Fred was four years old).

The week before Christmas, 1891, David Maxfield of Kansas City fell in a hole in an alley at Atchison, Kansas, between Main and Commercial Streets. He sued the city of Atchison for $3000 for personal injury. On June 8, 1892, the claim was rejected (Atch Champ).

The 1895 Kansas Census (KS C 1895: 167:35) reported David Maxfield, 68, laborer, and Mary B. Maxfield, 54, housewife, living at Kansas City, Kansas. The household included son Fred, 18, and four other persons apparently unrelated to them.

The 1900 census (504:2:77) reported David, born July 1825, and Mary, born July 1840, living with his son Frank at Kansas City, Kansas. David Maxfield died at Arkansas City, Cowley County, Kansas, on 6 September 1900 (KS D)

David Maxfield and his first wife Anne had the following children:

1. JOHN F.⁸ MAXFIELD (NMGR 7:87)
   • b. at Maine abt 1853/4 (1860 census) or 1851/2 (1870 Census)
2. GEORGE W.⁸ MAXFIELD b. at Illinois abt 1855/6
3. FRANKLIN W.⁸ MAXFIELD b. at Illinois about 1857
4. MARY J.⁸ MAXFIELD
   • b. at Illinois on 30 November 1859 (CA D)
   • d. at Los Angeles County, Califorina, on 1 February 1947 (CA D)
   • m. about 1878/9 FREEMAN A. SCOVILLE (1900 census)
     • b. at Illinois on June 1849
5. HELEN M.⁸ MAXFIELD (Synder bio)
   • b. at Henry County, Illinois on September 1862
   • m. at Atchison County, Kansas on 30 November 1881 MARK D. SNYDER
     • b. at Atchison County on 2 November 1848
6. KATHERINE A.⁸ MAXFIELD "Kitty" (NMGR 7:87)
   • b. at Illinois abt 1866/7 (1870 Census)
7. CHARLES⁸ MAXFIELD (NMGR 7:87) (mentioned in NMGR, no reference in censuses or elsewhere)

8. FRED MAXFIELD
   • b. at Kansas abt 1876/7
   • d. at Manila, Philippines, on 12 June 1999 (Atch Globe, 29 Jun 1899, p. 4)
     News has been received definitely that it was Fred Maxfield who died near Manila of diphtheria. The name of Fred Warfield was given in the war reports. Mr. and Mrs. Dave Maxfield, of Kansas City, Kansas, are his parents. Mrs. Mark Snyder of this place, and Mrs. Freeman Scovill, of Arrington, are sisters of the deceased. He was born near Monrovia twenty-two years ago, but his parents moved to Kansas City when he was four years old, and he had always resided there till he enlisted in the Twentieth Kansas, about a year since.

• Wright, Elizabeth, ed., "John Maxfield, of Salisbury, Massachusetts, 1652, and Some of His Descendants." Nebraska and Midwest Genealogical Record 7:87. (NMGR)
• French, Harry Dana, Descendants of John Maxfield of Salisbury, Mass. abt 1952. Manuscript, New Hampshire Historical Society, Concord, NH. (F)
• Census records

Atch Champ

Atchison Champion, Atchison, KS, 4 May 1892, p. 3; 24 May 1892, p. ? and p. 5; 31 May 1892 p. 4; 8 Jun 1892. Nineteenth Century U. S. Newspapers. New England Historic Genealogical Society, (www.newenglandancestors.org).

Atch Globe

Atchison Daily Globe, Atchison, KS. Nineteenth Century U. S. Newspapers. New England Historic Genealogical Society, (www.newenglandancestors.org).

CA D

California Death Index, 1940-1997. Ancestry.com. Accessed 15 Jun 2005

KS C

Kansas State Census Collection, 1855-1915. Databases. (www.ancestry.com).

KS D

Kansas Deaths and Burials, 1885-1930. Family Search (familysearch.org).

Snyder bio

biographical Sketch of Mark D. Snyder, Atchison County, Kansas, from Genealogical and Biographical Record of Northeastern Kansas. Kansas GenWeb Digital Library. U.S. Gen Web Archives (http://files.usgwarchives.net).

VR Me

State of Maine, State Board of Health, Division of Vital Statistics, Augusta, Me. Index to Vital Records Prior to 1882 of the Following 80 Towns. microfilm, Genealogical Society, Salt Lake Cuty, Ut.