Descendants of John Maxfield
of Salisbury, Massachusetts
Eighth Generation

LEANDER8 MAXFIELD (Albert7, James6, William5, David4, Eliphalet3, Nathaniel2, John1) was born at Illinois about 1846/7 (1850, 1860 censuses) a child of Albert Fletcher Maxfield and his wife Esther Cook.

Leander Maxfield married HARRIET LACY at Bedford, Taylor County, Iowa, on 22 January 1872 (IA M). Harriet was born on 9 September 1855. She gave birth to her only child before the year of her marriage had ended, and died, on 29 December 1872 (Taylor Co bur).

Leander Maxfield married as his second wife LOVILLA THOMAS at Conway, Taylor County, Iowa, on 21 February 1874 (IA M). Lovilla was born at Ohio about 1855/6. The 1880 Census (393:164A) reported Leander and Lovilla and their first two children at Deer Creek Township, Phillips County, Kansas, immediately next to the family of his brother Andrew Maxfield. The census reported Leander, 31, farming, Lovilla, 26, Cora, 5, and Frank, 11 months. Leander's daughter by his first wife, Hattie, age 8, was living with his parents in nearby Solomon Township, Phillips County, Kansas.

The 1885 Kansas census found this family at Starr Township, Cloud County, Kansas, Miltonvale Post Office. Eddie, age 3, had been added to the family. Hattie, Leander's daughter by his first wife, continued to be raised by his parrents, in Phillips County.

Their last child, May, was born at Kansas in 1887. However the family appears to have returned to Taylor County, Iowa, by the time of Cora's marriage in 1892. Lovilla died at Taylor County about 1892, Leander died there about 1894/5, and daughter Cora died there in 1894.

The 1900 Census found Ed working and boarding on the farm of John and Rose Lavison at Clayton Township, Taylor County, Iowa, and May, 13, living with her maternal grandparents, Jacob and Sarah Thomas, at Bedford, Taylor County, Iowa.

Leander Maxfield and his first wife Harriet Lacy had the following child:

  1. HATTIE9 MAXFIELD
    • b. at Iowa about 1872 (census records)
    • m. at Phillips County, Kansas, on 26 February 1889 F. C. O'BLEMIS (Phillips Co M)

Leander Maxfield and his second wife Lovilla Thomas had the following children:

  1. CORA9 MAXFIELD
    • b. at Iowa on 30 September 1874 (O'Dells)
    • d. at Bedford, Taylor County, Iowa, on 31 May 1894 (O'Dells)
    • m. at Bedford on 27 January 1892 CLARENCE CHARLES DOUGLAS (IA M)
      • b. at Taylor County on 2 June 1869 (O'Dells)
      • d. at Bedford on 2 January 1948 (O'Dells)
      • m (2). on 25 August 1898 MINNIE BELLE ________ (O'Dells)
  2. FRANK B.9 MAXFIELD b. at Bedford, Taylor County, Iowa, on 6 January 1878
  3. EDWIN GODFREY9 MAXFIELD b. at Kansas on 11 August 1882
  4. MAY9 MAXFIELD
    • b. at Kansas on 23 October 1887 (obit)
    • d. at Taylor County on 11 March 1907 (see obituary below)
    • m. at Bedford on 13 August 1806 EARNEST ANDREW WEATHERLY
      • b. at Carroll County, Iowa, about 1883/4

Obituary of May Maxfield Weatherby
U.S. Gen Web Archives (files.usgwarchives.net), Obituaries, Taylor County, Iowa,
submitted by Julia Johnson.

[Weatherly, May Maxfield]
Bedford Free Press
Thursday March 14, 1907 [p. 4]

One of the saddest deaths it has been our duty to chronicle for some time was that of Mrs. May Weatherly, wife of Mr. Ernest Weatherly, which occurred on Monday morning at 6:30, from dropsy. She had been married but a little over a year and a half, and they went to the home of his father, Mr. Nela [John Nelson] Weatherly, with the highest hopes and fondest anticipations for a life of happiness and usefulness.
They were married in August 1906, and the following March they moved to a farm for themselves. About a week later, that dread disease to which she finally succumbed, dropsy, took hold of her. They gave up the idea of making a home for themselves until she should recover, little dreaming that when she was taken to her sick chamber at his father's home, that it was to be her last removal until the final one.
May Maxfield was born in Kansas in 1888, and when three years of age moved with her parents to Bedford. A year after her arrival here her mother died and a few years later her father also passed to the Great Unknown. After the death of her mother she made her home with her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. J. [acob] C. Thomas, where she resided until her marriage, as above stated. She united some time ago with the Gilead M. E. church and her life has been that of a Christian since.
The funeral was held at the home of her husband's parents, five and a half miles northwest of Bedford Tuesday, conducted by Rev. Freedline of Gravity, and the interment was in Titus [Graceland] cemetery.
She leaves, aside from the relatives already mentioned, two brothers, Frank at Blockton and Ed at Conway, to mourn her early demise. The heart broken husband and the relatives have the deepest sympathy in their hour of bereavement.

[Weatherly, May Maxfield]
Times-Republican
Thursday March 14, 1907 [p. 5]
Obituary - May Maxfield Weatherly

May Maxfield Weatherly was born in Kansas, October 23, 1887, and passed from earth to her home in heaven March 11, 1907, after a lingering illness of one year, aged 19 years, 4 months and 18 days. She came to Bedford with her parents when but a child; her mother died when May was but four years old and her father died a few years later. Her home was then made with her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. [Jacob] Thomas of Bedford. She was united in marriage with Ernest Weatherly August 13, 1906; their happiness, however, was of short duration. Sister Weatherly became a member of the M. E. church, December 18 [not clear] and lived a faithful and devoted Christian until she answered the last roll call in heaven. Her illness was borne with Christian patience and submission.
She leaves a bereft husband, two brothers and a number of relatives and friends to mourn the early death of a splendid young woman. Funeral services were held at the home of J. [ohn] N. [elson] Weatherly last Tuesday at 1 p.m., Rev. Freedline officiating. Her remains were laid to rest in the Titus [Graceland] cemetery, there to await the trumpet call of the Archangel of God.
J. H. F.

REFERENCES

Information on this family is found in:

Other sources abbreviated above include:
IA M
Iowa Marriages, 1809-1992. Family Search (familysearch.org). Accessed 2 May 2011.
O'Dells
O'Dells Abstracted Newspaper Index of Page and Taylor Counties, Iowa. U.S. Gen Web Archives (files.usgwarchives.net).
Phillips Co M
Phillips County, Kansas, Marriage Records. U.S. Gen Web Archives (files.usgwarchives.net).
Taylor Co bur
Taylor County, Iowa, Burials. U.S. Gen Web Archives (files.usgwarchives.net).
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