Descendants of John Maxfield
of Salisbury, Massachusetts
Eighth Generation

DAYON M.8 MAXFIELD (William7, David6, possibly Isaac5, David4, Eliphalet3, Nathaniel2, John1) was born at Wisconsin on February 1868 (census records), a child of William Frederick Maxfield and his wife Lydia W. Grimmer. His family moved to Nebraska some time between 1876 and 1879. When Dayon was eleven years old, in 1879, his mother died, and the family was scattered. I have not found Dayon in the 1880 census.

Dayon Maxfield married about 1889 MABEL DEVOLT, who was born at Wisconsin in May 1871 (census records). The family was reported in the 1900 Census at Hamilton, Hamilton County, Nebraska, as follows:

Name Related Race Sex Born MS B FB MB Occupation
Maxfield, Deyon head W M Feb 1868 M WI MI WI farmer
Maxfield, Mabel wife W F May 1871 M WI MI
Maxfield, Henry B. son W M Oct 1889 S NE WI WI at school
Maxfield, Clyde E. son W M Jul 1891 S NE WI WI at school

Deyon and Mabel had been married eleven years. Mabel had given birth to three children, two of whom were living (Roy had died at the age of four months).

The 1910 Census (857:3B) reported the Dayon Maxfield family at McFadden Township, York County, Nebraska:

Line Name Related Sex Race Age MS B FB MB Occupation
62 Maxfield, Dayon M. head M W 43 M1 WI NY ME laborer, odd jobs
63 Maxfield, Mable wife F W 38 M1 WI WI NY none
64 Maxfield, Henry B. son M W 20 S NE WI WI carpenter, house
65 Maxfield, Pearl L. daughter F W 9 S NE WI WI none

Dayon and Mable had been married twenty years; Mable had given birth to four children, three of whom were living. However that same census (847:6A) reported Henry, there called Bert, and his brother Clyde, at Hamilton, Nebraska, living with their uncle John Devolt (age 45, born Wisconsin, single), where all three were working as carpenters with general work.

The 1920 Census (995:6B) reported Dayon and Mabel Maxfield at Bushnell, Kimball County, Nebraska. Bert and Pearl, both single, were living with them. Dayon and Bert were engaged in farming. The next entry in that census was for Clyde Maxfield and his wife Florence.

The 1930 Census (2623:5A) reported Dayon and Mabel at Pine Bluff, Laramie County, Wyoming. Dayon listed his occupation as house mover, contract work.

Dayon Maxfield and his wife Mabel Devolt had the following children:

  1. HENRY BERT9 MAXFIELD
    • b. at Nebraska on 15 October 1889 (Pine Bluffs Cem)
    • census. 1930 at 606 39th Street, Chicago, Illinois (847:6A)
      • Maxfield, Berth H., head, male, white, 40, married at age 34, b. NE, parents b. WI WI, chauffer, print, veteran of World War
      • Maxfield, Zetta, wife, female, white, 25, married at age 20, b. MO, parents b. MO MO, occupation: none
    • d. on 16 May 1963 (Pine Bluff Cem)
    • m. at Brighton, Adams County, Colorado, on 20 October 1924 ZELLA M. McMAHON (CO M)
      • b. at Missouri on 27 August 1904 (SSDI; Pine Bluff Cem)
      • d. on 3 May 2000 (SSDI; Pine Bluff Cem) last residence, Saint Louis, Missouri
  2. CLYDE ELLIS9 MAXFIELD b. at Giltner, Hamilton County, Nebraska, on 24 July 1891
  3. ROY F.9 MAXFIELD
    • b. on 11 February 1896
    • d. on 23 June 1896 (Lerton Cem)
  4. PEARL9 MAXFIELD
    • b. at Nebraska about 1900 (census records)

REFERENCES

Information on this family is found in:

Other sources abbreviated above include:
CO M
Colorado, Statewide Marriage Index, 1900-1939. Family Search (familysearch.org). Accessed 6 February 2012.
Lerton Cem
Lerton Cemetery, east side of Giltner, Hamilton Co., NE. U.S. Gen Web Archives (http://files.usgwarchives.net).
Pine Bluffs Cem
Pine Bluffs Cemetery, Pine Bluffs, Laramie County, WY. Find a grave (findagrave.com).
SSDI
Social Security Death Index. (http://ssdi.rootsweb.ancestry.com).
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