Descendants of John Maxfield
of Salisbury, Massachusetts
Eighth Generation

GEORGE THOMAS8 MAXFIELD (John7, Thomas6, Jacob5, Eliphalet4-3, Nathaniel2, John1) was born at Salem, Massachusetts on 16 April 1873 (VR Ma 250:305:177), a child of John V. Maxfield and his wife Elizabeth B. Voller. The census in 1900 (599:5B) reported George Maxfield as a hotel clerk at Bingham, Somerset County, Maine.

George Maxfield married, as his first wife, ELIZA MAE WILSON at Salem, Massachusetts, on 29 September 1907 (VR Ma 570:684:348). Eliza was born at Massachusetts about 1888/9 (1910 census, marriage record). The record noted:

1907 Salem, September 29
George T. Maxfield, 34, 1st, of Salem, motor man, b. Salem to John V. Maxfield + Elizabeth B. Voller;
Eliza M. Wilson, 18, 1st, of Salem, waitress, b. Gloucester to Charles Wilson + Margaret Patience;
Charles H. Puffer, Salem, Minister
The 1910 census (545:2:250B) reported George, Eliza, and their daughter Anne living with his brother, Merritt, at Sangerville, Maine. George was unemployed, Eliza was working as a spinner at a woolen mill. When George reported for the draft, at Somerset County, Maine, on 12 September 1918, he reported the following:
George Thomas Maxfield
225 Main, Fairfield, Somerset Co., ME
45; b. Apr 24, 1873 white
second hand, American Woolen Co., Island Fairfield, Somerset Co., ME
rel: Eliza Mae Maxfield, E225 Main, Fairfield
medium height, medium build, hazel eyes ...
The 1920 census (648:3B) entry for this family is difficult to read. The family resided at 9 Newhall Street, Fairfield, Somerset County, Maine. George was treasurer of a mill, his wife a sower, their daughter a student.

George Maxfield married as his second wife GRACE B. THOMAS at Maine on 27 May 1921 (Me M). They were both residents of Fairfield. Grace, born at Maine about 1886/7 (1930 census), had first married a man surnamed ________ WARREN by whom she had a daughter, Nesta, about 1910/1. She would later marry HAROLD H. FROST at Maine on 6 July 1935 (Me M).

George Maxfield died sometime after his second marriage (1921) and before the 1930 census, which reported his widow (839:) at 8 Giliam Street, Fairfield:

Name Related Sex Race Age MS B FB MB Occupation
Maxfield, Grace B. head F W 43 Wd ME ME ME weaver, woolen mill
Warren, Nesta V. daughter F W 19 S MA ME ME operator, telephone

George Thomas Maxfield and his first wife Eliza Mae Wilson had the following child:

  1. ANNE E.9 MAXFIELD
    • b. at Salem, Massachusetts, on 4 October 1907 (Ma VR 566:685:33)

REFERENCES

Information on this family is found in:

Other sources abbreviated above include:
Ma VR
Massachusetts Vital Records, 1841-1910. NewEnglandAncestors.org.
Me M
Maine Marriages 1892-1996. Ancestry.com. Accessed 20 May 2007
WWI Draft
World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918. Ancestry.com.
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