Descendants of John Maxfield
of Salisbury, Massachusetts
Ninth Generation

b. 3 Union St. to Edgar H. + Ida J. Packard of Worcester, he machinist b. New Bedford she b. Winchendon

1907 Worcester; Sept 25, Worcester
Jonathan Henry Maxfield, 25, 1st, of Worcester, moulder, b. Worcester to Edgar H. Maxfield + Ida Packard
Carrie C. Deth, 23, 1st, of Worcester, Laundress, b. Canada to Joseph Deth and Dorothy Jacobs
Albert G. Todd, clergyman, Worcester

This couple must have been living at the state of Washington about 1908, as their first child was born there. By the 1910 Census (579:15B) Jonathan, his wife, first child, and grandmother, were living at 182 Fair Street, New Bedford, Massachusetts:

Jonathan H. Maxfield resided at the State Hospital at Worcester when he registered for the draft in 1918 (WWI Draft). The draft board recorded the following:

Jonathan H. Maxfield, State Hospital, Worcester, MA, 36;
b. Nov 2, 1881, white
wife: Carrie Maxfield, 5 Gardner Place, Worcester
medium height, medium build, brown eyes, black hair
chronic mental disease

Jonathan was also reported in the same census (750:5B) as a patient at the Worcester State Hospital.

Carrie (Deth) Maxfield died at Nashua, New Hampshire, on 2 May 1927 (NH D). According to the death record she died form carcinoma of the liver at Saint Joseph Hospital, where she had been for seven weeks. Her residence before that, and her burial place, were at Antrim, New Hampshire.

At the time of the 1930 census the three daughters had dispersed. Dorothy, 21, was a student nurse in Hartford, Connecticut; Ida, 19, was a maid in a home in Albany County, New York, and Carrie, 18, was living with a cousin's family in Somerville, Massachusetts. Jonathan continued as a patient at the Worcester State Hospital. He was still living at Worcester at the time of daughter Dorothy's wedding in 1941.

Jonathan and Carrie Maxfield had the following children:

1. DOROTHY OLIVE S.¹⁰ MAXFIELD
   • b. at Seattle, Washington, on 12 September 1908. (WA B; MA VR 1841-1910:574:357:2565)
   • Census. 1930 at Hartford Hospital, Hartford, CT
     • Maxfield, Dorothy pupil F W 21 S b. WA, parents b. MA Canada (English), student nurse, hospital
   • m. at Antrim, New Hampshire, on 12 July 1941 LEONARD BOWER GOSLEE (NH M)
     • Leonard Bower Goslee of 152 Broad St., Windsor, Hartford County, CT, 44, white, single, 1st, salesman
       b. Windsor CT to Howard Leonard Goslee, dead, white, tax collector b. Buckingham CT
       and Maud Alice Bower of Windsor, CT, 71, living, white, housewife b. Windsor, CT
     • Dorothy Olivia Maxfield of Loomis School, Windsor, Hartford County, CT, 32, white, single, 1st, registered nurse,
       b. Seattle, WA to Johnathan Henry Maxfield of Worcester, 59, living, white, b. Worcester
       and Carrie Corina Deth, dead, white, b. Abercorn, Quebec.
     • intentions submitted July 3, 1941, certified July 11, 1941, Antrim
       m. at Antrim on 12 July 1941 by Ralph H. Tibbals, minister of the gospel
2. IDA JANE¹⁰ MAXFIELD
   • b. at New Bedford on 16 August 1910 (MA VR 1841-1910:590:337:2456)
   • Census. 1930 at 16 Greenwood Street, Guilderland Township, Albany County, NY, in the household of Ralph G. (47) and Anna (47) Winslow
     • Maxfield, Ida J. maid F W 19 S b. MA, parents b. MA MA, clerk, telephone Co.
   • d. at Newport, Vermont, on 24 July 1996 (VT D)
   • m. at Antrim on 22 June 1935 BENJAMIN SOMER BUTTERFIELD (NH M)
     • Benjamin Somer Butterfield of Antrim, 21, white, store manager, b. Antrim, 1st
       child of Charles F. Butterfield, deceased, white, merchant, b. Antrim
       and Annie I. Goodwin, of Antrim, 60, white, homemaker, b. New Brunswick
     • Ida Jane Maxfield, of Antrim, 24, white, stenographer, b. New Bedford MA, 1st
       child of Johnathon Henry Maxfield of Worcester, 53, white, machinist, b. Worcester
       and Carrie C. Deth, deceased, white, homemaker, b. Abercon, Quebec
     • intentions January 8 1935
       m. by Ralph H. Tibbals of Antrim, minister of the gospel, June 22, 1935 at Antrim
     • b. at Antrim on 26 August 1913 (VT D)
     • d. at Newport, VT, on 29 September 1990 (VT D)
3. CAROL CORRINA¹⁰ MAXFIELD
   • b. at New Bedford on 18 January 1912. (MA VR 1911-1915:606:335:190)
   • Census. 1930 at Somerville, MA
     • Young, Wallace N. head M W 38 mar b. VT, parents b. VT Canada (French), mechanic, automobile repair
       Young, Mary C. wife F W 38 mar b. MA, parents b. Ireland Ireland occ: none
       Young, Evelyn daughter F W 4 S b. MA, parents b. VT MA, occ: none
       Maxfield, Carrie C. cousin F W 18 S b. MA, parents b. MA Canada (French), operator, telephone company
   • d. at Portland, Maine, on 4 February 2000 (Portland P-H, 5 Feb 2000, p. 7B; SSDI)
     Carol Corrina Totte, 88
     Carol Corrina Totte, 88, of New Marblehead Manor, died Friday at a Portland hospital.
     She was born in New Bedford, Mass., a daughter of Jonathan and Carrie Deth Maxfield.
     Mrs. Totte was a member of Gray Senior Citizens. She was a reader, solved crossword puzzles and attended the sports activities of her grandchildren.
     Her first husband, Arthur F. McKee, died in 1959. Her second husband, Frank Totte, died in 1988.
     Surviving are one daughter, Linda McKee Eastman of Windham; one stepson, David Totte of Shapleigh; one stepdaughter, Eleanor Holtzer of Walnut Port, Pa.; and two grandchildren, Adam and Jill Eastman, both of Windham.
     A memorial service will be held at 3 p.m. Monday at the North Windham Union Church with the Rev. Dr. Charles Hume officiating.
   • m (1). at Wilton, New Hampshire, on 27 February 1935 CHARLES E. FREEMAN (NH M)
     • Charles E. Freeman, of Groton, MA, 23, white, clerk, b. Groton MA, 1st
       child of John T., of Groton, 59, white, painter, b. New York
       and Anna White deceased, white, housewife, b. Ireland
     • Carrie Maxfield, of Somerville, MA, 22, white, at home, b. New Bedford MA, 1st
       child of Jonathan, of New Bedford, deceased, iron moulder, b. Worcester
       and Carrie C. Deth, deceased, b. Canada
     • intnetions filed February 21, 1935
       m. by H. D. Cheeni of Wilton, justice of the peace, February 27, 1935 at Wilton
   • m (2). ARTHUR F. McKEE
     • d. 1959
   • m (3). FRANK TOTTE (SSDI)
     • b. 6 April 1904
     • d. 13 November 1888

Information on this family can be found in:

• Census records

MA VR 1841-1910

Massachusetts Vital Records, 1841-1910. New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, MA (americanancestors.org).

MA VR 1911-1915

Massachusetts Vital Records, 1911-1915. New England Historic Genealogical Society. (newenglandancestors.org.).

NH D

New Hampshire Death Records, 1654-1947. Family Search (familysearch.org).

NH M

New Hampshire Marriage Records, 1637-1947. Family Search (familysearch.org). Accessed 25 May 2011.

Portland P-H

Portland Press Herald. Ancestry (www.ancestry.com).

SSDI

Social Security Death Index. (http://ssdi.rootsweb.ancestry.com).

VR Worc(H)

Holbrook, Jay Mack, ed. Massachusetts Vital Records: Worcester. microfilm, Oxford, Mass.: Holbrook Research Institute.

Vt D

Vermont Death Index, 1981-2001. Ancestry.com. Accessed 28 Jan 2006

WA B

Washington Births, 1889-1929. Ancestry (www.ancestry.com). Accessed 31 October 2011.

WWI Draft

World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918. Ancestry (www.ancestry.com).