Descendants of John Maxfield
of Salisbury, Massachusetts
Ninth Generation

FRANK B.9 MAXFIELD (Leander8, Albert7, James6, William5, David4, Eliphalet3, Nathaniel2, John1) was born at Bedford, Taylor County, Iowa on 6 January 1878 (WWI Draft, Dewell), a child of Leander Maxfield and his second wife Lovilla Thomas. Frank had moved with his family to Kansas by the time he was two. They had returned to Iowa by the time he was sixteen. The 1895 Iowa census reported Frank Maxfield, age 17, at Clayton Township, Taylor County, Iowa (IA Cen 1895).

Frank B. Maxfield married FLORENCE CATHERINE CAMPBELL at Athelstan, Taylor County on 2 October 1901 (IA M). Florence was born at Taylor County on 28 July 1879 (Dewell), a child of Mr. and Mrs. Enoch Campbell.

After marriage, the young couple moved to Washington, where Frank had a job at a lumber mill. At some point they returned to Iowa, where their first two children were born in 1905 and 1908. The 1910 census (1674:9B) reported them at Blaine, Whatcom County, Washington:

Name Related Sex Race Age MS B FB MB Occupation
Maxfield, Frank head M W 31 M1 IA US US laborer, shingle mill
Maxfield, Florence wife F W 30 M! IA OH IL none
Maxfield, Day son M W 2 S IA IA IA none
Maxfield, Madge daughter F W 2 S IA IA IA none

This record also stated that Frank and Florence had been married eight years, and that Florence had two children, both living.

By 1915 they had moved to Idaho, where their next child was born. Frank Maxfield registered for the draft at Boise, Idaho, in 1918, and reported the following (WWI Draft):

Frank B. Maxfield, Boise, Ada Co., ID
40, b. 6 Jun 1878 white
farmer for Frank Flaharty, R4 Boise
rel: Florence Maxfield, R4, Boise
tall, medium build, brown eyes, brown hair
The 1920 Census (287:7A) reported the family at Ustick, Ada County, Idaho. Frank B. Maxfield, 40, was a farmer. His wife, Florence C., was 38. The children were Day C., 14, Madge M., 11, and Howland B, four years and eight months. The 1930 census (395:10A) reported this family at 1613 18th Street, Boise:

Name Related Sex Race Age MS B FB MB Occupation
Maxfield, Frank B. head M W 51 M KS KS KS engineer, state
Maxfield, Florence wife F W 50 M IA IL IL none
Maxfield, Howard son M W 15 S ID KS IA

According to this record Frank and Florence were aged 23 and 22 respectively at marriage.

Frank B. Maxfield died on 8 July 1957 (Morris Hill Cem). Florence died at Boise on 7 April 1961 (Morris Hill Cem).

Frank B. Maxfield and his wife Florence Catherine Campbell had the following children:

  1. DAY CAMPBELL10 MAXFIELD b. at Iowa on 9 August 1905
  2. MADGE10 MAXFIELD
    • b. at Iowa about 1907/8 (1910 census)
  3. HOWARD B.10 MAXFIELD b. at Idaho on 10 April 1915

REFERENCES

Information on this family is found in:

Other sources abbreviated above include:
BIRLS
U.S., Department of Veterans Affairs Beneficiary Identification Records Locator Subsystem Death File, 1850-2010. Ancestry (www.ancestry.com). Accessed 11 November 2011.
Dewell
Dewell, Kenneth Irving. Family Search Ancestral File. http://www.familysearch.org.
IA Cen 1895
Iowa State Census, 1895. Ancestry (www.ancestry.com).
Morris Hill Cem
Morris Hill Cemetery, Boise, Ada Co., ID. Find a grave (findagrave.com).
SSDI
Social Security Death Index. http://ssdi.genealogy.rootsweb.com.
WWI Draft
World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918. ancestry.com.
WWII Enl
U. S. World War II Army Enlistment Records 1938-1946. Ancestry (www.ancestry.com). Accessed 1 Jun 2007.
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