Descendants of John Maxfield
of Salisbury, Massachusetts
Ninth Generation

HARVEY E.9 MAXFIELD (Adolphus8, William7, James6, William5, David4, Eliphalet3, Nathaniel2, John1) was born at Indiana on 19 October 1871 (TX D), a child of Adolphus F. Maxfield and his wife Eliza Ellen Houston. In many records he is called "Harry."

The 1900 census (560:5A) reported him boarding in the housheold of William White, at Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana. Harvey was a farm laborer, born on April 1873.

Not long after that census, about 1900/1, Harvey married CARRIE BELL, who was born at Kansas about 1880 (census records).

In 1910 (511:9B) Harvey and family were at 232 Eleventh Street, Lake Charles, Louisiana:

Name Related Sex Race Age MS B FB MB Occupation
Maxfield, Harvey E. head M W 38 M1 OH IL OH shipping clerk, lumber mill
Maxfield, Carrie D. wife F W 30 M1 KS OH OH none
Maxfield, Eliza mother F W 62 Wd OH OH OH none
Maxfield, Arthur A. adopted son M W 4 S LA OH OH

Harvey and Carrie had been married nine years. The 1920 census (606:7A) reported this family at 801 Back Street, Lake Charles:

Name Related Sex Race Age MS B FB MB Occupation
Maxfield, Harvey E. head M W 47 M IN IL OH foreman, planing mill
Maxfield, Clara B. wife F W 39 M KS OH IL none
Maxfield, Arthur R. son M W 14 S LA LA LA none
Maxfield, Eliza E. mother F W 73 Wd OH OH PA none

The following decade brought much change. In 1930 Harvey appeared in Texas, with a new wife, and Carrie was resident in a hospital for the insane in Texas. Evidently they moved and divorced. Harvey was reported (2340:) at Cook Settlement, Hardin County, Texas:

Name Related Sex Race Age MS B FB MB Occupation
Maxfield, Harvey E. head M W 58 M IN IL OH farmer, truck farm
Maxfield, Katie B. wife F W 51 M KY Germany Germany none

Harvey was first married at age 29, Katie at age 24, so it was probably a second marriage for both. So we believe that Harvey Maxfield married as his second wife KATIE B. ________ before 1930. She was born at Kentucky about 1878/9 (1930 census).

Meanwhile, Carrie was reported in 1930 (2307:) at the Rusk State Hospital for the Insane, Rusk, Cherokee County, Texas:

Name Related Sex Race Age MS B FB MB Occupation
Maxfield, Carrie B. patient F W 51 M KS OH OH none

Harvey E. Maxfield died at Silsbee, Hardin County, Texas, on 14 December 1948 (TX D). Carrie Maxfield died at the Rusk State Hospital, Rusk, Cherokee County, Texas (TX D). Her death was brought on by a fall in her hospital room. She had involutional melancholia and psychosis for 28 years.

Harvey E. Maxfield and his first wife Carrie had the following adopted child:

  1. ARTHUR R.10 MAXFIELD
    • b. at Louisiana about 1905 (1910 census)
    • adopted before 1910

REFERENCES

Information on this family is found in:

Other sources abbreviated above include:
TX D
Texas Deaths, 1890-1976. Family Search (familysearch.org). Accessed 15 December 2011.
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