Descendants of John Maxfield
of Salisbury, Massachusetts
Fifth Generation

HIRAM5 MAXFIELD (Joshua4-3, Joseph2, John1) was born at New Hampshire on 15 June 1806 a son of Joshua Maxfield and his second wife Ascenath Young. He died at Richfield, Genesee County, Michigan, on 20 January 1885.[1] He married first before 1830 SARAH IRISH. She was born at New York about 1808/9, a daughter of David Irish and his wife Sarah Phelps. She died at Genesee County on 8 May 1863.[2] Hiram married second at Genesee County on 22 November 1863 ZILPHA (________) HERINGTON,[3] widow of Isaac Herrington. She was born at Vermont about 1814/5.

A birth record for Hiram has not been found clearly linking him to Joshua and Ascenath Maxfield. However, the 1835 New York state census placed Hiram, Varnis and Joshua next to each other in Fort Ann, all censuses give his place of birth as New Hampshire, and his birth date, from his grave stone, places him within the categories of age/sex groupings in the Joshua Maxfield household in the 1810 census. Hiram is also closely associated with Varnis Maxfield, both appearing in the same township in Michigan in the 1840 census, along with David Irish, the father of Hiram's wife.

Anna Gallagher has been researching this family, and has provided me with images of the 1835 New York census, and the headstones of Hiram and Sarah.[4] More research could be done on the interconnections of the Maxfield, Irish and Phelps families of Fort Ann.

Hiram Maxfield probably spent his boyhood in his parents' home at Bradford, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire. By the time he reached the age of thirteen his family had moved to Chester, Windsor County, Vermont. In another ten years his family of origin would move to Springfield, Windsor County, Vermont, and five years later to Fort Ann, Washington County, New York. But Hiram was already on the move. He married Sarah Irish of Fort Ann by 1830 (their first child was born about 1830/1). In 1830 he received a land-warrant in section 18 of what would become Atlas Township, Genesee County, Michigan.[5] However, it was all wilderness then. Hiram and Sarah lived at New York, where their children were born on 1830/1 and 1833, and where they were reported in the 1835 state census at Fort Ann.[6]

Then they moved West. They were early settlers of Atlas Township, which was first settled in 1837.[7] The 1840 census reported them at Groveland Township, Oakland County, Michigan, along with Hiram's brother Varnis and his inlaws David and Sadie Irish. The Hiram Maxfiled household consisted of a male and a female in their 30s, and a male and a female between 5 and 9.[8] This can be explained as Hiram, 33, Sarah, 31, Laura, 9, and young Hiram, 6. Hiram and Sarah resumed building their family, having Josephine at Groveland in 1840, Gertrude in Michigan in 1844, and Edna at Genesee, Genesee County, about 1847/8. The census takers found Hiram in Atlas Township in 1850, 1860 and 1870. The 1850 census, with several mis-spellings, reported "Ira Maxford" farmer, age 42, with Sarah, 41, Hiram D., 16, Josephine, 9, Rachel, 6, and Armenia, 2.[9] In 1860 Laura (called "Louisa") had rejoined the family, but young Hiram was not present.[10]

Sarah (Irish) Maxfield died on 8 May 1863, and is buried at Goodrich Cemetery, Genesee County.[11] In about six months widower Hiram Maxfield married widow Zilphah Herrington; he was 57, she 48. Young Hiram married about 1865, and Josephine and Gertrude married their husbands on the same day, 17 August 1865; Gertrude married Charles Herrington, Zilpha's son; Edna married in 1868. The 1870 census reported Hiram, 64, farmer, and Zilphah, 55, with no children at home.[12]

The 1880 census reported Hiram Maxfield, 74, widower, laborer, living with his daughter Josephine and her husband Henry Hamlin at Hadley Township, Lapeer County, Michigan.[13] However, that same census reported "Elipha" Maxfield, 63, married, called "mother" in the household of Zilpha's son Charles Herrington, 44, farmer, and his wife, Hiram's daughter, Gertrude, 35, with their children Rosa Herrington, 10, and Hiram Max Herrington, 7.[14] Hiram Maxfield died at Richfield, Genesee County, on 20 January 1885, and is buried at Goodrich Cemetery.[15]

Goodrich Cemetery, Goodrich, Atlas Township, Genesee County, Michigan
findagrave.com

Hiram Maxfield and his first wife Sarah Irish had the following children:

  1. LAURA6 MAXFIELD b. at New York abt. 1808/9;[16] no record beyond 1860 census.
  2. HIRAM DANIEL6 MAXFIELD b. at New York on 17 October 1833.
  3. JOSEPHINE6 MAXFIELD b. at Groveland, Oakland Co., on 8 May 1840; d. at Hadley on 10 November 1931;[17] m. (1) at Genesee Co. on 17 August 1865 HENRY HAMLIN,[18] b. at Michigan abt. 1845/6, d. on 30 June 1880;[19] m. (2) at Thomas, Oakland County on 25 June 1882 FRANK BOWLES,[20] b. at Hadley abt. 1843/4.
  4. GERTRUDE6 MAXFIELD b. at Michigan on 25 September 1844; d. at Goodar, Ogemaw Co., MI on 21 September 1921;[21] m. at Atlas on 17 August 1865 CHARLES HERRINGTON,[22] b. at Vermont on 1836, d. at Au Gres, Arenac Co., MI, on 21 December 1900,[23] child of Isaac and Zilpha Herrington.
  5. EDNA ADELE6 MAXFIELD b. at Genesee abt. 1847/8; d. at Muskegon, Muskegon Co., MI, on 18 June 1916;[24] m. at Atlas on 24 September 1868 FRANKLIN DUTCHER,[25] b. at Lockport, Niagara Co., NY, abt 1841/2.[26]

NOTES

1Goodrich Cemetery, Goodrich, Genesee Co., MI, database, Find a Grave (findagrave.com : accessed 2014).
2Ibid.
3"Michigan, Marriages, 1822-1995," database, Family Search (familysearch.org : accessed 2013).
4Anna Gallagher, to Charles A. Maxfield, e-mail, 25 May 2013, "Joshua Maxfield, Jr., & Hiram and Varnis," privately held. And many other e-mails.
5Franklin Ellis, History of Genesee County, Michigan: with illustrations of its prominent men and pioneers (Philadelphia: Everts & Abbott, 1879), 254; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 2013).
6Gallagher to Charles A. Maxfield, e-mail, 25 May 2013. Includes tif of 1835 Census.
7Ellis, History of Genesee County, 253
8Sixth Census of the United States: 1840, population, Groveland, Oakland Co., MI, 209:142; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 2012).
9Seventh Census of the United States: 1850, population, Atlas, Genesee Co., MI, 350:295B, 224; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 2012).
10Eighth Census of the United States: 1860, population, Atlas, Genesee Co., MI, 544:278, 2135; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 2012).
11Goodrich Cemetery, Goodrich, Genesee Co., MI,Find a Grave.
12Ninth Census of the United States: 1870, population, Atlas, Genesee Co., MI, 671:410B, 65; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 2013).
13Tenth Census of the United States: 1880, population (roll 589), Hadley, Lapeer Co., MI, enumeration district (ED) 168, 241A, 118; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 2013).
14Ibid., Wisner, Tuscola Co., MI, enumeration district (ED) 405, 607:156B, 40.
15Goodrich Cemetery, Goodrich, Genesee Co., MI,Find a Grave.
161860 Census, Atlas, Genesee Co., MI, 544:278, 2135.
17Michigan, Death Certificates, 1921-1952; index, Family Search (familysearch.org : accessed 2013).
18"Michigan, Marriages, 1822-1995," Family Search.
19Gallagher to Charles A. Maxfield, e-mail, 18 August 2013. Includes jpg photo of grave marker from Goodrich Cemetery.
20Michigan "Michigan, Marriages, 1868-1925," index and images, Family Search (familysearch.otg : accessed 2013), .
21Michigan, Death Certificates, 1921-1952; Linwood Cemetery, Au Gres, Arenac Co., MI, Find a Grave, digital images (findagrave.com : accessed 2011).
22"Michigan, Marriages, 1822-1995," Family Search.
23Linwood Cemetery, Au Gres, Arenac Co., MI, Find a Grave.
24Michigan, Death Records 1897-1920; Norton Cemetery, Norton Shores, Muskegon Co., MI, database, Find a Grave (findagrave.com : accessed 2014).
25"Michigan, Marriages, 1868-1925," Family Search.
26Ibid.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Ellis, Franklin. History of Genesee County, Michigan: with illustrations of its prominent men and pioneers. Philadelphia: Everts & Abbott, 1879. Digital images. Ancestry. ancestry.com : 2013.

Goodrich Cemetery, Goodrich, Genesee Co., MI. Database. Find a Grave. findagrave.com : 2014.

Linwood Cemetery, Au Gres, Arenac Co., MI. Find a Grave. Digital images. findagrave.com : 2011.

Norton Cemetery, Norton Shores, Muskegon Co., MI. Database. Find a Grave. findagrave.com : 2014.

Michigan. Death Certificates, 1921-1952. Index. Family Search. familysearch.org : 2013.

"Michigan, Marriages, 1822-1995." Database. Family Search. familysearch.org : 2013.

"Michigan, Marriages, 1868-1925." Index and images. Family Search. familysearch.otg : 2013.

United States Department of the Census. Sixth Census of the United States: 1840, population. Digital images. Ancestry. ancestry.com : 2012.

________. Seventh Census of the United States: 1850, population. Digital images. Ancestry. ancestry.com : 2012.

________. Eighth Census of the United States: 1860, population. Digital images. Ancestry. ancestry.com : 2012.

________. Ninth Census of the United States: 1870, population. Digital images. Ancestry. ancestry.com : 2013.

________. Tenth Census of the United States: 1880, population. Digital images. Ancestry. ancestry.com : 2013.

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