Descendants of John Maxfield
of Salisbury, Massachusetts
Sixth Generation

WILLIAM B.6 MAXFIELD (William5, Benjamin4, Joseph3-2, John1) was born at New York on January 1839 (1900 census), a child of William Maxfield and his wife Rhoda Hoskins.. He first married CATHERINE, who was born at Ohio about 1842 (1841/2 in 1870 census, 1842/3 in 1880 census).

The 1870 census (833:1:287B) reported this family as a household of two at Papillon Post Office, Sarpy County, Nebraska. William, 31, born New York, was a farmer; Catherine, 28, born Ohio, was keeping house.

The 1880 census (755:193C) reported this household at Fairview, Sarpy County:

Name Related MS Sex Race Age B Occupation FB MB
William Maxfield self M M W 40 NY farmer NH VT
Catherine Maxfield wife M F W 37 OH keeping house Prussia Prussia
Mary Maxfield daughter S F W 9 MO Switzerland Switzerland
Jacob Kevan other S M W 17 Austria farm hand Austria Austria

Was daughter Mary adopted? Or is some of this information in error?

About 1898 (1900, 1910 censuses) William married as his second wife ALICE KING, who was born at Nebraska on 11 June 1869 (Ca D). The 1900 census (939:1:271A) reported this family at Fairview Precinct, Sarpy County:

Name Related Race Sex Born MS B FB MB Occupation
Maxfield, William head W Jan 1839 M NY VT NY farmer
Maxfield, Alice wife W Jun 1869 M NE IL Denmark
Maxfield, Carrie step-daughter W Mar 1894 S NE NY NE
Boyle, Thomas servant W Sep 1873 S England farm laborer

This was the second marriage for both William and Alice; Alice had one child, who was living. Was Carrie given the surname Maxfield upon being adopted by William, was it informally given, or is this a mistake?

The 1910 census (854:3:42A) reported this family at Fairview Precinct:

Name Related Sex Race Age MS B FB MB Occupation
Maxfield, William E. head M W 71 M NY NH NY farmer
general farm
Maxfield, Alice wife F W 40 M NE IL Denmark none
Maxfield, Stella daughter F W 16 S NE IL NE in school

Is Stella the same person as Carrie in the previous census?

The 1920 census (998:3B) record for this family, at La Platte Township, Fairview Precinct, is difficult to read. It appears to indicate William B. Maxfield, 80, farmer, and Alice, 50. That same census (988:8A) reported Istella Maxfield living in a boarding house at 2016 Construct Street, Omaha, Nebraska:

Name Related Sex Race Age MS B FB MB Occupation
Maxfield, Istella boarder F W 25 S NE NY NE stenographer
medical laboratory

William B. Maxfield died before the 1930 census, which reported (1276:) widow Alice Maxfield, 60, living with her sister, widow Carrie A. Reed, 64, and Carrie's daughter Adah Reed, 29, at 2212 29th Street, Omaha, Nebraska. Adah was a stenographer for the railroad.

Alice Maxfield died at Los Angeles County, California, on 11 February 1946 (Ca D)

The following children are identified with William B. Maxfield. It is not clear if they are his children, adopted children, or step-children.:

  1. MARY7 MAXFIELD
    • b. at Missouri about 1870/1 (1880 census)
  2. ESTELLA7 MAXFIELD perhaps also known as CARRIE
    • b. at Nebraska on March 1894 (1900 census)

REFERENCES

Information on this family is found in:

Other sources abbreviated above include:
Ca D
California Death Index, 1940-1997. Ancestry.com. Accessed 15 Jun 2005.
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