Descendants of John Maxfield
of Salisbury, Massachusetts
Sixth Generation

LINUS DORR⁶ MAXFIELD (Vernis⁵, Joshua^4-3, Joseph², John¹) was born at Richfield Center, Richfield, Genesee County, Michigan on 2 February 1859, a son of Varnis Maxfield and his wife Percy Amanda Irish. He died at Flint, Genesee County, on 5 February 1918.^[1] He married about 1875-6 LORINDA ANN MILLER.^[2] She was born at Uxbridge, Ontario County, Ontario, on 10 August 1858, a daughter of John Miller. She died at Green, Alpena County, Michigan, on 20 August 1917.^[3] According to information provided to findagrave, she was Ojibwa.^[4]

The tenth of ten children, Linus grew up on a farm in Genesee County. Linus and Lorinda married about 1875-6 and were reported in the 1880 Census at Richfield immediately after the Varnis Maxfield family:^[5]

Their third child, Julius, was born in 1882. Laverna married in 1893. Sylvia had a son, George, in 1894, and married Fred Smith in 1896. The 1900 Census reported Linus Maxfield farming at Green Township, Alpena County. The household included his wife Lorinda, son Julius, daughter Silva, and Silva's two children:^[6]

This record also indicated that "Don" and Lorinda had been married 24 years, and Lorinda had three children, all living. Silva had been married four years and had two children, both living. I did not find Sylvia's husband, Fred Smith, in this census. Sylvia married James Harvey in 1905. The 1910 Census reported this family at Flint as follows:^[7]

This record stated that Lynus and Lorinda had been married 33 years, and Lorinda had six children, four of whom were living, and that she came to the United States in 1875. Silva and James had been married seven years, and she had three children, two of whom were living.

Julius Maxfield had married in 1909, and continued to farm at Green Townshp. According to the 1910 Census, his wife Maggie was twelve years older than he, and brought three children to the family by a previous marriage: Russell James, 14, James James, 12, and Ruth James, 11.^[8]

Lorinda (Miller) Maxfield died in 1917, at the age of 59, from heart disease.^[9] Linus Maxfield died in 1918, at the age of 59, from a tumor on the brain.^[10]

When Julius Earl Maxfield signed up for the draft, on 12 September 1918, he was described as medium height, medium build, black eyes, brown hair; he was farming for himself.^[11] The 1920 Census reported Jules Maxfield, 36, farmer, and Maggie his wife, 41, at Green Township; no children remained at home.^[12] In 1930, still at Green Township, Jule E. Maxfield, 47, was a laborer with odd jobs; Maggie, 51, was servant for a private family.^[13] Maggie died in 1937 from chronic valvular heart disease.^[14] The 1940 Census reported Jules Maxfield, 57, a family of one, farming at Green Township.^[15] He died in 1949.
Linus Dorr Maxfield and his wife Lorinda Miller had the following children:

1. LAVERNA PHIDELIA⁷ MAXFIELD b. at Richfield on 17 October 1877;^[16] d. at Ann Arbor, Washtenaw County, Michigan, on 8 December 1927;^[17] m. at Alpena, Alpena County, on 17 October 1893 JAMES SHAW, b. at Canada about 1868-9.^[18]
2. SYLVIA C.⁷ MAXFIELD b. at Genesee County on September 1879.
3. JULIUS EARL⁷ MAXFIELD b. at Richfield on 25 December 1882;^[19] d. at Alpena on 18 June 1949;^[20] m. at Alpena on 4 September 1909 MARGARET JANE (HARVEY) JAMES,^[21] b. at Canada on 3 May 1876, d. at Green on 19 May 1937, child of Edward Harvey and Eveline Van Kernath.^[22] Margaret had previously m(1). at Alpena on 31 October 1894 JOHN JAMES b. at Canada about 1864-5.^[23]

¹Michigan Department of Community Health, Division for Vital Records and Health Statistics, Lansing, Michigan, Michigan, Death Records, 1867-1952, Genesee County, certificate 628, Lineus D. Maxfield, 1918; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 23 June 2023).
²Twelth Census of the United States: 1900, population, Green, Alpena County, Michigan, enumeration district (ED) 16, p. 6A, household 107, Dor Maxfield family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 18 July 2013); NARA microfilm group T623; Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration.
³Michigan, Death Records, 1867-1952, Alpena County, Certtificate 9, Lorinda Ann Maxfield, 1917.
⁴Flint River Cemetery, Richfield Center, Richfield, Genesee County, Michigan, Find a Grave, digital images (findagrave.com : accessed 5 September 2018), Lorinda-Linus Maxfield; Created and photo by: Glenn & Anna Sakcriska.
⁵Tenth Census of the United States: 1880, population, Richfield, Genesee County, Michigan, enumeration district (ED) 84, p. 378B, household 157, Linos D. Maxfield family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 9 March 2013); NARA microfilm publication T9, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C.
⁶1900 Census, Green, Alpena County, Michigan, ED 16, p. 6A, household 107, Dor Maxfield family.
⁷Thirteenth Census of the United States: 1910, population, Flint, Genesee County, Michigan, enumeration district (ED) 16, p. 8A, household 143, Lynus Mansfield family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 14 May 2024); NARA group T624, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C.
⁸1910 Census, Green, Alpena County, Michigan, ED 16, p. 6B, household 123, Julius E. Maxfield family.
⁹Michigan, Death Records, 1867-1952, Alpena County, Certtificate 9, Lorinda Ann Maxfield, 1917
¹⁰Michigan, Death Records, 1867-1952, Genesee County, certificate 628, Lineus D. Maxfield, 1918.
¹¹"World War I Selective Service System Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918," digital image, United States, Selective Service System, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 26 March 2014), Julius Earl Maxfield, Alpena, Michigan, 12 September 1918; citing , no. 896.
¹²Fourteenth Census of the United States: 1920, population, Green, Alpena County, Michigan, enumeration district (ED) 19, p. 4A, household 79, Julius E. Maxfield family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 22 March 2014); NARA microfilm record group T625, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C.
¹³Fifteenth Census of the United States: 1930, population, Green, Alpena County, Michigan, enumeration district (ED) 10, p. 5A, household 86, Julius Maxfield family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 25 March 2014); NARA record Group T626.
¹⁴Michigan, Death Records, 1867-1952, Alpena County, Certtificate 10, Mrs. Margaret Maxfield, 1937
¹⁵Sixteenth Census of the United States: 1940, population, Green, Alpena County, Michigan, enumeration district (ED) 4-12, p. 3A, household 48, Julius Maxfield; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 13 June 2013); microfilm record group T627.
¹⁶Michigan County Births, 1867-1917, Genesee County, 1877, p. 127, e. 1892, Laverna Maxfield, ; digital images, Family Search (familysearch.org : accessed 12 June 2023); various county courts, Michigan.
¹⁷Michigan, Death Records, 1867-1952, Washtenaw County, certificate 381-1390, Lavernia P. Shaw, 1927.
¹⁸Michigan Department of Community Health, Division for Vital Records and Health Statistics, Michigan, Marriage Records, 1867–1952, Alpena County, p. 69, e.921, Shaw-Maxfield, 1893; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 14 June 2023).
¹⁹"World War I Selective Service System Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918," Julius Earl Maxfield, Alpena, Michigan, 12 September 1918.
²⁰Michigan, Death Records, 1867-1952. Digital images. Ancestry. ancestry.com : 2023.
²¹Michigan, Marriage Records, 1867–1952, Alpena County, p. 131, e. 3193, Maxfield-James, 1909.
²²Michigan, Death Records, 1867-1952, Alpena County, Certificate 10, Mrs. Margaret Maxfield, 1937.
²³Michigan Department of Vital Records, Lansing, Michigan, "Michigan, Marriages, 1868-1925," index and images, Family Search (familysearch.otg : accessed 23 July 2013), James-Harvey, 1894

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