Descendants of John Maxfield
of Salisbury, Massachusetts
Sixth Generation

BELA L. BABB was born at Goshen, Sullivan County, New Hampshire, on 17 May 1832, and died at Greenbush, Roseau County, Minnesota, on 27 May 1913.[1] He married first on 4 September 1851 ALZINA CORDELIA6 MAXFIELD (David5, Currier4, Joshua3, Joseph2, John1) , daughter of David and Thankful (Cutts) Maxfield.[2] She was born at Goshen on 30 October 1832 and died there on 13 December 1872.[3] Bela married second RUTH H.6 MAXFIELD (David5, Currier4, Joshua3, Joseph2, John1), a child of David and Thankful (Cutts) Maxfield.[4] She was born at Goshen on 3 September 1830, and died on 5 July 1907.[5]

Alzina and Ruth Maxfield grew up at Goshen, the second and third of six children. The 1850 Census reported Alzina, 17, at home with her parents and two younger brothers.[6] Ruth was reported in a household of many young women at Manchester, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire. The census taker listed her age as 20.[7] This could have been a boarding house for girls working in textile mills.

When Alzina was eighteen she married Bela, 19. When Ruth was twenty years old she gave birth to a child, Emeline.

Bela and Alzina Babb moved to Minnesota some time after the birth of a child 1853-4 and before the 1860 Census. That census reported Bela Babb, 28, farmer, Alzina, 27, and children Ida, 8, and Walter, 6, at Eagle Creek, Scott County, Minnesota.[8] They appear on the census record immediately after the family of David Maxfield, which included Ruth and Emiline and Ruth's two younger brothers.[9] The area of Scott County had been opened for settlement following treaties with the Dakota Indians in 1851 and 1853. So the Babb-Maxfield family were early settlers.

By 1870 these families had moved to Milo (Princeton Post Office), Mille Lacs County, Minnesota. The family of Bela and Alzina included children Ida, 18, Walter, 16, Elmer, 9, Stella, 7, Charles, 5, and Fred, 2.[10] They were followed immdediatly on the census record by the family of R. H. [Ruth] Maxfield, 37, which included E. F. [Emeline] Maxfield, 15, and D. C. [David] Maxfield, 68.[11]

Alzina died in 1872. Three years later Bela, age 43, married his late wife's sister, Ruth, age 41. Meanwhile, Emiline had married Elijah Biddle. The 1875 Minnesota state census, taken before Ruth's marriage, reported Ruth Maxfield living with the family of her daughter Emily Biddle at Milo.[12]

Ruth (Maxfield) Babb died in 1907, Bela in 1913.

Ruth Maxfield had one child before her marriage:

  1. EMELINE THANKFUL7 MAXFIELD b. at Goshen on 22 March 1855,[13] d. at Spokane, Spokane County, Washington, on 15 January 1934;[14] m. before 1873 (birth of child) ELIJAH BIDDLE b. at Ohio about 1844-5.[15]
Bela Babb and his first wife Alzina Maxfield had the following children:[16]
  1. IDA F. BABB b. at New Hampshire about 1851-2.
  2. WALTER A. BABB b. at New Hampshire about 1853-4.
  3. ELMER G. BABB b. at Minnesota about 1860-1.
  4. ESTELLA N. BABB b. at Minnesota about 1862-3.
  5. CHARLES C. BABB b. at Minnesota about 1864-5.
  6. FRED A. BABB b. at Minnesota about 1867-8.

NOTES

1Benson Cemetery, Benson, Swift County, Minnesota, Find a Grave, digital images (findagrave.com : accessed 23 October 2018), Bela Babb; Originally Created by: Gravely and Morticia Diggens, Maintained by: Lindalee, Photo added by Ron Keith.
2Elizabeth Wright, "John Maxfield of Salisbury, Massachusetts, 1652, and Some of His Descendants," The Nebraska and Midwest Genealogical Record (1928–1930): 8:17.
3Oak Knoll Cemetery, Princeton, Mille Lacs County, Minnesota, Find a Grave, digital images (findagrave.com : accessed 10 June 2023), Alvona C. Babb; Created and photo by: Judy Howard.
4Wright, "John Maxfield of Salisbury, Massachusetts, 1652, and Some of His Descendants," 8:17.
5Wright, "John Maxfield of Salisbury, Massachusetts, 1652, and Some of His Descendants," 8:17. Benson Cemetery, Benson, Ruth Babb; Originally Created by: Gravely and Morticia Diggens, Maintained by: Lindalee, Photo added by Ron Keith.
6Seventh Census of the United States: 1850, population, Goshen, Sullivan County, New Hampshire, roll 441, p. 68A, household 24, David Maxfield family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 9 October 2012); NARA microfilm record group M432, Record Group 29; National Archives, Washington, D.C.
71850 Census, Manchester, Hillsboro County, New Hampshire, roll 432, p. 37B, household 1597, John A. Fulton boarding house.
8Eighth Census of the United States: 1860, population, Eagle Creek, Scott County, Michigan, p. 693, household 784, Bela Babb family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 7 November 2012); NARA microfilm record group M653; Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration.
91860 Census, Eagle Creek, Scott County, Michigan, p. 693, household 783, David Maxfield family.
10Ninth Census of the United States: 1870, population, Milo, Mille Lacs County, Minnesota, p. 2, household 17, B. L. Babb family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 6 February 2013); NARA microfilm record group M593; Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration.
111870 Census, Milo, Mille Lacs County, Minnesota, p. 3, household 18, R. H. Maxfield family.
12Minnesota 1875 State Census, population, Milo, Mille Lacs County, Minnesota, p. 1090, household 32, Edward Biddle family; digital images, Family Search (familysearch.org : accessed 18 September 2013); Minnesota Historical Society, Saint Paul, Minnesota.
13New Hampshire, State of, Division of Vital Records, Concord, New Hampshire, New Hampshire: Births, Deaths and Marriages, index card, Birth, (female) Maxfield, 1855; digital images, New England Historical and Genealogical Society, American Ancestors (americanancestors.org : accessed 30 December 2016).
14Washington Bureau of Vital Statistics, Olympia, Washington, Washington Death Certificates, 1907-1960, record 6522, Emmalyn Thankful Biddle, 1934; digital images, Family Search (familysearch.org : accessed 22 March 2024).
15Minnesota 1875 State Census, Milo, Mille Lacs County, Minnesota, p. 1090, household 32, Edward Biddle family.
161860 Census, Eagle Creek, Scott County, Michigan, p. 693, household 784, Bela Babb family. 1870 Census, Milo, Mille Lacs County, Minnesota, p. 2, household 17, B. L. Babb family.

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Benson Cemetery, Benson, Swift County, Minnesota. Find a Grave. Digital images. findagrave.com : 2018.

Minnesota Census Bureau. Minnesota 1875 State Census, population. Digital images. Family Search. familysearch.org : 2013.

New Hampshire, State of, Division of Vital Records, Concord, New Hampshire. New Hampshire: Births, Deaths and Marriages. Digital images. New England Historical and Genealogical Society. American Ancestors. americanancestors.org : 2016.

Oak Knoll Cemetery, Princeton, Mille Lacs County, Minnesota. Find a Grave. Digital images. findagrave.com : 2023.

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

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