JOEL SANDERS6 MAXFIELD (Russell5, Currier4, Joshua3, Joseph2, John1) was born at Goshen, Sullivan County, New Hampshire, on 12 November 1847, a child of Russell Tubbs Maxfield and his wife Mary E. Cutts.[1] He died at Concord, Merrimack County, New Hampshire, on 28 February 1921.[2] He married at Newbury, Merrimack County, on 9 July 1867 ROSILL A. GOVE, child of James Gove and Lura McKelliss.[3] She was born at Weare, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, on 13 April 1847, and died at Newport, Sullivan County, on 21 March 1920.[4]
Joel grew up on his parents' farm in Goshen, the fifth of eleven children. The 1860 Census reported him there, age 12, attending school.[5] Joel was 20, Rosill 21, when they married in 1867.
The Joel Maxfield family was reported in the 1870 Census at Mill Village Post Office, Goshen Town. Joel S. Maxfield, age 22, was a farm laborer, Rosilla A. Maxfield, age 24. was keeping house, and Gertrude A. Maxfield, age 2, was at home.[6] They were surrounded by farms of Maxfield families.
In 1880 the family appeared in the census at Goshen as follows:[7]
| Name | Related | MS | Sex | Race | Age | B | Occupation | FB | MB |
| Joel S. Maxfield | self | M | M | W | 32 | NH | farmer | NH | NH |
| Rosill A. Maxfield | wife | M | F | W | 34 | NH | keeping house | NH | NH |
| Gertrude A. Maxfield | daughter | S | F | W | 12 | NH | NH | NH | |
| Lena C. Maxfield | daughter | S | F | W | 8 | NH | NH | NH |
The 1900 Census found Joel and Rosilla at Goshen. According to that record, Joel was born at New Hampshire in November 1847, his parents born in New Hampshire and Vermont, he was a farmer. Rosella was born in New Hampshire in April 1846, her parents were born in New Hampshire and Vermont, she had two children, both still living.[8] The children were not at home. Lena had married in 1893, and in 1900 lived at Newport with her husband, George W. Fuller, clerk in a hardware store. Their first child Harold was five years old. With them was her sister Gertrude Maxfield, 32, described as a "dress gatherer."[9]
The 1910 census reported Joel S. Maxfield, 62, and his wife Rosill E. Maxfield, 64, at Goshen. Joel was a dairy farmer.[10] The George Fuller family continued to live at Newport, consisting of George, 46, laborer in a hardware store, Lena, 38, Harald M., 15, and Louise, 8, also Gertrude Maxfield, 42, stitcher in an underware factory.[11]
At the time of the 1920 Census Joel and Rosille Maxfield were living with their daughter Lena and her husband George Fuller, at 96 Laurel Street, Newport, New Hampshire. Their daughter, Gertrude Maxfield, and grandchild Louise Fuller were also in the household. Joel and Rosille, age 73, had no occupation. Son-in-law George W. Fuller, age 50, born in Rhode Island, was a salesman for a hardware store. Daughter Lena C. Fuller, age 47, had no occupation, but granddaughter Louise Fuller, age 17, was a saleslady in a drug store. Daughter Gertrude A. Maxfield, age 51 and single, was a stitcher for Purity underwear.[12]
Rosill (Gove) Maxfield died in 1920 from pneumonia.[13] On 12 May of that year Lena C. Fuller was appointed by the court to be the guardian of her father, Joel S. Maxfield, who was decreed to be insane.[14] He died about nine months later at the New Hampshire State Hospital from chronic myocarditis.[15] Gertrude died in 1922, age 54, from organic heart lesion.[16] George Fuller died in 1924, Lena in 1932.
Joel and Rosilla Maxfield had the following children:
1Elizabeth Wright, "John Maxfield of Salisbury, Massachusetts, 1652, and Some of His Descendants," The Nebraska and Midwest Genealogical Record (1928–1930): 7:63.
2New Hampshire, State of, Division of Vital Records, Concord, New Hampshire, New Hampshire: Births, Deaths and Marriages, index card 15155, Death, Joel S. Maxfield, 1921; digital images, New England Historical and Genealogical Society, American Ancestors (americanancestors.org : accessed 26 January 2017).
3New Hampshire: Births, Deaths and Marriages, index card 9893, Marriage, Maxfield-Gove, 1867.
4New Hampshire: Births, Deaths and Marriages, index card 15217, Death, Rosill A. Maxfield, 1920.
5Eighth Census of the United States: 1860, population, Goshen, Sullivan County, New Hampshire, roll 681, p. 874, household 645, Russel Maxfield family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 9 November 2012); NARA microfilm record group M653; Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration.
6Ninth Census of the United States: 1870, population, Goshen, Sullivan County, New Hampshire, roll 850, p. 509A, household 65, Joel S. Maxfield family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 8 February 2013); NARA microfilm record group M593; Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration.
7Tenth Census of the United States: 1880, population, Goshen, Sullivan County, New Hampshire, enumeration district (ED) 269, roll 768, p. 319A, household 60, Joel Maxfield family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 13 March 2013); NARA microfilm publication T9, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C.
8Twelth Census of the United States: 1900, population, Goshen, Sullivan County, New Hampshire, enumeration district (ED) 248, roll 952, p. 7B, household 182, Joel Maxfield family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 5 August 2013); NARA microfilm group T623; Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration.
91900 Census, Newport, Sullivan County, New Hampshire, ED 252, roll 952, p. 3B, household 68, George Fuller family.
10Thirteenth Census of the United States: 1910, population, Goshen, Sullivan County, New Hampshire, enumeration district (ED) 313, roll 866, p. 6B, household 23, Joel S. Maxfield family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 8 August 2013); NARA group T624, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C.
111910 Census, Newport, Sullivan County, New Hampshire, ED 316, roll 866, p. 5B, household 122, George W. Fuller family.
12Fourteenth Census of the United States: 1920, population, Newport, Sullivan County, New Hampshire, enumeration district (ED) 173, p. 6A, household 150, George W. Fuller family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 10 August 2013); NARA microfilm record group T625, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C.
13New Hampshire: Births, Deaths and Marriages, index card 15217, Death, Rosill A. Maxfield, 1920.
14Sullivan County, New Hampshire, Probate Records, 91:22; "New Hampshire, County Probate Records, 1660-1973," digital images, Family Search (familysearch.org: accessed 14 January 2014).
15New Hampshire: Births, Deaths and Marriages, index card 15155, Death, Joel S. Maxfield, 1921.
16New Hampshire: Births, Deaths and Marriages, index card 15141, Death, Gertrude Maxfield, 1922.
17Ibid.
18New Hampshire: Births, Deaths and Marriages, index card, Birth, Lena C. Maxfield, 1872.
19Pine Grove Cemetery, Newport, Sullivan County, New Hampshire, Find a Grave, digital images (findagrave.com : accessed 4 July 2014), Maxfield monument (Joel S.); Created and photo by: Arnie & Judi Burrows.
20New Hampshire: Births, Deaths and Marriages, , Marriage: Fuller-Maxfield, 1893.
211900 Census, Newport, Sullivan County, New Hampshire, ED 252, roll 952, p. 3B, household 68, George Fuller family.
22Pine Grove Cemetery, Newport, Maxfield monument (Joel S.); Created and photo by: Arnie & Judi Burrows.
231900 Census, Newport, Sullivan County, New Hampshire, ED 252, roll 952, p. 3B, household 68, George Fuller family.
24Pine Grove Cemetery, Newport, Maxfield monument (Joel S.); Created and photo by: Arnie & Judi Burrows.
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 : 2017.
Pine Grove Cemetery, Newport, Sullivan County, New Hampshire. Find a Grave. Digital images. findagrave.com : 2014.
Sullivan County, New Hampshire. Probate Records. "New Hampshire, County Probate Records, 1660-1973." Digital images. Family Search. familysearch.org: 2014.
United States Department of the Census. 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.
________. Twelth Census of the United States: 1900, population. Digital images. Ancestry. ancestry.com : 2013.
________. Thirteenth Census of the United States: 1910, population. Digital images. Ancestry. ancestry.com : 2013.
________. Fourteenth Census of the United States: 1920, population. Digital images. Ancestry. ancestry.com : 2013.
Wright, Elizabeth. "John Maxfield of Salisbury, Massachusetts, 1652, and Some of His Descendants." The Nebraska and Midwest Genealogical Record (1928–1930): 6:52-56; 7:20-24, 42-47, 61-71, 87-96; 8:15-22.
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