Descendants of John Maxfield
of Salisbury, Massachusetts
Sixth Generation

EMZY6 MAXFIELD (perhaps Obadiah,5, David,4 Eliphalet,3 Nathaniel,2 John1) may have been born at Vermont about 1804-5,[1] possibly a son of Obadiah and Eunice Maxfield. He died at Richmond, Henrico County, Virginia, on 1 September 1863.[2] He married first at Tuscarawas County, Ohio, on 28 June 1831 ELIZABETH ANN MAUK.[3] Emzy married second at Tuscarawas County, on 20 October 1836 on ELIZABETH FERRELL.[4] Emzy married third at Coshoscton County, Ohio, on 24 December 1842 SUSAN CORDEY.[5] She was born at Pennsylvania about 1815.[6]

A complete discussion of the identity of Emzy Maxfield and the search for his parents will be found at WHO WERE THE PARENTS OF EMZY MAXFIELD (d. 1 Sept, 1863).

Perhaps raised in Vermont, Emzy Maxfield was in Tuscarawas County by the time of his marriage in 1831 and the birth of their child two weeks later. He purchased land in Coshocton County on 3 October 1835.[7]

Emzy Maxfield married for the second time at Tuscarawas County in 1836, Elizabeth Ferrell. On 10 April 1837 he received a patent on land in Coshocton County, the southwest quarter of northwest quarter of section 12, township 6 in range 4, Military District, 40 acres.[8]

The 1840 Census reported the family of Emzy Maxfield at Adams Township, Coshocton County, consisting of one male 30-39 (Emzy), one female 20-29 (probably Elizabeth), two males and two females aged 5-9 (Franklin, child by his first wife, age 9), and one male and one female under 5 (David, about 2).[9] Several children indicated in this census have not been identified.

On 11 November 1840 Emzy Maxfield lost land for non-payment of taxes.[10]

In 1842 at Coshocton County, Emzy married, for the third time, Susan Cordey. I have identified only one child of Emzy by his first wife, one by his second, and seven by this third wife.

The 1850 Census reported this family at Oxford, Tuscarawas County, as follows:[11]

Line Name Age Sex Occupation R.E. Birthplace Other
4. Amiza Maxfield 45 M carpenter unknown
5. Susan Maxfield 34 F PA
6. Riley Cordery 14 M OH school
7. Daniel Cordery 13 M OH
8. James E. Maxfield 8 M OH school
9. Sarah C. Maxfield 7 F OH
10. Lucinda J. Maxfield 4 F OH
11. Robert W. Maxfield 2 M OH
12. Amiza Maxfield 4/12 M OH

The "Cordery" boys could be children of Susan by a previous marriage or siblings of Susan.

The 1860 Census reported this family at Newcomerstown, Tuscarawas County, as follows:[12]

Line Name Age Sex Occupation R.E. P.E. Birthplace
29. Emzy Maxfield 53 M mechanic $280 PA
30. Susan Maxfield 44 F PA
31. David Maxfield 22 M laborer OH
32. James E. Maxfield 16 M OH
33. Lucinda Maxfield 13 F OH
34. Robert Maxfield 12 M OH
35. Emzy Maxfield 10 M OH
36. Samuel Maxfield 7 M OH
37. Henry A. Maxfield 3 M OH

Emzy Maxfield fought in the Civil War, in Company G of the Ohio 112nd infantry regiment. He was captured, and died in a prisoner of war camp at Richmond, Virginia, in 1863.[13]

Son Franklin migrated to California in 1852 and was reported there in the 1870, 1880 and 1900 censuses. Sons James, Robert, Samuel and Henry had moved to Iowa, where James was reported in 1880, 1885 and 1895 censuses, and Robert was reported in 1870, and Samuel was reported in 1880, 1885, 1900 and 1910, and Henry was reported in 1910.[14]

Susan (Cordey) Maxfield, 64 year old widow, was reported at Hanover Township, Licking County, Ohio, in 1880, with her daughter Lucinda, 33, son-in-law, John Evans, 49, carpenter, and eight grandchildren.[15]

In 1885 Susan was living with her recently widowed son James Maxfield, at LaPorte, Black Hawk County, Iowa, and three grandchildren.[16]

Franklin Maxfield, son of Emzy Maxfield by his first wife Elizabeth Mauk, was an early pioneer of California. The article on him in A Memorial and Biographical History of the Coast Counties of Central California follows:[17]

Frank Maxfield - The time is not far distant when the early time gold hunters of California will all be numbered with the "great majority," and any record, however brief, will be perused with interest by the future students of history. The discovery of gold in California attracted a class of men which, taken collectively or individually, were unique. Of their successes or failures it is not the aim or scope of this work to treat, inasmuch as the miner's future is never, or seldom, determined by any established code of business regulations or principles, but rather upon their good luck in striking a lead and their ability to make a lucky guess as to its extent and value after it has been located.

Frank Maxfield, of Monterey, is one of the pioneer miners of California. He came to the gold fields of the state in 1852. He is a native of Ohio, born in Tusrarawas county, in the northern part of the state, July 15, 1831. There he received the rudiments of his education, and learned the potter's trade, which he pursued at that place till 1851. He then went to Indiana and followed the same business about one year.

Reports of the rich gold discoveries in California so fired his ambitious nature that he joined his uncle, Frank Mauk, Esq., who had visited the gold diggings in 1849, and proceeded with him on a journey overland to the Pacific coast. After remaining one winter in Iowa, they resumed their journey and arrived at Salt Lake in the month of July. Here they witnessed the laying of the corner-stone of the great Mormon temple, July 17, 1852. Owing to an old school-day acquaintance with Silas, a cousin of the late Mormon priest, John Smith, they were received at Salt Lake kindly, many privileges and courtesies being extended to therein, which was in striking contrast to the treatment received by the average overland emigrant. Having sent word in advance that the little party would arrive in the city at a stated time, they were met with carriages, their entire outfit taken in charge, cattle fed, oxen shod, wagons replenished with provisions, etc.; and when they left the city they were given passes over the numerous bridges and ferries which they would encounter on their westward journey. Mr. Maxfield met other acquaintances there who, while embracing and fully believing in the Mormon doctrine, did not believe in or practice polygamy.

They resumed and accomplished their journey without particular incident, reaching Diamond Spring, in El Dorado county, December 5, 1952. The uncle, Frank Mauk, Esq., located at San José, where he farmed for several years. He then engaged in there erection of quartz mills in Amador county and adjoining mining districts. He was an active and aggressive business man, pursuing this business up to the time of his death, which occurred in Arizona in 1889, at an advanced age, he having been born in 1809. Mrs. William Tibbetts of Monterey is a daughter of his.

Mr. Maxfield mined in El Dorado, Placer and adjoining counties up to about 1861, since which time he has lived in Sonoma and Monterey counties, in the last named since 1874. There are few pioneers who are not acquainted with his face and voice.

Franklin registered to vote at Anally, Sonoma County, on 7 March 1867, where he was a saloon keeper. The 1870 Census reported him there (Sebastopol Post Office), where he was described as a wood chopper. He registered to vote at Monterey County, California, on 7 November 1876 and 11 March 1882. The 1880 Census reported him at Castroville, Monterey County, a servant in the household of William Ford. The 1900 Census reported him in the County Hospital, at Alisal Township, Monterey County.[18]

Henry Allen Maxfield, last son of Emzy and Susan, lived in Iowa, most often with his brother Samuel of Samuel's son Robert. In 1900 Henry was at Vinton, Benton County, Iowa, 42, day laborer, with his brother Samuel. In 1910 he was reported in a boarding house in Vinton, 52, proprietor of a billiard hall. In 1920 he was living with Samuel; he was reported age 61, laborer in a bowling alley. In 1930 and 1940 he was living with his nephew (Samuel's son) Robert at Cedar Rapids, Linn County, Iowa.[19]

Emzy Maxfield and his first wife had the following child, perhaps others:

  1. FRANKLIN7 MAXFIELD b. at Tuscarawas County on 15 July 1831;[20] d. at Monterey County on 14 October 1906.[21]
Emzy Maxfield and his second wife Elizabeth Ferrell had the following child:
  1. DAVID7 MAXFIELD b. at Ohio about 1837-8.[22]
Emzy Maxfield and his third wife Susan Cordey had the following children:
  1. JAMES EDWIN7 MAXFIELD b. at Coshocton County on 28 December 1843.
  2. SARAH C.7 MAXFIELD b. at Ohio about 1842-3.[23]
  3. LUCINDA J.7 MAXFIELD b. at Newcomerstown on 27 August 1846; d. at Bexley, Franklin County, Ohio, on 24 March 1933;[24] m. before 1865 (birth of child) JOHN WILLIAM EVANS, b. at Virginia on 17 June 1833, d. on 1 June 1916.[25] Children of Lucinda and John:[26]
    1. James E. Evans b. at Ohio on May 1865.
    2. Jackson Evans b. at Ohio about 1866-7.
    3. Alexander Evans b. at Ohio about 1868-9.
    4. Lucy Evans b. at Ohio about 1870-1.
    5. George Evans b. at Ohio about 1871-2.
    6. Addie Evans b. at Ohio about 1873-4.
    7. Clare Evans b. at Ohio about 1875-6.
    8. Susan Evans b. at Ohio on July 1879.
  4. ROBERT WILLIAM7 MAXFIELD b. at Newcomerstown about 1847-8.
  5. EMZY7 MAXFIELD b. at Ohio on 15 March 1848.
  6. SAMUEL W.7 MAXFIELD b. at Newcomerstown on 18 August 1851.
  7. HENRY ALLEN7 MAXFIELD b. at Ohio on 8 March 1857; d. at Cedar Rapids on 22 February 1944.[27]

NOTES

1Seventh Census of the United States: 1850, population, Oxford, Tuscarawas County, Ohio, p. 336A, household 30, Amiza Maxfield family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 14 October 2012); NARA microfilm record group M432, Record Group 29; National Archives, Washington, D.C.
2Historical Data Systems, comp., "U.S., Civil War Soldier Records and Profiles, 1861-1865," database, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 15 July 2013).
3Ohio County Marriages, 1789-2016, Tuscarawas County Marriages 1808-44, v. 1, Maxfield-Mauk, 1831; digital images, Family Search (familysearch.org : accessed 12 May 2023).
4Ohio County Marriages, 1789-2016, Tuscarawas County Marriages 1808-44, v. 1, Maxfield-Ferrell, 1836.
5Ohio County Marriages, 1789-2016, Coshocton County Marriages 1841-52, v. C, Maxfield-Cordry, 1842.
61850 Census, Oxford, Tuscarawas County, Ohio, p. 336A, household 30, Amiza Maxfield family.
7Early Ohio Settlers: Purchasers of Land in East and East-Central Ohio (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2000), rootsweb; Emzy Maxfield 1835.
8Patent to Emzy Maxfield; United States Bureau of Land Management "General Land Office Records," digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 23 April 2022); Bureau of Land Management, Springfield, Virginia.
9Sixth Census of the United States: 1840, population, Adams, Coshocton County, Ohio, p. 381, Emzy Maxfield; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 26 September 2012); NARA microfilm publication M704, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C.
10"Sale of Delinquent Lands and Town Lots, for Taxes," Ohio (Columbus) Statesman, 18 November 1840; Gale Primary Sources (https://go-gale-com.nehgs.idm.oclc.org/ps : accessed 3 February 2024), Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers. v. 4, issue 21, p. 4.
111850 Census, Oxford, Tuscarawas County, Ohio, p. 336A, household 30, Amiza Maxfield family.
12Eighth Census of the United States: 1860, population, Newcomerstown, Tuscarawas County, Ohio, p. 261, household 314, Emzy Maxfield family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 14 November 2012); NARA microfilm record group M653; Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration.
13Historical Data Systems, comp., "U.S., Civil War Soldier Records and Profiles, 1861-1865."
14Ninth Census of the United States: 1870, population, Analy, Sonoma County, California, p. :233B-234A, household 238, Frank Mayfield household; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 24 January 2013); NARA microfilm record group M593; Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration; Tenth Census of the United States: 1880, population, Castroville, Monterey County, California, enumeration district (ED) 53, p. 193C, household 57, William Ford family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 20 February 2013); NARA microfilm publication T9, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C.; Twelth Census of the United States: 1900, population, Alisal, Monterey County, California, enumeration district (ED) 1, p. 19A, County Hospital; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 14 April 2022); NARA microfilm group T623; Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration; 1880 Census, Cedar, Benton County, Iowa, ED 24, p. 132B, household 57, James Maxfielf family; 1885 Iowa State Census, population, LaPorte, Black Hawk County, Iowa, p. 148, household 217, James E. Maxfield family; digital images, Family Search (familysearch.org : accessed 18 December 2013); Iowa State Historical Society, Des Moines, Iowa; Iowa State Census, 1895, Black Hawk County, Iowa, p. 125, household 263, Joseph L. Newcomb family; digital images, Family Search (familysearch.org : accessed 4 April 2014); History Society, Des Moines, Iowa; 1870 Census, Canton, Benton County, Iowa, p. 38A, household 915, Joseph Penrose family; 1880 Census, Bruce, Benton County, Iowa, ED 22, p. 16D, household 120, W P. Mayes family; 1885 Iowa State Census, Cedar, Benton County, Iowa, p. 32, household 207, Samuel Maxfield family; 1900 Census, Vinton, Benton County, Iowa, ED 21, p. 27A, household 676, S. W. Maxfield family; Thirteenth Census of the United States: 1910, population, Benton, Benton County, Iowa, enumeration district (ED) 3, p. 5A, household 101, Samuel Maxfield family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 11 March 2022); NARA group T624, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C.; 1910 Census, Vinton, Benton County, Iowa, ED 24, p. 5A, household 122, Matilda Griffith household.
151880 Census, Hanover, Licking County, Ohio, ED 187, p. 11C, household 87, John W. Evans family.
161885 Iowa State Census, LaPorte, Black Hawk County, Iowa, p. 148, household 217, James E. Maxfield family.
17Henry D. Barrows and Luther A, Ingersoll, eds., A Memorial and Biographical History of the Coast Counties of Central California (Chicago: Lewis Publishing Co, 1893), pp. 391-2.
18"California, Voter Registers, 1866-1898," digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 29 August 2011), 1867, Sonoma Co.: Franklin Maxfield; California State Library, Sacramento, California; 1870 Census, Analy, Sonoma County, California, p. :233B-234A, household 238, Frank Mayfield household; "California, Voter Registers, 1866-1898," 1876, Monterey County: Franklin Maxfield; 1880 Census, Castroville, Monterey County, California, ED 53, p. 193C, household 57, William Ford family; "California, Voter Registers, 1866-1898," 1882, Monterey Co., Franklin Maxfield; 1900 Census, Alisal, Monterey County, California, ED 1, p. 19A, County Hospital.
191900 Census, Vinton, Benton County, Iowa, ED 21, p. 27A, household 676, S. W. Maxfield family; 1910 Census, Vinton, Benton County, Iowa, ED 24, p. 5A, household 122, Matilda Griffith household; Fourteenth Census of the United States: 1920, population, Vinton, Benton County, Iowa, enumeration district (ED) 27, p. 5A, household 131, Samuel Maxfield family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 7 April 2014); NARA microfilm record group T625, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C.; Fifteenth Census of the United States: 1930, population, Cedar Rapids, Linn County, Iowa, enumeration district (ED) 58, p. 3B, household 79, Robert Macfields family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 8 April 2014); NARA record Group T626; Sixteenth Census of the United States: 1940, population, Cedar Rapids, Linn County, Iowa, enumeration district (ED) 57-77A, p. 15B/16A, household 374, Robert Maxfield family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 8 May 2013); microfilm record group T627.
20Barrows, A Memorial and Biographical History of the Coast Counties of Central California, pp. 391-2.
21California Department of Health and Welfare. California Vital Records, "California Death Index, 1905-1939," Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 27 October 2023), Frank Maxfield, 1906.
221860 Census, Newcomerstown, Tuscarawas County, Ohio, p. 261, household 314, Emzy Maxfield family.
231850 Census, Oxford, Tuscarawas County, Ohio, p. 336A, household 30, Amiza Maxfield family.
24Ohio County Death Records, 1840-2001, Franklin County, Bexley, no. 1082, Lucinda Maxfield Evans, 1933; digital images, Family Search (familysearch.org : accessed 21 May 2023).
25Green Lawn Cemetery, Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio, Find a Grave, digital images (findagrave.com : accessed 25 February 2019), John W. Evans; Created by: Dave Davisson, Photo added by Patty.
261880 Census, Hanover, Licking County, Ohio, ED 187, p. 11C, household 87, John W. Evans family.
27Iowa State Archives, Des Moines, Iowa, Iowa Deaths, 1920-1951, certificate 57C-98, Henry Allen Maxfield, 1944; digital images, Ancestry (ancesty.com : accessed 13 December 2023); State Historical Society of Iowa.

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