Descendants of John Maxfield
of Salisbury, Massachusetts
Seventh Generation

EZRA FRENCH7 MAXFIELD ( Daniel6, Ezra5, John4, Michael3, John2-1) was born at New Hampshire on June 1836 a son of Daniel Philbrick Maxfiend and his wife Dorothy Ring .[1] He died at San Diego County, California, on 14 May 1910.[2] He married at Los Angeles County, California, on 7 January 1884 MARTIA COTT.[3] She was born at Vermont on March 1854 and died at Los Angeles County on 23 March 1905.[4]

Ezra French Maxfield grew up on a farm in Chichester, Merrimack County, New Hampshire, the second of nine children, at least eight of whom lived to adulthood, and at least five of whom migrated to California as adults. Ezra was named for his grandfather.

Ezra migrated to California before 1860, when he was reported in the census, age 23, living in San Francisco, California, a sash maker.[5] His movements around California can be traced through California voter registration records. He was in San Francisco in 1866, working as a mechanic. In 1873 he registered to vote at San Diego, San Diego County, working as a carpenter. He claimed to be a carpenter in future voter registrations. He registered at Jamul, San Diego County, on 2 August 1879 and 14 September 1880, and at Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, in 1884, 1888, 1890, 1892, and 1896. In 1892 he was described as age 55, 5' 6" light complexion, brown eyes, silver-gray hair. In 1896 he was described as 5' 8 ¾" dark complexion, brown eyes, black hair, first joint of first finger on left hand stiff. At that registration he called himself an organ builder.[6]

In 1875 he received from his father land and buildings in Chichester valued at $ 1000.[7] I do not know how he disposed of this.

The 1880 Census reported Ezra at National City, San Diego County, age 42, single, carpenter.[8]

Ezra French Maxfield married Martia Cott at Los Angeles County, in 1884. He was 45, she 29, a native of Vermont. Although the marriage record gives her maiden name as Maxfield, the death records of two of her sons give her maiden name as Cott or Catt.

The 1900 Census reported the family at Los Angeles consisting of Ezra F., 63, Martia, 46, and children Ezra B., 15, Robert F., 13, and Marshall J., 3. The record indicated that Martia had five children, three of whom were living.[9] The deaths of two children in childhood could explain the gap of ten years between the births of her second and third surviving children.

Martia died in 1905, leaving a family with two young adults and a seven-year old son. Eldest son Ezra married two weeks after his mother's death.

The 1910 Census reported Ezra and son Marshall with Ezra's brother George at Jamul. Ezra was described as a hay farmer, like his brother.[10] He died one month after the census.

Ezra Blaine Maxfield was reported at Los Angeles in the 1910 Census, with his wife Anna, son Maynard, and brother Robert. Ezra worked as an electrician for the gas company, Anna was a dressmaker at home, and Robert drove truck.[11] In 1920 he and Anna lodged in a home at Los Angeles; he was a mechanic with Arc lights.[12]

I have not located son Maynard in the 1920 Census. He married in 1926 and died five weeks later.

The 1930 Census reported Ezra Blaine and Anna Maxfield at Los Angeles, with an adopted daughter, Doris, age two years and seven months. He continued to be an electrician for a gas and electric company.[13] In the 1940 Census Ezra B. described himself as single, Anna described herself as divorced. They were both in Los Angeles, at different locations. Ezra B., 55, was an inspector for the power and light company. Anna lived with her daughter Doris and three boarders. According to these records, Ezra B. completed high school, and Anna completed eighth grade.[14] Ezra died in 1948. Anna was reported living alone at Los Angeles in 1950.[15] She died in 1979.

Robert French Maxfield reported for the draft on 5 June 1917, at Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah. He was an expressman for American Express, single, Caucasian, tall, slender, with brown eyes and brown hair.[16] The next war, he reported for the draft at Sacramento County, California, where he was described as not employed, and gave his contact as the local Carpenters' Union.[17] He died at San Francisco in 1947.

Marshall Joseph Maxfield was reported in the 1930 Census, at Brooklyn, New York, age 32, electrical engineer, veteran of World War I, with his wife Macedona, a native of New York and a teacher in public school.[18] His death in 1935 was reported in the New York Times:[19]

Marshall J. Maxfield

Marshall Joseph Maxfield, a teacher of electrical construction in the Haaren Cooperative High School in Manhattan, died on Sunday at his home, 1265 East Thirty-first Street, Brooklyn, of pneumonia. He was born in California thirty-seven years ago and attended the University of Southern California and Penn State College. His widow, Macedonia Reynolds Maxfield survives him.


Ezra French Maxfield and his wife Martia Cott had the following children:
  1. EZRA BLAINE8 MAXFIELD b. at California on 2 March 1885; d. at Los Angeles County on 9 April 1948;[20] m. there on 3 April 1905 ANNA DANFORTH WILLIAMS,[21] b. at Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas. on 9 January 1884, d. at Los Angeles County on 18 December 1979.[22] Children of Ezra and Anna:
    1. Maynard French Maxfield b. at Los Angeles County on 29 July 1906,[23] d. there on 4 August 1926;[24] m. on 24 June 1926 Esther A, Peterson.[25], b. at California about 1908-9.[26] Esther m(2). at Santa Ana, Orange County, California, on 22 April 1930 Russell J. Mathews b. at California about 1908-9.[27]
    2. Doris Deane Maxfield (adopted) (her mother's maiden name was Williams) b. at Los Angeles on 27 August 1927,[28] d. on August 1994;[29] m(1). at Los Angeles County on 29 May 1945 Lewis De Vere King[30] b. at Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas, about 1922-3. Doris m(2). before 1957 ______ Tracey.[31]
  2. ROBERT FRENCH8 MAXFIELD b. at Los Angeles County on 25 January 1887; d. at San Francisco on 20 May 1947.[32]
  3. MARSHALL JOSEPH8 MAXFIELD, b. at California on April 1897,[33] d. at Brooklyn, Kings County, New York, on 10 February 1935;[34] m. about 1927-8 MACEDONIA REYNOLDS,[35] b. at New York on 9 May 1895, d. on 7 November 1988.[36]

NOTES

1Twelth Census of the United States: 1900, population, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, enumeration district (ED) 29, p. 6A, household 180, Ezra F. Maxfield family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 28 March 2013); NARA microfilm group T623; Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration.
2California Department of Health and Welfare. California Vital Records, "California Death Index, 1905-1939," Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 27 October 2023), Ezra F. Maxfield, 1910.
3California County Marriages, 1850-1953, Los Angeles County, p. 191, Maxfield-Maxfield, 1884; digital images, Family Search (familysearch.org : accessed 13 October 2023).
4Evergreen Cemetery, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, Find a Grave, database (findagrave.com : database 7 November 2023), Marcia J. Cott Maxfield; Created by: PhilBo.
5Eighth Census of the United States: 1860, population, San Francisco, San Francisco County, California, p. 247, household 690, Hiram Sheldon family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 22 October 2012); NARA microfilm record group M653; Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration.
6"California, Voter Registers, 1866-1898," digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 27 August 2011), 6 August 1866, San Francisco, Ezra French Maxfield; 30 August 1873, San Diego, Ezra French Maxfield; 12 August 1875, Santa Barbara, Ezra F. Maxfield; 2 August 1879, Jamul, Ezra French Maxfield; 14 September 1880, Jamul, Ezra F. Maxfield; 28 September 1884, Los Angeles, Ezra F. Maxfield; 23 June 1888, Los Angeles, Ezra F. Maxfield; 25 August 1890, Los Angeles, Ezra F. Maxfield; 26 August 1892, Los Angeles, Ezra French Maxfield; 8 June 1896, Los Angeles, Ezra French Maxfield; California State Library, Sacramento, California.
7"Conveyances in Merrimack County, for Two Weeks Ending Oct 18, 1875," Independent Statesman, 28 October 1875; 19th Century U.S. Newspapers (infotrac.galegroup.com : accessed 23 September 2012); accessed through americanancestors.org.
8Tenth Census of the United States: 1880, population, National City, San Diego County, California, enumeration district (ED) 69, p. 565B, household 25, Ezra F. Maxfield; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 20 February 2013); NARA microfilm publication T9, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C.
91900 Census, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, ED 29, p. 6A, household 180, Ezra F. Maxfield family.
10Thirteenth Census of the United States: 1910, population, Jamul, San Diego County, California, enumeration district (ED) 127, p. 3A, household 59, G. L. Maxfield family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 1 October 2017); NARA group T624, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C.
111910 Census, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, ED 91, p. 13B, household 437, Ezra B. Maxfield family.
12Fourteenth Census of the United States: 1920, population, Los Angeles Assembly District 75, Los Angeles County, California, enumeration district (ED) 472, p. 9B, household 118, Wesley A. Chapman lodging house; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 10 February 2014); NARA microfilm record group T625, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C.
13Fifteenth Census of the United States: 1930, population, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, enumeration district (ED) 614, p. 4A, household 49, E. Blaine Maxfield family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 7 May 2014); NARA record Group T626.
14Sixteenth Census of the United States: 1940, population, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, enumeration district (ED) 60-949, p. 16A, household 625, E. Blaine Maxfield; Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, ED 60-51, p. 8B, household 191, Anna P. Maxfield family. digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 19 April 2013); microfilm record group T627.
15Seventeenth Census of the United States, 1950, population, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, enumeration district (ED) 66-195, p. 11, dwelling 143, Anna D. Maxfield; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 6 September 2022); Record Group 29. National Archives at Washington, DC., Washington, DC.
16"World War I Selective Service System Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918," digital image, United States, Selective Service System, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 15 June 2014), Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah; no. 109, Robert Frank Maxfield.
17"Selective Service Registration Cards, World War II: Fourth Registration," digital image, United States, Selective Service System, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 16 June 2014), no. 499, Los Angeles, Robert French Maxfield; citing .
181930 Census, Brooklyn, Kings County, New York, ED 1259, p. 2B, household 39, Marshall J. Maxfield family.
19"Marshall J. Maxfield," New York Times, 12 February 1935; Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 22 November 2006), Historical Newspapers, Birth, Marriage, & Death Announcements, 1851-2003.
20California Department of Health Services, Center for Health Statistics, Sacramento, California, "California Death Index, 1940-1997," database, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 15 August 2017), Ezra B Maxfield, 1948.
21California County Marriages, 1850-1953, Los Angeles County,p. 59, Maxfield-Williams, 1905.
22"California Death Index, 1940-1997," Anna D Maxfield, 1979.
23California Department of Health Services, Center for Health Statistics, "California Birth Index, 1905-1995," database, Ancestry (ancesty.com : accessed 7 October 2023), Maynard F. Maxfield, 1906.
24"California Death Index, 1905-1939," Maynard F. Maxfield, 1926.
25Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale), Glendale, Los Angeles County, California, Find a Grave, digital images (findagrave.com : database 3 October 2019), Maynard French Maxfield; Created by: PhilBo.
261930 Census, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, ED 249, p. 11A/B, household 214, Charley Peterson family.
27California County Marriages, 1850-1953, Orange County, p. 181, Mathews-Maxfield, 1930.
28"California Birth Index, 1905-1995," Doris Deane Maxfield, 1927.
29United States Social Security Administration, "Social Security Applications and Claims, 1936-2007," database, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 16 August 2015), Doris Dean Maxfield, 573208708.
30California County Marriages, 1850-1953, Los Angeles County, no. 14219, King-Maxfield, 1945.
31"Social Security Applications and Claims, 1936-2007," Doris Dean Maxfield, 573208708.
32"California Death Index, 1940-1997," Robert F Maxfield, 1947.
331900 Census, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, ED 29, p. 6A, household 180, Ezra F. Maxfield family.
34"Marshall J. Maxfield."
351930 Census, Brooklyn, Kings County, New York, ED 1259, p. 2B, household 39, Marshall J. Maxfield family.
36Holy Cross Cemetery, Brooklyn, Kings County, New York, Find a Grave, digital images (findagrave.com : accessed 5 December 2018), Marshall Joseph Maxfield; Created by: Not Forgotten - Wis.
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