1.James1Maxfield was born Abt. 1795 in North Carolina, and died Bef. 1833 in Bedford County, Tennessee. He married MaryVirginiaHaynes in Bedford County, Tennessee, daughter of Henry Haynes and Nancy. She was born Abt. 1800 in Union County, South Carolina, and died Bet. 1833 - 1840 in Bedford County, Tennessee.
Notes for James Maxfield:
Nancy Ann Maxfield's father has been identified as James Maxfield of Bedford County Tennessee. On the 1900 census report, Nancy Ann Maxfield identifies her father's birth state to be North Carolina. At this point, the ancestry of James Maxfield is unresolved.
There were three significant Maxfield families migrating through the Tennessee/ Kentucky area in the early 1800s: Seth Maxfield of Washington County Virginia; James Maxfield of Pennsylvania, and George Maxfield of Maryland.
Seth Maxfield first appears with a James Maxfield on a tax list in Washington County Virginia in the 1790's. He has a son John Mackfield Maxfield born in Washington County Virginia in 1795. On the 1800 census, a Seth Maxfield and James Maxfield appear in Warren County, Kentucky (Bowling green area in western Kentucky). Seth Maxfield's son John Mackfield Maxfield has oldest son Benjamin P. Maxfield is born in Overton County, Tennessee in 1819. John Mackfield's second son Seth is born 1828 in Indiana, and the family eventually migrates to southern Illinois in Jefferson County. Other children which have been identified as children of Seth Maxfield are Ephraim (1796), Isaac, Jerimiah (1809), Mclin, and Hiram (1810).
The James Maxfield who settled in Overton County, Tennessee was born in 1774 in Pennsylvania, and died 1857 in Tennessee. The families' three oldest children are born in Tennessee prior to 1820 (including a James W. Maxfield born in 1819), and two children are born in Alabama in 1820 and 1822 indicating that the family migrated south to Alabama before returning to Tennessee. This may be the James Maxfield earlier identified with Seth Maxfield. On the 1850 Overton County Census, there is also an Isaac Maxfield born 1891 in Tennessee.
There is a George Maxfield on the 1790 census in Washington County, Maryland with six sons above the age of 16, one son below the age of sixteen , and three daughters. This family migrates into northern Kentucky in the early 1800's. One son, George Maxfield (b. 1780/1781 in Maryland) marries Sarah Thomas in Boone County Kentucky, and has four children born in Boone County. In the early 1830's the George Maxfield family migrates to Macoupin County Illinois. Sarah Thomas dies in Waverly, Illinois, and three of the Maxfield grandchildren marry into the Pulliam family of Macoupin County. This is noteworthy because the Palmer family moved directly to Waverly Illinois in 1861, and are later buried in the Pulliam family cemetery. This may be simply coincidental, or circumstantial evidence of a possible family relationship, but to date no direct connection has been found. A James Maxfield, age 57, born in Maryland, also is identified with family on the 1850 census in Sangamon County, Illinois.
There is also a James Maxfield who appears on the 1810 census of Orange County, North Carolina, who has one son age 10-16 and two sons below the age of 10, and who himself is between the age of 26-45. Assuming the oldest son is also named James, then this could be a James Maxfield born in North Carolina of the appropriate age to be the father of Nancy Ann Maxfield. No further record to date has been found of this family in North Carolina, but on the 1820 census of Pendleton County, Kentucky, a James Maxfield is identified as unmarried above age 45, with two sons above the age of 26. This James Maxfield died in Pendleton County before 1825, and no further record to date has been found of his two sons.
Notes for Mary Virginia Haynes:
The Horace Wilbur/Byron Palmer Manuscript of Palmer families in the southern United States identifies Nancy Ann Maxfield's parents to be James and Mary (Hanes) Maxfield of Bedford County Tennessee. Such manuscript identifies sources to be Elisha James Palmer and daughter Mary Luella Palmer. The "Hanes" spelling is also used in a report attributed to Roy L. Moultrie, however, both reports may have the same source. Edna Alice Palmer (another daughter of Elisha James Palmer) in handwritten notes identifies Nancy Ann Maxfield's mother to be Virginia Haynes, does not identify her father, and instead states that Nancy Ann Maxfield was raised by her grandfather Henry Haynes. It is presumed that the name of Nancy Ann Maxfield's mother was likely Mary Virginia Haynes. The name Virginia does not run through the Palmer family line. Alternatively the name Mary Virginia or simply Virginia does appear several times in the Haynes family line,
From Bedford Co. TN Deed Book "DD", p. 18: 19 Feb 1833, Mary Maxfield to Nancy Ann Maxfield the daughter of Mary Maxfield, for love and affection for her daughter Nancy Ann Maxfield and for them maintaining and support of Mary Maxfield, has given unto Nancy Ann Maxfield personal property. Wit: Evan Harris, Weathersbee Haynes, D.O. Hughes and Josiah Springer. Reg: 23 Mar 1833. BEDFORD COUNTY TENNESSEE 1807-1852 (1988, South Carolina; Southern Historical Press, Inc.) - information provided by Haynes Family researcher Roseanne Cain.
Neither James Maxfield or Mary Haynes are listed in the Bedford County, Tennessee census for either 1820 or 1830. On the Bedford County, Tennessee 1830 census, Weathersby Haynes (witness to deed) is living next door to Henry Haynes, and is believed to be a brother of Mary Haynes. On the 1850 census for Lauderdale County, Alabama, Martin W. Palmer and Nancy Ann Maxfield are living next door, or in close proximity, to Henry Haynes, Weathersby Haynes, Eunice Haynes Hurt, Henry Harvey Haynes, James Henry Haynes (son of Weathersby), and Mary Jane Haynes Scott (daughter of (Weathersby). Weathersby, Eunice, and Henry Harvey Haynes are believed to be children of Henry Haynes, and siblings of Mary Haynes. In the 1900 census report, Nancy Ann Maxfield identifies her mother's birth state to be South Carolina, which is consistent with the birth state of grandfather Henry Haynes.
No information has been discovered as to what happened to Mary Haynes or James Maxfield, or the location of their burial. It is presumed, then that Mary Haynes died sometime after 1833, and she was predeceased by James Maxfield. One possible explanation of the cause of their death is from an asiatic cholera epidemic which ravaged Bedford, Tennessee in the early 1830's killing nearly a third of the city's population.
More About Mary Virginia Haynes:
Burial: Bedford County, Tennessee
Child of James Maxfield and Mary Haynes is:
