Sacramento
County
Biographies
MRS.
M. E. MAXFIELD
MRS. M. E.
MAXFIELD was born March 2, 1824, in Garrard County, Kentucky, a daughter of
John and Dorcas (McLin)
Banks, both natives of Virginia. The
family moved to Kentucky in an early day, thence to La Fayette County,
Missouri, where the mother died. In the
spring of the same year the father came to California, returning in the
fall. He died shortly after, at the age
of seventy years. The subject of this
sketch was married September 21, 1837, to George W. Maxfield,
a saddler by trade, and a native of Kentucky.
They came to California in 1859, crossing the plains and stopping a year
at Salt Lake City. On arriving in
California they put up at the Fifteen-Mile House. They went to Liberty, remaining a year;
thence to Elk Grove, where they lived three years on the Charlie Price
place. From there they came to their
present home, where Mr. Maxfield died October 14,
1872. With the assistance of her older
sons, Mrs. Maxfield has made her home one of the most
attractive and fruitful places in this county.
There is always to be found at her home that generosity and hospitality
which is seldom found save in the houses of people of her nativity. She always has a welcome and a kind word for
the needy stranger asking alms, and none who are thought to be honest go from
her door hungry. She has had twelve
children, five girls and seven boys, nine of whom are living, viz.: Robert B., Margaret J., Gershom
B., George W., Samuel P., Louisa, John C., Clara, Richmond G., Charles F., Mary
M. and Anna O.
Transcribed by Karen Pratt.
Davis, Hon. Win. J., An Illustrated History of Sacramento County, California. Page 577. Lewis Publishing Company. 1890.
© 2006
Karen Pratt.