Sketch of My Lifeby Andrew Jackson MayfieldBorn: 6/4/1858 Died: 5/12/1950 |
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Sketch of My Lifeby Andrew Jackson MayfieldBorn: 6/4/1858 Died: 5/12/1950 |
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(As printed in The Panola Watchman, 1938)
I was born on June 4, 1858 in McMinville (Warren County), Tennessee. My father was killed in the Civil War in 1865, and I was left an orphan at the age of eleven years when my dear mother died. The Northern soldiers took all we had and then there was no money left for me to live on. Staying wherever I could with friends and neighbors who were kind enough to let me stay. I grew up to be a strong young man.
At the age of twenty, I married Bershebacain Nunley and from this union there were born six children, four of whom are living.
In the year of 1890, I came to Fanin County and there, in same year, was converted and joined the Baptist church. It was here that I lost my wife. Later in the year 1894, I married the daughter of R. A. Linzey. From this union there were born fifteen children, eight of whom are living. I have forty-one living grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.
I spent five years in Fanin County, five years in Robertson County, ten years in Logansport, Louisiana, and the last twenty-eight years I have spent in Panola County, Texas. I will be eighty years old June 4, 1838 - - have made a hand at manual labor for seventy years and am still able to go some. I am looking forward to a wonderful rest with the people of God.
Obituary of A. J. Mayfield
(Printed 5/13/1950)
Andrew Jackson Mayfield, 92-year old retired farmer of Longstreet, La., and the father of 21 sons and daughters, died at 5:40 a.m. yesterday in a local sanitarium.
He is survived by 12 of his sons and daughters, 45 grandchildren and 69 great-grandchildren.
A member of the Panola Baptist Church, Mayfield was an active church worker throughout his life. Just prior to his death, he resided with his son, Norman Mayfield, on a farm near Longstreet, just across the state line in Panola County, Texas
Mayfield had resided near Longstreet for the past 35 years, having lived at Logansport for the 17 years prior to that time. However, he was a native of McMinnville, Tennessee, where he was born June 4, 1858. When he moved to Panola County, he bought about 2,000 acres of farmland and sold all but 360 acres, which he and his family farmed.
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m.m today at the Cool Springs Church near Logansport. Burial will be at Cool Springs. The Hawthorne Funeral Home of Carthage, Texas is in charge of arrangements.
In 1881, Mayfield married his first wife, the former Miss Bersha Nunley of McMinnville, Tenn. The mother of five of his children, she died about 1900. Later he married Miss Sally Lindsey of Fannin county, Texas. This union had 16 children. Mrs. Mayfield died in 1944. Survivors include five sons, John Mayfield of Marshall, Texas, Norman Mayfield of Longstreet, C.C. Mayfield of Logansport, Jess Mayfield of Conroe, Texas, and Jack Mayfield of Elysian Fields, and seven daughters, Mrs. Evie Briggs, Mrs. Viola Davis, Mrs. Ada Morris, and Mrs. Nora Brown, all of Shreveport, Mrs. Alice Barnett of DeBerry, Texas, Mrs. Lydia Bogue of Elysian Fields, Texas, and Mrs. Vada Bozeman of Logansport.
Pallbearers will be Elmer, Norman A., Murry and Ernest Mayfield, Junior and Vester Jean Barnett, Ernest Williams, and Glancy James, all grandsons.
Hats Off! to Norman Mayfield for contributing this information.
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