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Newspaper: LeMars "Globe-Post".
Official Plymouth County [Iowa] Newspaper
Volume 49, Number 95.
Publication Date: Thursday, November 26, 1931.
[SUBJECT:
Obituary of Solomon VanBuren Maynard, son of Rufus Maynard & Chloe Wheat].
SOLOMON MAYNARD, OLDEST WESTFIELD MAN, SUCCUMBS.
Westfield, Iowa: Solomon Maynard, nearly 96 years old, the oldest person in Westfield, and one of the earliest pioneers of Union County, South Dakota, died at his Westfield home.
Mr. Maynard was born in 1836 in New York state. He was one of a family of 10 children. When he was a small lad the family moved to Wisconsin, and later to Minnesota, so he was a pioneer in three states. While living in Minnesota, he enlisted and served in the Civil War and in 1868 he arrived in Union County [Dakota Territory] and homesteaded two miles north of Richland. This was his home for 46 years, until his removal to Westfield [Plymouth County, Iowa], 17 years ago when he purchased a home there. A son still farms the homestead.
When Mr. Maynard arrived in Union County he was already married, but his wife [Mary Arvilla Crane Maynard], her parents and a niece were drowned when attempting to cross the Sioux River in 1877. A few years before that his 5 year old son [Sidney Champ Maynard, 1866-1869] had been shot and killed by a neighbor boy. Many tragedies and adventures marked his long life. About four years ago four robbers tortured him and his daughter and stole $2,500. The daughter never has been able to speak since. Blizzards, floods, drought, grasshoppers, prairie fires and mining and logging in early day Deadwood were some of the events of his earlier life, and up to the past few years he traveled extensively, spending his winters in the south. He is survived by four children and 17 grandchildren.
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GENEALOGY NOTES:
MAYNARD descent:
John Maynard of Sudbury, MA ( b. 1598 ) -- to Porter Rueben Maynard (b. 1902).
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.1). John I Maynard married Mary Axtell (widow of Thomas).
.2). John II Maynard (of Sudbury, MA), b. 1598 and Elizabeth Aston.
.3). John III Maynard (b. 1630) and Mary Gates
.4). Zachariah Maynard and Mary Geer
.5). Elnathan Maynard and Abial Button
.6). Rueben Maynard and Mary Edwards
.7). Rufus Maynard and Chloe E. Wheat
.8). Solomon VanBuren Maynard and Mary Arvilla Crane
.9). Otis Rollo Maynard and Charlotte Sayles
10). Porter Rueben Maynard and Hazel Maureen Hoven
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