URIAH LAMONTE MAYFIELD, 1874 - 1945
Uriah Lamonte Mayfield, son of Henry Crittenden and Amanda Margaret Wade Mayfield was born on Sunday, February 14, 1874 at Marcelline, in Ursa Township, Adams County, Illinois and died on Thursday, May 24, 1945 at Jacksonville, in Morgan County, Illinois at the same Hospital that his mother passed away in four years earlier. At the time of his death he was 71 years, 3 months and ten days old. He married Arlena "Lena" Powell, daughter of Hiram and Emeline Bryant Powell at Mendon in Adams County, Illinois on January 6, 1901. They spent the rest of their lives living in the house built by his grandparents Uriah and Mary Jane Grimes Mayfield in the small Village of Marcelline in Ursa Township, Adams County, Illinois.
Lamont Mayfield came from a long line of frontiersmen from the state of Virginia, Tennessee and Kentucky. In the year 1778 his great-grandfather Micajah Mayfield, along with four of his brothers served wth Capt. Jesse Evans Company of the 1st Virginia Militia, they came to Kentucky with Col. John Montgomery to help fight Indians on the frontier. While at "The Falls of the Ohio" (Louisville) in Kentucky, Col. Montgomery Volunteered the services of Capt. Jesse Evans Company and the rest of his men, to George Rogers Clark's recently formed 1st Virginia Regiment to help secure at the start of the Revolutionary War, what was then known as the Illinois Country, for the newly formed Government of the United States of America. His g-grandfather Micajah Mayfield & brothers were present when Col. Clark captured the Fort on the Wabash River at Vincennes and they made the march with Clark's Regiment over land to capture the Fort at Kaskaskia on the Mississippi from the British. This brilliant military feat by Col. Clark and his men, meant that the whole of the land area then known only as the "Illinois Country" along with all of its water ways, was now in the hands of the newly formed United States of America. Later, in 1780 still in Clarks Regiment, Lamont's g-grandfather and bros. also helped erect Fort Jefferson at the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers above the present town of Mayfield, Kentucky. This prevented the Spanish Government, that controled the western banks of the Mississippi from claiming lands to the east and prevented them from gaining control of access to the Ohio River water way.
I could go on about Lamont Mayfield's forefathers contributions to the settling of the frontiers in early America...his grandfather Edward Wade from Tennessee who settled in Schuyler and Hancock Countis of Illinois, also had quite a storied life, he and one of his brothers, both enlisted army regulars, were with Gen. Andrew Jackson at the Battle of New Orleans during the War of 1812-15. Anyone with further interest in Mayfield family history can contact the author of this Bio at the email address provided to Find A Grave.com. In closing, Uriah Lamont Mayfield, as well as his sons, like all of the men of their family, were avid hunters and fishermen, Lamont's brother, W. I. Mayfield was for many years the Game Warden for the Bear Creek and other wildlife areas of Adams County.
Uriah Lamonte Mayfield, son of Henry Crittenden and Amanda Margaret Wade Mayfield was born on Sunday, February 14, 1874 at Marcelline, in Ursa Township, Adams County, Illinois and died on Thursday, May 24, 1945 at Jacksonville, in Morgan County, Illinois at the same Hospital that his mother passed away in four years earlier. At the time of his death he was 71 years, 3 months and ten days old. He married Arlena "Lena" Powell, daughter of Hiram and Emeline Bryant Powell at Mendon in Adams County, Illinois on January 6, 1901. They spent the rest of their lives living in the house built by his grandparents Uriah and Mary Jane Grimes Mayfield in the small Village of Marcelline in Ursa Township, Adams County, Illinois.
Lamont Mayfield came from a long line of frontiersmen from the state of Virginia, Tennessee and Kentucky. In the year 1778 his great-grandfather Micajah Mayfield, along with four of his brothers served wth Capt. Jesse Evans Company of the 1st Virginia Militia, they came to Kentucky with Col. John Montgomery to help fight Indians on the frontier. While at "The Falls of the Ohio" (Louisville) in Kentucky, Col. Montgomery Volunteered the services of Capt. Jesse Evans Company and the rest of his men, to George Rogers Clark's recently formed 1st Virginia Regiment to help secure at the start of the Revolutionary War, what was then known as the Illinois Country, for the newly formed Government of the United States of America. His g-grandfather Micajah Mayfield & brothers were present when Col. Clark captured the Fort on the Wabash River at Vincennes and they made the march with Clark's Regiment over land to capture the Fort at Kaskaskia on the Mississippi from the British. This brilliant military feat by Col. Clark and his men, meant that the whole of the land area then known only as the "Illinois Country" along with all of its water ways, was now in the hands of the newly formed United States of America. Later, in 1780 still in Clarks Regiment, Lamont's g-grandfather and bros. also helped erect Fort Jefferson at the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers above the present town of Mayfield, Kentucky. This prevented the Spanish Government, that controled the western banks of the Mississippi from claiming lands to the east and prevented them from gaining control of access to the Ohio River water way.
I could go on about Lamont Mayfield's forefathers contributions to the settling of the frontiers in early America...his grandfather Edward Wade from Tennessee who settled in Schuyler and Hancock Countis of Illinois, also had quite a storied life, he and one of his brothers, both enlisted army regulars, were with Gen. Andrew Jackson at the Battle of New Orleans during the War of 1812-15. Anyone with further interest in Mayfield family history can contact the author of this Bio at the email address provided to Find A Grave.com. In closing, Uriah Lamont Mayfield, as well as his sons, like all of the men of their family, were avid hunters and fishermen, Lamont's brother, W. I. Mayfield was for many years the Game Warden for the Bear Creek and other wildlife areas of Adams County.
URIAH LAMONTE MAYFIELD, 1874 - 1945
Uriah Lamonte Mayfield, son of Henry Crittenden and Amanda Margaret Wade Mayfield was born on Sunday, February 14, 1874 at Marcelline, in Ursa Township, Adams County, Illinois and died on Thursday, May 24, 1945 at Jacksonville, in Morgan County, Illinois at the same Hospital that his mother passed away in four years earlier. At the time of his death he was 71 years, 3 months and ten days old. He married Arlena "Lena" Powell, daughter of Hiram and Emeline Bryant Powell at Mendon in Adams County, Illinois on January 6, 1901. They spent the rest of their lives living in the house built by his grandparents Uriah and Mary Jane Grimes Mayfield in the small Village of Marcelline in Ursa Township, Adams County, Illinois.
Lamont Mayfield came from a long line of frontiersmen from the state of Virginia, Tennessee and Kentucky. In the year 1778 his great-grandfather Micajah Mayfield, along with four of his brothers served wth Capt. Jesse Evans Company of the 1st Virginia Militia, they came to Kentucky with Col. John Montgomery to help fight Indians on the frontier. While at "The Falls of the Ohio" (Louisville) in Kentucky, Col. Montgomery Volunteered the services of Capt. Jesse Evans Company and the rest of his men, to George Rogers Clark's recently formed 1st Virginia Regiment to help secure at the start of the Revolutionary War, what was then known as the Illinois Country, for the newly formed Government of the United States of America. His g-grandfather Micajah Mayfield & brothers were present when Col. Clark captured the Fort on the Wabash River at Vincennes and they made the march with Clark's Regiment over land to capture the Fort at Kaskaskia on the Mississippi from the British. This brilliant military feat by Col. Clark and his men, meant that the whole of the land area then known only as the "Illinois Country" along with all of its water ways, was now in the hands of the newly formed United States of America. Later, in 1780 still in Clarks Regiment, Lamont's g-grandfather and bros. also helped erect Fort Jefferson at the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers above the present town of Mayfield, Kentucky. This prevented the Spanish Government, that controled the western banks of the Mississippi from claiming lands to the east and prevented them from gaining control of access to the Ohio River water way.
I could go on about Lamont Mayfield's forefathers contributions to the settling of the frontiers in early America...his grandfather Edward Wade from Tennessee who settled in Schuyler and Hancock Countis of Illinois, also had quite a storied life, he and one of his brothers, both enlisted army regulars, were with Gen. Andrew Jackson at the Battle of New Orleans during the War of 1812-15. Anyone with further interest in Mayfield family history can contact the author of this Bio at the email address provided to Find A Grave.com. In closing, Uriah Lamont Mayfield, as well as his sons, like all of the men of their family, were avid hunters and fishermen, Lamont's brother, W. I. Mayfield was for many years the Game Warden for the Bear Creek and other wildlife areas of Adams County.
Uriah Lamonte Mayfield, son of Henry Crittenden and Amanda Margaret Wade Mayfield was born on Sunday, February 14, 1874 at Marcelline, in Ursa Township, Adams County, Illinois and died on Thursday, May 24, 1945 at Jacksonville, in Morgan County, Illinois at the same Hospital that his mother passed away in four years earlier. At the time of his death he was 71 years, 3 months and ten days old. He married Arlena "Lena" Powell, daughter of Hiram and Emeline Bryant Powell at Mendon in Adams County, Illinois on January 6, 1901. They spent the rest of their lives living in the house built by his grandparents Uriah and Mary Jane Grimes Mayfield in the small Village of Marcelline in Ursa Township, Adams County, Illinois.
Lamont Mayfield came from a long line of frontiersmen from the state of Virginia, Tennessee and Kentucky. In the year 1778 his great-grandfather Micajah Mayfield, along with four of his brothers served wth Capt. Jesse Evans Company of the 1st Virginia Militia, they came to Kentucky with Col. John Montgomery to help fight Indians on the frontier. While at "The Falls of the Ohio" (Louisville) in Kentucky, Col. Montgomery Volunteered the services of Capt. Jesse Evans Company and the rest of his men, to George Rogers Clark's recently formed 1st Virginia Regiment to help secure at the start of the Revolutionary War, what was then known as the Illinois Country, for the newly formed Government of the United States of America. His g-grandfather Micajah Mayfield & brothers were present when Col. Clark captured the Fort on the Wabash River at Vincennes and they made the march with Clark's Regiment over land to capture the Fort at Kaskaskia on the Mississippi from the British. This brilliant military feat by Col. Clark and his men, meant that the whole of the land area then known only as the "Illinois Country" along with all of its water ways, was now in the hands of the newly formed United States of America. Later, in 1780 still in Clarks Regiment, Lamont's g-grandfather and bros. also helped erect Fort Jefferson at the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers above the present town of Mayfield, Kentucky. This prevented the Spanish Government, that controled the western banks of the Mississippi from claiming lands to the east and prevented them from gaining control of access to the Ohio River water way.
I could go on about Lamont Mayfield's forefathers contributions to the settling of the frontiers in early America...his grandfather Edward Wade from Tennessee who settled in Schuyler and Hancock Countis of Illinois, also had quite a storied life, he and one of his brothers, both enlisted army regulars, were with Gen. Andrew Jackson at the Battle of New Orleans during the War of 1812-15. Anyone with further interest in Mayfield family history can contact the author of this Bio at the email address provided to Find A Grave.com. In closing, Uriah Lamont Mayfield, as well as his sons, like all of the men of their family, were avid hunters and fishermen, Lamont's brother, W. I. Mayfield was for many years the Game Warden for the Bear Creek and other wildlife areas of Adams County.
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