Francis Fresh Mayfield

    Francis Fresh Mayfield, farmer, Wirt, was born in Trimble County, Kentucky, April 29, 1819, is a son of Joshua and Lucinda (Ouseley) Mayfield, who were natives of Kentucky, his mother being a cousin of Governor Ouseley, a former Governor of Kentucky. She died in 1876. His father came to this county and settled in what is now Monroe Township, in 1831; was a farmer and held the office of Justice of the Peace. He was in good circumstances and a prominent member of the Baptist Church. He died in 1876. He raised eight children, Francis F. being the oldest.

    Mr. Francis F. Mayfield sold goods and packed pork in Dupont, from 1845 till in 1869. He married, in October, 1850, Miss Adelaide, daughter of Capt. Samuel Wilson, and Englishman by birth, who was an old citizen of Madison. In 1851 or '52 Mr. Mayfield was a member of the State Legislature and assisted in the revision of the Statutes of Indiana. In 1868 he went to Columbus, and there engaged extensively in the pork-packing business, but finally lost heavily. From Columbus he returned to Dupont, in this county, where he lived several years, during this time he was justice of the peace for that township for three years. In 1884 he moved to a farm near Wirt. He was provost marshal during the war. He has three sons and five daughters. His oldest son is cashier in blank at Edinburgh; the younger son also there. Is a Freemason.

Source: Biographical and Historical Souvenir for the counties of Clark, Crawford, Harrison, Floyd, Jefferson, Jennings, Scott and Washington, Indiana. By John M. Gresham & Co., 1889.