Louis & Lear Mayfield

Louis & Lear Mayfield

Lear Mayfield was the daughter of John and Sallie Mayfield. John Whiteaker was a son of William and Rhoda (Kinnard) Whiteaker. She was my great grandmother.

Grandmother Mayfield was born on 27 August 1872 in Gainesboro, Jackson county, Tennessee. She was the second child of eleven children born to John and Sallie (Hunter) Whiteaker. She was united in marriage to Louis Mayfield on 19 April 1893 in Gainesboro, Jackson county, Tennessee. Louis Mayfield was the son of John and Lucinda Amanda (Walker) Mayfield.

Louis Mayfield was first married to Lear's sister Floyd Whiteaker (m. 27 July 1889). Floyd passed away 26 February 1893 in Jackson county, Tennessee (maybe in child birth). Louis and Floyd had one daughter, Lena (born 23 April 1890 in Gainesboro). While she lay dying Floyd asked her sister Lear to marry Louis and rear Lena (who was about three year old at the time), which Lear did a short time later, on April 19, 1893,

Lear's father passed away in 1899 and her mother passed away a few months later in 1900. It was at this time that she took her brothers and sisters that were still living at home to rear. She lived her life as a faithful wife and good mother.

Lear and Louis Mayfield were the parents of four daughters, one son, and one child that passed away in infancy. They were Nellie (Mrs. Wiley Davis), Julia (Mrs. Jack Huddleston), Charlie Mayfield, Sallie (Mrs. Ray Ewing), and Jessie (Mrs. John Bratcher).

In about 1904/1905 they left Tennessee and started moving west. The lived for a short time in Lanton, Howell county, Missouri, afterwards they lived for a time in Dewey county, Oklahoma Territory on a claim south of Lenora on the J.V. Flats, they later moved to Wray, Yuma county, Colorado with the idea of homesteading there, and yet later (around 1911) moved to the Hoppings community near Wayne, McClain county, Oklahoma.

She was at one time a member of the Church of Christ (which in her girlhood days was generally referred to as the Christian Church, or the "Campbellite" Church). She later joined the Baptist Church.

In 1938 she had a farm auction as her husband Louis had passed away earlier that year, and at this time moved into town at Wayne, Oklahoma.

Around 1942 when her daughter Jessie married John Bratcher she moved with them to their new home in Washington, McClain county, Oklahoma and lived there for many years. Later she moved to Norman, Cleveland county, Oklahoma where she lived out the remainder of her life.

She passed away 5 August 1964 in Norman. She was laid to rest at the Hillside Cemetery in Purcell, Mcclain county, Oklahoma next to her husband Louis where they rest from their labours until they rise on Resurrection Morning to greet our Risen Lord.