Person:Susannah Mayfield (1)

About Susanna Mayfield

Susanna Mayfield is named as the daughter Isaac Mayfield of Lincoln County, Kentucky, in his will.

Researcher Phil Norfleet in his Biographical Sketch of Isaac Mayfield (d. 1795) of VA, SC and KY states that "Susannah Mayfield was born about 1760. She apparently had an illegitimate child (James Parks Mayfield) by a man named James Parks. The probable father, James Parks, later moved to Monroe County, Indiana; he was a neighbor of Leroy Mayfield and a Deacon of the Vernal Baptist Church".

1.   Kentucky, United States. Tax Lists, 1799-1801. (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006).

   Name: Susana Mayfield
   Residence County: Garrard
   Residence Year: 1800
   Tax List Date: 8/6/1800
   
   

2.   Genealogy.com.

   38.Susannah5 Mayfield (Isaac4, Isaac3, Robert2, Robert1) was born Abt. 1760.She met James Parks.
   Notes for Susannah Mayfield:
   Susannah Mayfield appears to have had an illegitimate child named James Parks Mayfield, who is mentioned in the will of her father, Isaac Mayfield (d. 1795).
   Notes for James Parks:
   This is only speculation on my part, but I consider it quite possible that James Parks is the natural father of James Parks Mayfield, the illegitimate son of Susannah Mayfield.Parks later moved to Monroe County, Indiana, was a neighbor of Leroy Mayfield and a Deacon of the Vernal Baptist Church.
   
   Child of Susannah Mayfield and James Parks is:
   + 117 i. James Parks6 Mayfield, born Abt. 1785; died 20 October 1856 in Garrard County KY.
   
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