Transcribed from a biography written by their son, F. Drew Mayfield. Biography in the El Campo Public Library in the Research and Genealogy room in the book "Memories and Memorials".
Mother and Dad were both born in Missouri, married in Rock Island, Texas, June 5th, 1906 and moved to El Campo, Texas in 1909. Mother was Grayce Irene Johnson and was born August 17, 1884 in Mercer County, Missouri. Her mother and father moved to Rock Island, Texas, in 1899 and to El Campo in 1907. Mother died in Austin, Texas, December 31, 1965. She was the youngest of eight sisters and two brothers. One of her sisters was Mrs. L. O. (Jessie) Lundy of El Campo.
Dad was born in Madison County, Missouri, January 8, 1883. He met mother during his summer vacations in Rock Island. He was next to the youngest of three brothers and three sisters. He died in Austin on August 4, 1958.
After they married in Rock Island, Texas, in 1906, they settled in Kansas City, Missouri and then moved to El Campo in 1909. Their final move was to Austin, Texas, in 1938. They are both buried in El Campo at O.D.H.S. Cemetery.
Mother graduated from Sam Houston State Teachers College in Huntsville, Texas. She taught school before she married. She was from a long line of farmers from Pennsylvania, Ohio, Iowa and Missouri.
Dad graduated from Physicians and Surgeons College in St. Louis, Missouri in 1906 and was from a long line of physicians stemming from two M.D.'s of three brothers was came to America from England. He was raised a Baptist. The Mayfield name appears often in a book giving the hisotry of "Baptists of Southeast Missouri" printed in 1888. Dad played football and baseball in college. In El Campo, he was active in land development and the Mayfield and Clark Realty Company operating a special coach on the railroad bringing prospective buyers from the north to buy land.
Dad's health was poor and in 1928, he and mother renovated the old Rice Hotel and operated it as the Mayfield Hotel until 1938 when they sold it and moved to Austin where he was in advertising until his death in 1958.
For many years Dad was City Secretary and I cherish his signature on a copy of my birth certificate from the files in Austin. As correspondent for the Houston Post and Houston Chronicle, he was the voice of El Campo with his news reports and coined the name "El Campo Rice Birds" for our high school football team. He always kept a score board for the town baseball team.
Mother always loved flowers and I have a picture of her from the Austin-American Statesmen standing in a beautiful bed of flowers in her front lawn in Austin. She always loved her bridge club in El Campo and later in Austin was historian for the Austin Woman's Federation.
Mother and Dad had two children born in El Campo: George Malcolm Mayfield born April 14, 1912 who on December 27th, 1947 married Dorothy Nina Smith of Houston, Texas. They have no children. Franklin Drew Mayfield, born May 21, 1915 who on August 16, 1952, married Mary Jane Field of Dallas, Texas. They have three children all born in Corpus Christi, Texas: Mary Jo Delahaye, John Drew Mayfield and Lucy Rose Mayfield.
Mother and Dad solved the Methodist/Baptist problem by becoming Presbyterians and raised us as Presbyterians. Filling out the circle, Malcolm married an Episcopalian and became an Episcopalian and I married a Baptist and we are Methodist. Our daughter, Mary Jo and her family are Catholic.
Both Malcom and I graduated from Texas A.&I. in Kingsville and from the University of Texas at Austin. Malcolm was a Civil Engineer and is no retired from the U.S.Corps of Engineers and he and Dorothy live in Galveston. I was a Chemical Engineer (PhD.) and am retired from Foster-Grant Co., Inc. and Mary Jane and I live in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
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the above was written by Franklin Drew Mayfield
George Malcolm Mayfield died in Galveston, Galveston County, Texas on the 14th of June of 2003.
Franklin Drew Mayfield died in Baton Rouge, Louisiana on the 7th of August of 1992.
Mother and Dad were both born in Missouri, married in Rock Island, Texas, June 5th, 1906 and moved to El Campo, Texas in 1909. Mother was Grayce Irene Johnson and was born August 17, 1884 in Mercer County, Missouri. Her mother and father moved to Rock Island, Texas, in 1899 and to El Campo in 1907. Mother died in Austin, Texas, December 31, 1965. She was the youngest of eight sisters and two brothers. One of her sisters was Mrs. L. O. (Jessie) Lundy of El Campo.
Dad was born in Madison County, Missouri, January 8, 1883. He met mother during his summer vacations in Rock Island. He was next to the youngest of three brothers and three sisters. He died in Austin on August 4, 1958.
After they married in Rock Island, Texas, in 1906, they settled in Kansas City, Missouri and then moved to El Campo in 1909. Their final move was to Austin, Texas, in 1938. They are both buried in El Campo at O.D.H.S. Cemetery.
Mother graduated from Sam Houston State Teachers College in Huntsville, Texas. She taught school before she married. She was from a long line of farmers from Pennsylvania, Ohio, Iowa and Missouri.
Dad graduated from Physicians and Surgeons College in St. Louis, Missouri in 1906 and was from a long line of physicians stemming from two M.D.'s of three brothers was came to America from England. He was raised a Baptist. The Mayfield name appears often in a book giving the hisotry of "Baptists of Southeast Missouri" printed in 1888. Dad played football and baseball in college. In El Campo, he was active in land development and the Mayfield and Clark Realty Company operating a special coach on the railroad bringing prospective buyers from the north to buy land.
Dad's health was poor and in 1928, he and mother renovated the old Rice Hotel and operated it as the Mayfield Hotel until 1938 when they sold it and moved to Austin where he was in advertising until his death in 1958.
For many years Dad was City Secretary and I cherish his signature on a copy of my birth certificate from the files in Austin. As correspondent for the Houston Post and Houston Chronicle, he was the voice of El Campo with his news reports and coined the name "El Campo Rice Birds" for our high school football team. He always kept a score board for the town baseball team.
Mother always loved flowers and I have a picture of her from the Austin-American Statesmen standing in a beautiful bed of flowers in her front lawn in Austin. She always loved her bridge club in El Campo and later in Austin was historian for the Austin Woman's Federation.
Mother and Dad had two children born in El Campo: George Malcolm Mayfield born April 14, 1912 who on December 27th, 1947 married Dorothy Nina Smith of Houston, Texas. They have no children. Franklin Drew Mayfield, born May 21, 1915 who on August 16, 1952, married Mary Jane Field of Dallas, Texas. They have three children all born in Corpus Christi, Texas: Mary Jo Delahaye, John Drew Mayfield and Lucy Rose Mayfield.
Mother and Dad solved the Methodist/Baptist problem by becoming Presbyterians and raised us as Presbyterians. Filling out the circle, Malcolm married an Episcopalian and became an Episcopalian and I married a Baptist and we are Methodist. Our daughter, Mary Jo and her family are Catholic.
Both Malcom and I graduated from Texas A.&I. in Kingsville and from the University of Texas at Austin. Malcolm was a Civil Engineer and is no retired from the U.S.Corps of Engineers and he and Dorothy live in Galveston. I was a Chemical Engineer (PhD.) and am retired from Foster-Grant Co., Inc. and Mary Jane and I live in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
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the above was written by Franklin Drew Mayfield
George Malcolm Mayfield died in Galveston, Galveston County, Texas on the 14th of June of 2003.
Franklin Drew Mayfield died in Baton Rouge, Louisiana on the 7th of August of 1992.
Transcribed from a biography written by their son, F. Drew Mayfield. Biography in the El Campo Public Library in the Research and Genealogy room in the book "Memories and Memorials".
Mother and Dad were both born in Missouri, married in Rock Island, Texas, June 5th, 1906 and moved to El Campo, Texas in 1909. Mother was Grayce Irene Johnson and was born August 17, 1884 in Mercer County, Missouri. Her mother and father moved to Rock Island, Texas, in 1899 and to El Campo in 1907. Mother died in Austin, Texas, December 31, 1965. She was the youngest of eight sisters and two brothers. One of her sisters was Mrs. L. O. (Jessie) Lundy of El Campo.
Dad was born in Madison County, Missouri, January 8, 1883. He met mother during his summer vacations in Rock Island. He was next to the youngest of three brothers and three sisters. He died in Austin on August 4, 1958.
After they married in Rock Island, Texas, in 1906, they settled in Kansas City, Missouri and then moved to El Campo in 1909. Their final move was to Austin, Texas, in 1938. They are both buried in El Campo at O.D.H.S. Cemetery.
Mother graduated from Sam Houston State Teachers College in Huntsville, Texas. She taught school before she married. She was from a long line of farmers from Pennsylvania, Ohio, Iowa and Missouri.
Dad graduated from Physicians and Surgeons College in St. Louis, Missouri in 1906 and was from a long line of physicians stemming from two M.D.'s of three brothers was came to America from England. He was raised a Baptist. The Mayfield name appears often in a book giving the hisotry of "Baptists of Southeast Missouri" printed in 1888. Dad played football and baseball in college. In El Campo, he was active in land development and the Mayfield and Clark Realty Company operating a special coach on the railroad bringing prospective buyers from the north to buy land.
Dad's health was poor and in 1928, he and mother renovated the old Rice Hotel and operated it as the Mayfield Hotel until 1938 when they sold it and moved to Austin where he was in advertising until his death in 1958.
For many years Dad was City Secretary and I cherish his signature on a copy of my birth certificate from the files in Austin. As correspondent for the Houston Post and Houston Chronicle, he was the voice of El Campo with his news reports and coined the name "El Campo Rice Birds" for our high school football team. He always kept a score board for the town baseball team.
Mother always loved flowers and I have a picture of her from the Austin-American Statesmen standing in a beautiful bed of flowers in her front lawn in Austin. She always loved her bridge club in El Campo and later in Austin was historian for the Austin Woman's Federation.
Mother and Dad had two children born in El Campo: George Malcolm Mayfield born April 14, 1912 who on December 27th, 1947 married Dorothy Nina Smith of Houston, Texas. They have no children. Franklin Drew Mayfield, born May 21, 1915 who on August 16, 1952, married Mary Jane Field of Dallas, Texas. They have three children all born in Corpus Christi, Texas: Mary Jo Delahaye, John Drew Mayfield and Lucy Rose Mayfield.
Mother and Dad solved the Methodist/Baptist problem by becoming Presbyterians and raised us as Presbyterians. Filling out the circle, Malcolm married an Episcopalian and became an Episcopalian and I married a Baptist and we are Methodist. Our daughter, Mary Jo and her family are Catholic.
Both Malcom and I graduated from Texas A.&I. in Kingsville and from the University of Texas at Austin. Malcolm was a Civil Engineer and is no retired from the U.S.Corps of Engineers and he and Dorothy live in Galveston. I was a Chemical Engineer (PhD.) and am retired from Foster-Grant Co., Inc. and Mary Jane and I live in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
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the above was written by Franklin Drew Mayfield
George Malcolm Mayfield died in Galveston, Galveston County, Texas on the 14th of June of 2003.
Franklin Drew Mayfield died in Baton Rouge, Louisiana on the 7th of August of 1992.
Mother and Dad were both born in Missouri, married in Rock Island, Texas, June 5th, 1906 and moved to El Campo, Texas in 1909. Mother was Grayce Irene Johnson and was born August 17, 1884 in Mercer County, Missouri. Her mother and father moved to Rock Island, Texas, in 1899 and to El Campo in 1907. Mother died in Austin, Texas, December 31, 1965. She was the youngest of eight sisters and two brothers. One of her sisters was Mrs. L. O. (Jessie) Lundy of El Campo.
Dad was born in Madison County, Missouri, January 8, 1883. He met mother during his summer vacations in Rock Island. He was next to the youngest of three brothers and three sisters. He died in Austin on August 4, 1958.
After they married in Rock Island, Texas, in 1906, they settled in Kansas City, Missouri and then moved to El Campo in 1909. Their final move was to Austin, Texas, in 1938. They are both buried in El Campo at O.D.H.S. Cemetery.
Mother graduated from Sam Houston State Teachers College in Huntsville, Texas. She taught school before she married. She was from a long line of farmers from Pennsylvania, Ohio, Iowa and Missouri.
Dad graduated from Physicians and Surgeons College in St. Louis, Missouri in 1906 and was from a long line of physicians stemming from two M.D.'s of three brothers was came to America from England. He was raised a Baptist. The Mayfield name appears often in a book giving the hisotry of "Baptists of Southeast Missouri" printed in 1888. Dad played football and baseball in college. In El Campo, he was active in land development and the Mayfield and Clark Realty Company operating a special coach on the railroad bringing prospective buyers from the north to buy land.
Dad's health was poor and in 1928, he and mother renovated the old Rice Hotel and operated it as the Mayfield Hotel until 1938 when they sold it and moved to Austin where he was in advertising until his death in 1958.
For many years Dad was City Secretary and I cherish his signature on a copy of my birth certificate from the files in Austin. As correspondent for the Houston Post and Houston Chronicle, he was the voice of El Campo with his news reports and coined the name "El Campo Rice Birds" for our high school football team. He always kept a score board for the town baseball team.
Mother always loved flowers and I have a picture of her from the Austin-American Statesmen standing in a beautiful bed of flowers in her front lawn in Austin. She always loved her bridge club in El Campo and later in Austin was historian for the Austin Woman's Federation.
Mother and Dad had two children born in El Campo: George Malcolm Mayfield born April 14, 1912 who on December 27th, 1947 married Dorothy Nina Smith of Houston, Texas. They have no children. Franklin Drew Mayfield, born May 21, 1915 who on August 16, 1952, married Mary Jane Field of Dallas, Texas. They have three children all born in Corpus Christi, Texas: Mary Jo Delahaye, John Drew Mayfield and Lucy Rose Mayfield.
Mother and Dad solved the Methodist/Baptist problem by becoming Presbyterians and raised us as Presbyterians. Filling out the circle, Malcolm married an Episcopalian and became an Episcopalian and I married a Baptist and we are Methodist. Our daughter, Mary Jo and her family are Catholic.
Both Malcom and I graduated from Texas A.&I. in Kingsville and from the University of Texas at Austin. Malcolm was a Civil Engineer and is no retired from the U.S.Corps of Engineers and he and Dorothy live in Galveston. I was a Chemical Engineer (PhD.) and am retired from Foster-Grant Co., Inc. and Mary Jane and I live in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
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the above was written by Franklin Drew Mayfield
George Malcolm Mayfield died in Galveston, Galveston County, Texas on the 14th of June of 2003.
Franklin Drew Mayfield died in Baton Rouge, Louisiana on the 7th of August of 1992.
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MAYFIELD
DR. GEORGE F.
JAN 8, 1883
AUG 4, 1958
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