SSA: Mary R. Mayfield One Hundred Years in Bandera - page 73
Bandera County Pioneers.
The accompanying photo was taken of Mr. and Mrs Brice H. Mayfield in 1949, a short while before Mr. Mayfield passed away, February 28, 1951, at the age of 83 years. Mr. Mayfield came to Bandera county with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. B. M. Mayfield in 1878. The family first settled at Tarpley, but later moved to Medina, where they reared their family of twelve children.
Brice H. Mayfield grew up on the open range and became a cowboy, and made a trip "up the Chisholm trail" with cattle. He spent some time in New Mexico when he was a lad 16 or 17 years old, being employed by that great cattle baron, John S. Chisum shortly after the Lincoln County War had spent its force and there he knew quite a number of the men who were involved in that conflict.
When he returned from New Mexico in 1895, he married Mary Smith, settled down in good old Bandera county, and engaged in ranching and farming. For several years before his health broke down he carried the ___ routes out of Medina, and when he cound no longer make the daily trips, he mended shoes, maintaining a shoe shop at his home.



Kerrville Times, Feb 28, 1951, B. H. Mayfield Rites Today at Medina for Retired Stock Farmer

Funeral services for Brice H. Mayfield, 82, were held from the Medina Baptist Church today with the Rev. Ben Thompson officating.

Burial was in the Baker Cemetery, Medina under the direction of Smith Funeral Home.

Mayfield was a retired stock farmer who had lived in Bandera County near Medina for 76 years. He was a native of Greenville, Texas

Survivors include Mrs. Mary Mayfield, wife of the departed, three children D. M. Mayfield, Medina Texas; B. S. Mayfield Medina, Texas; Mrs R. H. Love, Port Arthur, Texas; twenty grandchildren and twenty two great-grandchildren. also two brothers Harry Mayfield, Woodville, Texas; and J. H. Mayfield, Medina, Texas and two sisters, Mrs. Maud Holster for Fort Worth, Texas and Mrs. K. J. Banta Medina, Texas.