Maynard

The Maynards
My paternal grandmother, Mildred Maynard Clark (1897-1952), was born in Chardon, Ohio. Her father was Charles S. Maynard (b. 1868) and her mother was Myrta (or Mertie) Taylor Maynard (b. 1867). Mildred's siblings were John, Malcolm, and Jane.

My great-grandfather Charles S. Maynard was born in Hambden, Ohio (Geauga County) . He contracted Polio as a child and walked on crutches the rest of his life. He worked for the B&O railroad. My Aunt Janet says, "I can still see him with the headphones on talking into some kind of microphone while he was working out of the house. His hobby was restoring old clocks and repairing their wooden works."

Charles S. Maynard's father was Milton Lewis Maynard (b. 1835), and his mother was named Mary A. McNaughton Maynard.
 
Milton Lewis Maynard's father was Lewis Gould Maynard, b. 1808 in Massachusetts. (Note: My middle name, as well as my father's, is Lewis.)

I've traced the Maynard family line back to John Maynard, born 1575 in England. The Maynard family immigrated to Massachusetts sometime before 1669, when David Maynard was born in Marlborough, Middlesex Co, Mass. Lewis Gould Maynard seems to have been the first Maynard to move to Geauga County, Ohio sometime before 1835. Here is a list of "begats."

Milton Lewis Maynard, born 1835, Geauga County, OH
his father--Lewis Gould Maynard, born 1808, Hampshire Co., MA
his father--Jonathan Maynard, born 1778, Worcester Co, MA
his father--Jonathan Maynard, born 1752, same town as above
his father--Ebenezer Maynard, born 1716, same town as above. Wife--Amy Dodge Maynard
his father--David Maynard, born 1669, Middlesex Co. MA
his father--John Maynard III, born 1630, Kent, England
his father--John Maynard, Jr., born 1598, Cambridgshire, England
his father--John Maynard, born 1575, England

In 1660, John Maynard III received a land grant for 26 acres in Marlborough Plantation, MA.