Danielena Harvie "Lena",
a daughter of Daniel Lockhart Harvie (1811-1851) and Sarah
Susan Harvie née Lavers (1820-1875)
1,
2, was born in 1851
3
in Newport, Hants County, Nova Scotia; died 28 Apr 1928
4
in Los Angeles, California, USA; buried Oak Grove Cemetery,
Glennville, Kern County, California, USA. She married in
Glennville,
David Clayton Maddux,
born in 1845
5; died 27 Jul 1914
4 in Glennville; buried Oak Grove
Cemetery, Glennville, possibly a son of Phineas Maddux
(1810-1887).
Danielena (Lena) arrived in California from Nova
Scotia later than her two older full-sisters Ellen and Caroline
(Carrie). The 1871 Canadian census listed Danielena aged 20
years, and half siblings Oscar aged 17 and Ida aged 12,
residing in a household in Scotch Village near Avondale in
Hants County with their widowed mother Sarah Harvie aged 50
and a seaman who was presumably her defacto.
It is said Danielena's Nova Scotian born uncle David Lavers,
who was a pioneer settler in 1855 in Linns Valley in Kern
County, arrived in California in 1852 from the East coming
round Cape Horn and quote that he - "In 1875 went back to
his earlier surroundings to win himself a wife whom he
married and brought back to his new well established home and
business" 6. As his October
1875 marriage to Anna Cook was in Sackville, New Brunswick
7, not far from where Sarah L.
Harvie and her three children would have been living prior
to her death on 16 June 1875, it seems likely following
his marriage that when he returned to California he was
accompanied by nieces Danielena and Ida Harvie. Published
writings of Californian Lavers family genealogist Florence
Myers in the Genealogical of Kern County periodical
Kern-Gen state Danielena's sister Carrie came
to Kern Co. with her grandparents William and Susan Lavers
in 1858 and that the other Harvey (sic) nieces of David
Lavers came in 1859 with their uncle John Lavers and all
traveled to California by ship, crossing the Isthmus of
Panama and thence to San Francisco and by stage coach
to Linns Valley. However such clearly was not the case.
Danielena's half-sister Ida was not born until 1858
and according to the 1871 census of Canada Danielena
and Ida were still in Nova Scotia living with their mother
Sarah! Ellen married in Kern County in 1866 but even she
could not have come to CA in 1859 as she was not listed
in Lavers household in Linns Valley at the 1860 census.
Carrie's obituary stated she came to California in 1871
making the trip around Cape Horn in company with her uncle
John Lavers 8 .
Confirming such is that neither Carrie or her uncle
John Lavers (1835-1911) were listed in Kern County with
the other family members in the Lavers household at the
1870 Kern Co. census. If Carrie had arrived earlier she
should have been listed. (Note: arrival years for all
four sisters could be ascertained from the 1900 census
and confirmed in the case of Carrie, Danielena and Ida
from the 1910 and 1920 census). Danielena and her half
sister Ida both married members of the Maddux family
with Ida marrying Robert (Bob) Maddux.
An Australian Harvie family legend was that Walter Harvie's
half sister Danielena once owned a gold mine in Alaska.
As no trace has been found of Danielena's approx. ten
years older half brother William Andrew Harvie after a
listing in the Lavers household in 1870 census of Kern
County with the occupation of miner, it is possible
Andrew may have moved to Alaska after the first gold
strike there in 1880, or later at the time of big
strikes near the turn of the century. If he had died
in Alaska without issue it is possible his estate may
have included a mining lease that was left to Danielena.
Same could apply if an Alaskan gold mine had been that
of Danielena's three years younger half-brother Oscar
J. Harvie (or Harvey) and been left to her.
Danielena's
husband David Clayton "Clay" Maddux was a rancher in
the Linns Valley area (near Glennville) 9. As a Maddux family was not
listed there in the 1870 census the family likely
arrived in the area between 1870 and 1875. Both David C.
and a Phineaus Maddux, who was perhaps his father,
were listed in a 1875 record as residents of
Glennville 10.
At the time of this 1998 compilation a Danielena
great-grandson Nathan Carver and his wife Nancy were
still in occupancy of the original Clay and Danielena
Maddux Ranch in Dunlap Road, Glennville. Danielena's
children comprised at least the below listed three
sons whose names were given as pallbearers at the
1930 Bakersville funeral of her sister Caroline (Carrie) Hill.
The 1880 and 1900 census has not been checked to identify
any additional children. The Nathan Carvers' of Dunlap
Road are known to hold a pre-1907 photograph of the
three sisters Ellen, Caroline, Danielena and their
half-sister Ida (perhaps the same photo, referred to
in a 1925 letter from Walter Harvie that had been
sent to him in Australia ca. 1924 by his half-sister
Carrie Hill that has not survived in Australia). However
unfortunately they have not chosen to make a copy
available for this compilation and did not reply to
two 1998 letters from by the compiler requesting some
info on the Danielena and Clay Maddux family history.
Children of Danielena Harvie and David Clayton
Maddux were:-
+ 1. Arthur H Maddux
2. George
M Maddux
3. Marvin
Maddux
SECOND GENERATION
1. Arthur H Maddux, born in 1878 5
in Gennville, Kern County, CA; died 1954 5;
buried in Oak Grove Cemetery, Glennville. He married Mary B (---)
5, born in 1877 5; died 1949 5;
buried in Oak Grove Cemetery, Glennville.
2. George M Maddux, he may have been born
in Glennville 3 Dec 1879 11;
died Jan 1973 11 in Costa Mesa, Orange County. CA.
3. Marvin Maddux, born 4 Mar 1883 11
in Glennville: died Sep 1976 11
in Glennville. He married a daughter of Rachael Morrison.
Sources:
1
Leland H. Harvie, "The Harvie/Harvey Family of Hants County
Nova Scotia", Hantsport (1984)
2
Distribution of Personal Property Order, Judge Bowman,
Court of Probate, Windsor, Hants County, Nova Scotia,
12 Jun 1866.
3
1871 Census of Hants County, Nova Scotia, (Scotch Village,
section A1, # 81/83) records her aged 20 yrs. Her Oak
Grove Cemetery headstone states born 1851.
4
Californian Death Index - Maddux, D. C. - 27 Jul 1914,
Kern Co., aged 68. Maddux, Lena - 28 April 1928, Los
Angeles Co., aged 77.
5
KERN-GEN Quarterly, Journal of the Genealogical
Society of Kern County, Vol. 6:2 of June 1969, listing of
Oak Grove Cemetery headstones surnames H-V.
6
Guy Hughes, Lynn's Valley Tales and Others, (1976),
page 10.
7
E-mail dated 31 May 1998 from Rod S. McDowell, Kennewick,
WA, USA, providing biographical data on David Lavers, citing
source material orginating from Malcolm Lavers of Turo,
Nova Scotia (provided by others).
8
Caroline Hill Obituary, The Bakersfield Californian,
mid-March 1932.
9
David Clayton Maddux Obituary, The Bakersfield Californian,
July 1914.
10
KERN-GEN Quarterly Vol IV, Jun-Sep 1967;
"1875 Residents of Glennville, Panama, Piute and Sageland"
(various small towns in Kern Co, not geographically close) -
Maddux, DC, farmer, Glennville, Maddux, P, farmer, Glennville.
11 Social Security Death Index.
Researched & compiled by John Raymond, Brisbane, Australia
First posted 16 Jun 1998
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