BIO: Catesby J. Mayfield - Shelby Co, KY ---------- Submitted by: Phyllis Hill History of Pike and Dubois Counties, Indiana Chicago: Goodspeed Bros. & Co., Publishers, 1885 Dubois County, Jefferson Township, page 728 CATESBY J. MAYFIELD was born January 7, 1837, in Shelby County, Ky., and is a son of Southerland and Amelia Mayfield, the former a native of Kentucky, the latter of Ontario, Canada. They made Kentucky their home, and in that State the father died in August, 1862. The mother still resides with a daughter in Kentucky. Our subject passed his boyhood on a farm and received a common school education, the advantages of that time being very limited. At the age of fourteen, he went to Louisville, Ky., and engaged as a clerk in a grocery establishment, and six years later, removed to central Indiana, and became a mechanical engineer on a railroad. In August, 1861, he went to Bowling Green and enlisted in the First Regiment Kentucky Calvary, remaining in the service nearly four years. October 26, 1861, he was wounded in the leg in a skirmish; April, 1862, he went with Bragg into Kentucky, and November 19, was mustered out to recruit. He re-enlisted for three years, was chosen first lieutenant of Company B, First Kentucky Cavalry. March 1863, he was appointed assistant quartermaster, and November 1, was commissioned captain and quartermaster of the regiment. He was in the battles of Chickamauga, Rocky Face Gap, Resaca, Dallas, Kenesaw Mountain, and many of the battles of North and South Carolina and Georgia. May 25, 1865, he was discharged, and came home and engaged in the lumber business for firms in Kentucky, and came to Birdseye, Ind., August 28, 1882 and entered in the drug business in which he has been very successful. At the age of forty-seven, he married Helen Thornton of Ontario, Canada, June 11, 1885. In politics he is a Democrat and a member of the F. & A. M. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free genelaogical information on the Internet, data may be freely used for personal research and by non-commercial entities as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may not be reproduced in any format or presentation by other organizations or persons.Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for profit or any form of presentation, must obtain the written consent of the file submitter, or his legal representative and then contact the listed USGENWEB archivist with proof of this consent.