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Joseph W Maxwell (1795 - 1881)

Joseph W Maxwell
Born in South Carolina, United Statesmap
Son of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
Husband of — married before 15 Aug 1817 in Orange, Indiana, United Statesmap
Husband of — married 7 Feb 1851 in Lawrence, Indiana, United Statesmap
Descendants descendants
Father of
Died at age 85 in Lawrence, Douglas, Kansas, United Statesmap
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Contents

Biography

Joseph was born in 1795. He passed away in 1881.

Name

Name: Joseph W /Maxwell/
Given Name: Joseph W
Surname: Maxwell
Name: Joseph W. /Maxwell/
Given Name: Joseph W.
Surname: Maxwell[1]

Birth

Birth:
Date: 11 Mar 1795
Place: South Carolina[2]

Death

Death:
Date: 26 Jan 1881
Place: Lawrence, Douglas Co, KS


Event

Event:
Type: Alt. Birth
Date: 11 Mar 1795
Place: SC
Event:
Type: Residence3
Date: Abt 1796
Place: Church River, NC[3]
Event:
Type: Residence3
Date: Abt 1796
Place: Church River, NC[4]
Event:
Type: Residence2
Date: Abt 1808
Place: Greenville, IN[5]
Event:
Type: Residence2
Date: Abt 1808
Place: Greenville, IN[6]
Event:
Type: Residence3
Date: Abt 1811
Place: Lost River, Orange, IN[7]
Event:
Type: Individual Note1
Date: 27 Oct 1811
Place: Witnessed Joseph Maxwell's Will Along With James Maxwell And Sarah Maxwell[8]
Event:
Type: Individual Note1
Date: 27 Oct 1811
Place: Witnessed Joseph Maxwell's Will Along With James Maxwell And Sarah Maxwell[9]
Event:
Type: Military
Date: 10 Apr 1813
Place: Enlisted In Capt. Wm.'S Hoggatts Co. Indiana Infantry Militia[10]
Event:
Type: Property1
Date: 16 Jul 1813
Place: Orleans Twp., Orange, In-Bought Land: T2n, R1e, Nw Section 4, 158 Acres[11]
Event:
Type: Property1
Date: 16 Jul 1813
Place: Orleans Twp., Orange, In-Bought Land: T2n, R1e, Nw Section 4, 158 Acres[12]
Event:
Type: Residence4
Date: Abt 1815
Place: Cave Spring, IN[13]
Event:
Type: Residence4
Date: Abt 1815
Place: Cave Spring, IN[14]
Event:
Type: Property2
Date: 16 Jun 1815
Place: Orleans Twp., Orange, In-Bought Land: T2n, R1e, Nw Section 3, 160 Acres[15]
Event:
Type: Census1820
Date: 1820
Place: Orange, Indiana, USA[16]
Event:
Type: Census1820
Date: 1820
Place: Orange, Indiana, USA[17]
Event:
Type: Individual Note2
Date: 1820
Place: In The Indiana 1820 Enumeration Of Males - Orange County, IN[18]
Event:
Type: Census1830
Date: 1830
Place: Orange County, Indiana[19]
Event:
Type: Property3
Date: Nov 1837
Place: Orleans Twp., Orange, In-Bought Land: T2n, R1e, E1/2 Of Se Section 6, 80 Acres[20]
Event:
Type: Census1840
Date: 1840
Place: Orange County, Indiana[21]
Event:
Type: Individual Note3
Date: 1841
Place: Joseph Became The Guardian Of Findleys Heirs[22]
Event:
Type: Individual Note3
Date: 1841
Place: Joseph Became The Guardian Of Findleys Heirs[23]
Event:
Type: Property10
Date: 1841
Place: Tax Value Of Land And Improvements $8, 930.[24]
Event:
Type: Property10
Date: 1841
Place: Tax Value Of Land And Improvements $8, 930.[25]
Event:
Type: Property4
Date: 1841
Place: Orange, In, Tax List No. 152; Polls 1; 153 Acres; Ne S4, 2N, 1E[26]
Event:
Type: Property4
Date: 1841
Place: Orange, In, Tax List No. 152; Polls 1; 153 Acres; Ne S4, 2N, 1E[27]
Event:
Type: Property5
Date: 1841
Place: Orange, In, Tax List No. 152; Polls 1; 160 Acres; Nw S4, 2N, 1E[28]
Event:
Type: Property5
Date: 1841
Place: Orange, In, Tax List No. 152; Polls 1; 160 Acres; Nw S4, 2N, 1E[29]
Event:
Type: Property6
Date: 1841
Place: Orange, In, Tax List No. 152; Polls 1; 160 Acres; Se 32; 3N; 1E[30]
Event:
Type: Property6
Date: 1841
Place: Orange, In, Tax List No. 152; Polls 1; 160 Acres; Se 32; 3N; 1E[31]
Event:
Type: Property7
Date: 1841
Place: Orange, In, Tax List No. 152; Polls 1; 160 Acres; Se S5, 2N, 1E[32]
Event:
Type: Property7
Date: 1841
Place: Orange, In, Tax List No. 152; Polls 1; 160 Acres; Se S5, 2N, 1E[33]
Event:
Type: Property8
Date: 1841
Place: Orange, In, Tax List No. 152; Polls 1; 160 Acres; Sw S4, 2N, 1E[34]
Event:
Type: Property8
Date: 1841
Place: Orange, In, Tax List No. 152; Polls 1; 160 Acres; Sw S4, 2N, 1E[35]
Event:
Type: Property9
Date: 1841
Place: Orange, In, Tax List No. 152; Polls 1; 40 Acres West; Ne S5; 2N, 1E[36]
Event:
Type: Property9
Date: 1841
Place: Orange, In, Tax List No. 152; Polls 1; 40 Acres West; Ne S5; 2N, 1E[37]
Event:
Type: Census1850
Date: 1850
Place: Orange County, In-Miller - $7, 000.[38]
Event:
Type: Residence5
Date: 1854
Place: Monroe Co., In?[39]
Event:
Type: Residence5
Date: 1854
Place: Monroe Co., In?[40]
Event:
Type: Census1860
Date: 1860
Place: Bedford, Lawrence Co., Indiana, USA[41]
Event:
Type: Census1860
Date: 1860
Place: Bedford, Lawrence, Indiana, USA[42]
Event:
Type: Residence6
Date: 1866
Place: Howard County, IN[43]
Event:
Type: Residence6
Date: 1866
Place: Howard County, IN[44]
Event:
Type: Census1870
Date: 1870[45]
Event:
Type: Residence7
Date: 1878
Place: Lawrence County, KS[46]
Event:
Type: Residence7
Date: 1878
Place: Lawrence County, KS[47]
Event:
Type: Census1880
Date: 1880[48]
Event:
Type: Alt. Death
Date: 26 Jan 1881
Place: Lawrence, Douglas, Kansas, USA[49]

Residence

Residence:
Date: 1850
Place: Orleans, Orange, Indiana[50]
Residence:
Date: 1860
Place: Shauswick, Lawrence, Indiana[51]
Residence:
Date: 1860
Place: Shauswick, Lawrence, Indiana[52]
Residence:
Date: 1880
Place: Lawrence, Douglas, Kansas, United States[53]


Marriage

Husband: Joseph W Maxwell
Wife: Mary (Polly) Finley
Date: Bef 15 Aug 1817
Place: Orange Co(?), IN

Notes

Note NI757[finley.FTW]  !Parents were James Maxwell and ??? Browne. A tattered newspaper account (no date, no source), titled "Another Pioneer Gone," abstracted by Josephine Williams, 43570 Lake Hughes Rd., Lake Hughes, CA 93532 gives the following: Born March 11, 1795 in So. Carolina, father was James Maxwell ... while still a baby, family moved to Chuach River, NC where James ran a mill. In 1808 Maxwells moved to Indiana Territory, near present Greenville. In 1811 father, James, relocated to Lost River, Orange County. Joseph W. joined Rangers (to quell Indians) ... filed for land, Cave Springs, Indiana. Married, late 1815 to Miss Mary Finley, another pioneer family ... 12 children born 1816 to 1842. Mary died Oct. 1842. In 1851 Joseph W. remarried and had 6 more children. He was a devoted Whig, idolized Henry Clay, later became a Republican. Served as justice of peace in Orange County for many years. Owned 840 acres on Lost River (lost it somehow). In 1866 he moved to Howard County, IN. In 1878 moved to Lawrence, KS to live with Mrs. Lindley and Mrs. Newlin, his daughters by Mary Finley. Was active, read a lot, died in his sleep Jan. 26, 1881. [finley.FTW]  !Parents were James Maxwell and ??? Browne. A tattered newspaper account (no date, no source), titled "Another Pioneer Gone," abstracted by Josephine Williams, 43570 Lake Hughes Rd., Lake Hughes, CA 93532 gives the following: Born March 11, 1795 in So. Carolina, father was James Maxwell ... while still a baby, family moved to Chuach River, NC where James ran a mill. In 1808 Maxwells moved to Indiana Territory, near present Greenville. In 1811 father, James, relocated to Lost River, Orange County. Joseph W. joined Rangers (to quell Indians) ... filed for land, Cave Springs, Indiana. Married, late 1815 to Miss Mary Finley, another pioneer family ... 12 children born 1816 to 1842. Mary died Oct. 1842. In 1851 Joseph W. remarried and had 6 more children. He was a devoted Whig, idolized Henry Clay, later became a Republican. Served as justice of peace in Orange County for many years. Owned 840 acres on Lost River (lost it somehow). In 1866 he moved to Howard County, IN. In 1878 moved to Lawrence, KS to live with Mrs. Lindley and Mrs. Newlin, his daughters by Mary Finley. Was active, read a lot, died in his sleep Jan. 26, 1881. [finley.FTW]  !Parents were James Maxwell and ??? Browne. A tattered newspaper account (no date, no source), titled "Another Pioneer Gone," abstracted by Josephine Williams, 43570 Lake Hughes Rd., Lake Hughes, CA 93532 gives the following: Born March 11, 1795 in So. Carolina, father was James Maxwell ... while still a baby, family moved to Chuach River, NC where James ran a mill. In 1808 Maxwells moved to Indiana Territory, near present Greenville. In 1811 father, James, relocated to Lost River, Orange County. Joseph W. joined Rangers (to quell Indians) ... filed for land, Cave Springs, Indiana. Married, late 1815 to Miss Mary Finley, another pioneer family ... 12 children born 1816 to 1842. Mary died Oct. 1842. In 1851 Joseph W. remarried and had 6 more children. He was a devoted Whig, idolized Henry Clay, later became a Republican. Served as justice of peace in Orange County for many years. Owned 840 acres on Lost River (lost it somehow). In 1866 he moved to Howard County, IN. In 1878 moved to Lawrence, KS to live with Mrs. Lindley and Mrs. Newlin, his daughters by Mary Finley. Was active, read a lot, died in his sleep Jan. 26, 1881. [finley.FTW]  !Parents were James Maxwell and ??? Browne. A tattered newspaper account (no date, no source), titled "Another Pioneer Gone," abstracted by Josephine Williams, 43570 Lake Hughes Rd., Lake Hughes, CA 93532 gives the following: Born March 11, 1795 in So. Carolina, father was James Maxwell ... while still a baby, family moved to Chuach River, NC where James ran a mill. In 1808 Maxwells moved to Indiana Territory, near present Greenville. In 1811 father, James, relocated to Lost River, Orange County. Joseph W. joined Rangers (to quell Indians) ... filed for land, Cave Springs, Indiana. Married, late 1815 to Miss Mary Finley, another pioneer family ... 12 children born 1816 to 1842. Mary died Oct. 1842. In 1851 Joseph W. remarried and had 6 more children. He was a devoted Whig, idolized Henry Clay, later became a Republican. Served as justice of peace in Orange County for many years. Owned 840 acres on Lost River (lost it somehow). In 1866 he moved to Howard County, IN. In 1878 moved to Lawrence, KS to live with Mrs. Lindley and Mrs. Newlin, his daughters by Mary Finley. Was active, read a lot, died in his sleep Jan. 26, 1881.

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  • Source: S170 Abbreviation: Public Member Trees Title: Public Member Trees Author: Ancestry.com Publication: Name: Name: Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2006;;;
  • "Lawrence Daily Journal" (Lawrence, Kansas) 27 Jan 1881 p 4




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