Dicey (Garren) Maxwell (abt. 1833 - 1903)

Died 22 Jan 1903 at about age 70 in Henderson, North Carolina, United States

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Biography

Dicey was born about 1833. The 1850 US Census has her living in the household of John Garren. She married William Pinckney Maxwell. (Her sister, Elizabeth married William’s brother, Cary Maxwell.)

This bio was taken from a family record and written by Donna J Patterson Stover: "William Pinckney Maxwell and Dicey Garren Maxwell had two sons, John, who died at the age of three years, and William Ervin. Dicey never remarried when William perished during the Civil War in a POW camp in Tennessee from typhoid fever. She lived for a period with her sister, Elizabeth and brother-in-law-law, Cary Maxwell, and later with her son, William Ervin and his family. Dicey was a petite woman with a fiery temper and an imposing nature. Her family was of German descent and she spoke with a heavy accent. Dicey Maxwell died 22 January 1903, and is buried in Liberty Baptist Church Cemetery next to a memorial marker for William Pinckney."

Of interest, two Maxwell brothers, Cary and William Pinckney, married two Garren sisters, Elizabeth and Dicey.

Sources

Cemetery Records, census records, family Bibles, county records, archive records, and oral family history cited by Donna J. Patterson Stover.

Year: 1850; Census Place: Subdivision 33, Gilmer, Georgia; Roll: 70; Page: 348b

Year: 1870; Census Place: Edneyville, Henderson, North Carolina; Roll: M593_1143; Page: 256B Dicey is listed in the household of Cary and Elizabeth Maxwell.

Year: 1900; Census Place: Edneyville, Henderson, North Carolina; Roll: 1200; Page: 9; Enumeration District: 0038; FHL microfilm: 1241200

North Carolina State Archives; Raleigh, North Carolina; North Carolina Death Certificates. Death certificate of Son, William Ervin Maxwell.

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/82231803/dicey-maxwell