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Below is a family biography included in Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Sevier County, Arkansas published by Goodspeed Publishing Company in 1890.  These biographies are valuable for genealogy research in discovering missing ancestors or filling in the details of a family tree. Family biographies often include far more information than can be found in a census record or obituary.  Details will vary with each biography but will often include the date and place of birth, parent names including mothers' maiden name, name of wife including maiden name, her parents' names, name of children (including spouses if married), former places of residence, occupation details, military service, church and social organization affiliations, and more.  There are often ancestry details included that cannot be found in any other type of genealogical record.

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Hon. Edward V. Maxcy, farmer, Ben Lomond, Ark. To undertake to introduce to our readers the subject of this sketch, would be something entirely unnecessary, for his extensive acquaintance and long connection with the political and agricultural affairs of the county have rendered him well and popularly known. Born in Itawamba County, Miss., in 1841, he is the son of Rev. John W. G. and Jane (Alexander) Maxcy, the father a native of Mississippi and the mother of Alabama. The parents were married in the former State, and there Mr. Maxcy died in 1876. He was a self-made man, and was a minister of the gospel from the age of nineteen. He was a member of the Masonic fraternity, and was worshipful master for a number of years. The mother is still living. The paternal grandfather, Walter Maxcy, was a native of the Keystone State, and was reared partly in the forts in the early days of that State. After his marriage he moved to Mississippi, where he received his final summons. He was with Gen. Jackson in one of the early wars. His father was a Welshman, and one of seventeen brothers, all of whom served in the Revolutionary War. Grandmother Maxcy, whose maiden name was Miss Allen, was born in Edgecombe County, Md., and was of Irish descent. The maternal grandfather, David Alexander, was probably born in Alabama, and was a farmer. Hon. Edward V. Maxcy, the eldest of four sons and eight daughters, all living, received his education in the common schools, and was early initiated into the duties of farm life. When twenty years of age, or in May, 1861, he joined Company H, Second Mississippi Infantry, and served in the Army of Virginia, participating in the following battles: First Manassas, Seven Days’ fight around Richmond, Gettysburg, Seven Pines, etc. He was captured July 1, 1863, at Gettysburg, and imprisoned at Fort Delaware until the close of the war, being discharged in July, 1865, after four years and two months of hardship and suffering. He returned home in 1866 and led to the altar Miss Eliza Horan, a native of South Carolina, and the daughter of William and Naomi Horan, natives of South Carolina, where the parents lived many years. Subsequently they moved to Mississippi, where Mr. Horan died about 1885. Mrs. Horan is still living. To the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Maxcy were born four children—two sons and two daughters. Mr. Maxcy resided in Mississippi until 1875, when he came to Sevier County and settled in the woods on his present farm of 160 acres, near Ben Lomond. He is an active worker in the Agricultural Wheel, of which he is vice-president, and is senior deacon of the Ben Lomond Lodge of Masonry, No. 445. In 1886 he was elected to the Legislature, and re-elected in 1888, serving on various important committees. He has been a member of the Methodist Church since thirteen years of age, and was steward for a number of years. Mrs. Maxcy is also
a prominent member of that church.

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This family biography is one of 96 biographies included in Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Sevier County, Arkansas published in 1890.  For the complete description, click here: Sevier County, Arkansas History, Genealogy, and Maps

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