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WILLIAM MAXWELL (deceased), was a native of Washington county, Va., born March 23, 1819. At the age of twenty-one he came to Washington county, Mo., and the following year married Miss Mary A., Carson, also a native of Virginia. They lived in Washington county until 1855 when they moved to Jasper county. He was a blacksmith by trade, and engaged at that business for many years. He purchased a farm of 120 acres in 1857, upon which he built a substantial brick residence, where his widow now lives; also owned forty acres of timber. During the war he was a Union man. The outrages committed here during the war caused him to move his family to Nebraska, and afterward to Kansas, where they staid until the close of the war, when they returned to Jasper county, and he resumed his ordinary avocation up to his death, which occurred Sept. 30, 1870, leaving a family of nine children: Jane, wife of James Flood; Eliza A. (deceased), wife of A. Smith; Mary K., wife of Riley Petty; Thos. E., James F., Rose C. (deceased), wife of Jonas Myers; Louisa A., wife of William Moore; Laura A., and Inga B., second wife of Jonas Myers. Mrs. Maxwell and daughter, Miss Laura, now occupy the old homestead. She is a lady of more than ordinary attainments, having received in her youth a good education in the English branches. Her ancestors, the Carsons, of Virginia, are a very old family. Her maternal ancestors, the Rutledges, were among the original settlers of Jamestown, Va.