Contributed by Donna (Maxwell) Tivener
HARMAN MAXWELL died suddenly at his home in Bloomfield on Saturday night, September 2nd, in his ninetieth year. The deceased was born and reared in Wayne Township, and was the son of Robert & Sarah Maxwell who were among the first settlers there. he was married about fifty years ago to Nancy Johnson who has been dead eight years, and since then he has made his home with Frank M. Vance, an adopted son. His brothers and sisters are all dead except Allen Maxwell of Jewett, Harrison Co. Ohio. Funeral Tuesday at Bloomfield.
Steubenville Weekly Gazette, Friday, July 25, 1879.
Maxwell, Hamilton
The remains of Hamilton Maxwell, who died at the Somerset House, Somerset, Pa. July 18, 1879 arrived Saturday on No. 6, and were taken to the residence of John S. Maxwell, corner of Logan and Seventh Street. The deceased was born in Jefferson County, and for years was Clerk for C. C. Wolcott and others in this city. He was in the 53rd year of his age at the time of his death. He was united in marriage to Miss Sarah Rex, of this county, who, with an only daughter is left to mourn his death. (Sarah was the daughter of Benjamin Rex of this County.) After his marriage he obtained a lucrative position in Washington D. C., which place he held continuously for the past fifteen or sixteen years. His many friends and relatives in this county will be pained to hear of his death. The funeral took place on Sunday afternoon from the residence of his brother, John S. Maxwell,; Rev. Thomas D. Pitts of St. Pauls’s Episcopal Church conducted the religious exercises. The pall bearers were G. A. Maxwell, W. S. Maxwell, Frank Maxwell, of this city and Elliott Bard, of Allegheny city.
Maxwell, James D.
James D. Maxwell a well known citizen of Steubenville, and for many years an employee in the Jefferson nail mill, died on Saturday at his residence No. 220 South Fourth Street, in the 47th year of his age. The deceased was born in Jefferson County, Pa. March 25, 1833, and came to Steubenville about twenty-three years ago, and engaged with the Jefferson Iron Works Company as a nailer, and was an employee of theirs constantly until about three years ago, when he was forced to quit work on account of contracting the disease known as nailer’s consumption. In 1860 he was untied in marriage to Miss Margaret Jones, who with her daughter, proceeded him tot he spirit land. Some three years after the death of his first wife, August 17, 1869, he was again married to Miss Sally Fry, daughter of Mr. & Mrs. S. F. Fry, who with two children and his aged mother, survive him. He was a member of Meridian lodge, No. 234 F. & A. M., Union Chapter No. 15, R. A. M., and Steubenville Commandery No. 11, K. T. Funeral services conducted by Rev. J. M. Carr, of Kramer Church. He died Saturday, December 20, 1879; funeral Sunday.
Steubenville Weekly Gazette, Friday April 4, 1879
Maxwell, Robert
Robert Maxwell, a native of Jefferson County, died Wednesday, April 2nd, at his residence in Bloomfield, aged 68 years. The deceased was the son of James Maxwell, one of the original pioneers of this county, having come here from Pennsylvania and located in Wayne Township, about the year 1811, living and dying in sight of the place of his birth. By occupation he was a tanner, but for the last 25 years has followed farming. In 1837 he was untied in marriage to Miss Mary Davis daughter of John David of Knox county, who bore him six children, four of whom with the mother have preceded the father to the spirit land, the mother dying a year ago last January. The two children left to mourn the death are Miss Nellie and Edwin M. Maxwell, who reside in Bloomfield. The deceased was a member of the Presbyterian Church for the past fifty years, and at the time of his death was Justice of the Peace of Wayne township;...and honest, upright man, and highly esteemed by all who knew him.