Husband: Edwin Maxwell
Born: Jul-16-1825 in Weston, Lewis Co, (W)VA 1,2,3
Died: Feb- 5-1903 in Charleston, Kanawha Co, WV 1 (see note 1)
Buried: in IOOF Cemetery, Clarksburg (S Chestnut St), Harrison Co, WV 4,5
Resided: in Clarksburg, Harrison Co, WV 1,2
Census: 1880, 1900 in Clarksburg, Harrison Co, WV
Resided: 1872 in Doddridge Co, WV 6
Census: 1850 in Lewis Co, (W)VA
Occupation: attorney, judge, state senator, state delegate 1,7,6
Father: Levi Maxwell (1788 - 1884)
Mother: Sarah Haymond (1796 - 1853)
Notes 1
Wife: Loretta M. Shuttleworth 1,8 Census name: Lauretta Shuttleworth 9 Married: Apr-16-1872 in Clarksburg, Harrison Co, WV 10
Born: ca 1842 in Harrison Co, (W)VA 6,11 Died: Apr- 9-1895 1,4 Buried: in IOOF Cemetery, Clarksburg (S Chestnut St), Harrison Co, WV 5 Census: 1880 in Clarksburg, Harrison Co, WV Census: 1870 in Clark District, Harrison Co, WV Census: 1850 in Harrison Co, (W)VA Father: John Hancock Shuttleworth (1817 - 1889) Mother: Louisa Jane Martin (1822 - 1896)
M Child 1: Edwin Maxwell, Jr. Census name: Edwin J. Maxwell 12 Born: Nov-16-1873 in Clarksburg, Harrison Co, WV 13,6,12 Died: Jun-18-1938 in San Pedro, Los Angeles Co, CA 13 Census: 1880 in Clarksburg, Harrison Co, WV Wife: Mary Frances Farland b. ca 1877 Married: Mar-11-1896 in Clarksburg, Harrison Co, WV 6 Divorced: 1899 Wife: Frankie Lou-Vena Rewe b. Feb- 8-1876 d. Jun- 8-1918 Married: Mar- 3-1900 in San Francisco, CA 13
M Child 2: Haymond Maxwell Born: Oct-24-1879 in Clarksburg, Harrison Co, WV 1,14 Died: Dec-18-1958 in Clarksburg, Harrison Co, WV 14 Buried: in Elkview Masonic Cemetery, Clarksburg, Harrison Co, WV 14,4 Census: 1930 in Charleston, Kanawha Co, WV Census: 1880, 1900, 1910 in Clarksburg, Harrison Co, WV Occupation: attorney, judge, Justice of WV Supreme Court of Appeals 1,14,15 Education: West Virginia University (1900) 1 Wife: Carrie Virginia Maxwell b. Jan- 1-1879 d. Nov-11-1953 Married: Jun-28-1905 in Harrison Co, WV 16,1
Sources: (1) Morris Purdy Shawkey, West Virginia in History, Life, Literature and Industry (Lewis Publishing Co, Chicago & New York, 1928) (2) Minnie Kendall Lowther, History of Ritchie County (1911, reprinted 1999, McClain Printing Co, Parsons WV, http://McClainPrinting.com), p. 602. (3) 1850 Census, Lewis County, (W)VA. (4) Cemeteries of Clark District, Harrison County, WV, Harrison County Genealogical Society, Clarksburg, WV. (5) Headstone. (6) Harrison County Marriage Records, Clarksburg, WV. (7) Lathrop Russell Charter, The Lowther Family of Doddridge County, West Virginia (self-published Nov 9 1951, on file at Doddridge County Library). This paper was found to contain many factual errors. p. 1. (8) Death record of son. (9) 1870 Census, Harrison County, WV. (10) Harrison County Marriage Records, Clarksburg, WV, Identified as Edwin Maxwell, single, age (blank), b. Lewis Co, res. Doddridge Co, son of Levi & Sarah Maxwell, occupation Judge of Sup Ct of Appeals; and Loretta M. Shuttleworth, single, 30, b. & res. in Harrison Co, dau of John H. & Louisa J. Shuttleworth. Married Apr 16 1872 in Clarksburg. MR p. 79. (11) Headstone - Date calculated from age at death. (12) 1880 Census, Harrison County, WV. (13) Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970, Ancestry.com. (14) Harrison County Death Records, Clarksburg, WV. (15) Obituary of son. (16) Harrison County WV Marriages 1895-1912, Wes Cochran, 2515 10th Ave, Parkersburg, WV 26101 (Feb 2001) Event Notes Note (1) Minnie Kendall Lowther, HRC, p. 602, reports death date as 1893. But Morris Purdy Shawkey's publication twice states that Edwin Maxwell's death occurred on Feb 5 1903 in Charleston during the regular session of the WV state legislature, to which he was a delegate.