Jul-28-2018                   
             Husband: James Thomas Maxwell    
         Census name: Thomas Maxwell 
                Born: Aug- 5-1843           1,2,3
              Census: 1880                 in Clay District, Ritchie Co, WV  
             Resided: 1874                 in Harrison Co, WV  
              Census: 1850                 in Doddridge Co, (W)VA  
              Father: Nathaniel Maxwell   (1821 - 1862) 
              Mother: Clementina Davis   (1821 - 1866) 
Other spouse 1
                Wife: Ruth E. Williams     
             Married: Sep-13-1874          in Harrison Co, WV  3
                Born: ca 1854              in Harrison Co, (W)VA  3
              Census: 1880                 in Clay District, Ritchie Co, WV  
             Resided: 1874                 in Harrison Co, WV  3
              Father: Thomas A. Williams   (1822 - 1878) 
              Mother: Mary Ann Flanigan   (1827 -     ) 
           M Child 1: Hiram Maxwell      
                Born: Jul-12-1878          in Doddridge Co, WV  4,2 (see note 1)
                Died: Dec-14-1967          in Weston, Lewis Co, WV  5,4
              Buried:                      in Mt. Union Cemetery, Straight Fork, Doddridge Co, WV  6
             Resided:                      in Auburn, Ritchie Co, WV  7
             Resided: 1965                 in Doe Run (West Union), Doddridge Co, WV  8
              Census: 1900, 10, 20, 30     in Southwest District, Doddridge Co, WV   (see note 2)
              Census: 1880                 in Clay District, Ritchie Co, WV  
          Occupation:                      farmer  9
                Wife: Dosia Lipscomb  b. Jan-  -1881  d. Jan- 8-1944  
       Also known as: Docie Lipscomb 2
             Married: May-25-1902          in Doddridge Co, WV  2
                Wife: Florence Almira McGary  b. Mar- 4-1894  d. Feb-19-1965  
             Married: Jan- 2-1954          in West Union, Doddridge Co, WV  10
           F Child 2: Jessie Maxwell      
                Born: ca 1879               11

Sources:
(1) Susie Davis Nicholson, Davis - The Settlers of Salem, West Virginia, Gordon Printing Co, Strasburg OH, 1979 (Revised & 
Enlarged) < www.wvgenweb.org/harrison/books.htm >, p. 46. 
(2) Doddridge County WV Marriages 1845-1937, Wes Cochran, 156 Gihon Meadows, Apt 150, Parkersburg, WV 26101 (Jan 1993) 
(3) Harrison County Marriage Records, Clarksburg, WV. 
(4) Social Security Death Index. 
(5) West Virginia Deaths Index, 1853-1973 [database on-line], Ancestry.com. 
(6) Donald Edward Ramage, Doddridge County Cemeteries, Vol. I, 4117 Almaville Rd, Smyna TN 37167 (1988, rev. 1999) 
(7) Social Security Death Index, Social Security card issued in West Virginia before 1951. 
(8) Obituary of wife. 
(9) 1930 Census, Doddridge County, WV (Southwest District). 
(10) Doddridge County Marriage Records, West Union, WV. 
(11) 1880 Census, Ritchie County, WV (Clay District) 

Event Notes
Note (1) Middle initial given as B in 1880 Census but as M in 1930 Census.
Ages 4 in 1880 Census, 34 in 1910 Census, 44 in 1920 Census, and 54 in 1930
Census would put birth in about 1876.  But his death record states birth date as
Jul 5 1874, while the SSDI shows it as Jul 12 1878.  Birth date on headstone is
1874.
Note (2) In 1900, listed as a boarder in the household of George W. & Nancy J.
(Lipscomb) Maxwell.  Two years later, Hiram married Nancy's niece Dosia
Lipscomb.
In 1930, location specified as Straight Fork.







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