Mesa County CO Archives Obituaries.....Maxwell, J. B. July 1913 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/co/cofiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Anne Livingston kybullittanne@yahoo.com February 10, 2007, 12:52 am Blue Valley Times Blue Valley Times – Dillon 25 July 1913 MAXWELL DROPS DEAD ON HEARING BOTH HIS DAUGHTERS ARE WED Telegram Announcing Romantic Marriage of Two Girls Too Much for Old Rio Grande Engineer Grand Junction, Colo – the sudden death of J. B. Maxwell brought on by shock over news of the marriage of both his daughters has cut short the romance of Bessie and Goldie Maxwell who were married to Max W. Midgley and W. C. Riter at Salt Lake City after a twelve hour courtship. When Maxwell, the oldest engineer in the Rio Grande Western Service, received the telegram at Helper, Utah, he fell from an attack of heart disease and did not recover consciousness. The girls were en route to California with their mother and stopped off in Salt Lake City. There they met Midgley and Riter, managers of the American and Liberty theaters of that city. An automobile ride followed a visit to a moving picture show. Much speedy lovemaking culminated in the wedding. The girls then telegraphed their father asking the paternal blessing. Instead they received the news of their parent’s death. Maxwell was sixty seven years old and had been a resident of Grand Junction for over a quarter of a century. =========================================================================== 1910 census Mesa Co. CO – 2nd wd. Grand Junction John B. Maxwell age 57 m. 18 years (2nd mar) born Canada (French) father b. IRE mother b. Canada (French) Sadie (wife) age 43 m. 18 years (2nd mar) mother of 5/5 living WA VA KY Bessie A. (dau) age 17 UT CAN WA Goldie S. (dau) age 15 CO CAN WA Helen (dau) age 9 UT CAN WA Josephine M. (dau) age 6 UT CAN WA 1900 census Salt Lake Co. UT – 2nd ward Salt Lake City John Maxwell b. Sep 1849 age 50 m. 8 years CAN-F CAN-F CAN-F Sadie (wife) b. Jan 1868 age 32 m. 8 years mother of 4/3 living WA KY KY Hasel (dau) b. May 1888 age 12 UT CAN WA Bessie (dau) b. Sep 1892 age 7 UT CAN WA Golda (dau) b. Oct 1894 CO CAN WA File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/co/mesa/obits/m/maxwell134gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/cofiles/ File size: 2.5 Kb