Idaho County ID Archives Obituaries.....Maxwell, Oscar January 27, 1954
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Idaho County Free Press, Grangeville, ID; January 28, 1954
Long Time County Resident
Oscar Maxwell Succumbs

  Oscar Maxwell, 84, a resident of Idaho County since 1892, died at General 
hospital Wednesday morning.  Although he had been a patient in the hospital 
since January 5, 1953, he always remained alert and bright, glad to visit and 
up in a chair daily and his sudden passing came as a surprise to the hospital 
staff.
  He was born in Clinton, Iowa coming to Idaho County as a young man, where he 
raised livestock, spending time at Elk City, Salmon River and other places in 
the area.
  Only survivor is his daughter, Gertrude Maxwell of Elk City who was coming 
to Grangeville Wednesday afternoon to make funeral and burial arrangements.  
The body is resting at Ailor Mortuary.

Idaho County Free Press
Thursday, February 4, 1954

Rites Held Saturday
For Oscar Maxwell

Elk City (Special)---Funeral services for Oscar Maxwell, who died at 
Grangeville January 27, were held last Saturday morning at the Ailor chapel 
with Rev. John W. Briggs officiating.  Interment was in Prairie View Cemetery.
  Mrs. Helen Brieze sang hymns with Mrs. Bob Box presiding at the organ.  
Pallbearers were John D. Spencer, M.H. Williams, George Anderson, Geo. J. 
Smith, Hugh Arnold and Idaho Litchfield.
  Oscar was born near Clinton, Missouri December 11, 1869, the second of a 
family of nine.  Three of the family survive: Charley Maxwell and Carrie 
Owens, Collins, Iowa, and Bert Maxwell, Mingo, Iowa.
  Oscar left home in 1887 and for five years cowboyed in Wyoming and Montana.  
He came to Idaho in 1892 over the old Nez Perce Indian trail, traveling with 
Ed Brown, Al Stanley, and Frank Housel.
  That winter  the men and their 18 head of pack and saddle stock wintered on 
the Salmon River at the present site of the Allison ranch.
  He trapped for the next two winters in the same vicinity before moving to 
the early mining town on Elk City where he established a saloon and livery 
stable.
  On Sept 3, 1899, he was married to Rachel N. Garner of Melrose Idaho.  Their 
first home was Dixie, Idaho where Mr. Maxwell hauled cordwood to the Ajax 
mine.  The next year he operated a sawmill on American River.  In 1901 he 
bought out Sam Myers’ homestead right in the Big Elk Creek Valley, where he 
and his family resided until he moved to Stites in the 1920’s, where he was 
associated with the operation of the old stage line from there to Elk City.
  His wife died in 1933.
  Mr. Maxwell farmed in the Stites and Kooskia areas until stricken by 
paralysis, and also had the misfortune of several broken bones.
  He had been a patient at General hospital since January 5, 1953.  His demise 
came suddenly and quietly at the hospital Wednesday morning of last week.
  His daughter, Gertrude Maxwell of Elk City, is his only survivor here in the 
west.


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