CHARLES HARDY MAXEY, farmer, P.O. Mt. Vernon, was born in Sumner Co., TN
  July 26, 1805, and is a son of William Maxey, deceased, a pioneer of
  Sumner Co., TN, and one of the first settlers of this county. Our
  subjects grandfather, Jesse Maxey, was a native of VA, and a pioneer of
  TN, where he was at one time scalped, tomahawked and left for dead by
  the Indians, but recovered and lived several years. Mr. Maxey came with
  his parents and settled among the Indians and wild animals in the county
    in 1818. He attended the first school ever taught in Jefferson Co.
  Joel Pace was the school teacher, and the house was a log cabin, with
  dirt floor, split poles, with pins in them for seats, and a ouncheon
  writing desk fastened on pins in the wall, just beneath a crack in the
  wall, used for window. Mr. Maxey was married, April 1, 1824, to Sallie
  Bruce, a daughter of Azarah B. Bruce (deceased). They have eight
  children, five of whom they raised to maturity, viz.: Artamissa C.
  (deceased, leaving four children), Mary E., Susan B., and Druscilla J.
  Our subject owns 136 acres of land, and has always been a farmer. He
  is a consistant member of the Methodist Episcopal Church South.

  SOURCE: Taken from History Of Jefferson County 1883 Edited by William
  Henry Perrin
  Submitted by: Misty Flannigan
  misty@midwest.net

  JEFFERSON COUNTY ILLINOIS

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