OBITS: MAXWELL,Hamilton 1879 Jefferson County Ohio

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STEUBENVILLE WEEKLY GAZETTE. Friday, July 25, 1879. 
MAXWELL 
 The remains of Hamilton Maxwell, who died at the Somerset House, Somerset, 
Pa. July 18, 1879, arrived Saturday on No. 6, and  were taken to the 
residence of John S. Maxwell, corner of Logan and Seventh Street. The deceased 
was born in Jefferson County, and for years was Clerk for C. C. Wolcott and 
others in this city. He was in the 53rd. year of his age at the time of his 
death. He was untied in marriage to Miss Sarah Rex, of this county, who, 
with an only daugher is left to mourn his death. (Sarah was the daughter of 
Benjamin Rex of this county.) After his marriage he obtained a luccrative 
position in Washington, D. C. which place he held continuously for the past 
fifteen or sixteen years. His many friends and relatives in this county will 
be pained to hear of his death. The funeral took place on Sunday afternoon 
from the residence of his brother, John S. Maxwell. The Rev. Thomas D. Pitts 
of St. Paul's Episcopal Church, conducted the religious exercises. The 
pallbearers were G. A. Maxwell, W. S. Maxwell, Frank Maxwell, of this city 
and Elliott Bard, of Allegheny City.