OBITS: MAXWELL,Robert 1879 Jefferson County Ohio

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STEUBENVILLE WEEKLY GAZETTE, Friday, April 4, 1879. 
MAXWELL, ROBERT, a native of Jefferson County, died Wednesday, April 2nd. 
At his residence in Bloomfield, aged 68 years. The deceased was the son of 
James Maxwell, one of the original pioneers of this county, having come 
here from Pennsylvania and located in Wayne Township about the year 1802. 
Here  the deceased was born in the year 1811, living and dying in sight 
of the place of his birth. By occupation he was a tanner, but for the 
last 25 years has followed farming.  In 1837 he was united in marriage 
to Miss Mary Davis daughter of John Davis of Knox County, who bore him 
six children, four of whom with the mother have preceded the father to 
the spirit land, the mother dying a year ago last January. The two children 
left  to moarn the death are Miss Nellie and Edwin M. Maxwell, who reside in 
Bloomfield. The deceased was a member of the Presbyterian Church for the 
past fifty years, and at the time of his death was Justice of the Peace of 
Wayne Township;an honest, upright man, and highly esteemed by all who knew 
him.