JOSEPH W. MAXEDON

MAXEDON

Posted By: Jake Tornholm (email)
Date: 4/21/2020 at 15:42:14

JOSEPH W. MAXEDON, a respected citizen of Carl township and a resident of Adams county, Iowa, since 1875, dates his birth in Orange county, Indiana, March 10, 1830. His father, Thomas Maxedon, a native of South Carolina, was a son of Thomas, Sr., also a native of the South. Our subject’s father was reared in Gibson county, Indiana, and in Orange county, that State, was married to Nancy Allen, a native of Tennessee and a daughter of Lewis Allen.

Joseph W. grew up on his father’s farm in Orange county, attended the common schools, and early in life was taught industry, honesty and sobriety. His parents passed their lives and died in Indiana, the father at the age of fifty-four and the mother at eighty. The latter was a member of the Baptist Church. Politically the father was a Whig, and by trade a saddler and harness and shoemaker. Two of their sons, Levi and Isom, were soldiers in the late war. The former, a member of the Thirty-seventh Indiana Infantry, died at Huntsville, Alabama; and the latter, a member of the Sixty-sixth Indiana Infantry, is now a resident of Pratt county, Kansas.

The subject of our sketch lived in Indiana until 1874, when he came to Marion county, Iowa. In the spring of 1875 he took up his abode in Carl township. His farm, eighty acre6, located in section 11, he purchased in 1885 of Irvin Poison, one of the old settlers of Carl township. This farm has substantial improvements, is well cultivated, and has a general appearance of prosperity.

In Washington county, Indiana, in 1852, Mr. Maxedon wedded Clarra Radcliff, who was born in that county, daughter of David and Elizabeth (Brown) Radcliff, both natives of Kentucky. Her parents died in Washington county. Mr. Maxedon has a sister, Mrs. Irvin Poison, in this township. Mr. and Mrs. Maxedon have ten children, namely: Margaret Jane, wife of Henry Poison, of Willson county, Kansas; Elizabeth, wife of Elbridge Clayton, of Adair county, Iowa;
Frank, of Montana; Wesley, of Pratt county, Kansas; Nancy A., at home; Polly Ann, wife of J. Gibson, of Adams county, Iowa; James, at home, Thomas, Samuel and Beverly R. They also had two children that died in infancy.