Christian S. Maxon

MAXON, SMITH, FISHER, NEWMAN, BUSH

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Date: 10/16/2004 at 20:51:12

Christian S. Maxson, farmer, P. O. Edgewood, son of Ephraim
and Mary (Smith) Maxson, natives of Virginia. They moved to Ohio and lived
there many years. In 1852 they moved to Clayton County, Ia., and Ephraim died
here in 1859. Christian was born in Indiana, Oct. 18, 1842. He was educated in
Iowa, and has followed farming, with the exception of about three years at
carpenter's work. He now owns 204 acres of land, a part in Clayton County, on
section 33, and a part where he lives, across the line in Delaware County. In
1865 he married Clarrissa Fisher. There were three children by this union, one
living--Mary Matilda. On Nov. 3, 1872, Clarrissa died, and in 1877 he married
Mrs. Lorana Newman, nee Bush, widow of J. Wesley Newman, of this county. There
was one child by this marriage--Mary Elmira, born in 1869. Since her marriage
to Mr. Maxson there have been two children--Clara Bell and Daisy. Mrs. M. is a
member of the Congregationalist church. Mr. M. votes the Republican ticket.
Mr. Maxson enlisted in the Twenty-first Iowa Infantry Volunteers, Company B,
Captain Crook. He served three years, and was in seven of the hard-fought
battles--Port Gibson, Champion Hill, Big Black, Vicksburg and several others.
He was discharged at New Orleans in 1865, and although where bullets flew thick
he was not wounded.

source: History of Clayton County, Iowa, 1882, p. 896-897