Daniel Horace Maxson, M. D., was born in Petersburgh, Rensselaer County, N. Y., June 8, 1823, and died in Humboldt, Nebraska, May 5, 1893. The funeral services were held in the Baptist church and a sermon was preached by Elder Nettleton, of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, after which he was laid away to rest in the beautiful cemetery of Humboldt, May 7, 1893.
Mr. Maxson was the son of Daniel and Susan Maxson. Probably he has one brother Eld. Thomas A. Maxson living, and one sister, Mrs. Estee, lately of Alfred Centre, N. Y. He moved from Petersburg to Deerfield, Portage county, Ohio, in 1862. Here he enlisted in the army to conquer the Rebellion in 1862, in Co. F. 115 Ohio Reg't of Vols., and served a term of three years, and was honorably discharged from service. He then moved to Richardson county, Nebraska, in 1866, and took a homestead on which he lived until 1877 when he moved to the town of Humboldt. He professed faith in Christ early in life and joined the Seventh-day Baptist Church, serving as its deacon for many years. In 1877 he withdrew and joined the Seventh-day Adventist Church, in which he served as an Elder until his death. He lived a long and quite useful life, and was highly esteemed by his fellow-citizens, and died a quiet, peaceful, death being well and lovingly cared for by his companion who was his third wife, and by his children who were permitted to be with him in his last sickness. He leaves a wife and three children to mourn their loss, one son, Gerritt S., a child by his first wife, who with his companion, was permitted to attend the last sad rites of their father; one son by his last wife, Horace, who with his companion helped to minister to the wants of their father in his last hours of sickness and extreme suffering; and one daughter, Susie, who lives with her husband in Milwaukee, Wis., who had been with her father and helped to care for him for several weeks previous to his decease, but was not permitted to be with him in his last moments of sickness and departure. He sleeps in Jesus and we hope to meet him in the resurrection morning with all the faithful who have washed their robes in the blood of the Lamb.
U. M. Babcock.
