At Leonardsville, N. Y., Aug. 31st, 1874, Josiah G. Maxson in the 82d year of his age. He was born in Berlin, and in early youth removed and settled with his parents in Plainfield, N. Y., where he subsequently married, and sometime afterwards became a resident of Brookfield. When past the age of forty, and with a large family dependent upon him, he was stricken with blindness, since which time he has been for more than forty years without natural sight, an affliction which has at times weighed very heavily upon him. He survived the companion of his early and mature years, and nearly half the children born to them. He was the father of Rev. D. E. Maxson, D. D., the present pastor of the Seventh-day Baptist Church of Plainfield, N. J. He made a public profession, and put on Christ by baptism in early life, and has since continued to cherish a hope of salvation through Christ. Toward the close of his life he frequently expressed the desire to depart from a world of outward darkness and be with Christ. S. B.
