Died, at North Loup, Nebraska, October 5 1901, Samuel H. C. Maxson, aged 83 years and 1 day.
Mr. Maxson was the second son of Josiah G. and Lois Burdick Maxson and one of ten children but only his sister, Mrs. M. L. Watts of this place now survives him. He was twice married, and five children were born to him by his first marriage. Four of them are still living but widely scattered. His second marriage occurred at Onarga Co., Illinois, June 5 1866. In the summer of 1890, after visiting his daughter in Arizona, and a son in Nevada he came here to be near his sister and has lived here continuously since. The partner of his last marriage survives him but is without a blood relative in the state. As I have heard it from his own lips, much of his life, if written, would read like a romance. In youth he was a church member. In mature years he was a man of great intelligence and of marked individuality. I am told that once he held the office of high sheriff of one of the old counties of New York for three years. It is said that in active life he was quickly touched with suffering wherever he saw it and was generous to the needy almost to a fault. His relatives desire me to express their heart felt thanks for the kindness shown him in his many months of feebleness and for the large attendance at the funeral. O. B.
