Hi, thank you for your interest in Barry County. I am sending this to the list readers to see if any of them might have information at will help with your research.  Donna Cooper >________________________________ >From: Marian Young <youngmarian@gmail.com> >To: donnac58@yahoo.com >Sent: Monday, September 19, 2011 10:58 PM >Subject: Regarding Sarah Thomas Maxwell > > >Dear Donna, > > >First, let me thank you for the wonderful Barry County GenWeb site!  It is a wonderful resource and has helped me so much in my family research. > > >I am wondering if you can give me guidance on how I might seek some additional information about my great-grandmother, Sarah Thomas Maxwell, first wife of John Wesley Maxwell. > > >The only documentation that I have found regarding Sarah is: > > >1)  Marriage to John W. Maxwell in November of 1877, according to Barry County marriage records. > > >2)  1880 census, age 27, Spring River, Lawrence County living with John W. Maxwell and children, Katie, and James. > > >I know that she died sometime after December 1882 (birth of her third child) and before September 1883 (marriage of John W. Maxwell to Martha Jane Doty). > > >I appreciate any guidance that you might be able to give me.  I have run into many deadends, trying to find information about Sarah. > > >Thank you very much, > > >Marian Maxwell Young > >