----- Original Message ----- From: "Dresser" <kim1@hintonet.net> To: "JMAXWELL" <MAXWELLJL@appstate.edu> Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2001 6:31 PM Subject: Re: Grant TWP - > Check on the Hancock genweb site there is a map there > & Grant township is the very north end of the county. > near the Ohio river running around it's border. > > > In the southern part of the county in Butler Dist at the > Three Springs Cemetery near Weirton, Hancock Co WV, > I find a listing of Samuel Maxwell d. 1865 at 89 yrs. > Sarah Scott Maxwell 1st w/o Samuel d. 1827 age 50 yrs, > the Scott was underlined ? might be maiden name??. > William Maxwell s/o Samuel & Sarah. d. 1815 > Several Craigs dating in the 1903= Jas.B at 32, > Mary A. at 50, James B. at 12, Mary A. at 50 yrs > & one "Srah" F. in 1889 at 60 yrs, (Sarah maybe? kd) > > **INteresting note on the 4 deaths in 1903 in this family? > wonder what happened to them that year? > (we've also found some listing to be wrong on ages on our > Ralston's are buried there too.) > > I checked in Jack Welsh History of Hancock Co WV, > find 2 listings but not Alex- > 1) for Henry J. Maxwell, in Company F. in Civil war under > Captain James E. Morrow with Capt. Theodore L. Apple 1st Lieut. > James L. Steele 2n lieut. Unit recrutied from nearly all from Hancock. > > 2. for John B. Maxwell, 4th Regiment Cavalry Company E. under > Capt. James H. Hibbts. Richard. B. Hewitt, 1st Leiut., > David P.James 2nd lieut > = this unit also listed a Alexander WILSON corporal & Joseph WILSON > wagoner, Samuel Moore, bugler, Warren Mason bugler. > > (I'm looking for some Wilsons from Hancock, near New Cumberland > William & Jane Ralston Wilson up to 1860 she was living with daughter > Sarah & Alex Morrow) > Hope this helps in your search, sorry I didn't have anything else on > your Alex or David Maxwell. > Happy Trails, > Kim Ralston Dresser > > > Subj: Grant Township > > > > I've been researching David and Mary MAxwell > > Craig who show up in Census records for Brooke > > then Hancock County 1830 - 1850, "district 3". > > In 1850 they having living with the Alex > > MAxwell (brother of Mary MAxwell Craig). Mary > > and David don't show up in the 1860 census, and > > Alex Maxwell shows up living with someone else. > > In 1870, Alex shows as age 59 (should be 69) > > living with someone with the notation "supported > > by the county" and a township of Grant. > > > > Presuming that they all lived in Grant, I'm > > looking for the location of this township, > > whether there are any cemeteries there and > > whether any county records of assistance > > are available that would have information > > about Alex MAxwell. > > > > ANy help or advice most welcomed. > > > > Josette MAxwell > > BOone NC > > > > > > > > > > ============================== > > Search over 900 million names at Ancestry.com! > > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist1.asp > > > > > > >