Mildred Evie Maxwell

Evie was the oldest child of Tom & Gilly Maxwell. she got polio when she was 7 & spent the rest of her life in a wheelchair. she learned to do things from her chair...making beds, sweeping floors, helping with younger siblings. She never married. She died while visiting her sister, my Grandma Grace, at Trenton. Grandma had her wheelchair in the basement until they sold her house when she went to the nursing home.

Mildred Evie Maxwell
1902-1948

the cemetery translation from 1964 lists Evie as the daughter of Thos. & Gilly (Higdon) WHITTEN. Whitten was Thomas' middle name.

infant Maxwell

infant daughter of J & J Maxwell
1900

Eugene H. & Joseph H. Maxwell

buried Cat Creek Cemetery, Brimson,MO by Cyntha Maxwell.

they were the sons of Tom & Gilly Maxwell. They died in the same week from an epidemic. there are no dates on the stone, I have the dates somewhere. They were aged 1 & 3. How awful...

I'm pretty sure Aunt Minerva bought this stone for them...all the newer Maxwell stones look alike. I don't know if they had a marker before Aunt Minerva got this one...

Cyntha Maxwell

buried at Cat Creek Cemetery by Jc & Minerva Maxwell
1870-1873

Minerva Maxwell

buried at Cat Creek Cemetery, Brimson, MO by her husband James C.

Minerva Maxwell
1838-1878
wife of James C.

J.C. Maxwell

James C. Maxwell
1829-1925
husband of Minerva

He is buried Cat Creek Cemetery by his first wife, who died young. His second wife Harriett Hughes Harrison Maxwell is buried by deceased children from her first marriage. Her husband died in the Civil War, I believe he is buried in the St Louis area.

JC was a soldier in the Civil War & was held at Fort Delaware Prison on Pea Patch Island.

JC was my great great grandpa. His son Tom & daughter-in-law Gilly took care of him & Harriett. when the house caught fire in 1925, they carried JC out of the burning building on his mattress. He died soon after. My grandma Grace remembers him.