Jul-28-2018                   
             Husband: William H. H. Maxwell    
                Born: ca 1840              in Wood Co, (W)VA  1,2 (see note 1)
                Died: bef 1911              3
             Resided: 1871                 in Harrison Co, WV  1,2
              Census: 1850, 1860           in Harrison Co, (W)VA  
          Occupation:                      carpenter  1
              Father: Armstrong Maxwell   (1801 - 1858) 
              Mother: Sudna Alcinda Lowther   (1803 - 1867) 
                Wife: Ruhama R. Patton     
             Married: Aug- 2-1871          in Harrison Co, WV  4,2
                Born: ca 1854              in Harrison Co, (W)VA  1,2
              Father: Luther Morris Patton   (1831 - 1914) 
              Mother: Belinda Mariah Highland   (1835 - 1897) 

Sources:
(1) Harrison County Marriage Records, Clarksburg, WV. 
(2) Harrison County WV Marriages 1785-1894, Wes Cochran, 2515 10th Ave, Parkersburg, WV 26101 (1985) 
(3) Minnie Kendall Lowther, History of Ritchie County (1911, reprinted 1999, McClain Printing Co, Parsons WV, 
http://McClainPrinting.com), p. 16. 
(4) Harrison County Marriage Records, Clarksburg, WV, Identified as William H. Maxwell, 27, b. Wood Co, res. Harrison Co, 
occupation carpenter, son of Armstrong & Sudney E.; and Ruhama R. Patton, 17, b. & res. in Harrison Co, dau of Luther M. 
& Belinda.  Married Aug 2 1871. 

Event Notes
Note (1) Age 27 at time of Aug 1871 marriage would put birth date at about 1844, but
1850 Census shows age as 10, and 1860 Census shows age as 19.







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