Thomas Maxwell Sr

Published in the Lawrence County Press 2 Mar 1893

It is with sad regret this week that we announce the death of one of our county's oldest and best citizens – Mr Thomas Maxwell Sr – who died at his home three miles south of this place last Tuesday morning at 9:30 o'clock. Scarcely ten days had passed since the grave closed over the loved form of his aged brother when he too, was summoned to his long home. He was confined to his bed with la grippe at the time of his brother's death, but at the time his condition was not considered critical. But ah! How little do we realize the truth of the Scriptural proverb that "when in life we are in death."

He was a gradual decline up to the time of dissolution, and Tuesday morning he breathed his last, surrounded by grief-stricken relatives and sorrowing friends. Volumes might be written in commemoration of his virtues, but no more fitting tribute could be paid to his memory than to say of him that "he did unto others as he would have others do unto him."