Susan Mary Maxey lived in Clinton County, Ky. and married in 1841, Dr. Benjamin Dudley Gatewood (1821-82). Their children were Rice Maxey (1844-62) who died in the Civil War at the Battle of Pea Vine Ridge, Ark.; and Mary Susan Gatewood (1846-83) who lived in Paris, Tex. and married (1) William H.H. Long (1840-71). Their son, Samuel Bell Maxey Long (1869-1948), married Lala Williams (1873-1965) and lived in Paris, Tx. but left no issue. She married (2) James Love Terrill (1847-1903), and their daughters were Lena D. (1878-1955), and Eula Terrill (1881-1974) who married William Calhoun McCutcheon (1880-1953), and two sons were Calhoun (c1910-)(UTx 1931), and Jesse A. McCutcheon (1914-50).
Susan Mary Maxey's mother was Lucetta “Lucy” Pope Bell (1794-1866), first daughter of Capt. Samuel (1757-1828) and Lucetta Pope Bell (c1764-) who was born December 14, 1794, in Richmond, Va. She married in 1821, Gen. Rice Maxey (1800-78), son of William (1759-1833) and Nancy Williams Maxey (1764-1850), of Barren County, Ky. He was clerk of the circuit and county courts in Clinton County, Ky. In 1857, they moved to Paris, Tex. where he was a lawyer in practice with his son and was elected a Texas state senator in 1861 to take the place of his son who had joined the Confederacy. Their four children were Susan Mary (1822-49); William Henry (1823-47) who was an attorney and enlisted in the Mexican War but died en route in New Orleans; Gen. Samuel Bell (1825-95); and Lucetta Ann Maxey (1828-1907) who married in 1852, in Clinton County, Craft Irwin (1822-1902) and lived in Paris, Tx.
General Samuel Bell Maxey (1825-95)(West Point 1846) was clerk of the county court in Clinton County, Ky., 1852-56, a lawyer in Albany, Ky., district attorney in Paris, Tex., 1858-60, elected as a Texas state senator in 1861, and U.S. Senator from Texas, 1875-87. He served in the Mexican War, 1847-49, was a brigadier general in the Civil War, 1861-65, and recruited the 9th Texas Infantry Regiment (CSA). He married in 1853, Marilda Cass Denton (1833-1908), daughter of Baptist minister George Nolan (1809-90) and Martha Roberson Denton (1808-67), of Albany. Their daughter, Dora Belle Rowell Maxey (1857-84), married in 1874, Judge Henry William Lightfoot (1846-1901) who was a law partner with General Maxey and a state judge. Their children were Maxey Bell (1875-76), Sallie Lee (1878-1966)(unm), and Thomas Chenoweth Lightfoot (1880-1934). Gen. Maxey’s 12-room Victorian Italianate house at 812 South Church St. in Paris was built in 1867. The house is on the National Register of Historic Places, is owned by the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department, and is open as a historic house museum. A town in west central Texas was named for Gen. Maxey, and in 1942 the government named a huge training camp near Paris in his honor.
See 1850 Census, Clinton County, Ky.; 1870-80, 1900-10 Census, Lamar County, Tx.; George W. Beale, "Col. Nathaniel Pope and His Descendants." William and Mary College Quarterly, XII: 192-196, 250-253 (1903-1904); Edythe Maxey Clark, The Maxeys of Virginia (Gateway Press, 1980), 73-75; Jane Roy Brown, “Sam Bell Maxey House,” DAR Magazine (Jan/Feb 2004), 10-16 (includes portrait of Gen. Maxey); Louise Horton, Samuel Bell Maxie: A Biography (U.Texas Press, Austin, 1974); John C. Waugh, Sam Bell Maxey and the Confederate Indians (McWhitney Foundation Press, Abilene, Tx.,1997); Bruce S. Allardice and Lawrence Lee Hewitt, eds., Kentuckians in Gray (University Press of Kentucky, Lexington, 2008), 202-208; James Houston Barr III, Lt. Colonel Nathaniel Pope, c1610-1660, of Virginia, Ancestor of Washington, Governors and Legislators, History of His Descendants (Louisville, Ky. 2018), 133.
Susan Mary Maxey's mother was Lucetta “Lucy” Pope Bell (1794-1866), first daughter of Capt. Samuel (1757-1828) and Lucetta Pope Bell (c1764-) who was born December 14, 1794, in Richmond, Va. She married in 1821, Gen. Rice Maxey (1800-78), son of William (1759-1833) and Nancy Williams Maxey (1764-1850), of Barren County, Ky. He was clerk of the circuit and county courts in Clinton County, Ky. In 1857, they moved to Paris, Tex. where he was a lawyer in practice with his son and was elected a Texas state senator in 1861 to take the place of his son who had joined the Confederacy. Their four children were Susan Mary (1822-49); William Henry (1823-47) who was an attorney and enlisted in the Mexican War but died en route in New Orleans; Gen. Samuel Bell (1825-95); and Lucetta Ann Maxey (1828-1907) who married in 1852, in Clinton County, Craft Irwin (1822-1902) and lived in Paris, Tx.
General Samuel Bell Maxey (1825-95)(West Point 1846) was clerk of the county court in Clinton County, Ky., 1852-56, a lawyer in Albany, Ky., district attorney in Paris, Tex., 1858-60, elected as a Texas state senator in 1861, and U.S. Senator from Texas, 1875-87. He served in the Mexican War, 1847-49, was a brigadier general in the Civil War, 1861-65, and recruited the 9th Texas Infantry Regiment (CSA). He married in 1853, Marilda Cass Denton (1833-1908), daughter of Baptist minister George Nolan (1809-90) and Martha Roberson Denton (1808-67), of Albany. Their daughter, Dora Belle Rowell Maxey (1857-84), married in 1874, Judge Henry William Lightfoot (1846-1901) who was a law partner with General Maxey and a state judge. Their children were Maxey Bell (1875-76), Sallie Lee (1878-1966)(unm), and Thomas Chenoweth Lightfoot (1880-1934). Gen. Maxey’s 12-room Victorian Italianate house at 812 South Church St. in Paris was built in 1867. The house is on the National Register of Historic Places, is owned by the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department, and is open as a historic house museum. A town in west central Texas was named for Gen. Maxey, and in 1942 the government named a huge training camp near Paris in his honor.
See 1850 Census, Clinton County, Ky.; 1870-80, 1900-10 Census, Lamar County, Tx.; George W. Beale, "Col. Nathaniel Pope and His Descendants." William and Mary College Quarterly, XII: 192-196, 250-253 (1903-1904); Edythe Maxey Clark, The Maxeys of Virginia (Gateway Press, 1980), 73-75; Jane Roy Brown, “Sam Bell Maxey House,” DAR Magazine (Jan/Feb 2004), 10-16 (includes portrait of Gen. Maxey); Louise Horton, Samuel Bell Maxie: A Biography (U.Texas Press, Austin, 1974); John C. Waugh, Sam Bell Maxey and the Confederate Indians (McWhitney Foundation Press, Abilene, Tx.,1997); Bruce S. Allardice and Lawrence Lee Hewitt, eds., Kentuckians in Gray (University Press of Kentucky, Lexington, 2008), 202-208; James Houston Barr III, Lt. Colonel Nathaniel Pope, c1610-1660, of Virginia, Ancestor of Washington, Governors and Legislators, History of His Descendants (Louisville, Ky. 2018), 133.
Susan Mary Maxey lived in Clinton County, Ky. and married in 1841, Dr. Benjamin Dudley Gatewood (1821-82). Their children were Rice Maxey (1844-62) who died in the Civil War at the Battle of Pea Vine Ridge, Ark.; and Mary Susan Gatewood (1846-83) who lived in Paris, Tex. and married (1) William H.H. Long (1840-71). Their son, Samuel Bell Maxey Long (1869-1948), married Lala Williams (1873-1965) and lived in Paris, Tx. but left no issue. She married (2) James Love Terrill (1847-1903), and their daughters were Lena D. (1878-1955), and Eula Terrill (1881-1974) who married William Calhoun McCutcheon (1880-1953), and two sons were Calhoun (c1910-)(UTx 1931), and Jesse A. McCutcheon (1914-50).
Susan Mary Maxey's mother was Lucetta “Lucy” Pope Bell (1794-1866), first daughter of Capt. Samuel (1757-1828) and Lucetta Pope Bell (c1764-) who was born December 14, 1794, in Richmond, Va. She married in 1821, Gen. Rice Maxey (1800-78), son of William (1759-1833) and Nancy Williams Maxey (1764-1850), of Barren County, Ky. He was clerk of the circuit and county courts in Clinton County, Ky. In 1857, they moved to Paris, Tex. where he was a lawyer in practice with his son and was elected a Texas state senator in 1861 to take the place of his son who had joined the Confederacy. Their four children were Susan Mary (1822-49); William Henry (1823-47) who was an attorney and enlisted in the Mexican War but died en route in New Orleans; Gen. Samuel Bell (1825-95); and Lucetta Ann Maxey (1828-1907) who married in 1852, in Clinton County, Craft Irwin (1822-1902) and lived in Paris, Tx.
General Samuel Bell Maxey (1825-95)(West Point 1846) was clerk of the county court in Clinton County, Ky., 1852-56, a lawyer in Albany, Ky., district attorney in Paris, Tex., 1858-60, elected as a Texas state senator in 1861, and U.S. Senator from Texas, 1875-87. He served in the Mexican War, 1847-49, was a brigadier general in the Civil War, 1861-65, and recruited the 9th Texas Infantry Regiment (CSA). He married in 1853, Marilda Cass Denton (1833-1908), daughter of Baptist minister George Nolan (1809-90) and Martha Roberson Denton (1808-67), of Albany. Their daughter, Dora Belle Rowell Maxey (1857-84), married in 1874, Judge Henry William Lightfoot (1846-1901) who was a law partner with General Maxey and a state judge. Their children were Maxey Bell (1875-76), Sallie Lee (1878-1966)(unm), and Thomas Chenoweth Lightfoot (1880-1934). Gen. Maxey’s 12-room Victorian Italianate house at 812 South Church St. in Paris was built in 1867. The house is on the National Register of Historic Places, is owned by the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department, and is open as a historic house museum. A town in west central Texas was named for Gen. Maxey, and in 1942 the government named a huge training camp near Paris in his honor.
See 1850 Census, Clinton County, Ky.; 1870-80, 1900-10 Census, Lamar County, Tx.; George W. Beale, "Col. Nathaniel Pope and His Descendants." William and Mary College Quarterly, XII: 192-196, 250-253 (1903-1904); Edythe Maxey Clark, The Maxeys of Virginia (Gateway Press, 1980), 73-75; Jane Roy Brown, “Sam Bell Maxey House,” DAR Magazine (Jan/Feb 2004), 10-16 (includes portrait of Gen. Maxey); Louise Horton, Samuel Bell Maxie: A Biography (U.Texas Press, Austin, 1974); John C. Waugh, Sam Bell Maxey and the Confederate Indians (McWhitney Foundation Press, Abilene, Tx.,1997); Bruce S. Allardice and Lawrence Lee Hewitt, eds., Kentuckians in Gray (University Press of Kentucky, Lexington, 2008), 202-208; James Houston Barr III, Lt. Colonel Nathaniel Pope, c1610-1660, of Virginia, Ancestor of Washington, Governors and Legislators, History of His Descendants (Louisville, Ky. 2018), 133.
Susan Mary Maxey's mother was Lucetta “Lucy” Pope Bell (1794-1866), first daughter of Capt. Samuel (1757-1828) and Lucetta Pope Bell (c1764-) who was born December 14, 1794, in Richmond, Va. She married in 1821, Gen. Rice Maxey (1800-78), son of William (1759-1833) and Nancy Williams Maxey (1764-1850), of Barren County, Ky. He was clerk of the circuit and county courts in Clinton County, Ky. In 1857, they moved to Paris, Tex. where he was a lawyer in practice with his son and was elected a Texas state senator in 1861 to take the place of his son who had joined the Confederacy. Their four children were Susan Mary (1822-49); William Henry (1823-47) who was an attorney and enlisted in the Mexican War but died en route in New Orleans; Gen. Samuel Bell (1825-95); and Lucetta Ann Maxey (1828-1907) who married in 1852, in Clinton County, Craft Irwin (1822-1902) and lived in Paris, Tx.
General Samuel Bell Maxey (1825-95)(West Point 1846) was clerk of the county court in Clinton County, Ky., 1852-56, a lawyer in Albany, Ky., district attorney in Paris, Tex., 1858-60, elected as a Texas state senator in 1861, and U.S. Senator from Texas, 1875-87. He served in the Mexican War, 1847-49, was a brigadier general in the Civil War, 1861-65, and recruited the 9th Texas Infantry Regiment (CSA). He married in 1853, Marilda Cass Denton (1833-1908), daughter of Baptist minister George Nolan (1809-90) and Martha Roberson Denton (1808-67), of Albany. Their daughter, Dora Belle Rowell Maxey (1857-84), married in 1874, Judge Henry William Lightfoot (1846-1901) who was a law partner with General Maxey and a state judge. Their children were Maxey Bell (1875-76), Sallie Lee (1878-1966)(unm), and Thomas Chenoweth Lightfoot (1880-1934). Gen. Maxey’s 12-room Victorian Italianate house at 812 South Church St. in Paris was built in 1867. The house is on the National Register of Historic Places, is owned by the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department, and is open as a historic house museum. A town in west central Texas was named for Gen. Maxey, and in 1942 the government named a huge training camp near Paris in his honor.
See 1850 Census, Clinton County, Ky.; 1870-80, 1900-10 Census, Lamar County, Tx.; George W. Beale, "Col. Nathaniel Pope and His Descendants." William and Mary College Quarterly, XII: 192-196, 250-253 (1903-1904); Edythe Maxey Clark, The Maxeys of Virginia (Gateway Press, 1980), 73-75; Jane Roy Brown, “Sam Bell Maxey House,” DAR Magazine (Jan/Feb 2004), 10-16 (includes portrait of Gen. Maxey); Louise Horton, Samuel Bell Maxie: A Biography (U.Texas Press, Austin, 1974); John C. Waugh, Sam Bell Maxey and the Confederate Indians (McWhitney Foundation Press, Abilene, Tx.,1997); Bruce S. Allardice and Lawrence Lee Hewitt, eds., Kentuckians in Gray (University Press of Kentucky, Lexington, 2008), 202-208; James Houston Barr III, Lt. Colonel Nathaniel Pope, c1610-1660, of Virginia, Ancestor of Washington, Governors and Legislators, History of His Descendants (Louisville, Ky. 2018), 133.
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