Eleven known children were born to the union of Walter and Sarah.
Walter is buried several hundred feet in back of the Old Edward Maxey farmhouse/homeplace.
Sometime in the 1950's, vandals removed and carried off the large headstone, but part of it was later recovered and kept by Leeman Burch, who was part owner of the Maxey property at the time that the stone was vandalized.
I went to a great deal of effort to locate the missing headstone, and learned that it is stored in a warehouse with other property of the now deceased Leeman Burch (1910-1998). I finally hit a 'brick wall', and abandoned any hope of having it recovered. My goal was to have it placed at the George Poteet History Center in Mantachie, MS.
The correct spelling of the MAXEY family name is M-A-X-E-Y.
However, through a clerical error, the letter 'c' was mistaken for 'e' and the misspelling with the 'c' instead of the 'e' got carried forward in some of the Maxey family lines rather than correct the record. Folks have since continued and spread the misspelling backwards and forwards into the Edward Maxey line. I've seen Maxey family documents with the family name spelled both ways in the same document. You will notice that the name is spelled with an 'e' on Sarah's headstone.
Maxey family historian Edythe Maxey Clark spells the family name with an 'e'.
Whether you view the error as humorous or frustrating, it's obviously as much a part of the family story as any other aspect of our history.
Eleven known children were born to the union of Walter and Sarah.
Walter is buried several hundred feet in back of the Old Edward Maxey farmhouse/homeplace.
Sometime in the 1950's, vandals removed and carried off the large headstone, but part of it was later recovered and kept by Leeman Burch, who was part owner of the Maxey property at the time that the stone was vandalized.
I went to a great deal of effort to locate the missing headstone, and learned that it is stored in a warehouse with other property of the now deceased Leeman Burch (1910-1998). I finally hit a 'brick wall', and abandoned any hope of having it recovered. My goal was to have it placed at the George Poteet History Center in Mantachie, MS.
The correct spelling of the MAXEY family name is M-A-X-E-Y.
However, through a clerical error, the letter 'c' was mistaken for 'e' and the misspelling with the 'c' instead of the 'e' got carried forward in some of the Maxey family lines rather than correct the record. Folks have since continued and spread the misspelling backwards and forwards into the Edward Maxey line. I've seen Maxey family documents with the family name spelled both ways in the same document. You will notice that the name is spelled with an 'e' on Sarah's headstone.
Maxey family historian Edythe Maxey Clark spells the family name with an 'e'.
Whether you view the error as humorous or frustrating, it's obviously as much a part of the family story as any other aspect of our history.
Gravesite Details
The headstone is reported to have been emblazoned with a large Masonic emblem.
Family Members
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Allen Maxey
1796–1863
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Edward Maxcy
1797–1860
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Elizabeth P Maxey Welch
1800–1850
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Mary Nelson Maxey Cantrell
1803–1872
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William Maxey
1805–1843
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Emily G Maxey McNeice
1808–1856
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Alfred M Maxey
1810–1860
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Malissa Maxey Willis
1811 – unknown
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Letha (Lethy) Murla Maxey Nelson
1814–1870
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Henry Davis Maxey
1816–1870
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John Walter Grenada Maxcy
1821–1877
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