Ozias Denton MAXWELL (VETERAN CSA)

PRIVATE
Company F 34 Arkansas Infantry
Civil War Confederate
June 14, 1834 - March 1, 1915

*Obituary
Rogers Democrat
Thursday, March 18, 1915

MAXWELL, Ozias Denton - O.D. Maxwell, one of the pioneer settlers of Benton county, died Sunday night at his home at Bentonville at the age of 80 years. Funeral services were held Tuesday at the C.P. church and interment was at the Woods cemetery. He is survived by one brother, Rev. A.J. Maxwell of Rogers, New Mexico and by the following children: Mrs. Lulu Nail, Miss Bettie Maxwell, Jack and Sam Maxwell of Bentonville; C.D. Maxwell of Siloam Springs; Mrs. Mollie Freeman, Hugo, Okla.; Mrs. Jennie Braggins, Kansas City and Mrs. Josie Kelton, Tahlequah, Okla. Mr. Maxwell was known to all our oldest citizens, especially those who lived in the neighborhood west and north of town and the news of his death was learned with great regret. Benton county has lost another of its best citizens.

*Obituary
Benton County Democrat
Thursday, March 18, 1915

On Sunday night of this week Ozias Denton Maxwell of Bentonville departed this life after an illness of almost 20 years. Had he lived until May of this year he would have been confined to his invalid chair for a period of 20 years. Thus ends the mortal career of one of our oldest and most respected citizens. He was a man modest, retiring and unpretentious in his converse with his fellows but a man who always stood for strict integrity and morality in his daily life. He was always prompt to meet his obligations and impressed this lesson daily on his children, who have to bear the fruit of this seasonable instruction. Of such men is the backbone of our country made. They, and such as they, are the real safeguards that are thrown about our institutions. Ozias Denton Maxwell was born in Sequatchie Valley, Marion county, Tennessee June 14th, 1834. He came to Benton county, Arkansas with his father's family about the year 1852 and has lived in this county ever since, most of the time in Bentonville. He joined the Cumberland Presbyterian church in early manhood and lived and died in the faith of that church. The funeral services were held at the Cumberland Presbyterian church in Bentonville on Tuesday afternoon of this week. The Rev. J.P. Campbell of Fayetteville preached the funeral oration. Mr. Maxwell had been well acquainted with the Rev. Campbell through his writings for the Cumberland church paper, which he had always read with a great deal of interest and profit and Mr. Maxwell felt himself well acquainted in spirit with the Rev. Campbell, whom he had admired so many years through his religious writings. The remains were taken at once after the services here to the Woods cemetery about four miles east of Bentonville for burial where they will rest beside others of his kin.

Source: Sons of Confederate Veterans, Benton County, Arkansas 2009
Compiled by William W Degge

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