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S. O. MAXCY, farmer and stock raiser, post office, Farmingdale, Island Grove township, was born in Logan county, Kentucky, about 1820; son of Joel and Betsy Ann (Brown) Maxcy, who were natives of Virginia. He was a soldier in a Virginia regiment in the time of the Revolution, and was in the battle of Guilford Court House. He remembered having seen Generals Marion, Morgan, DeKalb and Yates. He was married after the war in Prince Edwards county, to Miss Susan Hill, whose maiden name was Davis.
Mr. and Mrs. Maxcy had three children in Virginia, and in 1798 moved to Warren county, near Bowling Green, Kentucky, where one child was born. Mrs. Susan Maxcy died August 27, 1812. For his second wife married Mrs. Betsy A. Howard, whose maiden name was Brown. By this marriage there were five children.
The family moved to Sangamon County, Illinois, arriving November, 1827, in Springfield, and soon after moved to Island Grove township, north of Spring Creek, coming through with teams and camping out; moved into a log cabin sixteen by sixteen, there being six in the family. He took up two hundred acres of land and made a home, where he remained until his death, which occurred on the 7th day of December, 1847. Mrs. Maxcy died in Shelby county, Illinois, in 1856. In politics, was an old line Whig of the Henry Clay stripe. Mr. and Mrs. Maxcy were among the early members of the Methodist episcopal Church, and were leading spirits in the organization of the church. S. O. Maxcy came to this county when he was a boy five years of age, and was reared on a farm. November 16, 1848, married Miss Nancy Archer, daughter of William and Elizabeth Archer. She was born in Spring Creek township, November 13, 1825. The fruits of this marriage are two children, James H., born in island Grove
township September 18, 1849, who married Miss Alice Jameson, a daughter of Samuel Jameson, of Ohio. They have a family of four children: Lee F., Catharine, Nancy and Charles; William J., born October 13, 1856. He married Miss Ida Reed. There is one child, Beulah. Mr. Maxcy is one of the large and extensive farmers of the county, owning four hundred and forty acres of land, valued at $65 per acre. In politics, Mr. Maxcy is a Democrat.