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INDIAN WARS AND PIONEERS OF TEXAS.
tifully located in the mountains four and a half miles
from Boerne, and affords a quiet summer retreat
for invalids and people from San Antonio and other
cities, tired of the heat, dust and noise incident to
town life. Mr. Klemme is a typical old-timer,plain, unswerving and faithful to his family and
friends. His sons and daughters were given good
educational advantages. His sons have excellent
social and business qualities, and his daughters fine
domestic tastes and physical and mental graces.SAM BELL MAXEY,
PARIS.Hon. S. B. Maxey, long a distinguished figure in
public life in Texas, and eminent as United States
Senator from this State, is well remembered and his
memory will ever be honored by the people of
Texas, in whose interest he spent the best years of
his life and who, with their descendants, will long
continue to enjoy the fruits of his patriotic labors.
In preparing a brief memoir of his life, liberal extracts
are made from an article written by Col. Wm.
Preston Johnson and published in the New York
World.
"iThe Maxey family are of Huguenot descent,
having settled on the James river soon after the
revocation of the edict of Nantes. His great
grandfather, Radford Maxey, became a tobacco
planter in Halifax County, Va., and his grandfather,
William Maxey, removed to Kentucky in the
last century. His father, Rice Maxey, was born
in Barren County, Ky., in the year 1800, and was
a lawyer by profession. His mother was the
daughter of Samuel Bell, a native of Albermarle
County, Va., but resident in Richmond.
" Samuel Bell Maxey was born at Tompkinsville,
Monroe County, Ky., March 30th, 1825. His
father removed, in 1834, to Clinton County, where
he was clerk of the circuit and county courts. In
1857 he immigrated to Texas and settled at Paris.
Samuel was educated at the best schools, studying
Latin, Greek and mathematics, until he was appointed
a cadet in the Military Academy at West
Point. He was graduated there in 1846, and
assigned to the Seventh Infantry as a Brevet Second
Lieutenant. That fall he went to Mexico. Ie first
joined Taylor at Monterey, and when Scott organized
a new offensive line from Vera Cruz, Maxey
went in Twiggs' column to Tampico. He shared in
the siege of Vera Cruz, and was with Harvey's
brigade at the battle of Cerro Gordo. He was
brevetted on the battlefield a First Lieutenant for
gallant conduct at the battles of Contreras andCherubusco, and was also engaged at Molino del
Rey and in the engagement which resulted in the
capture of the city of Mexico. After the city fell
into his hands, Gen. Scott organized a battalion of
five companies of picked men, under Col. Charles
F. Smith, as a city guard. Maxey was assigned to
the command of one of these companies, and
he was thus provost of one of the five districts
of the city. Maxey had learned French at West
Point. While in Mexico he became familiar with
the Spanish tongue, which subsequently proved
useful to him in the practice of law in Texas. He
returned to the United States from Mexico in the
summer of 1848, and was stationed at Jefferson
Barracks. Restless in intellect, and unwilling to
become one of the cankers of a long peace, he
amused himself for a while by the study of law,
and finally resigned, September 17, 1849. His only
brother, a prominent young lawyer, had gone to
Mexico as a Captain of volunteers, and had lost his
life there. Maxey returned to his father's home,
studied law, and in 1850 began the practice at Albany,
Clinton County, Ky. On July 19, 1853, he
was married to Miss Marilda Cassa Denton, the
daughter of a farmer and grand-daughter of a Baptist
preacher famed for his eloquence, who attained
the age of eighty years. When Gen. Maxey celebrated
his silver wedding, in 1878, in Paris, his
own father, his wife's father, the minister who married
him, and several witnesses of the ceremony
were present. In 1857 he located at Paris, a
promising town in Northeastern Texas. He purchased
five acres of land in the open prairie. It is
now a beautiful, tasteful home, surrounded by trees
and flowers. We lament the subjugation of nature
by the hand of civilization, but it is a false sentiment.
The displacement of the savage by the
white man, the desert blossoming as the rose, is
the order of development towards higher and better
things. Maxey practiced law until 1861. He
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Brown, John Henry. Indian Wars and Pioneers of Texas, book, 1880~; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth6725/m1/761/: accessed April 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.