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Friend L. Maxwell - Madison Parish, Louisiana 

From Tallulah Madison Journal August 21, 1915

Death of Colonel Maxwell

In the death of Friend L. Maxwell Louisiana has lost one of her most valuable citizens, a man valuable 
not only as an example of remarkable energy, thrift and progressiveness in his personal affairs, but a 
leader in all public matters connected with the upbuilding of the state. Mr. Maxwell was, perhaps, the 
owner of the largest cotton plantations in the south and it mattered not what vicissitudes fell to his 
locality, his plantations could always be pointed to as models of agricultural effort and progress. No 
disaster was sufficient to shake his faith in the greatness of his adopted state; his undaunted courage 
and perseverance at all times gave confidence to his friends and neighbors.

Mr. Maxwell, though a man of strong personality, was simple in his ways, ternperate in his thought and 
action, hospitable in his home and charitable in his own quiet way. 

Mr. Maxwell was born in Sullivan Indiana and came to Madison Parish soon after the war, and was 76 years 
of age at the time of his death. He was engaged in the mercantile business, and gradually acquired large 
plantation interests which at the time of his death had grown to large proportions. Mr. Maxwell was repeatedly 
honored with offices of honor and trust, was pioneer as an advocate of levee construction, being the first 
President of the Fifth Louisiana District, and to whom was due, in a large measure, the present successful 
system. He was a member of the Constitutional Convention of 1898. He has been a leading figure at all the 
agricultural meetings held in the state for many years.

Col. Maxwell was first married to Mrs. Alma Taft Everard, of Vermont. Of that union two children survive, 
Mrs. George Yerger, of Mounds, and Mrs. John Potts, of Monroe. Col. Maxwell's second wife was Miss Matilda Bowie, 
daughter of Capt. Allen T. Bowie, of Natchez. Three children blessed this union. Mrs. Maxwell survives her husband.

The pallbearers selected for the funeral were: Honorary: Maj. T. C. Bedford, J.  T. McClellan, Jeff  B. Snyder, 
W. H.	Ward, R K. Boney, of Madison parish; Dr. D. L. Van Dine, Washington, D. C.; Lawrence Warner, 
George B. Hackett, Alexander Fitzhugh, Charles G. Wright, T. A. Helgason, Vicksburg.

Active: J. W. Hammock, Alexander E. Clark, W. M McDonald, Jas. M., Powell,  Zack Wardlaw, Jr., Arthur G. Gray, 
John E. Yerger, Thos. J. Herring.

Mr. Maxwell was buried at Vicksburg;funeral services held Tuesday, the 17th, from Holy Trinity Church, 
Reverend J. C: Johns officiating.