Maxwell, Absalom

Born: 1802-10-02 Kentucky

Died: 1884-03-18 Cuba, Illinois

Maxwell moved to Illinois sometime before 1824, when he married Polly Ann Camerin in Sangamon County. During the Black Hawk War, he served in a battalion of mounted rangers from Illinois. Afterward, Maxwell settled his family in Fulton County, where he served as township supervisor in 1855-56 and 1860. In 1850, Maxwell was a farmer in Fulton County, and owned $4,000 worth of real estate.

U.S. Census Office, Seventh Census of the United States (1850), Fulton County, IL, 303; Gravestone, Cuba Cemetery, Cuba, IL; Illinois Statewide Marriage Index, Sangamon County, 23 November 1824, Illinois State Archives, Springfield, IL; Ellen M. Whitney, comp., The Black Hawk War, 1831-1832: Illinois Volunteers, vol. 35 of Collections of the Illinois State Historical Library (Springfield: Illinois State Historical Library, 1970), 1:455; History of Fulton County Illinois (Peoria, IL: Charles C. Chapman, 1879), 865, 879.