Moses Maynard

On December twenty ninth 1949 the following article was published in

the

"Alexander Times-Tribune, Alexandra Indiana.

Moses Maynard, the oldest man who ever lived in Madison County, was

for

many years a resident of Monroe Township, and died at the home of his

son,

BARNASBAS MAYNARD, June 15 1874.

He was born Sept 23 1763 near Hillsboro N.C. and had reached the age

of

108. His life was an eventful one as he was the only man known to the

people of this section of the country who could say that he voted for

George

Washington for President of the United States.

He remembered the British soldiers whipping his father in an

unmerciful

manner in a cornfield during the Revolutionary War because he would

not

disclose the whereabouts of a brother who was hiding from the British

Tories.

He was the father of eleven children. Decendants of the aged man are

numerous, his great-great-great-grandson, is a member of the

Times-Tribune

editorial staff.

The wife of MOSES MAYNARD was SARAH GREENSTREET. During

the Rovolutionary War, she is said to have existed one whole week on

boiled

beans and poke leaves as she was compelled to hide to avoid British

Cavalry.

MAYNARD lived in Kentucky until he was 28 years old when he came to

Madison County and entered for himself 80 acres of land on the Little

Kilbuck, on what was later the Benjamin Walker farm.

He also entered for his son James a tract of 40 acres on the

Alexandria Pike

one mile north of Prosperity.

His children: WILLIAM, RICHARD, JAMES, JOHN, BANEBETH,

CHRISTOPHER, BETTY, JANEY CHARITY, SUSIE, JULIE "JUDY".

Note--although there is a discrepancy in this article on the dates

showing

MOSES born 1763 and died 1874 which would have made his age 111

instead of 108, I have quoted the article as published.

MOSES MAYNARD'S father was WILLIAM MAYNARD

Note--the above was sent to me, but I noticed another discrepancy: in

the

first paragraph it states that MOSES died at the home of his son

BARNASBAS MAYNARD (probably Barnabas) however there is no one

by that name listed in the list of children in the seventh paragraph

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