Simeon Maxson

DAVIS, THE SETTLERS OF SALEM, WEST VIRGINIA, by Susie Davis Nicholson, Salem, West Virginia, 1992. p. 26

5-6-2002 from Nina M. Troutner (ntrout@nwlink.com) I am a descendant, most directly, through the Maxson family line. My gggggrandmother was Nancy Ann Maxson who was married to Robert Conner.

Nancy's ancestry through the Maxson line is as follows...

l. Nancy Ann 1791-1841

2. Nathan b. 1766 - d. ?. ; unknown wife

3. Simeon b. 8/25/1727 - d. 2/26/1802 ; m. 1763 to Mary Babcock b. 1743-d. ?

4. Joseph b. 3/10/1691 or 92 - d. 1747; m. 1715 to Bethah Maxson b. 10/19/1693 - d. 1747

5. Joseph b. abt. 1672 - d. 1756; m. 1691 to Tacy Burdick b. 1670 - d. ?

6. John b. 3/24/1637 or 38 - d. 12/17/1720; m. 1661 to Mary Mosher b.1641 - d. 2/2/1717 or 18

7. Richard b. abt. 1602 - d. 1643; m. ? to Rebecca Harndell ?

Nancy and Robert lived in Preston Co. WV before they moved on to Ohio and then to Iowa. In 1841 Nancy died in Washington Co. Iowa and the rest of the family went west to Oregon in the wagon train of 1852. Some of the other members of the family came west earlier in 1847. I have quite a bit of the history of this family both before Nancy and after but I am still trying very hard to find out more about Nancy's father, Nathan, and her unknown mother. So far, in the years I have been at this genealogy quest, roughly 6 years, I have found no one who has knowledge of these two people other than the names of their children.

I also have reason to believe that I am connected to the Davis family in the SDB history. Nancy and Robert Conner's son, John, married a Catharine Alvira Davis. Somewhere, someone furnished me with the names of Benjamin Davis and Susan Ayers as the parents of Catharine. Am assuming that this

family lived in Ohio because Catharine was born there.

According to Susie Davis Nicholson in her book, DAVIS, THE SETTLERS OF

SALEM, WEST VIRGINIA, Jospeh and Bethia MAXON's children were Bethia,

Mary, Judith, Joseph, Zebulon, Simeon, Content, Nathan, and Ephraim.