SHELBY COUNTY OHIO OBIT: Sarah Jane Bradford. (7 January 1887)
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Sidney Daily News, Jan. 14, 1957

Mrs. Frances Maxson, 69, of 314 South Walnut Avenue, died at 11:45 p.m.
Monday in Wilson Memorial Hospital after an illness of a year and a half.

Mrs. Maxson was the widow of David Maxson, who died in 1938.  She was born
March 30, 1887 in Auglaize County, the daughter of Joseph and Catherine
Eisley Mawhorr.

She had been a lifelong member of St. Paul's Evangelical and Reformed
Church.  Active in lodge circles, she was a member of the Rebekahs, Ladies
of the Golden Eagle, the Spanish American War Veterans Auxiliary and the
Disabled American Veterans auxiliary.

Survivors include two children, Mrs. E.Jay (Evelyn) Bill of Smithboro, NY;
Lawrence Maxson, of Sidney, six grandchildren and many nieces and nephews.
A daughter, Mrs. Ethel Hammerer, is dead.

There are three brothers, Frank and William Mawhorr, both of Lima, and
Philip Mawhorr, of Mansfield, Ohio.

Services will be at 2 p.m. Thursday at the Kerr Mortuary with Rev. George
Sonneborn officiating.  Burial will be in Graceland Cemetery.  Friends may
call from 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 p.m. Wednesday at the funeral home.