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Name: John Maxwell Born: 25 Apr 1765 Kent County, Colony of Maryland Died: 19 Aug 1857 Buried: Woodlawn Cemetery, Bloomington, McLean County, Illinois Spouse: Jane Brazelton Service: Soldier, Morgan District North Carolina 1775-1783 Marker: The grave was marked on 4 May 1974 by DeWitt Clinton Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR), Clinton, and Letitia Green Stevenson Chapter, DAR, Bloomington [SOURCE: DAR Patriot Index; Soldiers of the American Revolution Buried in Illinois; Submitted by Arthur Maxwell] Joseph Bartholomew Clarksville Cemetery Money Creek Also Major-General War of 1812. Died November 1840 Ebenezer Barnes Danvers William Gee Cemetery, Section 7 Downs David Haggard City Cemetery Bloomington Capt. John Karr Heyworth Cemetery Randolph William Lee Downs Charles Moore Edward F Patrick John Scott Rock Creek Cemetery Waynesville Thomas Sloan John Toliday William Vincent [War Record of McLean County and Other Papers, Transactions of The McLean County Historical Society, Bloomington, Illinois, Volume I. (1899)] Report of Daughters of the American Revolution. Letitia Green Stevenson Chapter, of Bloominngton, 94 members, is much interested in marking the graves of Revolutionary soldiers who are buried in McLean County, Ill., and proposes to aid the McLean County Historical Society in this patriotic work. The names of the soldiers are as follows: Ebenezer Barnes, buried at Danvers, Ill. Joseph Bartholomew, Revolutionary soldier and major-general in war of 1812; died, November, 1840; buried in Clarksville cemetery, at Money Creek, Ill. Edgar Day. William Gee, born in Albemarle County, Va., 1763; died in Bloomington, Ill., 1843; buried in the city cemetery at Bloomington. Capt. John Karr, buried in Heyworth Cemetery, Randolph, Ill. William Lee, buried at Downs, Ill. Charles Moore. Edward Patrick. John Scott, buried in Rock Creek Cemetery, Waynesville, Ill. Thomas Sloan. John Toliday. William Vincent. [1901-03-02; Third report of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, October 11, 1898-October 11, 1900. "Home and Country." Approved by the National Board of Management, January 2, 1901. March 2, 1901. -- Referred to the Committee on Education and Labor and ordered to be printed. Serial Set Vol. No. 4044, Session Vol. No.16; Report: S.Doc. 219]