| Third Generation- Daniel Fraley Maddox son of Michael, grandson of Nathan |
| Daniel Fraley Maddox was born March 23rd, 1806 in Adams County, Ohio. He died February 17, 1898 in Highland County, Ohio. He married Mary Williams Hewitt, the daughter of Darthick D. Hewitt and Bridget Roland. Mary Williams Hewitt was born January 29, 1805 in Greenbriar County, VA. She died December 17, 1879 in Hillsboro, Highland County, Ohio. |
| Daniel Fraley Maddox and Mary Williams Hewitt had the following children: 1) Addison Hewitt Maddox 2) John Wesley Maddox 3) Nancy Emily Fletcher Maddox 4) Joseph Darthick Maddox 5) Henry Horton Maddox 6) Alexander Clayborne Hewitt Maddox 7) Marilla B. Elizabeth Maddox 8) James Elihu Quinn Maddox |
| NEWSPAPER ABSTRACT FROM THE HARTFORD CITY TELEGRAM (Hartford City, Indiana) compliments of Dawn Montgomery J.J. Maddox was called to Hillsboro, Ohio, Thursday, by the death of his brother, Rev. D.L. (sic) Maddox. Rev. Maddox was born in 1806 and was 91 years old. James J. Maddox will remain there until after the funeral. (23 Feb. 1898 p7 c4). Note: James Jackson Maddox and Daniel Fraley Maddox were half brothers. Both were fathered by Michael Maddox. Daniel was a product of Michael's first marriage to Mary Fraley. James Jackson was a product of Michael's second marriage to Frances Jones. |
| Daniel Fraley Maddox was born at Flat Run in the northern part of Adams County, Ohio. When about 10 or 12 years of age he moved with his father to Highland County, Ohio, and
settled on a farm four miles southeast of Hillsboro. At the age of 16 he was apprenticed to Mr. John White to learn the saddle and harness business, where he remained three years.
At the age of 20 or 21, he united with the Methodist church, living a faithful, consistent member of the same until his death, 70 years. When he was about Thirty years of age he was licensed as an exhorter in the M.E. church which license he retained until his death. On the 29th of December, 1829 he married Mary Williams Hewitt and settled in Sinking Springs, Ohio, where he remained only a little over one year, moving from there to Greenfield, Ohio where he engaged in the saddle and harness business. In 1837 he moved to Rainsboro, Ohio, where he engaged in the same business. He built the first Methodist Church in that village and organized the first Sunday school and was superintendent for a number of years. In the fall of 1845 he moved to Boston, Dallas P.O., in the same county, where he still continued the saddle and harness business. (He was a workman of great skill and the tooled leather saddles which he made are works of art. Finding the Methodist society in rather a weak condition with an unfinished church building, he reorganized the class and finished the church and organized a Sunday school, being class leader and Sunday school superintendent for several years. In 1856 he was appointed Post Master under President James Buchanan, though he was a Republican he was asked to take the office, which office he held until 1866 when he resigned and moved to Hillsboro, Ohio. He was very conscientious, never contracting a debt or making a promise he could not pay or fulfill, always aiming to practice the golden rule. His home was for many years the stopping place of such preachers as Charles Lybrand, James Quinn, Michael Marley, George C. Crumm, W.I. lsworth, Isaac Hunter, Henry Whorton and many of those days, 50, 60, or 70 years ago." (This was written about 1912 by W.H.M) Cem. inscrip. Highland Co., Ohio: Death: 17 FEB 1898 Highland County, Ohio Burial: Hillsboro, Highland County, Ohio |
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