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Richard Maxwell Drew (June 26, 1822 – July 11, 1850) was an attorney and politician in Claiborne Parish in North Louisiana. His family was among the first settlers of what is now Webster Parish, established in 1871 as a breakaway from Claiborne Parish. ==Biography== Drew was a son of Newitt (or Newett) Drew and Sarah A. Sally Maxwell Drew, natives of Southampton County in Virginia, who later moved to Wilson County, Tennessee, and then northwestern Louisiana. Richard Maxwell Drew was born in his father's Overton community on Dorcheat Bayou near Minden, Louisiana, the seat of government of Webster Parish. The community was subsequently obliterated by yellow fever. Drew's brother, Thomas Stevenson Drew, who was twenty years his senior, became the governor of Arkansas in 1844.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=State of Arkansas Governors )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Thomas Stevenson Drew )〕〔Other sources list Thomas Drew as the third Arkansas governor because Drew's predecessor, Samuel Adams, was not "governor" but the "acting governor" from April 29 to November 5, 1844, through Adams' previous role as president of the Arkansas State Senate.〕 Thomas S. Drew was the namesake of Drew County, Arkansas.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Richard Drew Carey (1934-2013), The Drew Family of Minden, Louisiana )〕〔Mindenmemories.org and Mindenmemories.net is a combined large social, cultural, and historical website operated from Bellaire, Texas, by Sherry Gresham Gritzbaugh, a 1955 graduate of Minden High School. The website has historical articles on the major families involved in the settlement of Minden and Webster Parish, Louisiana.〕 R. M. Drew married the former Sarah Jessie Cleveland (1828–1875)in 1846. At seventeen, he was already practicing law. At twenty-three in 1845, he was a district judge in Claiborne Parish (prior to the establishment of Webster Parish),〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Bettis Family and the Settlement of Pocohontas, Arkansas )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Drew Family of Virginia )〕 and a delegate to the Louisiana Constitutional Convention of 1845.〔 For the last two years of his short life, Drew was a Democratic member of the Louisiana House of Representatives.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Membership in the Louisiana House of Representatives, 1812-2012 )〕〔The state of Louisiana erroneoulsy lists Representative R. M. Drew as "R. C. Drew," the initials of his son, who did not serve in the state House.〕 Drew died shortly after his 28th birthday. His son, Richard Cleveland Drew, and grandson, Harmon Caldwell Drew, were subsequently judges of both the Webster Parish district court. 〔List of Webster Parish District Judges, ''Webster Parish Centennial Booklet, 1971", Webster Parish Police Jury publication〕 and the state circuit court, the only father-son combination thus far on the latter court.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Descendants of William Caldwell )〕 Judge R.C. Drew married Katie Roberta Caldwell, daughter of Thomas Stevenson Caldwell. R. M. Drew's great-grandson, R. Harmon Drew, Sr., was a municipal judge and a state representative. His great-great-grandson, Harmon Drew, Jr., serves on the same circuit court as did his grandfather and great-grandfather.〔 After Richard Maxwell Drew's death in 1850 his widow married in 1855 Dr. W. W. Arbuckle. To this marriage two daughters were born: Kate and Corinne. Sarah J. Cleveland Drew Arbuckle was buried at Overton c. 1875 according to Cleveland family records. Her grave was destroyed in 1958-59. Drew is interred at the abandoned Overton Cemetery off Interstate 20. The epitaph on his tombstone, which was damaged several years ago by a bulldozer doing clearing work for the new I-20, reads: "His public and private virtues have survived his death and will endure when this dumb marble shall have faded."〔Inscription on R. M. Drew tombstone, Overton Cemetery, Webster Parish, Louisiana〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Overton )〕In 2011, a cenotaph honoring Drew was erected at the Minden Cemetery. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Richard Maxwell Drew」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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