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Judge Rice Maxey The subject of this sketch is a native of Kentucky
and was born at Tompkinsville, the county seat of Monroe County, on the 1st day
of May, 1857. He is the third son of Dr. A. H. Maxey and wife, Lucy
A. Maxey (nee Garner), who were also natives of the state of Kentucky, and
were married in Monroe County in 1850. There were born of said marriage ten
children, of whom seven are now living, namely: Radford, Rice, Fannie,
Lucetta, J. B., S. B., and Leslie Maxey, all born in Kentucky,
except the last named, who was born in Texas. Radford Maxey is a farmer and
stock raiser and lives in Collin County; Fannie married S. L. Brown of
Decatur, Texas, and she with her husband, who is a merchant, now resides in
Velasco, Texas; Lucetta married J. P. Leslie, an attorney, and they now
reside in Sherman, Texas; Samuel B.
Maxey is a graduate in medicine and now actively engaged in the practice of
his profession at Angleton, Texas. J.
Benton Maxey is an attorney and resides in Sherman; Leslie, the youngest
child, is now teaching, but is studying law and expects to make law his
profession. Dr. Maxey, the father of Judge Maxey, was a
graduate of Jefferson Medical College at Louisville, Kentucky, and was actively
engaged in the practice of his profession for more than thirty years in the
state of Kentucky and sixteen years in Texas. In 1873 he removed with his
family to the state of Texas and located in Collin County. In 1880 he moved to
Grayson County, and died in Sherman, Texas, on the 11th day of December, 1889,
at the age of seventy-three years. His widow made her home with Judge Maxey
until the date of her death, which occurred at Denison, Texas, on the 28th day
of June, 1905, she then being seventy-five years of age. Judge Maxey was admitted to the bar in 1880. In
1881 he formed a partnership with Colonel A. A. DeBerry and Captain
Tillman Smith at Cleburne, Texas, where he was engaged in the practice
under the firm name of DeBerry, Smith & Maxey until the latter part of
1883, when he removed to Crockett, Houston County, Texas, where he lived and
practiced law until 1890. In 1886, as the Democratic nominee, Judge Maxey was
elected county attorney of Houston County and re-elected to the same position
in 1888. In 1887 he was married at Palestine, Texas, to Miss Margaret A.
Broyles of Asheville, North Carolina. In 1890 he removed to Sherman, Texas, where he
engaged in the general practice of his profession until 1892, when, as the
Democratic nominee, he was elected prosecuting attorney of Grayson County. He
re-entered the general practice of law with Hon. C. L. Vowell, which
continued until 1900, when, as the Democratic nominee, he was elected Judge of
the Fifteenth Judicial District; this position he held until January, 1905, at
which time he resigned and entered the firm of which he is now a member,
namely, Wolfe, Hare & Maxey. The firm of Wolfe, Hare & Maxey maintains
offices at both Sherman and Denison, Texas. Judge Maxey resides at Denison and
other members of the firm at Sherman. Judge Maxey never failed of election to any
position he sought before the people and bears the reputation of being one of
the best electioneers and campaigners in the state. He filled every official
position occupied by him with great credit to himself and unusual satisfaction
to the people. He has had charge of much important litigation, both civil and
criminal, and is recognized as one of the most successful trial lawyers in the
state. He was a terror to criminals while prosecuting attorney, and no man,
perhaps, ever occupied the district bench in Texas who was sustained in a
greater per cent of case on appeal to the higher courts than was Judge Maxey. [Source: B. B. Padock, History and Biographical
Record of North and West Texas, Vol. I (Chicago: Lewis Publishing Co.,
1906), pp. 515-516.]
An
Egg Buried in Oats Is Hatched by the Sun, and a Well-Developed Chicken Is the
Result [Source : "Shavings from Sherman". Dallas Morning News, 4 August 1897] Sherman,
Tex., Aug. 3 - There has been a freak of nature on the premises of ex-County
Attorney Rice Maxey, 632 South Crockett Street. Some weeks since,
Mr. Maxey had over 100 bushels of shelled oats dumped into a bin on his place. The
oats were gotten out through a spout. This morning when the colored boy at work on the place opened the spout, he heard a chirping and out rolled a little chick just hatched. The bin was opened up and a careful search made for the sitting hen and her nest, although at the time it was not plain just how a hen could have gotten into the bin. No trace of the mother hen or a nest could be found, and the only explanation that can be made of the presence of the "chick" is that an egg was buried in the oats in some way and the heat rendered the well-filled bin an incubator. 
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