Marshall Wilburn Maynor ¹

Tennessee the Volunteer State 1769-1923: Volume 4 CHARLES AUGUSTUS MAYNOR.

In railway circles Charles Augustus Maynor is well known, occupying at Memphis the position of roadmaster of the Memphis division of the Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad. His life story had its beginning on a plantation in Smith county, Mississippi, where he was born March 17, 1874. His father, Marshall Wilburn Maynor, a planter, was born in Alabama in 1840 but removed to Smith county, Mississippi, prior to the Civil war, in which he was in active service for the Confederate army from 1861 until 1865. He married Susan Jane Swittenberg, who was born in South Carolina and is of German descent. She still makes her home at Jackson, Mississippi, and is enjoying splendid health, although now seventy-nine years of age. By her marriage she became the mother of ten children, six sons and four daughters, all of whom are living, with the exception of one son and one daughter. All, however, reached adult age and were married. The children are: William J., living at Brookhaven, Mississippi, John M., now deceased; Anna Bell, the widow of E. N. Anderson and a resident of Jackson, Mississippi; Mollie E., the wife of William A. Hitch, also of Jackson; Henry M., a railroad man, living at Greenville, Mississippi, where he is employed by the Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad; Charles Augustus of this review; Robert Franklin of Jackson, Mississippi; Relda, the wife of Robert White of St. Louis, Missouri; James G., living at Alexandria, Louisiana; and Maye, who became the wife of Hugh Holcomb, a railroad man of Little Rock, Arkansas, but is now deceased. All five of the living sons are railroad men and the deceased brother, John M., was likewise in the railroad service.

Marshall married Susannah Jane Swittenberg on 17 Nov 1859 in Smith Co., MS. (Susannah Jane Swittenberg was born on 13 Sep 1843 in SC and died on 27 Mar 1927 in Jackson, Hinds Co., MS.)