- Sam Bell and Marilda Maxey were invited to dine at the White House with President Ulysses S. Grant and First Lady Julia.
- Maxey’s West Point roommate, Thomas Jackson, earned the nickname “Stonewall” during the Civil War.
- Texas Gov. Richard Coke and Kentucky Gov. Preston Leslie attended the wedding of Maxey’s daughter in Paris, Texas on November 3, 1874.
- Dora Maxey Lightfoot’s husband, Henry W. Lightfoot, was appointed the Chief Justice of the Fifth Supreme Court of Appeals in Dallas by Gov. Jim Hogg.
- Maxey’s great-nephew, Sam Bell Maxey Long, was in the first law class at the University of Texas in 1892; the equivalent of a present-day Juris Doctor degree.
- Sam Bell Maxey Long married the daughter of U.S. Marshal, J. Shelby Williams. Williams brought in 88 outlaws, including the notorious Bill Dalton of Tulsa, Indian Territory (present-day Oklahoma).
- On exhibit at the Maxey House is a huge shell from the ocean that served as the family punch bowl.
- Texas legislative documents refer to Marilda Maxey’s cultivation of crape myrtles.
- Camp Maxey in Paris was named in honor of Sam Bell Maxey during World War II and continues to function as a National Guard center.
- Stand Watie, the only Native American general in the Confederacy, served under Gen. Maxey.
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